The "What Are You Doing This Moment" Thread

I think being happy is the best way to do that.

I've thought I was a failure to my parents for a long time. How do you get the courage to ask your parents if you've let them down? That shit is hard.

Yeah. Honestly, I doubt most reasonable parents are truly disappointed easily. Unless you're 40 and still leaching off of them and not trying to improve, I'm pretty sure they're still going to be proud of you. I feel bad because I'm 23 and still living at home and they're perfectly okay with it.

Today consists of studying for the GRE and watching football.
 
Mathiäs;10943156 said:
Yeah. Honestly, I doubt most reasonable parents are truly disappointed easily. Unless you're 40 and still leaching off of them and not trying to improve, I'm pretty sure they're still going to be proud of you. I feel bad because I'm 23 and still living at home and they're perfectly okay with it.

Today consists of studying for the GRE and watching football.

I lived at home until I was almost 25. I think as long as you plan on getting out as soon as it's possible/convenient, they won't care.

Cherish it, though. Living on your own kinda sucks sometimes because of all the responsibility. Also rent.
 
Mathiäs;10943156 said:
Today consists of studying for the GRE

I can't stress enough the utilization of the practice tests ETS provides. They are pretty comparable to the actual thing.

Re: Living on your own. I don't see what's such a downer about having to handle the billpaying, unless you don't make enough money. A lot of bills can be autopayed even.
 
Yeah, I've been working out of practice books and the ETS tests. I'm good on everything except the quantitative section, which is unfortunately the most important part of it.

And yeah living at home is fine, and I do not make enough money to feasibly support myself and still be able to commit time to grad school prep. And having a PhD in economics vs just a BA is like a 60k a year differential.
 
I lived at home until 25. My living situation was good, so I had no real impetus to move out. When I did, it was because my girlfriend and I were at a place in our relationship where we could move in together, so we did. It's worked out. We live within our means, make budgets and shit, and for the first time in a few years, I'm able to actually tuck some money away into savings ($500-$1000 a month)
 
Mathiäs;10943208 said:
Yeah, I've been working out of practice books and the ETS tests. I'm good on everything except the quantitative section, which is unfortunately the most important part of it.

I only did avg on quantitative. Couldn't teach myself geometry in a couple months. Fortunately that is less important than Verbal for psych.
 
Got a text message from a friend saying, "Go out to your car and get your birthday present before someone steals it."

I went out and there was a big black cock suctioned to my driver window, with a bow decorated as pubes.

I have some awesome and thoughtful friends.

Hey HBB, you want it? I think youll get a lot more use and enjoyment out of it then I will...
 
:lol: done.


I'm supposed to be going to bed (gotta be up in 5 hours) but instead i'm reading this forum. Insomnia rulez. I should actually read the teaching thread because my phone interview for the fellows is Wednesday…

Edit: I'm forever indebted to my mom too. I do help out though. Actually all my siblings have better jobs than me and we just split the cost of the utilities bills because we all live in the house. So it's like… $200 a month for the whole attic? Not bad for NYC.
 
Got a text message from a friend saying, "Go out to your car and get your birthday present before someone steals it."

I went out and there was a big black cock suctioned to my driver window, with a bow decorated as pubes.

I have some awesome and thoughtful friends.

Hey HBB, you want it? I think youll get a lot more use and enjoyment out of it then I will...

Is it silicone?
 
I dunno, this is the first dildo I was ever given. All I know is it's floppy as fuck, I don't think you would get any enjoyment out of it honestly...I think I'm gonna attach it on to one of my mountain bike helmets.
 
I need to piss but I would have to get up and stop the music and put the laptop in the back and the headphones in there and dress up and go to the toilet. Fuck this utter shit.
 
So this neighborhood sucks for parties ok? Well I'll look into that tonight. I just had few beers with my girlfriend and I don't have anything important tomorrow so let's see what's up.
 
I dunno, this is the first dildo I was ever given. All I know is it's floppy as fuck, I don't think you would get any enjoyment out of it honestly...I think I'm gonna attach it on to one of my mountain bike helmets.

Stick it on the front of your car and poke a Prius in the tailpipe.
 
I shat myself a little during sleep. Now I'm hangover. I'm not going to school today fuck that.
 
Urgh. My brain is fried, but I exist.

My advice is, don't hammer square pegs down round holes too much. A synaptic pathway forms and it becomes part of you, even if you think it's some ironic or none serious thing. Seriously. Also, don't allow yourself to have long periods of poor sleep cycles, social isolation and depression. It fucks your head and will lead to you being a dysfunctional person.

I wish I'd listened to the advice I've had from people over the years. I just thought I was smart or something. I don't think my brain wiring was completely normal anyway. Everyday life didn't seem very "real" and everything is a image or picture in my head, even concepts and social conventions.
 
Was wondering about this today.
c'mon Deron!

Yeah, Deron!

Whatever happened to all the changes that were supposed to be coming to the forums?


I promise I am working on it, slow process. Since we're moving to a completely different platform there's a lot of testing going on with a test server. It's a major pain in the ass that will be worth it once all complete. Plus, I'm one guy so it is taking longer than I cared for.

But, ongoing...January I hope?!