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Re: Revenge of Grumpy Bear
« Reply #435 on: February 20, 2007, 05:37:23 PM »
I'm grumpy because my 2 year old grew up into a teenager that sits and rolls his eyes at me through church.
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« Reply #436 on: February 20, 2007, 09:15:31 PM »
Ack! I think I'm getting a cold sore. Phooey.  >:(
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Re: Revenge of Grumpy Bear
« Reply #437 on: February 20, 2007, 09:24:27 PM »
I'm grumpy because my 2 year old grew up into a teenager that sits and rolls his eyes at me through church.

At least he's not crying through it... as much...
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Re: Revenge of Grumpy Bear
« Reply #438 on: February 21, 2007, 09:23:07 AM »
School owns my soul.  And I'm behind on the interest.
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Re: Revenge of Grumpy Bear
« Reply #439 on: February 21, 2007, 06:32:10 PM »
Watch out for the guys with glasses and pen protectors! You may think they're just the average geek hanging around the school, but no, they're the soul repo guys.
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Re: Revenge of Grumpy Bear
« Reply #440 on: February 22, 2007, 07:03:21 PM »
You tell them and tell them, this stock is going to go down, it will go down, sell the stock... they hang on to it, and it goes down. sad sad sad.

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Re: Revenge of Grumpy Bear
« Reply #441 on: March 02, 2007, 06:21:04 AM »
So anyways, the firm that I'm working for needed me to get licensed in Wyoming. It's not that any of the firms clients live in Wyoming (not many people do), but they own property in Wyoming that require me to do legal work in Wyoming.  This means that I had to take the Wyoming bar exam, which I did today. This was my third bar exam. I hate bar exams.  I hate taking weeks of my life studying for an exam that is nothing more then a hazing ritual for lawyers.

After I finished the exam, part of me was excited to be done, having realize that I was now allowed to live life again. Another part of me wanted to puke from having to go through the ordeal. Now I just hope that I passed so I don't have to go through this again (or maybe I'll switch jobs).
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Re: Revenge of Grumpy Bear
« Reply #442 on: March 02, 2007, 04:40:06 PM »
So I've been reading this book, A Secret History by Mary Gentle. It's gruesome and vulgar in some places, but quite engrossing and can't wait to finish it. I'm fifty pages from the end...and my two-year-old son dumps it in the tub. What could be worse, you ask? It's a library book.

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Re: Revenge of Grumpy Bear
« Reply #443 on: March 02, 2007, 08:18:43 PM »
So anyways, the firm that I'm working for needed me to get licensed in Wyoming. It's not that any of the firms clients live in Wyoming (not many people do), but they own property in Wyoming that require me to do legal work in Wyoming.  This means that I had to take the Wyoming bar exam, which I did today. This was my third bar exam. I hate bar exams.  I hate taking weeks of my life studying for an exam that is nothing more then a hazing ritual for lawyers.

After I finished the exam, part of me was excited to be done, having realize that I was now allowed to live life again. Another part of me wanted to puke from having to go through the ordeal. Now I just hope that I passed so I don't have to go through this again (or maybe I'll switch jobs).

I felt the same way in the Series 7 and 66 exams.
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Re: Revenge of Grumpy Bear
« Reply #444 on: March 05, 2007, 07:53:50 AM »
Ugh, Wikipedia's insistence on not allowing creative capitalization of names is really torquing me off. I've been providing argument after argument, and no one cares.
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Re: Revenge of Grumpy Bear
« Reply #445 on: March 05, 2007, 02:27:36 PM »
*Many* of the wikipedia standards torque me off. There is much that is downright absurd about the place.

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Re: Revenge of Grumpy Bear
« Reply #446 on: March 05, 2007, 05:17:01 PM »
You'd probably get a kick out of http://parkerpeters.livejournal.com/ which is a wikipedia blog ran by some one that use to be on the inside about the abuses of the people incharge.
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Re: Revenge of Grumpy Bear
« Reply #447 on: March 05, 2007, 08:34:17 PM »
Well, that just shows me how bad it can REALLY get. I haven't been involved in anything like that...though I was warned for 3RR once over the Alumin(i)um article.

Every group has politics that you find more about the longer you hang around.
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Re: Revenge of Grumpy Bear
« Reply #448 on: March 06, 2007, 11:33:39 PM »
So my supervisor calls me at 3:00 in the afternoon and tells me she wants me to illustrate an enitre children's book by noon tomorrow, including having the complete book put together, formatted, printed and bound. This is on top of several other projects I have to have completed by noon tomorrow.

I talked her down to just a cover illustration and making one zeroxed version with a rough format, but after she asked me to skip class, stay-up all night and go into work early (which I'm not doing).

I really upset that my supervisor has the audacity to ask me to drop my whole life to fulfill one of her whims. And this is a whim, since the book will probably get used in a presentation that lasts less than five minutes and then thrown out never to be seen again.
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Re: Revenge of Grumpy Bear
« Reply #449 on: March 06, 2007, 11:50:15 PM »
I'm grumpy because 42 didn't post 3-seconds earlier making his post time 03:33:33.
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