Plushy
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Post by Plushy on Mar 1, 2009 0:47:16 GMT
It seems like things are still a bit slow-moving here at the moment, so I thought what might help is if everyone briefly posts what they've been up to in the last year or so. It will hopefully help to get conversation going again and also to refresh memories for members you didn't know too well/members who have changed their username/etc. Well, exactly a year ago, I was right in the middle of changing my life around; I had just quit my Analyst job of 7 years, broke up with my boyfriend of 3 years and moved away from my city of ... *counts*... 18 years! Moving to a new city was scary, but it was made easier by the fact that I was moving in with a friend and had lots of my friends living next door too. I had trouble finding a job for a worrying number of months but finally got some temp work in August before starting a permanent job in September... it's car insurance claims, but it's money for now! Love life has been pretty much a dead fish... aside from a few 'meh' encounters, I got a MAJOR crush on an aquaintance but I completely embarrassed myself in front of him so that was the end of that! Haha! Now appear to have another crush (I don't usually get them so close together) on a guy I work with although I'm simply keeping this one as a nice crush and NOT ruining it! The reason I am determined to stay single is because I want a career! Finally I've actually done it - I've applied for University at the merry old age of 26... which hopefully means I'll actually be able to concentrate now! So that's where I'm up to How about you guys?
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Post by The Crimson One on Mar 4, 2009 18:35:36 GMT
Well, in the last year I have been continuing what I have been doing for the last 3 years. School and work. I go to film school. And congrats on going to school! You're not that much older than I was when I went back to school! I'm 28 now, and will be graduating when I'm 29 or like 30! Better late then never huh? Aside from that not too much. Been trying to find an idea for my senior thesis film as it is supposed to be the culmination of my education thus far. So far it has eluded me. I got a couple of ideas, but nothing that stands out yet. I kinda want to do a horror film. I of course love horror and think that it needs some new blood if you'll excuse the pun. I think my strenghts lay in comedy, but I have done mostly experimental films since going to school and they have been referred to as disturbing and creepy etc so perhaps it could be done. Anyway, that's what has been going on for me! p.s. Maybe when I get a few ideas I should post them and then have people vote on them!!! I would to have some input from you guys.
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Post by Pseudosapien on Mar 4, 2009 22:18:54 GMT
Nice thread Plushy! I hear you on the moving is mad part certainly.XD And Crimson one; No maybe about it, you should indeed post 'em.;P I guess my last year has been a crazy one if ever there was, so it is a bit hard to condense into a post i can be bothered to write.XD I can write about the year so far though, and one part is easy to share; This morning i got a letter. The name on the envelope read "Migrationsverket"...But, that's impossible....a building can't write a letter.... Okay, enough with the bollocks, because Pseudo the sapien, got her goddamn residency approved!!! I have had to wait for three months now to find out wether or not i would be permitted residency here in Sweden, and it has been really screwing with my head tbh. I aparrently only stood a small chance of being approved, which i was also only informed of today after getting the letter, as KAOz was a sneaky darlin' and decided not to tell me that they had said as much so that i wouldn't go totally nuts with worry. <_< So with that in mind it is even more of a massive relief to get that news.XD Sooo yeah, now i am going to be enrolling in some edumacation here to learn the language (and get paid for it! Take note UK, you could really learn from that.XD), and possibly for some catching up on general education for the sake of future jobbyness/qualifications. The latter actually is scaring the crap outta me really. >_o; Fun fact for you all, Pseudo aint been to school since she was about a week into her 15th year, and is now hurtling towards 27.¬_¬ I know that it won't be anything like when i was a kid of course, but i do still feel massively intimidated and overwhelmed at the mere thought of going in and not knowing anyone or anything. Tis all for the greater good though, and hell, if i can even scrape at some of the subjects i was unable to back then, then i will actually be rather chuffed. *does the creepy science jig* I am hoping that my learnening endeavours won't impede my attempts to work on a few li'l projects. In the last year i have been asked to do illustrations for two rpg guidebooks (one which i am loving and one which i am actually thinking of resigning as it is simply too generic and quite simply, uninspiring), work for an album cover for a very good mates' ambient/industrial project, a graphic novel project with a disturbingly creative mate which i am very excited about indeed, a story book that the Mr and i began jotting down ideas for around the end of '07, and a graphic novelly project that i have been working on in my spare moments for a few years now and am itching to get really going on.( i am considering posting some of the sketchy bits here for critique now, as i reckon peeps with a feel for Silent Hillishness might have some valuable input.) ...okay, so i guess when i said a few, i actually meant many.... So, with luck this year will be brimming with knowledge-gaining win and artistic productivity and with a tad more luck, shall be lucrative as a result. *beers all 'round for luck-toasts*
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chackan
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Post by chackan on Mar 9, 2009 15:00:14 GMT
Okay...so status status status. I've been doing what I always do: work, gym, trying not to have a nervous breakdown because my 2 year old daughter won't stop singing really loud in the noise-making-age lol, still decorating the house with my girlfriend so we are both darn tired, trying to find time to go out with both her and my friends, and etc etc.
