09/16/2006: SNT is pronounced “essentee.”
SNT, with a vague survey: Talk about the highlights and lowlights of your week.
Discussion Thread: 93 comments
highlight: first post! (I think)
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Lilly @ 09/16/2006 6:46 PM EDT
Highlight, saw a friend unexpectedly. Lowlights, the fact that this week should have ended about 3 weeks ago.
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dohopoki @ 09/16/2006 6:58 PM EDT
The highlight of my week? That’d be a three-way tie between getting to watch the first half of Casablanca in Film Lit, playing Final Fantasy 5 and remembering how fun it is, and finally getting to use the computer on Friday.
The lowlight? No-brainer. That’s getting about 4 worksheets of homework for PhysChem. 4! Plus I have Section Review for homework too. I hate PhysChem.
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Rosy @ 09/16/2006 6:59 PM EDT
Highlight - X-E Halloween Countdown 2k6!!!
Lowlight - Working for the weekend, then working all weekend.
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Sara @ 09/16/2006 7:03 PM EDT
Highlight, being on vacation in Athens from Friday till Thursday.
Lowlight, flight returned being delayed for like 4 hours, plus I’ve got my car fixed while I was on vacation and it costed 750 euros (which must be around 1000 USD), plus on monday I start work again…oh, this really was a week with way to much distance between my highlights and my lowlights…
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melonian @ 09/16/2006 7:25 PM EDT
Got in trouble at work.Saw the flaming lips
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Agent M @ 09/16/2006 7:30 PM EDT
This was a mostly bad week. The highlight was watching lots of episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 on Youtube. The lowlight was too whiny when I typed it, so I’ll leave it out.
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Katherine @ 09/16/2006 7:40 PM EDT
Highlight: Got laid.
Lowlight: Too drunk to remember getting laid.
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Al @ 09/16/2006 7:43 PM EDT
Highlight…my cousin who’s in the navy surprised us with a visit.
Lowlight…still being unemployed and living at home. It’s only been three weeks and I’m starting to go crazy.
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Jeff Mack @ 09/16/2006 7:43 PM EDT
Highlight: Yay eBay Mystery Auctions and cheap Halloween goodies.
Lowlight: I went to Target and they were out of the Limited Edition Halloween My Little Ponies. I went to Customer Service and made them go look in the back for me. Still none. I also had to work like a billion hours this week. And still no one loves me. 
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Mystie @ 09/16/2006 7:48 PM EDT
Lowlights: I ate fresh spinach out of a bag on Monday. Yes, chances are slim that I’m gonna get sick, but ecoli can take up to eight days to make you ill. Also, I had a tooth pulled and 4 crowns prepped yesterday, unfun. One last lowlight, Liriano is out for the season. :(
Highlights: I now have no more drilling on my teeth scheduled! And my mom and sister are coming out from Seattle this week for a visit. AND I “played” outside with my son today for a couple hours.
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kb @ 09/16/2006 7:53 PM EDT
I’m so pathetic, I don’t even have a highlight. I’m gonna go with being able to watch new anime tonight.
Lowlight: Having another week to get through before my vacation starts, and still not having been able to find a new TV or Monitor yet.
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Ryane @ 09/16/2006 7:54 PM EDT
Don’t worry, kb,, I’ll be having ecoli with you. I was eating Herb Salad all week from Natural Selection and that has spinich in it.
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Mystie @ 09/16/2006 8:03 PM EDT
Jeff - You can have one of my jobs… I have 4.
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Sara @ 09/16/2006 8:05 PM EDT
Highlights: Volunteering at the thrift shop again today. Getting my chores done. Finally being able to clean my apartment. Making brownies and fresh peach crisp that came out really well. My knee’s finally healed enough that I can dispense with the heavy brace and just use an Ace bandage. Getting a good paycheck thanks to extra Labor Day hours.
Lowlights: Crappy humid weather. A mix-up with my ride to work on Thursday. Not winning the Sailor Pluto doll at eBay I had my eye on. I just hate my job, period; I’m so sick of being a cashier and feeling like a reject from a Kevin Smith movie, but I’m not having any more luck finding something better than most of you. The hours I got last week were rarer than snow in the desert.
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starwenn @ 09/16/2006 8:11 PM EDT
Highlights- Voltron on DVD. Having lovely conversation with fellow grad students (I’ve been without peer-type casual conversation for a while)
Lowlights- Too much work/reading for said grad program.
