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Name: Dave
Country: United States
State: Massachusetts
Metro: Boston
Birthday: 9/18/1977
Gender: Male
Interests: overanalysis
Expertise: procrastination
Occupation: Customer service/support
Industry: Retail
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| hi june, how are you?
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serrefine - n.
A small spring forceps used for approximating the edges of a wound, or for temporarily closing an artery during surgery.
yeah, i watched the national spelling bee (that was the winning word). i didn't spell one word correctly (i even pooched yosenabe, which is a japanese word! i thought it was yoSAnabe...). It is actually quite compelling, all these completely introverted kids with no social and their little tics competing on national TV for a scholarship and some reference books (and you know they would rather have the encyclopedia set than the cash).
And it killed me because after the kid spelled serrefine correctly he didn't even seem excited to win.
crazy home school crazies.
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there was high comedy in the fact that mike and mike were the hosts and stu scott was doing the interviews. i could see the pain on stu's face as he realized what little street cred he had was plummetting with each "What tricked you about that word?" question he would ask to all the losing contestants. pulling teeth.
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and this is a NATIONAL spelling bee, what are we doing letting canadians in? we all know i love canadians, their natural beefy aroma is intoxicating, but when one kid whipped out a "zed" instead of "zee" i died a little inside.
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18 days until i leave for japan... not that i'm counting...
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| I'll try not to post this 5 times...
being away for two weeks was eye-opening in a different way from my previous trips. i came home to a tivo that was filled, a backlog of podcasts, a stack of magazines in my mailbox, and 10 comics waiting at my local geekery.
i am a pop-culture whore.
i guess i knew this already, but there was a palpable sense of loss while i was away, an almost physical need to consume from these different types of media. it was a humbling experience, a sense of what has changed for me in the past couple of years.
guess i'm just going to need to travel more as a way of detoxing.
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| Fucking Kyle, he ruined a whole country's worth of people for me.
Back in Japan, I taught a German student named Daniel. Kinda strange kid, stole my white-boy thunder for a minute (although I got it back when the girls were creeped out by his western way of interacting with them and the boys wouldn't really talk to him because of the fact he interacted with the girls "inappropriately"), but he was relatively harmless (and his misadventures made for good stories, but that is for another time)...
When Kyle, Pin and I happened to run into him, Kyle took the opportunity to whip out some german on him... I don't remember what it was that he said, but Daniel actually started to make fun of him for his accent (which sounded a bit on the stereotypically homosexual side), saying he was over the top and far too animated. But from that moment on, whenever he saw Daniel (or when we talked about him for that matter), he would always whip out the accent and we'd laugh hysterically.
I'm in Germany for a few days for work, and every time I hear a German person speak (which is quite frequent as you may imagine), all I can hear is Kyle's fruity German voice (which, despite Daniel's assurances to the contrary, is actually quite a bit like the way they talk), and it takes all my self-control to keep from laughing in their face (how's that for international relations?).
Man, i miss that manatee-like, pork-reserving bastard... | | |
| Fucking Kyle, he ruined a whole country's worth of people for me.
Back in Japan, I taught a German student named Daniel. Kinda strange kid, stole my white-boy thunder for a minute (although I got it back when the girls were creeped out by his western way of interacting with them and the boys wouldn't really talk to him because of the fact he interacted with the girls "inappropriately"), but he was relatively harmless (and his misadventures made for good stories, but that is for another time)...
When Kyle, Pin and I happened to run into him, Kyle took the opportunity to whip out some german on him... I don't remember what it was that he said, but Daniel actually started to make fun of him for his accent (which sounded a bit on the stereotypically homosexual side), saying he was over the top and far too animated. But from that moment on, whenever he saw Daniel (or when we talked about him for that matter), he would always whip out the accent and we'd laugh hysterically.
I'm in Germany for a few days for work, and every time I hear a German person speak (which is quite frequent as you may imagine), all I can hear is Kyle's fruity German voice (which, despite Daniel's assurances to the contrary, is actually quite a bit like the way they talk), and it takes all my self-control to keep from laughing in their face (how's that for international relations?).
Man, i miss that manatee-like, pork-reserving bastard... | | |
| Fucking Kyle, he ruined a whole country's worth of people for me.
Back in Japan, I taught a German student named Daniel. Kinda strange kid, stole my white-boy thunder for a minute (although I got it back when the girls were creeped out by his western way of interacting with them and the boys wouldn't really talk to him because of the fact he interacted with the girls "inappropriately"), but he was relatively harmless (and his misadventures made for good stories, but that is for another time)...
When Kyle, Pin and I happened to run into him, Kyle took the opportunity to whip out some german on him... I don't remember what it was that he said, but Daniel actually started to make fun of him for his accent (which sounded a bit on the stereotypically homosexual side), saying he was over the top and far too animated. But from that moment on, whenever he saw Daniel (or when we talked about him for that matter), he would always whip out the accent and we'd laugh hysterically.
I'm in Germany for a few days for work, and every time I hear a German person speak (which is quite frequent as you may imagine), all I can hear is Kyle's fruity German voice (which, despite Daniel's assurances to the contrary, is actually quite a bit like the way they talk), and it takes all my self-control to keep from laughing in their face (how's that for international relations?).
Man, i miss that manatee-like, pork-reserving bastard... | | |
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