Other than that, i'm thinking of going back to study, so i'm joining the old students group here lol I work with computers at the moment, and while i do earn enough to maintain a good level of life, I still want to offer more to both my daughter and her mother (my girlfriend), buy a bigger house, marry her (she is really very eager to it but i'm always saying that we should only marry when things are really stable).
So going to University and graduating is maybe my only option but I'm afraid of two things: is really this kind of jobs my thing? Informatic and stuff? I would like to follow Psychology but I don't know if I would easily find a job with that graduation. Besides, taking one right know would be a big impact both financially and time-wise in my life.
Problem is, i don't have much time to decide since the entrance exams are next month and i need to subscribe till then heh.
Anyway, this is my status lol. Hope i decide for the best, thank god i have my significant other support, as always.
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Post by Tabris on Mar 9, 2009 17:47:59 GMT
Wow, looking back a year, I can't even begin to figure out where to start. I am someone who lives a chaotic life, but I like to think there's a method to my madness.
I live in an oiltown, which in itself is horrendous. It is getting better, but if you seen it a couple years ago, it's dirty and disgusting and so are the people for the most part.
Last year, I got fed up with pretty much everyone and everything and decided to go underground in a way people would have to find me and not vice versa. I looked everywhere for a night shift job and giddy gee awesome cool cakes one morning after taking my laptop into the bathroom for some music while I got ready to job hunt my best friend messages me. She works at Adult Source Video and they needed someone to run the night shifts.
Downtown nights here at a porn store, you don't need to look too much into that. If you can think it, it's probably either sold there or it's happened. I pretty much just ignored anyone and everything behind the counter and just listened to music and watched movies for 8-12 hours a night and smoked weed. Friends would show up randomly in the middle of the night. A fairly dangerous job to work but it was probably the funnest job I've ever had. I quit for a while since I live in the middle of Canada and during the winter I was literally seeing the sun once or twice a month. I went back closer to the summer time for a few months.
During this all, I was going through some rough times with said best friend (a very, very complicated friendship to put it mildly). She is my best friend and worst enemy. Love'er to death however. I was also getting heavy into Coil's music which was also causing me to lose my grip on sanity in some very fun maddening ways. Trust me on that one, it tests your sanity if you let it.
In between working at Adult Source, I attempted at working at Giant Tiger. Didn't go terribly well after a while. Most disorganized, chaotic, useless place in the world. How that place functions, I couldn't tell you. I got fired eventually. Worked at a liquor store part time at the same time and I got my job at Adult Source back. The liquor store was fun since I just had to make sure no one attempted to hurt or harass the girl I was working with during the night. The place I live has some pretty primitive views on women and life in general, so it's somewhat necessary.
In July, I went with some really close friends at the time and met up with a person who's essentially my sister (childhood friend, we grew up together to an extent, we both have complicated family backrounds) and seen NIN in Edmonton. I was on the rail for that show, had VIP tickets, the works. Best night of my life. The day after we were all dropped off. Haven't seen one of my friends since then.
A few days later, I took a one way ticket to Toronto with little expectations of where my life was going after that. I just went to see my friends in the military to see another NIN concert. Anything after that was completely up in the air and I didn't care. In this time I considered everything I could. I considered joining the military, going back to school at any of the schools there, simply working. Anything that was a possibility I thought about. I asked everyone I knew, 'What could you see me doing?' and the conclusion to them all was 'journalist'.
Eventually, I started running low on funds and I realised, I'd probably just get kicked out of the military since I have a hard time letting people boss me around (never ends well), the work out there sucked compared to where I live (at the time anyways...) and if I want to go back to school, it was going to take another year at the time anyways. So I got a plane ticket back home.
I had a lot of interesting times there. See a lot of things to do with the normal everyday military (although it's not really new to me, I've been there a few times), got in a physical fight with some butthole ex military jackass who came into my friends home while they were gone and tried starting shit with me. Still have a scar from that fight on my arm~. A lot of drunk conversation, Soul Caliber, Rock Band etc etc. Bought probably 60 CDs from various record stores. It was awesome.
Once I got home, it didn't take long for the same old BS to start. For quite a while me and my friend were talking about me moving into his apartment. After a couple weeks being back, the plans solidified and I saved enough money from Ontario to pay for two months rent. I got a night time cleaning job at the Casino by where he lived as well that easily covered rent, food, anything else on top of it.
