Thread "The 2009 Rant, Vent, and Share thread" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 11:03AM, Mar. 12, 2009

One of my friends thought drunkduck is a porno site. (its the impression you get at the first mention of the site's name)

Cuz it sounds like drunkdick. lol!

Posted at 12:03PM, Mar. 12, 2009

One of my friends thought drunkduck is a porno site. (its the impression you get at the first mention of the site's name)

Cuz it sounds like drunkdick. lol!

Which reminds me. I a short, yet hilariously wrong story. I went to go type in "drunkduck.com" into the address bar.

Now, I make a lot of mistakes when I type, but I type pretty fast. So I accidentally type in, "drybjs.com"

Now, I lol'ed so VERY hard after I typed it. I instantly deleted it, and told my friend about it. He proceeded to laugh, and that was that.

Anyway, I'm too lazy to do anything else, so I'm eating crackers, and playing Tenchu Return from Darkness :3

Posted at 2:03PM, Mar. 12, 2009

Fuck, I was kept up all night again by those idiots outside and missed the meeting about doing something about those idiots outside. And now they won't contact me back about arranging another meeting, probably because I've rearranged meetings for everyday this week and missed every single one, because of those idiots outside. I've also missed all of my lectures and I'm behind on my work but every time I try to complain, something gets in the fucking way.

Posted at 2:03PM, Mar. 12, 2009

Thanks a fucking bunch, Britain. My mom was talking to the exchange program people today and the price for me to go to England just went up 10,000 dollars because they introduced some kind of law meaning that foreign kids have to pay way more for schooling. My parents have two other kids to pay for, they don't have 20,00 dollars to spend just like that.
I feel horrible

Edit: I hate it when people try to comfort me when they don't actually have anything to say. Like saying "It's okay" when it obviously isn't.

Posted at 4:03PM, Mar. 12, 2009

soooo. i got my tax return….i think. well it's a fack ton of money from the treasury. i'm going to go audit myself, because it's higher than what i was told i'd be getting. and not just by a couple bucks either. and if it turns out it was right, well rock on.

and the only way to ruin a good trend like this is to say "things are starting to look up" or "this will be the best christmas [the orphans] ever had"…so i'm not going ot say either of those.

Posted at 4:03PM, Mar. 12, 2009

Thanks a fucking bunch, Britain. My mom was talking to the exchange program people today and the price for me to go to England just went up 10,000 dollars because they introduced some kind of law meaning that foreign kids have to pay way more for schooling. My parents have two other kids to pay for, they don't have 20,00 dollars to spend just like that.

Sounds like some kind of third party exchange rip off/scam to me. You should just come here for a two week holiday then become a bogus asylum seeker. We don't charge for school, plus you can get the other kids lunch money for helping them with their French homework.

Posted at 4:03PM, Mar. 12, 2009

@Hyena H_ll
-Ha! I will have to see what I can do then :)

I'm pretty sure DD is exaggerating pageviews

I've tested it with a few really reliable counters before. I found DD to be pretty accurate, but I also found a couple of free counters (comic rankers) that undercount massively. Just be careful you haven't found one of those ;)

Thanks a fucking bunch, Britain.

No, it's all Ironscarf's fault. He plans those things with the government in order to ripp off foreigners.
He's a bad man.
A bad, bad man :(

Posted at 5:03PM, Mar. 12, 2009

Thanks a fucking bunch, Britain. My mom was talking to the exchange program people today and the price for me to go to England just went up 10,000 dollars because they introduced some kind of law meaning that foreign kids have to pay way more for schooling. My parents have two other kids to pay for, they don't have 20,00 dollars to spend just like that.

Sounds like some kind of third party exchange rip off/scam to me. You should just come here for a two week holiday then become a bogus asylum seeker. We don't charge for school, plus you can get the other kids lunch money for helping them with their French homework.

As an international student, and this is according to my aunt, not the exchange people, I wouldn't really be able to go to an ordinary sixth form centre(the ones that they don't charge for). I would have to pay for some fancy-schmancy private institution.