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X @ 09/16/2006 8:20 PM EDT
Highlight - Buying a bunch of stuff today (including Halloween merchandise at Target, although they didn’t have the Roseanne DVD :().
Lowlight - Missing my train by a few seconds after my last class of the week. I had to walk around in the rain for an hour.
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Hey I'm Jeff @ 09/16/2006 8:29 PM EDT
Highlights: Bought The Office Seasons 1 and 2 on DVD! Also, my Tamagotchi had a new baby 
Lowlights: Was sick Monday night and most of Tuesday. I actually threw up in the gas station parking lot on Tuesday morning (but that didn’t stop me from getting to Best Buy for the DVDs!)
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Lilly @ 09/16/2006 8:34 PM EDT
Highlight: getting back some important test results and finding out that i wasnt going to die! yay big highlight!
lowlight: finding out my ex is talking to someone new…ugh no fun.
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Katella @ 09/16/2006 8:35 PM EDT
oh and of course X-E is a highlight too! it keeps me sane!
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katella @ 09/16/2006 8:35 PM EDT
Highlights - The countdown, obviously. Partying with my friends last night. Blowing my birthday money (21 in just over three hours! Whoo!) on three new CDs that I am LOVING. I got the new Muse, the new Franz Ferdinand and the old Scissor Sisters. Everyone’s making a big deal about my birthday which is awesome.
Lowlights - My ex’s psychotic mother coming to my house demanding that I give her the dog that my ex SAID I COULD KEEP before he moved out. I told her to get off my property or I’d call the cops. Now she is threatening “court action” to get custody of a dog that was never hers to begin with. *sigh* It seems like this stuff only happens to me…
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jazzy @ 09/16/2006 8:36 PM EDT
Highlight- Went out today and blew my ENTIRE paycheck on only things Halloween-themed
Lowlight- Same, as I now have no cash for the week…
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cait @ 09/16/2006 8:59 PM EDT
Highlight: Attending two tapings of Maury with my best friend (who I never get to see anymore) on my birthday!
Low: My lame extended family visiting and pretending to care about my birthday, which they haven’t for my entire 19 years. The only reason they acknowledged it was because my grandmother passed away last week, so everyone had to write thank you cards or whatever today. I really hate my father’s side of the family.
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Denise @ 09/16/2006 9:04 PM EDT
I just realized after reading cait’s post that the true highlight of my week was going to Party City and getting a bag of rats.
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Katherine @ 09/16/2006 9:15 PM EDT
Highlights: finding out I dont have heart disease. yay. Finding the Hello Kitty victorian dollhouse for my daughter for Christmas. Scoring a halloween beanie baby cat from Stopo N Shop for 1.75 on marked clearance.
Lowlights: still being ill with no clue whats wrong.
Had no idea there was a Halloween special ed My Little Pony… I must…have….it
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kittycatgirl2k @ 09/16/2006 9:27 PM EDT
Highlight: Starting the Halloween coverage on my website.
Lowlight: Linux deciding that I don’t have permission to access two of my three hard drives, one of which contains a lot of the Halloween stuff I was going to talk about on said website.
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Jeff @ 09/16/2006 9:37 PM EDT
denise - was anyone the father???
jazzy - happy birthday!
highlights: release date for wii announced.
lowlights: working 7 days a week now; possibly failed a test on thursday; want to break up w/ girlfriend but we just got back together and it could be awkward
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kyle @ 09/16/2006 9:37 PM EDT
Highlights - the flaming lips show tuesday. See my super awesome pictures from it in my blog (click my name, leave some comments)
Lowlights - 1. Fighting with my girlfriend. She needs to learn how to treat a gentleman. 2. At this very moment I’m stuck selling merch to a bunch of frunk hicks for Govt Mule. Holy shit this is terrible. Save me . atleast I’m making shittons of $$$. That can be a highlight.
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brian @ 09/16/2006 9:40 PM EDT
UP: Lego Star Wars 2, bartending my friend’s birthday last night and serving up my signature drink, The Admiral (Ackbar), X-Files on DVD through the man-thing’s Netflix
DOWN: Acting as den mother to friends who are all 3-15 years older then I. The L train not running nights when I get out of work at 2 am.