Well, not long after moving in, my friend quit his job and his slacker mooch brother got a job. Irony kills, since a month later, we got an eviction notice and he still didn't get a job. Every day, he just played WoW or watched anime (which is fine by me, but not when we're about to get kicked out of our residence). His claim is he was 'depressed'. He kept saying he'd go get a job or at least talk to the landlady. He did neither and a month and a half later we were out of there. Before I moved in, we talked very clearly and we were supposed to be there until the summer at least.
He still owes me about $300. I bought him a ticket to a NIN show in Kelowna, while I was in Ontario which after all his claims of making sure we'd be able to go. Tsk tsk, some peoples kids.
I had to move back into my Grandma's (which before this magical story all started, is where I lived to go to College), due to nowhere else to go. Which leads closer to now. I quit my job at the Casino (which in the end was a bad decision) for two reasons A: It was difficult to get there due to it being so late and B: My boss lied to me when my best friend had to go to the hospital and he lied to me about what she said at the time and told me she was 'ok' when she most definitely was not. It's hard for me to work for people I can't trust and crosses the line into my personal life. I find that very very insulting. No one crosses the line between the people I love and care about, ever.
So this leads to now. Why that was a stupid decision to quit my job is because I quit my job and was kicked out of the apartment right when the recession hit this city. I was completely unaware since this place was relatively unaffected. Due to the oil here, we're one of the richest places in Canada and jobs were a dime a dozen here. Well I've applied to almost 100 places now and there's been absolutely no luck. A lot of my friends have been laid off and are in the same boat too.
So, not too long ago, I applied to a school in the south for a journalism degree and a course in May on writing composition. The recession is somewhat a blessing in disguise for me.
That is my last year in a nutshell.
Wow, had no idea how long this was when I posted it. I just somewhat wrote. Hopefully I don't bore anyone~
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Post by Lolli on Mar 9, 2009 18:27:57 GMT
Well my year has been somewhat uneventful. I've been getting on with my studies at college and in January I completed my first set of A2 exams, I get the results on Friday (fingers crossed). My close knit trio became a duo when one of my friends stopped hanging around and talking to me, for reasons unknown and tomorow I shall be going to see Watchmen, so yeah, my life story is the shortest
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Post by AlexY on Mar 9, 2009 21:17:22 GMT
I'm smoothly going through college, thankyouz. Also doing a part-time job. Saving up for a PS3. Oh, and SH3 came in the mail today.
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Nat
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Post by Nat on Mar 9, 2009 22:36:48 GMT
I've been muddling through uni, only 2 and a half months to go! I'm also panicking about having to get my life together within a few months as I need to move away to a different uni so that I can qualify to become a Further Education lecturer.
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Post by Iram Et Dolorem on Mar 17, 2009 11:07:03 GMT
Gotten back here at last.
My work at the hospital has been eating all of my time, so not much life in the internets, to be honest. I quit two of my moderator positions on other forums because I couldn't keep up. Still playing the violin, still drawing, but not so much.
Hopefully, I can take my masters' degree by June this year.
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Post by Vaco Deus on Mar 30, 2009 3:56:42 GMT
Oh, yeah, this last year has been a fuck'n hoot and a holler Graduating from college this May and then transferring to another college to finish off my 4 year degree in graphic design/advertising. Doing all the college stuff (registering, getting classes, setting up school loans) if stressing me out. My kidney problems are worsening and since I get booted off my parents insurance next year and jobs in America no longer want their employees to be healthy (read: dish out medical benefits) I got to go to the doctors to figure out the problem. They couldn't find one so basically they gave me bottle of painkillers that I can refill an unlimited amount of times. I've been popping them whenever I get stressed in addition to the usual kidney pains. It mellows me out and makes the world more tolerable. Me and my girlie called it quits after a few rocky years. Tried to be friends with her afterwards but she didn't like the fact I moved on alot faster than she did. Started dating a new girl two weeks after our relationship ended. The new relationship didn't last longer than 4 months because it was, for the most part, a strictly sexual relationship. After that I just decided to spend some time to myself. I enjoy being single currently. Don't have to talk about my day or what I'm thinking about or pretend to like her friends. Its liberating to spend a night reading a book or watching TV. Work has been non existent thanks to America's economy. I haven't worked at the golf course in 4 months. All the cooks are cutting each others throats over hours. I secured my usual summer job in the snack bar as none of the cooks like doing that job. Dunno why; its easy. In an 8 hour shift you have 3 hours of real work and thats mostly either the lunch rush (if you work the morning shift) or when the golf leagues come in at the end of the night. Most of the time you can cruise the internet, read a book or flirt with the cute girls who work the refreshment carts. Plus you get tips which is always nice. I usually walk out of there with $100-150 at the end of each shift. If we have a golf tourney that day I can make an easy $400 but with the economy in shambles I'll be thankful for whatever I get. To support myself I've been doing some freelance work doing photography shoots and designing things for people. Posters, menus, flyers, brochures. Whatever. Its fairly mundane but it gets me money I dunno, I've been in a foul funk for the past few months over financial, educational, and health concerns. Hopefully that'll turn around in the fall (I love the fall)
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KAOz
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Post by KAOz on Mar 30, 2009 11:43:25 GMT
YAY! Status thread.
