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We should just skip February, Nigel.

Started by Suu, February 02, 2010, 10:02:55 PM

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Suu

February 02, 2010, 10:02:55 PM
I really don't like this month. There's something fundamentally wrong with it. I know you don't like it either.

First of all, the days are totally fucked up. Only 28 instead of 30 or 31...except for Leap Year, then it has 29, so every 4 years we're at the whim of February giving us another day. It's the only month of the year that can pass without a single full moon. Women may not even get their period this month if the cycle is right.

February is cold, it's gray, and it's unforgiving, no matter where you live. Februum is Latin for "purification", thanks to the holiday of Februa on the Ides. Why did the Romans need a purification day in the middle of this month? What does that tell you? It was also during the Hebrew month of Adar, which typically coincides with February, that Haman tried to exterminate the Jews. Purim is celebrated at the end of the month for this purpose. It's not just a triumph over the Persians, it's a triumph over this cursed month.

I don't like Valentine's Day, President's Day is only an excuse to not deliver mail, and Groundhog Day is a farce. This month is a joke, a ridiculously cruel joke on humanity.

Last year, February tortured the living shit out of PD.Com to the extent of actually ripping apart lives, no exception to present company.

As far As I'm concerned, today is January 33rd.

Sovereign Episkopos-Princess Kaousuu; Esq., Battle Nun, Bene Gesserit.
Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

Rumckle

#1
February 02, 2010, 10:05:59 PM
Hey, my birthday's in February!
:argh!:


Plus we  don't have presidents day, or groundhog day, and no-one really cares about  valentines day.


Oh, and university drinking orientation week is in February.
It's not trolling, it's just satire.

The Good Reverend Roger

#2
February 02, 2010, 10:06:44 PM
This February sucks already.

Nothing is going right.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#3
February 02, 2010, 10:28:51 PM Last Edit: February 02, 2010, 10:32:51 PM by v=1/3πr²h
So far, February has been the best month I've had this year.

Good things that have happened in February:

1. We finished the art project that has been my main motivation for getting out of bed for the last month and a half, & the gallery owner fucking LOVES it.

2. The constant crying has minimized to mostly just occasional weepiness while driving my car.

3. My truck project is about three shots from being completed.

4. Last year on this day, I was 20 lbs overweight, drunk, and probably in a fetal position on my studio floor, wailing. Now, I'm walking about 15 miles a week, almost fit back into my size 8 pants, am working on several projects, and am at nearly my goal production levels.

5. I just got rid of a bunch of debris from my yard, got a hutch for my kitchen, and had lunch, all with my best friend who was missing from my life for a year.

6. In this part of the world, the first inkling of spring starts approximately right now. This means three months of cold-ass rain and a lot of mud, punctuated by occasional dazzlingly sunny moments, but it's still something to be happy about.

Happy Imbolc! I'm ready, on every possible level.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Suu

#4
February 02, 2010, 10:39:01 PM
I'm still apprehensive.

Herbert still hasn't paid ANYTHING toward the divorce (got that TV though, didn't he?)

Still haven't gotten my W-2, which means my job is breaking the law.

I'm running an event on Saturday.

I have to be out of these rooms on March 1st. Yes, that means I HAVE to move, and GS still isn't working so we can't get an apartment. So as of right now, I'm going to be homeless in 27 days.
Sovereign Episkopos-Princess Kaousuu; Esq., Battle Nun, Bene Gesserit.
Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#5
February 02, 2010, 10:40:30 PM
Oh, plus:

I have the unbelievable evil glee of staging a relationship and planning a fake engagement and marriage, to torment some pompous old fuck who stuck his finger in my ear.

The chickens are in the garden, mutilating the soil and eating everything alive so it will be prepared for planting in March.

My husband is finally talking about walking away from the equity in my house and getting this divorce over with.

I have a new friend who is so crazy that he thinks he can control the weather with his mind.

I have definitive plans for the next three rolls of film in my camera.

