Happy Things 2006: Generation X

[Faster Master St. Pastor]

Monkey Dispatch Unit?

[MsFish]

I'm happy because I have lots of freaking awesome friends, and I keep making new ones.  Made a couple of really amazing friends this weekend, and then also got to spend time with my old amazing friends who I love.  

Sometimes, I really just love my life.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Monkey Dispatch Unit?

Deployment, but yeah.

[Shrain]

I was thinking Monkey Death Unit. But "deployment" is much more suave. Oh, and all that "plastic pox on your action figures" stuff? It was, um . . . a joke. As a humble admirer, I'd never seriously wish to see your prolific collection decimated.

Anyhow, I'm happy because I've landed an interview at Pearson Education this week. Cool. It's only in the permissions dept., but I've applied to other depts as well. Heck, I might as well go in, right?

Also, my instructor can't make it to class tonight so he won't be there to get in the way of actual work getting done on our book! whoo hoo! I know, that sounds a little odd, but he's a doofus, so we really will get more accomplished w/o him there.

[Shrain]

Today is truly a lucky one! I got my fed. tax refund today. YAY!

[Faster Master St. Pastor]

This might be more apropriate on a funny things thread, meh.

So begins the duel between Faster Master St. Pastor and Fellfrosch! Tremble in awe at the mighty conflict!

It is a bout between a Student of Dark Magic and a Student of Death !
You have 156 hitpoints.
Fellfrosch has 593 hitpoints.


This point will be determined by a battle of Dark Magic!

You have 156 hitpoints and 0 matchpoint(s).
Fellfrosch has 593 hitpoints and 0 matchpoint(s).

Fellfrosch casts a Summon Dark Warriors spell!
You defend with a No Spell spell!
Your spell absorbs 4 damage!
Fellfrosch hits you for 1193 damage!
You have -1037 hit points left.

You cast your Darkstrike spell!
Fellfrosch defends with a No Spell spell!
spell absorbs 3 damage!
You hit Fellfrosch for 100 damage!
Fellfrosch has 493 hit points left.

Your opponent wins the match point!

You slump to the ground dead, your hitpoints depleted to -1037!
Fellfrosch stands over your corpse gloating!

This is the funniest thing ever, one round, and I lose, completly trumped.

[Shrain]

Oh, yeah, oh, yeah. Who just got a job offer from Pearson Education! Me! whoo hoo!

Sure, it's only working in permissions, but it's a start with steady hours and--wonder of wonders--tuition reimbursement!! Of course, I'm still hoping I hear back from Tor about a job I applied for, yet this is definitely an awesome bit of news. hooooray!

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

yay for new jobs!

[stacer]

You'll want to look at their tuition reimbursement policy very carefully, though. Houghton wouldn't approve it for me because they said it wasn't directly job related for the specific department (i.e., they simply didn't want to pay for it, and that was their excuse). That was okay by me, anyway, because if I'd left the company before two years after my last semester in school, I'd have had to pay it all back, had I gotten tuition reimbursement.

Had I been in trade, however, it would have been great. I would have been approved for tuition reimbursement and had no problem staying on for two more years, because I'd have been in the department I wanted. It sure would have been nice not to have had to move from Boston.

However, things all work as they do for a purpose, and I'm glad for my job here. I love it, and it's way more fantasy oriented than working at Houghton would have been.

[Nessa]

Horray for Shrain!

On another note, I just want to say how much I appreciate this forum. I also participate regularly on another board (all LDS women) and although I like it, the women there can get...well, it can turn into melodrama sometimes. There was a big upheaval over the last few days (I was involved in no way) and it makes me appreciate this forum all the more for its sanity and intelligent conversation. What there is of it, anyway

[fuzzyoctopus]

I'm happy because I got my test results in the mail today and I passed and am now officially a State Tested Nursing Assistant.

Now all I need to do is apply for loans, apply to MedCentral, and study more science than I ever planned to, and in two years I can be a registered nurse and be employable for the rest of my life.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

I got a saturday part time job at the Compleat Stratagist a game store. I get a 30% discount!

Yay.

[The Lost One]

Congrats to Fuzzy and Jeffe.

[Shrain]

*shrain sulks in the corner at Lost One's failure to notice her good news.

Oh, stacer, thanks for the heads up. I'll be sure to read the fine print on any tuition agreements!

[The Lost One]

Lost One apologizes for not noticing shrain's good news

Congrats Shrain.