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Gadget @ 09/16/2006 9:53 PM EDT
Highs…finally got a day off from work…Lows…got my car towed by NY cops because Geico insurance sucks!….Go Buffalo!
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twiztidjuggaluva @ 09/16/2006 9:55 PM EDT
Highlights: I went to Target and found the My Little Pony Halloween ‘pail’ ( I already have my Halloween ponies, two sets, one to open and one to keep MIP ^_~), I also got my Jones Soda Lemon Drop Dead, candy corn and some sparkley Halloween magnets. I got the new computer desk I’ve been eyeing for months.
Lowlights: Personal stuff has me down. And I’m dreading getting up at 5:00 A.M. tomorrow but that’s every Sun now so it doesn’t really count.
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Realm @ 09/16/2006 9:59 PM EDT
Highlight-Teaching the Revolutionary War
Lowlight-Teaching the Revolutionary War to kids with no appreciation or frame of reference of anything that occured before 1996.
Went to TARGET and picked up one of the mini-gargoyles and tombstones. Then over to the grand-opening of HOBBY LOBBY to see the the sights. Verdict-meh. A larger MICHAELS filled with over-priced whatnots.
Happy Birthday Jazzy and happy SNT to us all.
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The Manimal @ 09/16/2006 10:01 PM EDT
High-Mummy Mango Mojitos from Target!!!
Low-Major home renovation.
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Fungusmungus @ 09/16/2006 10:07 PM EDT
Highlights: Marlins winning the 2003 World Series, Marlins winning the 1997 World Series, elementary school, the day my family bought a widescreen TV, getting my own computer.
Lowlights: High school, the day I realized stores stopped stocking Vanilla Coke, realizing that the Back to the Future trilogy has to come to an end, the moment my iPod Nano’s hard drive reached its storage limit.
Manimal: I’ll give you a cookie if you work the phrase “If it weren’t for the French we’d all be speaking English right now” into next week’s lesson.
LOWLIGHTS: Unemployed, on a year-long forced haiatus from college.
HIGHLIGHTS: Plenty of free time for playing through Fallout 2 again. Yee-haw.
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Jedoc @ 09/16/2006 10:18 PM EDT
Highlights:
*Rediscovering the glowing monster balloon on here from 10/2/2004. I so plan to make tons of those.
*Finding sparkly lime green nailpolish that likely goes against all rules of fashion, but is still pretty darn cool. I love funky nailpolish colors. ♥
*Spooky central at Walmart!
Lowlights:
*Having not-an-eye-infection but something my eye doctor never diagnosed but gave me meds for Monday. It’s symptom free by now anyway, so I guess that could be another highlight. 
*The fact that the Philosophy 1010 book that I need urgently (basically two weeks ago) and ordered from Borders three weeks ago still hasn’t come in.
Matt - What are yours?
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Christine @ 09/16/2006 10:21 PM EDT
low: Have you ever played ‘find the smell’? I found it — two days later. (dead mouse)
high: watching Goodburger for the first time
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jrh @ 09/16/2006 10:25 PM EDT
New lowlight: finding out that the Nickelodeon time capsule was prematurely dug up to make way for some new attraction at Universal Studios. :*-(
With this and the closing of the Back to the Future ride, I now officially hate the Universal Studios theme park and vow never to return there.
If you want to know the lows and high of my week, I’ve actually discussed them in the latest entry on my blog.
Furthermore, I’ve made a tribute to Nintendo’s Mario Energy Drink called “Power Up!” I just discovered it today at Hot Topic. Check it out!
Oh, and I realize that I haven’t ben posting much lately. This due to the fact that I’m currently busy with kendo, Japanese class, and tutoring Japanese people. All three of those activities involve Japan. Makes sense that I’m going there I guess.
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Nate @ 09/16/2006 10:42 PM EDT
Christine: I have a picture of that glowing balloon monster as my desktop wallpaper! I really need to make some of those… And I adore sparkly nail polish. I say the heck with fashion. My fingernails, my color choice.
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jazzy @ 09/16/2006 10:53 PM EDT
Highlights: Going to the US of A to go halloween shopping. My husband actually surprising me with not being cheep and offering to buy Jones soda. My sons first birthday. And I had friends over today that I havent see in a very long time!
Lowlights: As always my husband working midnights, and an annoying zit on the tip of my nose!
Happy birthday Jazzy!
