OPEN BAR: I see you've come to PD. I too like to live dangerously

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Graduation over.  Yarg, what a pack of long-winded bastards.

Give TGG my congratulations on a job well-done! Is she going into the Marines now?

The army, in December.  She was supposed to go in this July, but they fucked up her slot, and she now can't get the job she wants and the post she wants until then.

"Get used to it, kid."   

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Graduation over.  Yarg, what a pack of long-winded bastards.

Congrats to the daughter.

...this is also your get out of Hell free card, no?

If you're talking about the gigantic fucking house I'm stuck in and this awful sorta-burb, then not yet.  Lease is in effect for another solid year. 

[minuspace]

I just got a call that my research methods class has been changed to an online class, so I registered for Perception, which looks good.

My schedule couldn't be more perfect this summer; late mornings, Monday through Thursday, with one online class. And one trip to the coast! All psychology, except for the geology field trip.

Phenomenology or physiology?

Psychology.

Sounds fun.

Should be, and I'll be interested in tying it into my neurophysiology class.

Yup, and given how perception is also based on the process of recognition, I wonder if it might tease-out some connections regarding Dissolvence and Emergence too

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Graduation over.  Yarg, what a pack of long-winded bastards.

Congrats to the daughter.

...this is also your get out of Hell free card, no?

If you're talking about the gigantic fucking house I'm stuck in and this awful sorta-burb, then not yet.  Lease is in effect for another solid year. 

On the bright side, you get to Roger Tucson for another year.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Graduation over.  Yarg, what a pack of long-winded bastards.

Give TGG my congratulations on a job well-done! Is she going into the Marines now?

The army, in December.  She was supposed to go in this July, but they fucked up her slot, and she now can't get the job she wants and the post she wants until then.

"Get used to it, kid."   

Congrats, TGG.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Graduation over.  Yarg, what a pack of long-winded bastards.

Congrats to the daughter.

...this is also your get out of Hell free card, no?

If you're talking about the gigantic fucking house I'm stuck in and this awful sorta-burb, then not yet.  Lease is in effect for another solid year. 

On the bright side, you get to Roger Tucson for another year.

I don't see myself ever leaving Tucson proper.  There are no mosquitoes here, no snow, and I can be as big a degenerate as I like and I won't get arrested for it.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Graduation over.  Yarg, what a pack of long-winded bastards.

Give TGG my congratulations on a job well-done! Is she going into the Marines now?

The army, in December.  She was supposed to go in this July, but they fucked up her slot, and she now can't get the job she wants and the post she wants until then.

"Get used to it, kid."   

Congrats, TGG.

I will pass on everyone's congratulations.  Thanks.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Congrats on both graduating and surviving the ceremony filled with long-winded bastards. That had to take raw will power and iron control . . .

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Congrats on both graduating and surviving the ceremony filled with long-winded bastards. That had to take raw will power and iron control . . .

Eh, the grandparents had it worse.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

From the I Am So Ashamed To Share A Species With This Turd Department:

[P3nT4gR4m]

Why you have to keep stamping on the fragmented remains of my faith in humanity? 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Why you have to keep stamping on the fragmented remains of my faith in humanity? 

I take a lot of pills, you see, and my impulse control is remarkably low.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Met up with classmate for beers. This is the same classmate who's doing the urban plant project. Nerdiest conversation I've had in a while. Loved it.

I am having a bit of a sense of academic loneliness, as the only people I have regular contact with who are into the same stuff I'm into are public health people, and they aren't as into the psychobiology as I am. My friend Peter is really nerdy and I adore him, but he hasn't transferred to PSU yet so I don't know if he'll be in my orgo class this fall.

This is actually the first time I've had a friend on the same academic footing as me, same age, same major. This is also the same guy who we both mutually thought were competition. It was a last minute plan sort of thing, and I almost backed out because I was like, eh... how expensive is the beer at the bar? But I was like, fuck it, I get to hang out with George, and George is awesome. Turned out they had a $3 Killian's pints deal today, which was good for the wallet. George is thinking of transferring to UMass Amherst, so, when we both leave BHCC, we won't be in shouting distance anymore, but I really like it. And academic loneliness is the right term for it, and I couldn't put my finger on it until you said it just now.

Awww, you met your fellow That Guy, and he's awesome! I love it!

I am inspired to email Peter a link to the PSU application page right now.

I did! We actually worked it out together so that we'd both be in Cell Bio and Physics I together in Fall. He double checked that with me tonight.

That is fucking awesome!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

From the I Am So Ashamed To Share A Species With This Turd Department:

WOW

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Also, I hope you can get Peter to transfer to PSU as soon as you can.

George is the only person I've told my hypothesis to who can understand it (other than Professor Steeper). He paused nodded his head as it sunk in, and I was like, if there's a correlation it could mean A or B, and then he was like, I was just about to say, B scenario? I dunno, he seems to be leaning botanical, and I seem to be leaning microbial, but I feel like I've found a guy I can collaborate with, at least as far as undergrad projects go. If Peter's your George, I can understand entirely your missing him.

Maaan, that's awesome!