i haz gon 'n dun grajeeated kollej

[MST3Kakalina]

shower me with praise

[Mias]

Congratulations!

[implode]

the person who used my locker before me at work left one of those "I ARE GRADUATE AND I NO PLENTY!" stickers on the door. i hate it.

but awesome for you man :)

[Ravenous Monkey]

Congrats, Koba! What do you plan on doing next?

[Davey Rootbeer]

She gonn'a DISNEYWORLD!

[MST3Kakalina]

Congrats, Koba! What do you plan on doing next?
I'm going back home to my minimum wage job and working on getting ESL certified. After that, a stint of international volunteer work teaching English to people (hopefully).

Note that my plans have nothing to do with philosophy or writing.

[MST3Kakalina]

the person who used my locker before me at work left one of those "I ARE GRADUATE AND I NO PLENTY!" stickers on the door. i hate it.

but awesome for you man :)
also i would never permanently mark REAL property with such stupidity.

just non-existent internet space.

[Chakan]

That's great news, Koba! :D With that out of your way, the real challenge awaits: REAL LIFE. It's quite possibly the hardest game ever invented, and the final boss, Death, is a real bitch*.

*hint: you can't beat him :(

[Awesome McManly]

that's loser talk!

anything is possible with a little can do attititude.

[Davey Rootbeer]

and cheat codes

[Chakan]

It also helps if you're a Belmont. :p

[Anne]

Yay, congrats! I've still got three months, cause I took this trimester off like a lazy bum.

[chickenn]

Congrats!

[t3]

Sweet. You'll have to belatedy celebrate by having us come and get drunk at your house in the vicinity of Christmas/New Year's.

[exemplary citizen]

DUDE TIME TO GET DRIZNUUUUNK YEEEEAAAAAH

Congratulations on your highly commendable achievement!

[MST3Kakalina]

Sweet. You'll have to belatedy celebrate by having us come and get drunk at your house in the vicinity of Christmas/New Year's.
Already planning on that, sir.


If by "drizznunk," you mean "sit for six hours in a car when you should have, by all rights, been in there for four hours tops and begin work at 9.30 am the following morning," then yes, that is exactly what I did today.

[exemplary citizen]

If by "drizznunk," you mean "sit for six hours in a car when you should have, by all rights, been in there for four hours tops and begin work at 9.30 am the following morning," then yes, that is exactly what I did today.

Well that's pretty good too, I guess...

Part of me still has major guilt pangs over not finishing my B.A. I went to the senior show at the art school I dropped out of, and it actually was not nearly as self-defeating as I thought it would be. I still remain one of the few to have found actual employment in the field, so I have that to show for it all.

Problem is, these days I feel like if I'm gonna drop money on a degree, it had better be in some serious wing of academia or research where people are desperately needed. Me getting a degree in design just seems somehow frivolous and boneheaded in the face of a growing brain-drain in the U.S. I contribute nothing, hahaha.

In short, good on you for sticking with it. You are a stronger woman than I.

[MST3Kakalina]

Well, parents paying for college kind helps with that. I ARE ENTITLED UPPER MIDDLE CLASS WHITE GIRL.

My degree is pretty silly and not really in demand. I don't think it's even possible to have a demand for "creative writing" or philosophy, and whatever demand there is, it doesn't need to be filled by accredited people.

BUUUUUUUUUUT I'm not going to angst about it because (fortunately) there's no pressure on me to make my colleging "worth it."

[t3]

I might have BA by the time I'm done here. The biggest foreseeable issue is clepping out of math, most of which I have likely forgotten by now. Maybe I can find a logic or philosophy class that counts in its stead. I've heard some schools have shit like "math for poets" and if ever there was a place I think you could find something like that, it's California. Or maybe also Colorado.

[exemplary citizen]

Actually, I can vouch for the existence of these "math for the arts" classes, it's about the only hope I have of ever getting a degree.

Basically, if you can find one of these classes and can use a protractor, you're golden.

[Taxy]

Congrats!!!

Writing and philosophy; many businesses want their own blogs now. You'd make en excellent blog updater with your mad college skillz. (hell at KJCG updating the business blog is done by the marketing team LEADER. it's taken seriously by some places, yo!)

But if you're going back to the cave job then GOOD because um, I have yet to see this cave and it'd be cool if you were still working there when I went :)

[MST3Kakalina]

But you either are an engaging writer or you are not, and all the workshops in the world can't help you if you just don't have it in you.

Plus I am prejudiced against the whole "blogging" thing. =P Everyone and their brother claims to be a blogger these days and well, I think I'm above that.

A girl who studied at the same piano studio I did has a blog at tangomag.com and I think she gets paid to write it, but I don't understand why they would pay her for it. It's not poorly written—far from it—but there seems to be zero profitability involved.

[t3]

Actually, I can vouch for the existence of these "math for the arts" classes, it's about the only hope I have of ever getting a degree.

