superconfessional

[Corbin Law]

oh yea? he does kinda look like you

i thought he lived in houston and was asian

its aight. i tend to assume that all sufuers are asian until proven otherwise

[Thorns]

I just impulse purchased an all you can drink nine day cruise

[mrip]

sounds like a good impulse

[Thorns]

I never went on a spring break during college and i always regretted it... so fuck it i'll do it now.

[samsikle]

^^ good luck! put your A game on, and report back

[djrajio]

got a call back, going in tomorrow morning instead.... ARAHAGAHJGA! LETS DO DIS!!!

Good luck with the job interview. I just got a reply back from a VC fund that I interviewed with last week. They are trying to create a position and need more time. I think this is great news and I'm hopeful I can get an offer.

Also, I've been really careful with my money recently since I've been unemployed and went to the ATM yesterday to find I had a shit load of money in my account. At first I thought it was an error and I called my bank. Turns out my former employeer actually paid out my year end bonus despite going bankrupt. A feeling of relief and happiness went over me today.

[juliaN.]

good luck and hope you guys are back to work soon, Tyro and rajio.

i got a stream of random gigs comin my way but still nothing I feel like I can make a cohesive, long-term string out of. And still debating moving back Stateside, although I hear it's equally quiet out there. Basically feels like I'm walkin a fuckin tightrope all the time, but shit I suppose this for now is better than bein trapped auditing documents 9-3 AM.

[ProfMonnitoff]

tbh knowing who your employer is, i find it kind of ridiculous that they are still able to pay bonuses. don't really care though because it's not my taxes.

[djrajio]

And still debating moving back Stateside, although I hear it's equally quiet out there.

Stay in Asia my friend. The current financial crisis is going take several years to unwind in the US. There is still growth and opportunities in Asia.

[NatseOklim]

Very much regret trying to cut my own hair today, bang goes 3 months of growth.

[Leonard Leroy]

I saw the most handsome woman ever on the train yesterday.

And my confession is that I thought that she was fucking gorgeous.

[Leonard Leroy]

Very much regret trying to cut my own hair today, bang goes 3 months of growth.

That's a horrible feeling.

[NatseOklim]

Tried for a bit of a hitler youth look but I just couldn't get the fade looking right. Had my hair skinhead for about 10 years but looking at it after having hair for 3 months, I don't think it suits me any more.

[juliaN.]

Stay in Asia my friend. The current financial crisis is going take several years to unwind in the US. There is still growth and opportunities in Asia.

Hmm...I'm hearing the same story from several friends who are either currently in or going back to the US soon and it's that general uncertainty that worries me - the current times are neither here nor there.

On the one hand - Southeast Asia, particularly the Greater China Region (mainly w/ the mainland China as its hub) is going to explode in the future once the other side's hourglass runs out, but at present things are at a halt, you hear of long-established barons of wealth getting completely tapped out, even the ones you would've least expected. Theoretically everything is in place for the revolution to happen, but a lack of forward-thinking enterprise centered mentality, packing the creative dynamism that allowed the US to surge all out in the latter phase of the 20th century, coupled with a sociopolitical infrastructure to keep things from going out of hand isn't there. I wonder how long it's gonna take...and the youth are disappointingly out of touch and lacking the motivation to carry the torch. Sad thing is, I have acquaintances from various spectra of society, and even if bank balances and areas of residence are different, this is one thing that is a recurrent thread throughout.

There are people with vision and guts in China, tons of them. The problem is identifying people you can communicate and then eventually build with to push things forward. Sadly, despite the collectivist nature of our culture, it is still (contradictorily) a very incestuous yet divisive hierarchy that dominates the business and political arenas. If you are young, have drive and smart enough to assert yourself beyond simply what you are just told, either you have to be in a place where there is a generation of elders to back you up and get you started, or you are going to get outcast everywhere because you are perceived as a threat to the status quo, however complacent it may already be. People like hanging on to their rice bowls.

[billy.]

Very much regret trying to cut my own hair today, bang goes 3 months of growth.

BOOM '09 KARMA.

lol i can relate though.

every now and then i'll be restless at 2 am and cut my hair. fuck up and have to make it a lot shorter than i wanted.

[djrajio]

Hmm...I'm hearing the same story from several friends who are either currently in or going back to the US soon and it's that general uncertainty that worries me - the current times are neither here nor there.

On the one hand - Southeast Asia, particularly the Greater China Region (mainly w/ the mainland China as its hub) is going to explode in the future once the other side's hourglass runs out, but at present things are at a halt, you hear of long-established barons of wealth getting completely tapped out, even the ones you would've least expected. Theoretically everything is in place for the revolution to happen, but a lack of forward-thinking enterprise centered mentality, packing the creative dynamism that allowed the US to surge all out in the latter phase of the 20th century, coupled with a sociopolitical infrastructure to keep things from going out of hand isn't there. I wonder how long it's gonna take...and the youth are disappointingly out of touch and lacking the motivation to carry the torch. Sad thing is, I have acquaintances from various spectra of society, and even if bank balances and areas of residence are different, this is one thing that is a recurrent thread throughout.

