Update for Everyone III - The Whinge Binge

[Simfan34]

My monthly salary in Colombia will apparently be 1,378,018...


Colombian pesos. I'm gonna need to wrap my head around big numbers.

Wait, you will win 766117 euros a month?

Ah, gagner...

[windjammer]

My monthly salary in Colombia will apparently be 1,378,018...


Colombian pesos. I'm gonna need to wrap my head around big numbers.

Wait, you will win 766117 euros a month?

Ah, gagner...

Sorry,
you will earn

[Simfan34]

My monthly salary in Colombia will apparently be 1,378,018...


Colombian pesos. I'm gonna need to wrap my head around big numbers.

Wait, you will win 766117 euros a month?

Ah, gagner...

Sorry,
you will earn

[LeBron]

It kind of sucked having to work today on Christmas Eve (luckily, I (and everyone else) got off at 4, but still) though we're having a good night as a family.

My family and I went out for pizza and are watching a few movies now. We just finished National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation a little bit ago which is a really funny movie (I love the Aunt Bethany "Pledge of Allegiance" scene ), and we're undecided on what to watch next. Polar Express, maybe?

[Simfan34]

It kind of sucked having to work today on Christmas Eve (luckily, I (and everyone else) got off at 4, but still) though we're having a good night as a family.

My family and I went out for pizza and are watching a few movies now. We just finished National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation a little bit ago which is a really funny movie (I love the Aunt Bethany "Pledge of Allegiance" scene ), and we're undecided on what to watch next. Polar Express, maybe?

Do your patriotic duty and buy The Interview. My family already has.

Also, there are an increasing number of faranges at our Christmas party. I'm not sure how I feel about this.

[Ban my account ffs!]

My monthly salary in Colombia will apparently be 1,378,018...


Colombian pesos. I'm gonna need to wrap my head around big numbers.

Wait, you will win 766117 euros a month?

Ah, gagner...

Sorry,
you will earn

The English equivalent to gagner is garner.  One can garner wages, but that's more the act of collecting your pay check, which is the sum of money you earned by working.  You can also win a wage increase...but you do not win the wage itself.

I hope that's now absolutely clear

[Sol]

It kind of sucked having to work today on Christmas Eve (luckily, I (and everyone else) got off at 4, but still) though we're having a good night as a family.

Lucky. I got off at 7:30.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I love the Uncle with the cigar in National Lanpoons.

[Simfan34]

Movie was meh, and very vulgar, but it is still your patriotic duty to buy it nevertheless. As this editorial said:

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Your patriotic duty: Laugh in the face of terror and go see ‘The Interview’

[HagridOfTheDeep]

So, I've been trying to lose weight since the summer. On August 2nd, after a family reunion that saw me eat way too much, I weighed 214 lbs. It was so gross and embarrassing.

I bring this up because the other morning I weighed 182 lbs. I know it's kinda cheap to compare a morning weight against a bloated end-of-day weight, but it made me feel so good about myself. I've been cutting out crappy food and trying to limit how much I eat. Anyway, I just weighed myself now after two days of gorging on turkey, Chinese food, and desserts, and it came up as 188. It's a pretty crappy feeling. I know I'll weigh less when it's all properly out of my system, but it's amazing how much of a number it can do on a person's self-esteem. Gah. I just want to look good, but right now I kinda hate myself.

[free my dawg]

I've apparently made a habit out of confusing my Carls. As in half the time I wind up texting 20RP12 weird sh*t that I mean for my other friend Carl.

[Lief 🗽]

I had a nightmare that I forgot to study for one of my exams. My god.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

I've apparently made a habit out of confusing my Carls. As in half the time I wind up texting 20RP12 weird sh*t that I mean for my other friend Carl.

And I wake up, read the texts and go "wtf man" and then fall back asleep

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

I had a nightmare that I forgot to study for one of my exams. My god.

This happened to me last week about a class I took the previous semester. Horrifying.

Last night was just the usual, oh no, class started 10 minutes ago!! I don't know what to do! Just some mysterious ethics class after finance that I didn't even take last semester.

[windjammer]

I had a nightmare that I forgot to study for one of my exams. My god.

Don't worry friend, you're clever so you will succeed.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Observation: if someone likes me, or if I am admitted into something, or otherwise thinks highly of something I've done, I question their judgement and my opinion of them usually dims considerably. Sort of like Groucho Marx when he mentioned that he wouldn't join any club that would let him in.

"I did well? He must be a lax grader."

"I was accepted? They must let everyone in."

"Oh, she doesn't dislike me? Well then, she is too blasé."

Sounds like the recipe for eternal misery.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Simfan is letting his low self esteem ruin him.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Observation: if someone likes me, or if I am admitted into something, or otherwise thinks highly of something I've done, I question their judgement and my opinion of them usually dims considerably. Sort of like Groucho Marx when he mentioned that he wouldn't join any club that would let him in.

