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Old 12-09-2005, 08:19 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Reality sucks..

As I sit here at work, pretending to be accomplishing something in the absense of an ACTUAL task... drinking my hansen's non-caffeinated soda and listening to Trance in my headphones.. I can't help but being bored. It's not that I'm depressed or sad, I'm just *here* and that's boring.

Reality sucks. I wish I could be doing something escapist, like living in a video game, watching a good movie, or getting drunk. Then at least I'd be in an interesting world. The only reason I'm at work is because I could use some extra money and it doesn't seem like they're going to fire me anytime soon. Life seems much less pie-in-the-sky then it was 4 years ago.. how boring.

EDIT: HELL!! EVEN SLEEPING WOULD BE NICE!! 10 hours away from reality!

When did you realize that reality sucks? And if you haven't, what's keeping you from that realization?
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Old 12-09-2005, 08:29 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Have you ever seen the movie Human Traffic?? You know that bit where Mof is in space and he says "Reality? Is that you?". That's sort of how it was for me. Occasionally I'll get on the expanded mind train, but it's rare now days. The only thing I really do to "escape" is drink.

edit: I try to follow this on the weekends though

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The weekend has landed. All that exists now is clubs, drugs, pubs and parties. I've got 48 hours off from the world man. I'm gonna blow steam out of my head like a screaming kettle.
just don't fuck with the drugs much now. :shrug:
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Old 12-09-2005, 08:32 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Except that I have to study for three finals and complete another take-home final this weekend..
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Old 12-09-2005, 08:44 AM   #4 (permalink)
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I’m in the same boat right now. I’m at a new job, working as an editor. I take over the section officially in February so right now I’m trying to get writers corralled. Until they write something, I have nothing to do. The previous editor is handling the January edition, so she’s typing away like a mad person. The editor in chief told me my activity would be almost nil the first couple of weeks.

All I can think to do is write the great American novel, or surf endlessly. I’ve written all of maybe 3 quarters of a page since I started, mostly blurbs for our web page.

Since I’m new, I have no “buddies”. So while the others wile away the hours visiting, I just sit here like a plug, and occasionally take a bathroom break. Pooping is the highlight of my day.
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Old 12-09-2005, 09:06 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Pooping is ALWAYS the highlight of my day.

Since there's not a lot going on, maybe it's a good time to meet and charm all those co-workers?

JinnKai - Christmas shopping online. Passes time. Window shop for yourself, a nice escape that won't get you into trouble at work. Plan a vacation. Investigate new music. Go on, hop to it!
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Old 12-09-2005, 09:16 AM   #6 (permalink)
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I realised reality sucked when I realised that 3.69 GPA I planned on having just turned into a 3.46. Damned unfair business tests. Naturally with my life that's going to snowball into a 3.00.
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Old 12-09-2005, 09:27 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Thats is exactly why I left the office world. I was so tired of being a cog. Some human beings are just not meant for that enviroment. Others thrive in it.
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Old 12-09-2005, 09:39 AM   #8 (permalink)
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In what kind of job arent you a cog? (I'm serious, I'd rather not be)..


EDIT: And also, OT; what's the difference between a cog and a gear?
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Old 12-09-2005, 09:44 AM   #9 (permalink)
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The more I look at this world around us, the less I see to inspire me. Reality does indeed suck. Idiocy is rampant, all around us are feckless peabrains with personalities as deep as a spider's piss puddle, braying into miniscule mobile phones about absolutely fuck all and not even possessed of the intellectual curiosity they were born with.

Possibly, it's always been this way, in which case, I fear even more for our future.
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Old 12-09-2005, 09:59 AM   #10 (permalink)
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A cog generally reacts with other cogs. A gear generally reacts with another element, ie: chain, belt etc.
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Old 12-09-2005, 10:06 AM   #11 (permalink)
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If it's the last cog in a set of cogs, and it interacts with the belt.. does it then become a gear?

Or is it like the square/rectangle thing? A cog is a gear but a gear is not necessarily a cog?
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Old 12-09-2005, 10:09 AM   #12 (permalink)
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A cog is more likely to have spindle or rod through its center that would be driven by a belt or chain. That cog would drive the other cogs.

Or maybe I'm talking through my hat.
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Old 12-09-2005, 10:24 AM   #13 (permalink)
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I found out reality sucks when I learned what my father had been doing to my little sister... My car got totaled a month ago, I was a week away from paying it off...

Since then, I've gotten married, had a son 4 months ago, and now I'm 4 days and two papers away from graduating college! so life has it's ups and downs, but overall it's what you make of it. For every bad thing that has happened to me in the past 5 years, I've found some way to make the best of the situation and the opportunities it left me.
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Old 12-09-2005, 10:29 AM   #14 (permalink)
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well, that's a crappy way to look at it. I personally think reality is the most amazing thing there is, in fact it is all their is, etc but that's philosophy, not living. that's not to say there aren't highs and lows...but if you hate what your doing that much Jinn, then change it. i know you're probably just blowing off some steam or frustration, but it sounds like someone needs an orange mocha frappacino

a cog is the tooth on a gear.
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Old 12-09-2005, 10:40 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Blech! I imagine that's what they serve in hell.
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Old 12-09-2005, 10:42 AM   #16 (permalink)
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So I was talking through my hat. My cog knowledge comes from the animated "Twas The Night Before Christmas" when the mice had to rebuild the clock.

Even a miracle needs a hand.
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Old 12-09-2005, 11:03 AM   #17 (permalink)
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So I was talking through my hat. My cog knowledge comes from the animated "Twas The Night Before Christmas" when the mice had to rebuild the clock.

Even a miracle needs a hand.
Is that where one of the mice sends Santa a letter talking smack and Santa doesn't show up the next year?

I was watching that on Tuesday
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Old 12-09-2005, 11:49 AM   #18 (permalink)
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Yeah, that's that one. The mouse writes the letter, then breaks the clock his father assisted making.
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Old 12-09-2005, 12:33 PM   #19 (permalink)
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reality began sucking for me about a year after graduating university and working at the same job. Just can't seem to get ahead......thought making money would be great, but the bills just stay constant. Buying a car, paying off loans.....etc.....sucks. Don't even want to think about buying a house.....cause thats just one more huge loan.....that ties you down for a long time! And whats the point of it all....at this point i'd prefer living in the woods on my own.....off the land.....etc...
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Old 12-09-2005, 12:40 PM   #20 (permalink)
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I know the feeling all too well.

My life feels like a constant hassle. There are too many other variables not to continue in doing exactly what i am, which is to say going nowhere slowly, with essays.

Something interesting would be nice for a change. Not the standard bollocks that repeats day after day. Something good to happen, something crap to happen, just something!

Bleh, maybe i need to eat and stop writing the depressing parts of my books. Fuckit, food is downstairs and i don't have anything better to do.
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Old 12-09-2005, 01:50 PM   #21 (permalink)
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In what kind of job arent you a cog? (I'm serious, I'd rather not be)..
I am a renovator. Was a huge step, but I am rather happy with it at the moment

Guess reality is what you make of it.
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Old 12-09-2005, 07:49 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Honestly. . . I discovered that reality sucks and decided that pills would be a good way to pass the time. So, I started taking pain killers and such. Seems to do the trick. I don't get as bored...or whiny. I just sort of do what I have to do. I take care of my business and take care of it without really caring.

I uh, get these meds prescribed..........naturally.
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Old 12-10-2005, 04:37 AM   #23 (permalink)
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5757, I'd like to know what the pain killers are.

I have to deal with pain almost every day.

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