There are people with vision and guts in China, tons of them. The problem is identifying people you can communicate and then eventually build with to push things forward. Sadly, despite the collectivist nature of our culture, it is still (contradictorily) a very incestuous yet divisive hierarchy that dominates the business and political arenas. If you are young, have drive and smart enough to assert yourself beyond simply what you are just told, either you have to be in a place where there is a generation of elders to back you up and get you started, or you are going to get outcast everywhere because you are perceived as a threat to the status quo, however complacent it may already be. People like hanging on to their rice bowls.

Niggah relax. If there is one thing I've learned is that a chinaman will always try to make a buck outta you.

[billy.]

and they always squat when they have a cigg.

[hellogoodbye]

dont hate on the asian squat, its like bringing a chair everywhere without having to bring a chair everywhere

[dunkin deeznuts]

i've been hearing for the last 25 years how China is the next super power, i need to perfect my Chinese...blah blah blah.....

China, like the rest of the world, is beholden to the US and the how we spend and buy the crappy goods the rest of the world makes. Without our spending power, everything comes to a halt........evidenced by whats going on now.......

[juliaN.]

The thing is China/The "East" hasn't even come full circle in its westernization yet. It won't emerge as its own until that cycle is over.

[NatseOklim]

BOOM '09 KARMA.

lol i can relate though.

every now and then i'll be restless at 2 am and cut my hair. fuck up and have to make it a lot shorter than i wanted.

The thing about this whole karma thing is that in many other ways things are going well, had a meeting about doing another 3 t-shirts for a company i've been working with, should hopefully be getting a cheque from them for $600 or so in the next few days and got word a couple of days ago that the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) in London should be stocking 2 t-shirts I did for another company. This means that said company wants to increase the print run from 50 of each to 250 of each, of which I get 15%. This means a minimum of $2000. It also means much more exposure for me as the ICA is a very well respected organisation.

So if this is how Karma works I'm willing to put up with some dodgy hair cuts in exchange!

[ojjairus]

im a promoter for a nightclub. And i added random people on facebook to make a couple extra bucks x 10.facebook is promoting.

[AstroWolf]

i have been with my current GF for 1.5 years. in that time i have not cheated on her once.

i still feel guilty all the time and wonder why.

[dapper]

i have been with my current GF for 1.5 years. in that time i have not cheated on her once.

i still feel guilty all the time and wonder why.

Maybe you don't really want to be with her?

[Guest barbarian]

I just got acceptance to the school I'll probably end up going to. Feel pretty happy, which hasn't really happened in a while.

My current life and mindset also has me longing for a very specific fantasy. I want a relationship that lasts 3-5 months, with both the transition from meeting her to dating, and the breakup, happening very quickly. The entire relationship should be built on a mutual discovery and subsequent abuse of freebase cocaine or black tar. Maybe both, but I feel that focusing on one would make it a better story and be more meaningful. The drug binge will be interspersed with sweaty quaint sex and quirky adventures around town doing things like going to the courthouse to watch trials. Through the haze, there will be moments where we will wonder, "is this what it feels like to be intimate with another human being?", but we will pass them off as delusions and take the next hit. An emotionally violent breakup happens when one of us feels the need to move on from the drug that brought us together in the first place, and we will part ways changed forever.

[Caps Lock]

I feel like such a sucker for being nice to her. I shouldnt though. I kinda wanna have lots of angry sex with her.

[Yardsale]

I am hooking up with a pale skinny girl that works at Trader Joe's, but a few months ago I was doing the exact same thing at a different Trader Joe's. They even look almost alike except for hair length. This is in sharp contrast to the fat girl I took home that broke my bed almost a year ago. The fuck am I doing with my life.......

[Leonard Leroy]

The right thing.

[sawn-off chef]

The right thing.

beat me to it leonard.

i confess, i hate waiting for the future, i'm stuck in limbo right now between community college, and moving on to my real life in a uni.

[landho]

I am hooking up with a pale skinny girl that works at Trader Joe's, but a few months ago I was doing the exact same thing at a different Trader Joe's. They even look almost alike except for hair length. This is in sharp contrast to the fat girl I took home that broke my bed almost a year ago. The fuck am I doing with my life.......

My ex-housemate in Austin had a similar realization; he was on the prowl and getting down with girls like he was in Chinatown, and one night he was so desperate for more action that he hit up the Casual Encounters on Craigslist. Met a girl on there and went over to her house and began hooking up with her. Was getting head from her when her sister—who is a stripper—came home.

"What's going on here?" her sister asked. Then she sat down on the couch and started giving him a handjob.

Long story short, he had a threesome with these two skanky (but reasonably attractive, he affirms) girls that he randomly met online.

As he was driving home, he thought, "What the fuck is going on? What the hell am I doing?"

Sounds like living the life, but also kind of sounds kind of wretched.