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IHAQ @ 09/16/2006 11:09 PM EDT
Jedoc, consider it done.
One thing I can never understand: The students all want to learn about the Civil War and WWII but never the Revolution. WWII I can see, (Nazis, Holocaust, Pearl Harbor) but the Revolution is something they already have at least SOME prior knowledge of but it never really is something they want to learn more about.
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The Manimal @ 09/16/2006 11:30 PM EDT
Joseph Valencia
WHAT? Name your sources, STAT.
I was just at Universal in June and I mourned Nick Studios; the only thing that consoled me was the capsule, which Nickelodeon had stated wouldn’t be dug up until 2042, I think.
Now that’s MY new low, too.
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Denise @ 09/16/2006 11:36 PM EDT
Well I guess the highlight of my week was probably my birthday (Saturday the 16th) which was fairly tame. I got some money, a cd, a cake, spaghetti with family, sat out and had a bonfire… and I got a paperweight and a craftish bee made out of old jingly bell things from my aunt and uncle, who are notorious for seeming to have no idea of my tastes.
I will admit though, I am always using illegitimate paper weights (books, DVDs, action figures) to hold down my stacks of drawings and such; now I have a legitimate one. I’m an old-fashioned kind of guy.
The other highlight would be getting the Transformers Star Wars Millenium Falcon. Seriously folks, if you have any love for Star Wars, robots, Transformers… get this toy. It is FANTASTIC. Two robots with heads modeled after Harrison Ford and Chewbacca (that also come with small Han Solo & Chewbacca figures for the mech cockpits) combine to form the Millenium Falcon which has electronic lights, sounds and movie quotes! They come in robot mode, but after combining them I can’t bring myself to separating them again; the ship is just too pretty.
Matt, seriously, consider picking this thing up and taking a crack at it. It is the BEST of the Star Wars Transformers line, and if you regret getting it for any reason, I will personally reimburse your cash. That is how confident I am in the awesomeness of this toy.
Denise:
According to the wikipedia entry for Nickelodeon Studios, the Nick time capsule was removed last month and replaced with a slab of concrete.
Denise
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon_Studios
The Slime Geyser in front of Soundstage 18 was removed in May 2005. The trademark “Nickelodeon” sign above the facility was removed in January 2006. A time capsule buried by the network in 1992 in front of Soundstage 18 was removed in mid-August, 2006 and was replaced with a concrete slab. The Time Capsule contained items deemed to be important to the children of 1992 as voted upon by Nickelodeon viewers, and included such items as a new Nintendo GameBoy, a then-current issue of “Nickelodeon Magazine” and other various toys, many of which were Nick-related. The time capsule was scheduled to be opened on April 30, 2042, 50 years after it was buried.
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Mystie @ 09/16/2006 11:59 PM EDT
Happy birthday Jazzy!
Highlights:
Definitely tops is the Halloween Countdown. Every new post is a joy. :)
The weather turning overcast/windy, though it’s supposed to heat back up tomorrow.
Realizing that Rainn Wilson is in Baaadassss! (sp?), which I’ve never had much incentive to watch before now, despite owning it.
Fashion Week photos.
Looking forward to all the finales/premieres of my shows.
Lowlights:
Not being able to buy all the Arrested Development, Lost, Star Wars and The Office DVDs I want.
The daily grind.
That lame ass twist on Project Runway.
Waiting for all the finales/premieres of my shows.
Did anybody sport khaki Friday in honor of old Steve-o? I was afraid I’d got the date wrong, but I figured it’s the thought, right?
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squee4242 @ 09/17/2006 12:00 AM EDT
I don’t think my week had any real highlights or lowlights. Nothing interesting enough to put words to, at least. Instead, I’ll just say that it’s past midnight and I’ll probably be up till noon. 
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Matt @ 09/17/2006 12:13 AM EDT
Highlight: Just got back from Dropkick Murphys show..INSANE. Oh, and losing my SNT Virginity!
Lowlight: The Long ass buss ride home everyday from work. At least my DS & Mario Kart keeps me company. Did anyone get Star Wars Lego for the DS?
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Greg @ 09/17/2006 12:13 AM EDT
Lowlights first (Because I’m a pessimist):
Finding a broadway cares package for London Spamalot that was uber expensive that I couldn’t buy.
Not being able to audition for the Rocky Horror Show.
