Update for Everyone IV - Hungover

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Over three weeks smoke free.

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Have the joy of being still being ill, being extremely tired and forced to live with people who have the social skills of 5 year olds

Nothing new here. Welcome to the club.

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Heading back to school starting this summer. It'll be a bit odd being an old student.  It'll be even odder going for an Associate Degree when I already have a Masters, but I already have the common core courses covered from previous work and I want enuf of the subject matter courses that I might as well pick up the degree since it won't entail any extra work on my part.

What's it fer?

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God do I hate math.

What're you hoping to do after school, college major & career-wise?

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That's really awesome, Gothic! Two things that most Atlas posters will never have--a job and a fiance! I'd blame it on your relatively recent entry to the forum.

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I'm a good twenty pages into my master's thesis.

Yay!

I'm tasked with churning out a good chunk of my "honors thesis" over the summer.

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I've got a writing rush. I love it.

Jealous. Not sure if I'll get back to any of the progress made this weekend until next. Good thing it looks like I've got a few vacations coming up!

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Nathan, I know the whole optimistic schtick is both trite and tired, but please try to not give into despair. I can't offer any sort of hope or advice, mostly because I'm a pessimist myself and have less life experience than you, but hang in there, please.

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Jill Stein is now the preferred candidate of my work place.

Are you working for RT?

Gold.

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Today at work (county courthouse), in the parking lot, there was a big pickup truck displaying a huge Confederate flag (next to a tiny US flag).

In South Dakota?

Rebel flags in northern, even liberal, states are of little surprise.

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Me rn:

Meh, not that bad.

Me rn:

Don't steal my schtick.

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While visiting family in Washington, I visited my first two Pacific states, saw and swam in the Ocean for the first time, kayaked the Columbia, backpacked for the first time around 6,000 feet above sea level, and saw part of the UW campus in Seattle. I picked up a few books down the street from campus: "On Revolution" and "The Origins of Totalitarianism" by Hannah Arendt, and a compilation: "Uncertain Transition: Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World". It sadly only comprises Eastern Europe (I can't seem to find anything on Central Asia).

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While visiting family in Washington, I visited my first two Pacific states, saw and swam in the Ocean for the first time, kayaked the Columbia, backpacked for the first time around 6,000 feet above sea level, and saw part of the UW campus in Seattle. I picked up a few books down the street from campus: "On Revolution" and "The Origins of Totalitarianism" by Hannah Arendt, and a compilation: "Uncertain Transition: Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World". It sadly only comprises Eastern Europe (I can't seem to find anything on Central Asia).

Check out Islam After Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia by Adeeb Khalid. I got it as a textbook for a class, but ended up reading the whole thing because of how engaging it was. Another good text if you like reading case studies is Ethnographies of the State in Central Asia which is a compilation of a bunch of essays on the region and how states operate in Central Asia and how citizens relate to their countries.

Thank you! I'm trying to manufacture an honors thesis re: post-communism or something (I don't wanna talk about it) but the only stuff I know on Central Asia is from Encyclopaedia Britannica online. From those small scraps, it looks like an interesting situation: reluctance to secede from the Soviet Union, the maintenance of power of former Communist Parties, the fact that Islam seems more like a cultural attachment and thus apparently religious radicalism is weak compared to the secular nationalists in control of government, and urban Jewish and Slavic imports from Europe.

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I'm running off to Eastern Europe tomorrow and probably won't be back until early October. I should still be able to post, but I'll probably be on here a lot less often until I get back. Here's hoping absolutely nothing interesting happens between now and the debates!

Jealous! Have a great time!

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I've became an utter workaholic. If I don't do some work I feel like a s**t. If I do some work, I feel like a s**t for not doing more.

That's amazing.

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I don't suppose anyone has her last name (don't post it if you do) and could try to look her up either on Facebook or just a Google search?

I was thinking of something much more creepy, since I of course don't know anything about her real life. I might try it in a sec.

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I don't suppose anyone has her last name (don't post it if you do) and could try to look her up either on Facebook or just a Google search?

I was thinking of something much more creepy, since I of course don't know anything about her real life. I might try it in a sec.

That as mod you can access sign-up information, like email?

Smart.

Nah. I maybe could- while I should be trying to gain a firm grasp of Internet creepiness in order to hopefully become more employable, I'm pretty lazy about that. My plan is something a bit more... ew. I'm trying to do reverse Google image searches right now.

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I don't suppose anyone has her last name (don't post it if you do) and could try to look her up either on Facebook or just a Google search?

I was thinking of something much more creepy, since I of course don't know anything about her real life. I might try it in a sec.

That as mod you can access sign-up information, like email?

Smart.

Nah. I maybe could- while I should be trying to gain a firm grasp of Internet creepiness in order to hopefully become more employable, I'm pretty lazy about that. My plan is something a bit more... ew. I'm trying to do reverse Google image searches right now.

Interesting. Go for it, comrade.

Turned up nothin'.

And yes, I know I'm a heel for having done that to any user.

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My friends dragged me to a bowling alley/nightclub last night, where a couple who were bowling in a two-piece suit and a party dress were snobbish to me for not wearing custom-made clothes.

what

I asked my friends if we could please go to a normal, middle-to-working-class bowling alley next time and they agreed with me.

Incidentally, in your reply, did you indicate indignation that someone who was going bowling should be classist?

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Well, I took the GRE today as part of a concurrent master's degree program I'm applying for, and I got 170 on the verbal and quantitative sections, so I'm pretty happy about that.

Still, still, still procrastinating on scheduling mine. This is gonna get ugly.

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Well, I took the GRE today as part of a concurrent master's degree program I'm applying for, and I got 170 on the verbal and quantitative sections, so I'm pretty happy about that.

Still, still, still procrastinating on scheduling mine. This is gonna get ugly.

You'll be fine. 

Trust me, as long as you're just talking about the general test, it's quite easy, especially the quantitative section.  It only goes up to high school geometry and a bit of Algebra 2.

Haha, I took some practice stuff online and I'll definitely have to bone-up on some stuff. I may be able to put off doing it (there's a grad program at my school that, thusly, wouldn't require it), but I'd rather have my options open and be able to apply wherever. Plus, the results are valid for a little bit, aren't they?

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I watched a movie loosely based on the true story of French brother and sisters, executed for incest. It was really annoying because of a director's pathetic mixing of historical, more contemporary and totally modern elements (we have guys dressed like in the mid-19th Century and then... there's a f--king chopper?). Finally, they cut off their heads and this abomination of a movie ended

Is this that one "cousins" movie from "Arrested Development"?

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In admittedly less dramatic news, today I taught my third round of sections, and for the first time I can say it went reasonably well. Far from perfect, mind you (I have that one class that where nobody ever participates and that one where they participate too much and kind of anarchically), but decent. I'm starting to be less stressed out about it.

Out of curiosity, which class?

Intro to Comparative Politics.

Hopefully you're better at it than my prof.

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Just saw a man driving next to us, wearing a red coat and hat, with a real white beard. Right as he went on an exit, "Here Comes Santa Claus" started playing on the radio.

#Goals

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Still waiting on final grades to be posted. Afraid I'm going to lose my CJ four point.