I have a gallery opening is this coming Friday.

This month is really giving me things to look forward to. I will not be deterred.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#6
February 02, 2010, 10:41:16 PM
I'm sorry, Suu.

I hope you get a break soon. You're long overdue for one.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Triple Zero

#7
February 02, 2010, 10:43:18 PM
Today is exactly one year ago my house burned down.

Or as RAW would put it, in one hour, a year ago, my flatmate comes into my room, panicking, the house is on fire!

On the whole, everything is better. My appartment is awesomer than ever (we bought a rug this weekend! Lebowski was right, it really does tie the room together!) and living together with my gf, and I dunno. Some problems I was fighting didn't go away in the past year, but they didn't get worse either.

And I'm not going to let fear of some arbitrary bunch of dates spoil that!

The fact that it's exactly one year ago is only significant in the sense that it's been quite some time and look how far I have come! [with more than a little help from friends and family]! yay!
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Suu

#8
February 02, 2010, 10:54:31 PM
Quote from: v=1/3πr²h on February 02, 2010, 10:40:30 PM
Oh, plus:

I have the unbelievable evil glee of staging a relationship and planning a fake engagement and marriage, to torment some pompous old fuck who stuck his finger in my ear.

The chickens are in the garden, mutilating the soil and eating everything alive so it will be prepared for planting in March.

My husband is finally talking about walking away from the equity in my house and getting this divorce over with.

I have a new friend who is so crazy that he thinks he can control the weather with his mind.

I have definitive plans for the next three rolls of film in my camera.

I have a gallery opening is this coming Friday.

This month is really giving me things to look forward to. I will not be deterred.

PICS FROM GALLERY OPENING REQUIRED KTHX.
Sovereign Episkopos-Princess Kaousuu; Esq., Battle Nun, Bene Gesserit.
Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#9
February 02, 2010, 11:36:23 PM
OH, THERE WILL BE PICS!

Also, the current ad banner at the bottom of the page is both inexplicable and delightful:

"The World's Largest Free Hawaiian Video Library"

There's a market for that?  :?
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Requia ☣

#10
February 03, 2010, 01:40:26 AM
This is the month I get to choose between eating and paying rent.
Inflatable dolls are not recognized flotation devices.

ThatGreenGentleman

#11
February 03, 2010, 03:14:29 AM
No one likes February... and does anyone even celebrate Valentines day anymore? There's a valentines day dance at my school, but no one ever goes to it except the supposedly "popular" kids, who's peak will be in high school, and they won't realize until their late 30's early 40's. And the other people who go are the ones who stand in a corner, I think... plus the dances, or "socials" as they are now called pretty much lock you up in the cafeteria for a few hours, and there isn't much to do.
As a gentleman, it is my duty to wear top-hats.

The Good Reverend Roger

#12
February 03, 2010, 03:16:04 AM
Quote from: ThatGreenGentleman on February 03, 2010, 03:14:29 AM
No one likes February... and does anyone even celebrate Valentines day anymore? There's a valentines day dance at my school, but no one ever goes to it except the supposedly "popular" kids, who's peak will be in high school, and they won't realize until their late 30's early 40's. And the other people who go are the ones who stand in a corner, I think... plus the dances, or "socials" as they are now called pretty much lock you up in the cafeteria for a few hours, and there isn't much to do.

You can shake the popular kids down for protection money.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

ThatGreenGentleman

#13
February 03, 2010, 03:18:20 AM
They aren't WORTH it, plus a lot of them just weird me out, especially Netter, now he's got some SERIOUS ISSUES.  :x
As a gentleman, it is my duty to wear top-hats.

The Good Reverend Roger

#14
February 03, 2010, 03:19:21 AM
Quote from: ThatGreenGentleman on February 03, 2010, 03:18:20 AM
They aren't WORTH it,

They may be pink, but their money is green.

(See, folks?  And all this without cracking one book on parenting.)
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.
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