Happy Days in Random Chatter 10

[Craig Jessop]

I was talking to my dad and he mentioned how Youth Conference went this summer. It reminded me of a time when our theme for Youth Conference was "Steadfast and Immovable" and we were going on a road trip. They wanted to get t-shirts with our theme on a license plate. Steadfast is too big to fit, so it got abbreviated as STDFAST.

Wow. That's.... pretty amazing.

Reminds me of that Arrested Development episode when Tobias got a vanity license plate to commemorate "A New Start."

This is similar to my ward's Gospel Doctrine lesson last week, where we played "Plan of Salvation Pictionary." My group was assigned Adam and Eve.

[Portia]

Provo is so weird, sometimes. Ate at Los Hermanos by myself last night, and their space used to be an Italian restaurant.

Michelangelo's David had a bright blue Mexican blanket draped over his lower half. Oddly, the prudishness down there makes everything, even humanity's greatest artistic achievements, seem prurient. Rolling my eyes so hard.

[mic0]

Mmmm, los hermanos was tasty.

[Marduk]

Mmmm, los hermanos was tasty.

Noooo. Bad Mico.

[Portia]

I've been on a Stefan Zweig kick. (His work inspired Wes Anderson in making The Grand Budapest Hotel.) This passage about the repression of 1900 as seen from the vantage point of 1940 perfectly sums up my feelings on Provo:

"By this unnatural differentiation in external habits the inner tension between the poles, the erotic, was necessarily strengthened, and thus, by its unpsychological method of concealment and reticence, the society of that time achieved the directly opposite effect. While in its incessant fear and prudishness it was constantly tracking down the indecent in all forms of life, literature, at, and dress, in order to avoid every possible incitement, it was actually forced to think constantly of the indecent."

THIS

[mic0]

Mmmm, los hermanos was tasty.

Noooo. Bad Mico.

I think I just confused "tasty" with "I went there with people I liked." Thanks for shaming me into remembering.

[Emiliana]

Mmmm, los hermanos was tasty.

Noooo. Bad Mico.

I think I just confused "tasty" with "I went there with people I liked." Thanks for shaming me into remembering.

Heh. You live in Texas, right? Did you grow up here? If so, double shame on you for thinking that anywhere else has decent Mexican food!

(Other than Mexico. Of course.)

[Emiliana]

Last night I dreamed that my dad left my stepmom for a gay man. My first reaction was, "I KNEW it wasn't possible for a straight man to have such clean fingernails and good fashion sense!"

[Portia]

I am extremely bored by the meet-at-seven-for-a-drink dates. It causes me a lot of anxiety (and frankly I think is wasting valuable time that ought to be spent elsewhere). Any ideas to make it suck less?

[Emiliana]

I am extremely bored by the meet-at-seven-for-a-drink dates. It causes me a lot of anxiety (and frankly I think is wasting valuable time that ought to be spent elsewhere). Any ideas to make it suck less?

Counter with a date idea of your own?

That's all I've got.

[Cognoscente]

Drink faster.

[bobtheenchantedone]

Drink faster.

I like it.

[Portia]

Hahaha! It was an interesting night.

(Half an hour before the date, I was walking along 2100 S and got picked up by this group of guys who seemed a bit heavy on the "bro," one was in a RVCA shirt, I think? We went to Campfire Lounge and he literally disappeared. So I took that as a sign and left.)

The date itself was fun, but I am 99% certain he's not interested in a second. Oh well!

[Imogen]

Love is dead and I will die alone.

same

[Digit]

Heh, I was at my old game of seeing who bought the domains of common nouns and found an interesting thing. If you go to paper.com, it goes to officedepot.com, specifically, to the results of a product search on paper. I was expecting Office Depot to have nabbed pencil.com too, but that seems to be some team of "proven experts" who will take your money to go "bring your business to the Japanese market" which is to say I don't think they have anything specifically to do with wooden writing instruments.

[Portia]

Applying for a dream job that opened up. Probably should feel more nervous than I do, but I think that I'm qualified and you can't fake passion or experience. (For long, heh.) Wish me luck! It's local to SLC, so my grandmother would get her wish on that. :P

[Cognoscente]

Nothing like a coding interview to make you feel like an imbecile. And now I guess we play the waiting game.

[Cognoscente]

Ugh, the waiting game sucks. Let's play Hungry Hungry Hippos.

[TheBlackSheep]

I'm playing that game too. It does suck. I feel you

[yayfulness]

That's where I am with housing right now. The rental market in California is absolutely evil.