Update for Everyone III - The Whinge Binge

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I spent my Valentines morning watching The Birth Of A Nation on CSPAN 3. What a bizarre film.

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I just done went and made an Instagram.

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Then I'm running risk management at "White Trash Bash" on Friday.

Would it kill you people to try not having overtly racist theme parties for once? No, the fact that it's mocking and deriding poor white people does not make it any more okay than the satirical "Let's all dress like ghetto black/Hispanic people" parties that frats at my school always had.

Pull the stick out of your ass.

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I'm glad to hear that the breakup was amicable, but I am still sorry to hear that Maddy .

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So from April 24th to 25th I'll be at Liberty University for the Debate State Tournament here in VA. Last time it was rather fun (but, you know, I'd never want to go there). I'll make sure to take some pictures of the more outlandish things I see there.

In school news, I've decided that I have two options. George Mason or TCC (Tidewater Community College) with guaranteed admission to William and Mary. Keep in mind that with AP credits I'd only have to do 3 years at GMU and 1 year at TCC and 2 years at William and Mary. It's a hard choice IMO as GMU has those nice DC internships and the fact that it's near a city while the TCC option is basically a cheap way to get a more valuable degree than one from GMU, but I have to stay home for another year and Williamsburg is in the middle of nowhere.

I'm doing the same (two years at TCC-Tallahassee Community College and two years at FSU).

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I just made a Twitter.

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I have an interview on Monday for a summer internship with Senator Murphy, but I also have spring fling this weekend so there's a decent chance I'll be very hungover/still drunk.

Skip the Spring Fling. The internship is more important. I'd kill for one! Plus you can get drunk when you're celebrating getting the internship.

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I'm being followed on Twitter by a UKIP councilor from England. Twitter is just fINKSing magical!

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I'm being followed on Twitter by a UKIP councilor from England. Twitter is just fINKSing magical!

Is it a David Hirst by any chance? He's a UKIP councilor who followed me. 

Hahaha yes! From Cambridge, IIRC.

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I almost died today.

I just returned from the dentists, where they put in a few fillings. One of them (the size of a quarter) came loose and went right down my throat. I choked for a solid minute and felt I was going out like Joan Rivers . Thankfully my doctor and his nurse were present and tried to dislodge it, but in the end I just swallowed it. I swallowed it, and I might have to get x-rays if I don't pass it in the next four to five days. Ugh.

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I almost died today.

I just returned from the dentists, where they put in a few fillings. One of them (the size of a quarter) came loose and went right down my throat. I choked for a solid minute and felt I was going out like Joan Rivers . Thankfully my doctor and his nurse were present and tried to dislodge it, but in the end I just swallowed it. I swallowed it, and I might have to get x-rays if I don't pass it in the next four to five days. Ugh.

Thanks Obamacare

Serious, I'm glad you're ok

Thanks!

I almost died today.

I just returned from the dentists, where they put in a few fillings. One of them (the size of a quarter) came loose and went right down my throat. I choked for a solid minute and felt I was going out like Joan Rivers . Thankfully my doctor and his nurse were present and tried to dislodge it, but in the end I just swallowed it. I swallowed it, and I might have to get x-rays if I don't pass it in the next four to five days. Ugh.

Does that gets you a discount? Do they bill you the fillings they badly installed?

We're going to ask that they cover the x-rays if it comes to that. But the doctor is a longtime friend of my moms and accidents do happen. I'm glad my parents aren't trigger-finger about a lawsuit or something, because I'd oppose such move and put my foot down on it. Worst case scenario, sometime over the summer I have to get it surgically removed. Best case scenario, I pass it tomorrow.

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just tell your employer the truth, say you've been registered for this conference for a while, you're part of the club leadership so you're expected to attend, and then guilt trip him a little bit about your gay identity (basically subtly imply that if he gets mad at you he's sort of a homophobe)

My employer's a she, actually. Also, she doesn't know I'm gay (although I'm open to friends and family), and it's for the best that I keep it that way in the workplace until Ohio gets it's act together on workplace discrimination.

But yeah that part can be left out. I think I'll be able to get off work either with the being sick excuse or just telling her the real reason. Thanks.

Why would she fire you for being openly gay? Its 2015! Unless she's some old Evangelical shrew I don't think you have much to worry about.

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Good news! I passed the ring! It's the size of a quarter. I'm not exaggerating when I say that thing could have killed me.

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I received an offer to work for Senator Blumenthal but I also applied for Senator Murphy. I have to respond to Blumenthal by Thursday, but I probably won't hear back from Murphy until later than that (I prefer Murphy but Blumenthal is good as well). Should I take Blumenthal, or risk it and hope that I get Murphy?

Go with Blumenthal. You can still get to meet Murphy and his staff, I'm sure.

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I'm sitting outside trying to enjoy the weather and some horrid person is smoking an e-cigarette. Yes, I can smell it. It doesn't smell like a conventional cigarette but it smells like something - I just can't quite tell what.

I'm waiting for Harris County to join the civilized world and implement a blanket ban on outdoor smoking.

Sounds like Harris County is a Freedom County!

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I'm seeing Bob Dylan in a few hours. It would be my second Dylan concert.

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Saw Dylan again last night. I thought of TNF when he played Workingman's Blues.

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I wrote a brutally sarcastic essay for my English class for the Sister Cities Essay Contest that I was forced to participate in, and sure enough I won . Now I get a check for $150 and have to attend a function with my teacher. Ugh.

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So I just finished High School.

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So, I just went to a reception hosted by the city for the winners of the essay contest that I mentioned earlier. I had an awkward meeting with the mayor, who I shouted at during a heated city council meeting a few months back. Was pretty funny.

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Prom was fun.

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Knocked on 150 doors for Americans for Prosperity today, and I may have a job lined up as a field associate for ten dollars an hour, plus mileage, this summer. I even went by my former middle school librarians house only to find her and my first grade teacher on the patio talking, which was awesome! I got surveys out of both of them and spent a few minutes catching up.

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A friend and his other half from America staying with us (who was not injured) was involved in a serious road traffic accident. His other half is here and will be here for as long as it takes but our friend has been unconscious for three days and is critical. Things are a little tough right now.

Your friends are in my prayers.

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As I said the other day, I *might* have a job at AFP this summer. I just got a message from our field director saying he wants to meet with me tomorrow. Hopefully this is about a potential job opening for me.

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Graduating law school in about 12 hours.

Congrats!