Well, it all started off good with Pseudo moving into my funky crib to steal all of my time, fulltime.
Then my contract for my teaching-job ran out in November, nothing got renewed, been jobless since. Barely have an economy to speak of, as I am currently getting by on about $900 a month. That's all cash I have each month, to pay all bills, get food and other various stuff. =/ Fuck that shit really. Stresses me out to no end.
Sweden doesn't like people working as of right now really, specially with the stupid recession going on worldwide.
Applied to a University to study some, but we'll see if my old grades even holds up enough to let me begin there. So I am shitting bricks. But we'll see how it turns out in May when the first results for if you got in starts coming out.
God. This is almost a full-fledged depresso-post.
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Post by AlexY on Mar 30, 2009 12:45:31 GMT
Well, it all started off good with Pseudo moving into my funky crib to steal all of my time, fulltime. ... God. This is almost a full-fledged depresso-post. Pseudo is with you d00d. You just can't be depressed, it's physically, nay, SPIRITUALLY IMPOSSIBLE. So the rumours say at least. Don't worry, everything will go swell. Just don't lose your cheery optimism. ^^
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Post by Toadkiller Dog on Mar 30, 2009 12:54:55 GMT
I think everyone in this thread is going to, or has gone to college but me. Fuck school. I'm so done with all that shit, have been for a while, not even thinking about it for a while.
ANYWAY...I'm 25 years old, and as my other thread pointed out, finally to be married. Looking forward to that, and as far as future events go...there's a lot to be done, but none of it involves school. First and foremost I would very much like to get some true boxing training in within the next few years. I've been a street fighter almost all my life, and know odds and ends from several different styles and disciplines, but not enough to say I excel in any of them.
I was taught to box at a very early age by my grandfather, and it got me far, combined with the other things I picked up throughout life...but I need formal training. I've been thinking long and hard and think I may even be able to make a career of it, if I decide I'd like to. Some friends say I'm MUCH more suited to MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) than traditional Boxing, but I dunno... I use an odd hybrid of boxing's footwork and striking combined with Judo's counterbalancing grappling. Most of the rest of my style is purely street, nothing fancy.
The thing to keep in my mind for myself though is that I'm a whopping 5'3". My height was the reason I first began to look into Judo to begin with, since almost any opponent I'll go against will be taller, and weigh more than myself. But agility, sheer endurance and precision are to my advantage.
Beyond that I still write, a lot. And I still chase the dream of being a metal guitarist. Those two almost go hand in hand though. Neither are getting me anywhere though, and the former requires some schooling, which isn't so much of an option currently. SO, I need to start training and lace up my gloves I guess.
None the less, this whole marriage thing makes me feel great. I've loved this woman dearly for years now, and it makes me exceptionally happy to know that I can call her my wife come later this year. She supports me too, though she's not into martial arts, violence or fighting in general...
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Post by Pseudosapien on Apr 21, 2009 14:22:15 GMT
I don't think i have said it yet, therefore; Congratulations kingofdogs!! @ AlexY- I wouldn't go that far, i may be awesomeness incarnate and all, but that doesn't mean that being in the same place as me 24/7 is always fun. XP Don't worry though, whenever KAOz seems near to uncheery pessimism i smack him with a frying pan and it makes it all better.^^ I felt the urge to post as i have a leeeettle update on mah status now; From this thursday i shall be training to become a fully-fledged tattooist!! Fuckin' finally i say, it has been a dream of mine since i was about eight years old and despite searching for a place to train for roughly the last decade i have had no luck at all until now. In fact the most "helpful" advice i was ever given was "Move to Germany, there is better trainee turnover there." It was rather surreal really, i went in yesterday afternoon and asked if they would be interested in taking on an apprentice, the guy asked if i had any artwork i had done that i could show him and as always i had my mini portfolio to hand, he and a woman who worked there spent ages spewing praise at it and later on as we were throwing a pizza together my phone rang, and i was being asked when i could start. @_@; It hasn't fully sunken into my brainmeats yet, but i am jiggley with joy as it is. I will still be lurking around here and making sure that you are all being taken care of of course(".... i'm always watching you.." ), but the rest of my time will be spent pouring over learningisms with the flaily joy of an oversized kid on an extended xmas.
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Post by Lolli on Apr 21, 2009 17:38:22 GMT
^Way to go Pseudo, you'll be making people very happy through your talent, after putting them through pain of course
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