Getting ditched by my cousin today.
Highlights:
Getting to hang out with a great friend tonight.
Finding out I’m allowed to go with said friend to The Rocky Horror Picture Show in October.
Getting fishnet tattered gloves tonight.
Having freaking fun!
Seeing Tim Curry as a permanate fixture on the halloween countdown!
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rocky_horror_fan @ 09/17/2006 12:14 AM EDT
How awesome, Jazzy! That sounds like a really good idea!
I was surprised how hard it was to find green nailpolish. Almost every brand carries at least one shade of blue, but never green. =( Discrimination!
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Christine @ 09/17/2006 12:19 AM EDT
Highlight: learning Count Duckula is on DVD, buying the aforementioned DVD, tonight is movie night (currently playing: Hellboy), my boyfriend comes back from TDY tomorrow, narrowed my Halloween costume ideas down to three possibilities.
Lowlight: my sister and her fiance lost a groomsman, so they kicked me out of their wedding… MY EFFING SISTER! And now I have to tell her off about it and I despise confrontation.
Highlight: Started a new job on Monday, my first job ever. Got my first paycheck on Friday so now I have some money to spend on my vacation to Niagara Falls next week.
Lowlight: On my second day of work, got the bitchiest customer ever, ( I work in retail). I was just trained on the register and the stupid thing froze up on me. The lady started yelling at me how there is a button I should be able to push, but if I wasn’t so stupid, I wouldn’t have to push the button in the first place. I finally unfroze the machine, but somehow messed up on what button to push to calculate the change back, so I’m doing quick math in my head, which I’m not that good at, and said to the customer, “Your change would be $1.31 right?” She yells back that it’s not her job to know what the change would be, and I shouldn’t be working there if I’m that dumb. I explain that it’s only my 2nd day, and she goes, I don’t care, and chances are after you’ve been here a year, you’ll still be stupid. She then took her change and left. Yeah, that’s the lowlight of the week.
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Stacey @ 09/17/2006 12:52 AM EDT
Okay, way offf topic. There was just a string of tornados and thunderstorms here and the local news chanel just came upon a collapsed house. They pulled over and started taping, while the family drove up to the house. (they hadn’t seen the house until then) As they were getting out of the car they shove the camera and mic into the family’s faces and interview them as they react. SO tacky. The reporter actually said, “Have you ever seen your house like this before?”
Highlight, my power’s back on already:)
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kb @ 09/17/2006 12:57 AM EDT
Highlights: Week without mom (came back today, ugh), myspace blog getting popular due to fark and word of mouth (see Straight Balin’ entry), Who Concert, Applebee’s last night w/ friends!
Lowlights: crappy check from KB, and no check from CVS, no one is talkin in IMs right now, 4 of them (I’m on AOL). Missin’ both a bday party AND an important frat meeting due to work at CVS.
Highlights: In the comments on my poem for this week’s Poetry Writing course at school, I got a lot of “This is the best poem from today!” I got the new Dan Bern CD. Four Elliott Smith tracks leaked. One of those three.
Lowlights: I’ve been sick since last Friday.
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Spoodles @ 09/17/2006 1:11 AM EDT
Highlight: I just got a fat paycheck yesterday that will allow me to now get my new computer, an iMac, probably sometime today. This rules extra because I no longer have to share a computer with anyone. The people I share one with are like virus magnets.
Lowlight: I tried a new local resturant Friday, and it wasn’t very good. Getting Sprite that oddly tastes like club soda, watered down Coke, and crappy mozzarella triangles without any cheese in them made me slightly upset. Plus, they had a game room, where you have to pay 2$ just to play any of the games, which, in my increasingly surly mood, I was not up to do.
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Rob @ 09/17/2006 1:54 AM EDT
New highlight. I wised up and put Windows back on my computer. Some related highlights are finally being able to watch the TV shows I have downloaded on my TV (Linux wouldn’t do it) and getting access to my files in time to get my Halloween post up in time (Linux wouldn’t let me view the hard drive contents), I had promised to have it up on the 16th; made it with about a half hour to spare.
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Jeff @ 09/17/2006 2:03 AM EDT
Highlights: Almost done with season 2 of 24, dropped a class so I dont have to wake up at 5:15 every week day, saw a school poster with something that looked like a gaping anus
Lowlights: Computer busted so needs to be in safe mode, almost crashing car, getting algebra teacher with thick indian accent, getting 6 hours of weekend homework, argument with father, and school.