Posted at 5:03PM, Mar. 12, 2009

I was drawing on my comic, and all was well with the world, until I got really shaky and weak-feeling, for no apparent reason. I ate a bunch of food, thinking I might be hungry- about 2 cans of tuna, a half can of chick peas, and a little sandwich. But I'm still shaky. I don't know what the hell's up with that, because I ate my normal amount of food today. It's annoying. >:(

Posted at 6:03PM, Mar. 12, 2009

He's a bad man.
A bad, bad man

Do you plan to visit our fair isle someday Mr. Ocean?

May I remind you that I am an officer of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs?

Posted at 6:03PM, Mar. 12, 2009

Oh yeah, so anyways after I stopped bawling I realized that there are other exchange programs that could probably get me lower prices. My mum(who is being weirdly nice) is calling one tomorrow. And my dad bought me chocolate.

Posted at 7:03PM, Mar. 12, 2009

Well I do hope this doesn't mean you won't be joining us. I was counting on your outlandishly decorated vehicle ushering in a new era of swinging London:

Posted at 7:03PM, Mar. 12, 2009

May I remind you that I am an officer of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs?

Baaaaaad man! >_<
-That pic is truly scary o_O

Shaky

Normally I'd say AIDS, cancer, or a stroke. But in your case I don't know how you'll take it. :)
So I'll say low iron levels instead. Time for steak.
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Woo! Friday!
My eye is way less painful now and only a bit itchy instead.
It's Friday!!!!
My drawing work on my lastest page is going fantastic! ^__^
I feel fit, I feel good. Today is great! :D

Posted at 8:03PM, Mar. 12, 2009

Grr. Still feeling dodgy after a nap, even. I'm-a go drink some water. Water makes everything better. :(

Shaky
Normally I'd say AIDS, cancer, or a stroke. But in your case I don't know how you'll take it. :)
So I'll say low iron levels instead. Time for steak.

Yeah, I had an HIV test about 6 months ago and doubt I've caught it since then; cancer's always possible, but my most cancer-prone organs have come back clean in the past 6 months, too; as for a stroke, I probably would've noticed some other symptoms by now.
But the low iron thing is pretty astute. It has been 2 or 3 weeks since I had red meat.

Woo! Friday!
My eye is way less painful now and only a bit itchy instead.
It's Friday!!!!
My drawing work on my lastest page is going fantastic! ^__^
I feel fit, I feel good. Today is great! :D

Now these be the kinda posts I like to read. Hooray for you!

Posted at 11:03PM, Mar. 12, 2009

: D : D : D!!!!
great news! ok so remember the drama yesterday– well I solved it all, and I just sent brian a very witty and articulate note saying that I was simply busier that year, and didn't have much spare time… yadda yadda…
so that's over, and now we're facebook friends although he awkwardly wrote on my wall. lol. fb, -_-;

ANYWAY AWESOME NEWS ALERTTT
so I just checked my email a second ago, and I got this insane email- this girl is working for my college newspaper and wants to write a piece on my photography collection, Dolls! and she's the second person to contact me like this! (Although the other person was working on an art history essay.)
OMG ain't life grand? my ego is just soooo big right now!! not to mention I get to have dinner with MICHAEL CHABON the monday after next (gotta go on a crash-diet… must be hawt…) AND meet Art Spieglman, yes THE Art Spieglman, creator of Maus, in a few weeks. Both comicking greats, pulitzer and eisner winners. :3 My professor, who happens to luv me (and I her, so much) has some illustrious friends.
luv life! I'm only sad cuz spring break is happening and I'm gonna be apart from max for a whole week : (

Posted at 1:03AM, Mar. 13, 2009

Ah Febreze, helping me avoid doing my laundry for three years and counting.

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So I was supposed to be going to this Ray Harryhausen book-signing and getting my book signed, but the person I was going with never told me where she was or what time to leave. Then it later turned out that the lecturer I asked about it never passed on my contact details.

I am so sick of those arseholes never following through with anything. In fact, I'm sick of this dump entirely. I'm seriously considering leaving, but I don't know what I'd do if I did.

Posted at 1:03AM, Mar. 13, 2009

@custard

It's worth doing to see if better, worst thing that will happen is you return wit appreciation for what you ave.

Te 'h' key on my keyboard isn't working now unless i press it lots >:/

Posted at 2:03AM, Mar. 13, 2009

Thanks a fucking bunch, Britain. My mom was talking to the exchange program people today and the price for me to go to England just went up 10,000 dollars because they introduced some kind of law meaning that foreign kids have to pay way more for schooling.

