This is the thread where we ruminate on our recent successes

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― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 16 April 2004 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 16 April 2004 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 16 April 2004 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I like my job ???

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Now that I got rejected from grad school, I can focus on finding a new job?

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Um... I'm getting another story published and I'm going to be starting in a new PhD program in the fall. I think I'll be happier there.

― Prude (Prude), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw the Pixies last night.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

The guys in Rebirth Brass Band know who I am.

Ooh, I bought jeans that fit yesterday, for a reasonable price.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i made Badly Drawn Kit return.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't wanna jinx anything. I've been having a great year though; definitely beats the pants off the last few.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got gas.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

umm, did some laundry last night?

am about to finish my g-d story (that's encouraging myself by assuming it will be a success.)

did not lock the keys in my car this morning. Now THAT'S success.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm leaving my job YAY
I'm going to grad school
I had sex again
I am going to live for free in the Lower East Side this summer!

― Magic City (ano ano), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I did quite a lot of work this week.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I just e-mailed Kevin Hopper from Stump!

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm running for student body president

― Aja (aja), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Why?

(Aw maaaan I'm sorry)

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I have got a smashing new job in a place I like doing interesting stuff where I will learn a lot, a lovely boyfriend (who has so far bruised my arm and smashed my head against the oven door hold on one cotton picking minute mate) and I changed my bedsheets last night! I usually only do this about once a year (ugh, need new bedding, it is all grey...)

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Why?
(Aw maaaan I'm sorry)

Because I'm qualified and I want to. I'd make a better one than the other people running, but they are worthy opponents.

― Aja (aja), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

In the past two weeks I've lost 8 pounds of beergut/mantitties and can now do thrice as many sit-ups as I could then.
I beat both The Hobbit & Prince of Persia on Gamecube in the past 3 days.
I recorded a decent vocal track for a song called "Alcoholocaust" last night.
I paid my bills.
FIN.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

In the past two weeks I've lost 8 pounds of beergut/mantitties and can now do thrice as many sit-ups as I could then.

I paid my bills.

I am very envious of nickalicious' success.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"The student body needs someone who is not afraid to ask .... . "

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

are your mantitties a problem Sam?

― chris (chris), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Success? Finally persuaded a friend of mine to give back the CDs that another mate borrowed off me three years ago which my friend was going to copy for him, so I've finally got my Neu and Harmonia LPs back. And the new Kingsbury Manx LP at last. Hurrah.

― Rob M (Rob M), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, I finished the one-player mode of MechAssault and the Weapon Master mode on Soul Calibur II.

And I've successfully gone jogging for two days in a row.

(Nick, what have you been doing to your mantitties?)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

are your mantitties a problem Sam?

*sob* yes. . .

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I should point out that by paying my bills I now have $13.57 until May 1st.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

But they ain't turnin' off the water THIS TIME muahaha!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I bought a brand new computer with insurance money and made a profit because I got an educational discount.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

i tiled my bathroom

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm really trying to think of something here!

Oh! I know, I successfully programmed the video to record Trees Lounge last night!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I have written an instrumental

― Aja (aja), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i feel your pain nickalicious.

i had no money to pay my bills and when i locked my keys in my car yesterday i had no money to pay the locksmith. my friend had to bring some money up here for me. :(

then i had to go get one of those insanely high-intrest payday loans to live on/fix my car with for the rest of the month.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The work crunch went better than expected (trust me, this is important).

Got some good new feedback and thoughts on my manuscripts and styles.

Met some new people who are cool.

Otherwise pondering and carefully waiting.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Did I mention I love my job? And I get paid today! It's going to be a massive fuckoff check, because I forgot to turn in a timesheet over Easter. I'm wondering what I'm going to buy HSA on the way home from work as a "sorry I've been so cranky" present.

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Did I also mention the big boss taking me aside and thanking me for doing such a good job, and telling me how much everyone appreciates what I'm doing?

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

(Nick, what have you been doing to your mantitties?)

I'm proud to say that, what with their quickly diminishing size, the only thing I've been doing with them is absentmindedly cupping them far less often.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 16 April 2004 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay for Kate! That sounds most worthy. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 April 2004 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

My left ear hurts!!