Basically, if you can find one of these classes and can use a protractor, you're golden.

<i>Sweet.</i> Now I just need to learn to use a protractor!

[Taxy]

But you either are an engaging writer or you are not, and all the workshops in the world can't help you if you just don't have it in you.

Plus I am prejudiced against the whole "blogging" thing. =P Everyone and their brother claims to be a blogger these days and well, I think I'm above that.

A girl who studied at the same piano studio I did has a blog at tangomag.com and I think she gets paid to write it, but I don't understand why they would pay her for it. It's not poorly written&mdash;far from it&mdash;but there seems to be zero profitability involved.

Feeling you are above it is what would make you so GREAT at it. Even openly admitting your disapproval of corporate blogs (while writing a corporate blog) would work in your favor because you'd be hitting on what everyone else is thinking.

I'd love to say "corporate blogs are just a fad and will go way when people realize it's not profitable" but people have said that of so many things and been wrong that I just don't honestly know anymore.

My aunt, for example, is a photographer. In her training she didn't take any digital photography classes because everyone in the field was telling her the digital stuff was just a fad and would go away - stick to the darkrooms and photo labs. Now most of the photo labs have gone out of business; the few that survived did so because they were willing to experiment and open up a digital department within their lab - the seeming indulgence of a fad is what saved their jobs and livelihood. (Just to tie the loose end I brought up, my aunt is going digital now and doing just fine.)

I seriously don't see how corporate blogs benefit anyone - I mean, the digital photography thing is at least an understandable switch, whereas blogs seem redundant considering all the other PR businesses have already. But, businesses are gobbling it up right now; maybe they're just scared into trying every new thing at this point "just in case it lasts."

Businesses and media are also going crazy about Second Life. We've got 3 people at KJCG (out of 15 full time employees) who are assigned to assimilate and grow accustomed to Second Life so that they can begin to build and promote KJCG within that world. 9_9 ..........<i>Seems</i> crazy, but now I just don't know anymore.

[KLEIN]

We've got 3 people at KJCG (out of 15 full time employees) who are assigned to assimilate and grow accustomed to Second Life so that they can begin to build and promote KJCG within that world.

The very next day they show up to work in fursuits.

[MST3Kakalina]

Or as giant penises.

[exemplary citizen]

But if you're going back to the cave job then GOOD because um, I have yet to see this cave and it'd be cool if you were still working there when I went :)

That cave is TOTALLY sweet. Totally. I am totally jealous of her.

Koba you have to keep working there so you can keep getting us in for free please please pleeeeeaseeee

[KLEIN]

What are you talking about that cave is a fucking lame ass cave no joke

[MST3Kakalina]

That cave is TOTALLY sweet. Totally. I am totally jealous of her.

Koba you have to keep working there so you can keep getting us in for free please please pleeeeeaseeee
a lucrative $15k a year i will sure be big pimpin' with that kind of dolla dolla bills y'all.

[KLEIN]

It's a piece of shit cave

[exemplary citizen]

You're awful. It's a fine cave. <:mad: >

It's no <a href=http://www.pr.state.az.us/parks/parkhtml/kartchner.html>Kartchner Caverns</a>, but then again, there's not many of those REALLY majestic caves around. It's kind of that and Carlsbad, and everything else falls below that in terms of cave-quality. In my experience.

Plus, let us not forget that Koba's cave has a bitchin' giftshop with all kinds of rockhound shit that I can't seem to find around here

[MST3Kakalina]

It's a piece of shit cave
<img src="http://www.cumrus.com/images/California%20Exotic/Valcanite%20Anal%20Douche.JPG">

Also, bear in mind that shit like Carlsbad etc is going on millions of years old. This one is about a hundred thousand years, so it's got lots of catching up to do.

But anyway, point is Klein is a douchey jerkface who can't ever enjoy anything in life. Moving on:

My bosses are finally getting with the times and putting up AN ONLINE STORE. EVENTUALLY. Then you can order all kinds of crazy drillbits and jump rings and beads and whatever else you want that no one else sells.

[exemplary citizen]

I lol'd at "with attachment" on the box.

ONLINE STORE.

FUCK YES.

[chickenn]

WOW.

[Mias]

I graduated highschool yesterday...

[Young Jeff Bridges]

[01:26] y0159: hey u faggot unban me
[01:26] jjjonatron: how am i supposed to do that
[01:26] y0159: oh yeah....
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[01:27] jjjonatron: no i hate you
[01:27] y0159: dude 1 fucking post
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[Anne]

And you eagerly agreed?

[SLUM WIZZARD]

i only read this page and i only saw the anal douche and im going to guess thats all i really need to know

[~V+]

congratulations, hope you like your new career! aka working at applebees for the rest of your life

[~V+]

As the dumpster out bck. Booyam.