I work at a university with a ton of foreign students and I have never heard of this supposed new law. Definitely go with someone else.

Posted at 3:03AM, Mar. 13, 2009

So, I definitely need to get back on a workout program. Especially since I basically ate an entire pizza by myself yesterday. Quite sad. And come to find out, that same exact pizza made me…well, sick.

And I need to get more sleep, no more of this stay up all night bullcrap. Or energy drinks, or pop (soda). Those keep me up, and aren't exactly the best thing for you. I'm just gonna go fully healthy like I used to.

I'm really hoping I can get myself to do this.

Also, need to work on comic more. Only on Page 3 of Chapter 2. Trying to get a huge buffer going. Not really working out well. I'd need to make at LEAST 3 pages a week to get any kind of buffer going, otherwise, I'll just be losing the buffer I already have.
Which would be lame.

And now, I must finish getting ready for school.

TGIF guys! :D
Let's just hope I can work out today, and work on the comic.

Posted at 4:03AM, Mar. 13, 2009

When I was young and carefree, on a night like tonight I would've thrown on a charity shop demob jacket and ventured into town to drink ten pints of ale and dance the night away before rolling home with an enormous, greasy, doner kebab.

Now I have work and kids to think about I don't really get to do that anymore, but strangely, the only thing I miss about it is this:

Posted at 5:03AM, Mar. 13, 2009

Hot damn heart disease in a wrapper!

I think i just gained four pounds looking at it lol!

Posted at 6:03AM, Mar. 13, 2009

When I was young and carefree, on a night like tonight I would've thrown on a charity shop demob jacket and ventured into town to drink ten pints of ale and dance the night away before rolling home with an enormous, greasy, doner kebab.

Now I have work and kids to think about I don't really get to do that anymore, but strangely, the only thing I miss about it is this:

heart disease in a wrapper

I have to say I've not had the bravery to try any kind of doner or doner-derived food. Those grease-extruding rotating meat things just put me completely off. Maybe if I were 20 again! lol! (Instead I go for the far healthier fish and chips)

I'm declaring today a small holiday for me. After 10 weeks, my sofa and chair arrived. I'm so pleased. Sure, they're brown and a bit plain as sofas go- but they're about 100x better than the ikea couch-resembling-thing I had before. I hereby decree that today will be Make the Sofa Feel Welcome day, which will involve some cleaning, watching a movie with popcorn, reading, drawing, playing some video games later, and possibly even a nap! All on the sofa (and chair, so he doesn't feel left out).

The sofa is big enough for both me and the dog to stretch out. The chair is big enough to pull my legs up onto and squash into. Joyyyy

Posted at 7:03AM, Mar. 13, 2009

heart disease

I love the way they throw that bit of salad on top too, like, yeah it's a pound of greasy meat extrusion but look, it's health food!

Skool', that sofa sounds like the perfect venue for a doner kebab tonight - whatever you don't eat, the dog will finish. No wait, I think that's probably classed as animal cruelty, or maybe even cannibalism.

Posted at 7:03AM, Mar. 13, 2009

When I was young and carefree, on a night like tonight I would've thrown on a charity shop demob jacket and ventured into town to drink ten pints of ale and dance the night away before rolling home with an enormous, greasy, doner kebab.

Now I have work and kids to think about I don't really get to do that anymore, but strangely, the only thing I miss about it is this:

that's either really sick looking hurl, or a really delicious looking gyro sandwich.

Posted at 8:03AM, Mar. 13, 2009

Ugh! The woman I'm supposed to be working for- with the printmaking teaching gig- is being a total flake. We're supposed to start class on Tuesday, and she hasn't answered any of my questions about the class structure, supplies, or other info I need to know to be ready. I mean, I don't even know the ages of the kids that are supposed to be in kids' class- how the hell am I supposed to come up with projects for 'em? Plus, I've got to lug my own printing press there- which I don't mind; the alternative was printing everything by hand. But I need at least a day to go in there and set it up, make sure I've got everything I need, etc.

Since I have all the pills I take in one of those daily pill-sorter things that old folks use, I didn't notice yesterday that I'd run out of one of my scripts. I'm wondering if that's why I felt so weird. Makes about as much sense as anything- the withdrawl on any of that stuff is pretty heinous.