"I did well? He must be a lax grader."

"I was accepted? They must let everyone in."

"Oh, she doesn't dislike me? Well then, she is too blasé."

Also, I managed to give myself a haircut the other day.

I have the same problem. I'm trying to force myself out of it (or force it out of me), and you should too.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I have the same problem as Simfan does, and I think most of us do. I've noticed that my issues usually comes at the same time as another posters for some reason, like some kind of Atlas cycle exists. This round hasn't been so bad as the last one in November.

[anvi]

Last December, for my "resolution," I set a six-and-a-half year goal for myself.  I vowed to acquire an "expert" chess rating (nominally 2000 in ELO and USCF, though USCF ratings are inflated compared to ELO) by the time I turned fifty.  I've only recently taken up the game competitively again after a 25-year hiatus.  On the two chess websites--Gameknot and Chessworld, where I compete, which use ELO ratings, I've already gotten there.  On Gameknot I just reached 2001, and on Chessworld I'm 2102.  But I still have a long way to go.  A real expert is 2000 in over-the-board tournament play, not in online play.  Online chess tends to yield wildly high ratings for a number of reasons.  I played in two live tournaments this year, did reasonably well in the first and horribly in the second---giving me a rating that is still too poor for me to own up to.  But I'm off to at least a hopeful start so far, so maybe I can get there with five and a half years to go.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Observation: if someone likes me, or if I am admitted into something, or otherwise thinks highly of something I've done, I question their judgement and my opinion of them usually dims considerably. Sort of like Groucho Marx when he mentioned that he wouldn't join any club that would let him in.

"I did well? He must be a lax grader."

"I was accepted? They must let everyone in."

"Oh, she doesn't dislike me? Well then, she is too blasé."

Also, I managed to give myself a haircut the other day.

I have the same problem. I'm trying to force myself out of it (or force it out of me), and you should too.

But I don't find it believable. I'm not that great, one might say a "loser" or a "dweeb", if you would. At the same time, why are so many people so unreliable and untrustworthy?

I sound terribly dramatic. I apologise.

Don't apologize. For me, my low self-esteem is mostly related to how I look and, in some cases, my poor work ethic. It sometimes makes it hard for me to have a boyfriend that I consider cute and hardworking. I need his reassurances that I'm still okay far more often than I should, and I thank my lucky stars that he doesn't seem to mind my occasional lack of confidence.




On another note, I'm applying for graduate programs in education, but I'm finding it extremely difficult and stressful to secure letters of recommendation. Taking this route was never my plan, so I didn't take time to build good relationships with my profs in undergrad. I have classes that I did really well in, but I feel weird contacting the instructors out of the blue. Ideally I would've been meeting with these people over the last couple months to build some sort of rapport, but this decision is recent and I didn't think to do it. What's more, one of the few profs who does know me has not even replied to my inquiry about a letter. It's a crappy feeling. Couple that with the fact that my marks were not fantastic (I always did well on papers but took the hit on participation marks and attendance), and I'm just not feeling good about myself.

And another note, I'm getting more and more nervous for May when me and Tommy graduate and have to confront "the future" head on. Bleh.

[Indy Texas]

Whelp, 2015 is off to a great start.

Was going to meet some friends at a bar in town. Spent 30 minutes looking for parking, 30 minutes waiting in line to get in, 30 minutes wedged in a gaggle of really awful people waiting at the bar for a drink, 30 minutes hopelessly texting/calling trying to figure out where the hell everyone else was only to find out that half of them weren't even there anymore, gave up and left. Those ers.

Why must Indy's social life always suck?

[Dave from Michigan]

What happened my last post was here 3 times I thought I accidently triple posted it so I went to delete two of them but when I deleted one of them all of them disappeared.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     I also have self-esteem issues, mainly due to my difficulty in getting ahead in life. The people I work with lavish me with praise for my performance (which I don't work very hard at, but I still produce what they need and very quickly to boot), but it doesn't help me get a permanent position. I get along well and make fast friends with everyone I meet, but it doesn't help me get a date. It's hard not to think that I am at fault for this.

[IceSpear]

Whelp, 2015 is off to a great start.

Was going to meet some friends at a bar in town. Spent 30 minutes looking for parking, 30 minutes waiting in line to get in, 30 minutes wedged in a gaggle of really awful people waiting at the bar for a drink, 30 minutes hopelessly texting/calling trying to figure out where the hell everyone else was only to find out that half of them weren't even there anymore, gave up and left. Those ers.

Why must Indy's social life always suck?

I was going to stay in and post on Atlas all night (#YOLO), but I decided to get off my lazy ass and go to my friend's party for a few hours. It ended up with me hooking up with a guy who was extremely intoxicated. I'll spare you all the details, but it did not end well.