― Aja (aja), Friday, 16 April 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

*envisages who this is a success for*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 April 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know, but it isn't enhancing my listening experiance to the Smashing Punpkins on the radio

― Aja (aja), Friday, 16 April 2004 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 April 2004 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, Pumpkins

― Aja (aja), Friday, 16 April 2004 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

We nabbed the Fantomas support slot for 10 shows.
We finished recording a new album, and now have enough material for another one. We also have good labels who want to release them.
I went on a date last night for the first time in ages.
I figured out how to use a bandsaw.
I found a Stockhausen double CD for £5.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Friday, 16 April 2004 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i got accepted into a business planning program and it began on tuesday. it will assist me in my search for financing to launch the company i've been developing for the past 18 months or so.

i also found a new manufacturer for the george bush voodoo dolls my friend and i are producing. we're going to place our first order sometime next week.

― metfigga (metfigga), Friday, 16 April 2004 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been asked for a short story for another anthology.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 16 April 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Udu Wudu that is awesome! I'm such a ridiculously massive Fantomas fan.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 16 April 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

We nabbed the Fantomas support slot for 10 shows.
We finished recording a new album, and now have enough material for another one. We also have good labels who want to release them.

What band are you in?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 16 April 2004 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Guapo. You haven't heard of us. Fantomas tour should be great, assuming we get through the east european borders without being arrested this time.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Friday, 16 April 2004 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Because last time...?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 April 2004 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

...we weren't arrested as such but a border guard pulled a gun on me for walking over the border when I wasn't allowed to. Why don't they put a line in the road or something? I mean, how are you supposed to know?

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Friday, 16 April 2004 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I can drive on real roads now! And will be getting a car (free!) in the summer.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 16 April 2004 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i stuck my smelly shoes on the window ledge last night and when I woke up they hadn't fallen off

― dave q, Friday, 16 April 2004 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

yay r/z!!!

come visit me. long drives are fun. :)

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I achieved my *to- do list in full for the first time in 17 days. Then i went to the pub at six.*Okay the list was four items long. But I finaly feel as if I have one day in which my work life balance thing balanced. Hurray!Ans it was sunny today. And Arsenal are thrashing Leeds. ( sorry BF)

― badger Kitten (badger Kitten), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

i totally just got dressed

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 17 April 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

unless you count socks

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 17 April 2004 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

this thread made me think about what i define "success" as. although i have done, completed whatever, a great many things, i do not count them as successes. i don't know what i would even consider a success.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 17 April 2004 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

i have socks on now

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 17 April 2004 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

i finally finished my piece for the alt-paper. after a rewrite, a loss and a start from scratch.

if they don't like it they can eat my fuc.

no, really if they don't like it i'll cry.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Sunday, 18 April 2004 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

i went shopping for work clothes and actually bought work clothes.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Sunday, 18 April 2004 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I have successfully managed to make all A's in every single one of my courses this semester. I have managed to remain in the good graces of my bosses at work. I'm becoming more open-minded wrt new(er) music and am not simply going, "Oh, just because it's new, it must be shit." And I've planted a new flower garden. Ta-daaaaa.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 18 April 2004 02:00 (twenty-two years ago)

*knocks on wood*

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 18 April 2004 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

i cleaned out part of my closet and threw away three bags of crap

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Sunday, 18 April 2004 02:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i look devastating tonight. could that be considered a success?

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Sunday, 18 April 2004 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)

yes.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 18 April 2004 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I am filled with hope and optimism.

― Dan I., Sunday, 18 April 2004 03:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I won £30 at Southend's poshest casino with my roulette strategy. I also came 2nd equal out of 13 at the go-karting. Both small things, but they pleased me.

(I also had a moment of realisation about how optimistic I am about my life at the moment - what does it say about me that as soon as I have a positive feeling of this sort it makes me panic in case things go wrong?)

― Markelby (Mark C), Sunday, 18 April 2004 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"who has so far bruised my arm and smashed my head against the oven door hold on one cotton picking minute mate"

I am not sure in what spirit this is meant but maybe this is a serious problem?

In success stories, my leg is heaps more flexible and the physiotherapist was very pleased with me for doing all my excercises.

― isadora (isadora), Sunday, 18 April 2004 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm dating someone for the first time in three years. She's great. :-)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 April 2004 05:26 (twenty-two years ago)

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