Some one kill me after I see the last episode of 24.
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nomad sea cucumber @ 09/17/2006 2:12 AM EDT
I was just thinking how my week was a total roller coaster. Most of the time I go through life at a slightly unhappy medium. This week was different.
Lows: Working over 60 hours this week to plan a test that was more about politics than good engineering principles. Finding out the fabrication of equipment for said test wasn’t going to be totally complete for the test. Looking at the duties of someone two pay grades higher than me, and realizing that I do all of that stuff, and the only thing holding me back is a patent disclosure and time served with the company. Watching a worker let a piece of tape get sucked into a radiological ventilation system full of delicate gauges and filters.
Highs: Having my boss and my boss’s boss congratulate me on my totally worthless testing. Seeing the equipment I designed in operation, and working even better than I expected. Finally getting my overdue raise and promotion. Finding the piece of tape lost into the ventilation ducting stuck at a junction that was easily accessible, so I don’t have to direct workers to break open a radiological ventilation system.
That last item probably saved me 40+ hours of overtime, for which I wouldn’t have been paid, or paid at 50% my normal rate. I have that tape mounted on my bulletin board like a trophy.
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spaz307 @ 09/17/2006 2:40 AM EDT
i almost forgot i took this picture today…
HIGHLIGHT: http://i6.photobucket.com/albu...starsonstrings/whatthecrap.jpg
thank you, Sam’s Club.
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brianfax. @ 09/17/2006 3:00 AM EDT
This week was actually a pretty good one, I guess.
Highlights: I went to a show on Thursday night, ran into a friend from eighth grade on Friday, and went to my best friend’s birthday party tonight.
Lowlights: Um, school? Also the pain in my ears from the concert and “the club” where the BDP was held. So much pain!
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Rainbowfeet @ 09/17/2006 3:28 AM EDT
Highlights: Actually had a day off this week where I didn’t have to get up at 5am the next day, and I got to drink and be merry. Awesomeness. Got Cow costume I wanted from Party City. Made awesomely bad dancing video. Just talked to some guy on the phone at work from Minnesota that sounded like Michael Moore. Thought it was interesting. Did first on-air contest last Sunday giving away Bonnie Raitt tickets, didn’t sound like a boob. Well that much like a boob.
Lowlights: Working all weekend long, one job after another practically.. barely any sleep. Got yelled at by parents for not picking food up from their house, because I’ve been too tired. One of my parents’ cats died from cancer. My ex boyfriend is still being an immature piece of crap.
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Dj Lisa s @ 09/17/2006 4:20 AM EDT
Highlights: Talking to a girl at work who I have a crush on, buying a cheap guitar flanger off ebay, a huge box of books from Amazon Japan arriving for me
Lowlights: Losing out on a cool Sailor Moon doujinshi on ebay due to some idiot at work distracting me, failing to do any excercise again
how much do the halloween ponies cost at target? i am homebound but really wanted them and was gonna get them off ebay but dont want too be ridiculously overcharged. being ill sucks.
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kittycatgirl @ 09/17/2006 8:20 AM EDT
GREG- I’ve seen SEVERAL people online bitch because Lego Star Wars for the DS was shittily crafted. I strongly reccomend you check out some reviews before you purchase. You may just want to get something you know will be good,like WarioWare or New Super Mario Bros.
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Kid Nicky @ 09/17/2006 8:38 AM EDT
Highlights:
-Started a new Job
-STAR WARS original cuts on DVD (even if they arent’ widescreen or remastered)
Lowlights:
-Too many nights home alone
-had to do inventory for band mouthpieces.
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Cameron T. @ 09/17/2006 9:27 AM EDT
Lowlights: Finding out a friend of a friend is in an abusive relationship and having zero way to help. 3 kids involved. Yuck.
Highlights: My girl drew us together and looks fuckin’ awesome! 
(Plus she’s an amazing artist)
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Todd @ 09/17/2006 9:38 AM EDT
kids with no appreciation or frame of reference of anything that occured before 1996
Well, to be fair, all exsistance did suck entirely up until that year.
