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I've heard Tito's is a good vodka as well. I feel like there are non-potato vodkas now? Which seems like they'd be a different thing altogether but okay? I don't drink vodka really, unless it's in a mixed drink and by that point I'm usually too gone to notice. (lol sex on the beach haaaaay) (no but really long islands are the best. why is there coke in them? sad flea.)

Friend/roommate is mad that I moved her breakable shit off the shelves that the exterminators were going to tip over to spray. I get it (I'm sorry I touched your stuff) but I don't get it (they literally said move everything because they need to spray the bottoms of things). Granted she's also post-vacation grumpy, as well as tipsy if not just drunk, and freely admits she's not taking this as seriously as she should SO. Whatever. I'm over it. Moving-out-roommate responded to the inital group text about the reschedule with a ton of attitude and hasn't spoken to anyone since. I'm so over this.

Absolut taste like nail polish remover smells. Absinthe would be interesting, but supposedly they've changed the recipe from the days of yore. I still think you need to stage a coup and fire the people above you Red.

Depends on what you'd call weird, I guess. I've had alligator, frog legs, escargot, a camel burger, and there may have been crickets in my couscous once? Never figured out whether it was true or if someone was screwing with the other (highly annoying) Americans in the group. I wanted to try pigeon pie but we couldn't find it. :\

So many different things being studied here. I like.

i literally sat around my house for 3 hours, after nearly killing myself this morning trying to get everything done. Called the company at 3:45, left a vm asking where they were. At 4:20 (our window was 1-4 mind you) I get an call saying "I'm on my way." He gets here at 4:35. My landlord cancelled them and rescheduled with a different company for friday and he'll be here for it. which is great on one hand, but on the other, what the actual fuck i'm so pissed. So pissed.

Hullo folks. I'm flea, starting an MA in Intercultural communication on Monday. I've been out of school for 5 years so I'm mildly terrified of going back and also of the opinion that everyone else is going to be smarter than me. So that's fun. I'm taking three classes this semester. One of them is statistics and will probably be my cause of death. Hooray!

^ I'm coming too!

You could ask in the "help me build a workout" or the bodyweight forums. Those are probably the people who know their stuff.

Also now I really want to watch Love Actually.

I don't know why my autocorrect always changes "of" to "if." It's a real word dammit. So I did my room. Packed away some of the breakable shit that hadnt been packed in the other girls' rooms. If the guy wants me to do more, fine. If he wants to call the landlord and tell him not everyone prepared, also fine. My ass is covered. For as much as te girl moving out bitched and moaned about it though, you'd think she'd be thorough. Also if two random dudes are scheduled to go rampaging through your house, wouldn't you pack your fragile shit FIRST? Ugh. Ugh ugh ugh. Now it's 1:30 and I'm really hoping this guy shows up sooner rather than later. After I launder everything I own I'm going to come back, park my car, and take the train to go get a burger and a grownup milkshake. I'd love to get trashed but orientation is tomorrow. Last time I went to an all day event at the school I was still drunk when I woke up and the day was miserable, so repeating it is not an option.

Thanks for the well wishes folks. BUT two of my roommates left shit on top of dressers/bookcases/etc which they explicitly told us to move. So now I have to handle that on top if my own shit. (Almost done.) AND the other girl has been sporadically feeding a stray cat, who now comes up to the damn door when he sees us and has been hiding under my car. I feel awful for him but we can't have pets, and if I run him over by accident I'm going to be upset for years. Fuck all of this. And we have to do it again next week. And the week after.

So bug dudes are coming between 1-4, and it's currently 9:11. Living room is done. Roommates' rooms are "done" to varying degrees of having followed directions. Girl who's moving out this weekend just brought all her shit down to the living room to sit here til Sunday? My room is not quite done yet because I got overwhelmed by the entire process yesterday and had to stop. Hard part's done. It's mostly just "wrestle moar laundry into trash bags" and then toss said bags in my car while praying there are no bugs hitching a ride into my car. It seems fairly unlikely but apparently being paranoid for the rest of your life is a charming feature of getting bed bugs. I'm also paranoid they're going to tell me one or more of us didn't follow directions and therefore they won't guarantee we're bug-free at the end of it blah blah. Because somehow I've been elected official person who has to deal with this shit and will be the one to get yelled at when it goes wrong. On a related note, I have my initial consultation with a potential therapist on Friday. Poor woman's going to earn every cent. I'll be largely absent for the next few days, I think. Getting exiled from the house for at least 6 hours once these guys show up today, 10-hour orientation tomorrow, then more school shit and that therapist appt on Friday. Idk. Pray for me.

I've always thought dignity was overrated, but you do you.

It's possible the excitement and newness of the stuff is wearing off. Just keep at it. You can do it!

Oof, sorry for not checking back in. I tend to read the notification emails I get and then forget that I actually have to come back to the site to respond! Hey now, be nice to yourself. You've tried different methods before and they haven't worked out is all. Now you're trying something new. But it still might take time to see results. In the meantime, if you're feeling better after changing your eating habits and whatnot it's not hurting anything.

No that part comes later tonight. In the meantime I'm wiping pretty much everything that's not machine washing with rubbing alcohol bc it kills bed bugs on contact supposedly. It's probably overkill bc I'd see them if they were hanging out on my makeup bottles or something, but peace of mind yo. The exterminators are coming tomorrow so everything has to be bagged up and stuff. It's a pain in the ass process.

A) Cinnabon is overrated. What is with all of these chains utterly disappointing me? It's not like I have sophisticated tastes. Packing up all my shit after just having finished unpacking is a bitch and I am not pleased. C) I should really stop saying bitch. D) I just bought textbooks for a class (why do you post them only a week before class starts?!) and my confirmation email read "Data Anal" and I laughed because I'm a 12-year-old boy. E) Fuck buying textbooks. I really want that job I applied for to call me. Like yesterday. K. Off to continue dousing everything I own in alcohol.

I would much prefer that to "please hold me while I cry over how hard my classes are" lol. Too bad I don't need to take anatomy or human sexuality. Could definitely make use of a study group for those.

The way the first post read on mobile all I saw was "someone to hold you," which is also appropriate. At least for my situation.

Good luck! Make lots of new friends!

Way to go! That's super awesome.

Paleo recipes. Boo hiss. The chicken and parsnips looks amazing though. *-*

i'll definitely keep that in mind. Hopefully I won't reach that level of stress again, but who knows? lol

That sounds like a great way to study Icelandic and I'm jealous. I hope your toe heals soon! That's such a bummer.