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Hocus Pocus

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  1. ^Just think of it as a guest coming to visit for a while.

    My confession is that my best friend of 16 years announced his engagement to his girlfriend of a year and a half yesterday and I know it's the end of our friendship. He is 22. The first thing I asked was "Are you getting a pre-nup?". SMH @ marrying for love AND immigration status when you are finishing an MA in creative writing.

  2. Confession: Every once in a while I check the fashion spot for this model girl I went on a date with right before she blew up and moved to Paris and starting shows for Lanvin and such. Someone posted an editorial of her with her nipple in it. This has sadly brought me no closure.

  3. If there is anyone that hasn't got a package yet, or better, won't be getting a package, I'll happily make you one, especially if you are a cool dude or dude-ette on here. I don't ask for anything in return; my package got stolen (it was a giant clock with a Canadian mountie on it) last time and I never bothered to send another since Polyrock's package to me got lost as well, so I'd be paying forward the karma or some bullshit like that.

  4. If there is anyone that hasn't got a package yet, or better, won't be getting a package, I'll happily make you one, especially if you are a cool dude or dude-ette on here. I don't ask for anything in return; my package got stolen (it was a giant clock with a Canadian mountie on it) last time and I never bothered to send another since Polyrock's package to me got lost as well, so I'd be paying forward the karma or some bullshit like that.

  5. Transparent cranium: Not that I am amazing or anything, my ratio is still terrible, but as someone who recently bought the game, I'll give a few of my recommendations. First, the best reason not to use the heartbeat sensor early on is because 1) good players will often use ninja pro 2) it teaches you a distinct way to look for players when you should be learning where they might be hiding and how to hear them properly.

    What set up you use comes down to how you want to play, but using a stealth-y run and gun set up is difficult when you don't know the maps. I use ninja pro, marathon pro, and lightweight pro to run around the map flankinI g the other team on one of profiles. However I think for when you are just starting out, it's good to use an assault rifle, with something like stopping power, sleight of hand, and steady aim. This will give you an edge every time you come into direct conflict with an opponent. For killsteaks I use care package, predator missile, and harrier, as those seem to result in the most kills for me. Getting a pavelow or a harrier at 4 kills can really turn rack up the exp if you are playing against noobs.

  6. I think I'd do better on HDTV because particularly on maps like invasion and karachi I have a lot of trouble making out non-moving players from a distance. I have very good vision, but the colors just don't really pop for me. Those two maps are consistently my worst. We'll see if I am right if I ever buy a nice television.

  7. I have too much pride to let myself work a truly terrible job, but I've never had a great job either. Here is some of my experiences:

    My first real job was working for my dad's moving company as a mover. The pay, though less than they would pay anyone else, was crazy for 16 year old me, and I ended up making $3500 in 5 weeks during the summer, which was a fortune to me at the time. Blew it by October. Anyway, it was incredibly tiring work, with long hours and early mornings. Plus most of the other coworkers really resented me for being an under-qualified high school kid but couldn't explicitly show it because of my privilege. This just made it weirder. In addition, they would listen to the same Toronto classic rock station everyday, and I quickly learned how repetitive their programing is. For that reason, I can't stand certain AC/DC, Pink Floyd, and Queen songs to this day (as if they weren't overplayed already, they one play one song by each of these artists per day).

    My next job was to work for the Canadian census, going door to door to collect censuses from people who hadn't responded. My boss was the super jaded guy who would tell anyone who listened about how he got framed for plagiarism by his thesis adviser twenty years ago. He would freak out on me if I didn't get enough of quota for the day. There were good points: I worked in the sketchy down-town area of Hamilton, and got to explore the insides of seemingly derelict apartment buildings. I would just listen to my ipod as I walked around. Met some crazy characters, like the guy whose roommate had been shot in the head the week before and was on shrooms when I interviewed him. There was the multiple crazies who believed I was an agent from the government trying to track them. There was the steel worker who I smoked a jay with. If I hadn't been smoking so much weed at the time, I would've probably realized how easy it would've been to scam that job, but oh well.

    Lately, I've worked as a bus boy at many Toronto restaurants. First was Thuet, whose wife is one of the biggest bitches I've ever met. Got to eat amazing food though. Worked briefly at this chain restaurant called Frisco's brasserie; they overstaffed so no one made any money. I was the single food runner there, and I made more per hour than the servers did. They had tons of company bullshit. Quit to go to Asia.

    Worked at a Kosher restaurant this summer. Pay was terrible and the manager was a closet homosexual who hated me because of it (I'm not gay, but I think I made him feel confused). The food was terrible and they played the same terrible smooth jazz in the same order every fucking night. It drove me insane. The only perks were these two girls that worked there, one who was very hot, and one who very funny and the policy of selling us $2.50 drinks on Thursdays after work.

    I hope the bus boy job I have now is my last shitty job but it probably won't be.

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