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dohopoki @ 09/17/2006 9:42 AM EDT
Cameron: the Star Wars DVDs ARE widescreen, just not Anamporphic Widescreen (i.e. they won’t mold to your Widescreen TV–the black bars are part of the picture, like on a widescreen VHS).
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Spoodles @ 09/17/2006 10:23 AM EDT
Is that what Anamorphic means? I’ve tried looking it up several times but never understood the definitions.
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dohopoki @ 09/17/2006 10:31 AM EDT
I sure hope that’s what it means, or I’ll look a fool.
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Spoodles @ 09/17/2006 10:40 AM EDT
Highlight - My Eerie Indiana box set finally arrived in the mail.
Lowlight - My all-day Saturday hangover.
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Quammy @ 09/17/2006 10:48 AM EDT
Click my name for one of the best guides to what anamorphic widescreen is all about. Easy to read and understand, with picture examples to illustrate the point.
cmon, anyone know the going price for the Target Halloween My Little Ponies? Ive seen pix, they are too cute and I must have them!!!
Highs= Held an 11 person Texas Hold Em game at my new apartment that was really fun, went to a Blues festival, started tutoring a Korean couple and I got to eat Korean food again for the first time in a year!
Lows= I have a cold, still no work (I am a substitute teacher), my bank card stopped working and nobody knows why…
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Muppet Baby @ 09/17/2006 11:54 AM EDT
Kittycatgirl - At my Target they were $4.99 each.
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Mystie @ 09/17/2006 12:19 PM EDT
Highlight: Completely buying out Party America’s Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street Halloween decorations.
Lowlight: Getting real close to being killed.
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Cotter @ 09/17/2006 12:33 PM EDT
my first time…
highlight: my birthday on the 14, seeing atreyu on the 12th and getting cards and calls from my friends
lowlight: too many classes, too little time and instead of a romantic evening alone with my cute neighbour(dinner and movie..the new paul verhoeven, yeah i;m dutch and i major in history), i had the dinner alone, turns out she invited like 6 other people to go see the movie…..
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Dr Bad Taste @ 09/17/2006 1:17 PM EDT
Mystie:
Thanx. I just bought a pair on ebay that were really jacked up in price but not as bad as some of the other auctioons going on for the pair. I NEED some kinda halloween happiness around here and my little pony fits the bill… :D thanx for the help.
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kittycatgirl @ 09/17/2006 1:26 PM EDT
Highhlight: Finally meeting a good woman. Taking it slow, of course. Past relationships dictate, going quickly, is not a good idea. Oh! And constructing an action figure review site!
Lowlight: Found out my best friend is moving to Florida. I’m happy for her, but I’m sad on the other hand.
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Rixliss @ 09/17/2006 1:36 PM EDT
The highlight of my week was planning a trip to new york on halloween and see the features on friday night.
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jeff @ 09/17/2006 1:41 PM EDT
Highlight: Getting my September paycheck.
Lowlight: finding out I haven’t been saving enough for taxes (first year self-employed) because I followed faulty advice from H&R Block.
Spoodles, et al
Yeah, I know they are Letterboxed widescreen–I meant they aren’t anamorphic transfers. But damned if I didn’t feel like a kid again when I watched the first one, with the projector and a proper screen. It may not be very pretty, but that’s ok.
And yes, Anamorphic means that it is enhanced for 16X9 TVs. If you have a widescreen TV and play the original cuts, you’ll get a tiny little box surrounded by black bars on all sides–definatley not what most fans were hoping for.
Still: Nub Nub song on RotJ==Awesomeness.
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Cameron T. @ 09/17/2006 2:57 PM EDT
Highlight- I found those rubber skulls that you squeeze and their eyes pop out at party city Friday, the low- I’m sick.
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Darth Poop @ 09/17/2006 3:06 PM EDT
Oh, and I got the unedited original trilogy on DVD Friday too. Best day ever! Then I got sick…
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Darth Poop @ 09/17/2006 3:07 PM EDT
Highlights: The Halloween Countdown, I went to the beach this weekend, it’s almost fall
Lowlights: Class and work, back to the grind tomorrow
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Fox @ 09/17/2006 3:46 PM EDT
I adopted a dog who was only minutes away from being put down. It was a high and a low because it made me sad that he was going to be killed but then really pumped because now he’s my buddy.
Doho, wouldn’t that include the original STAR WARS Trilogy?
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The Manimal @ 09/17/2006 5:36 PM EDT
The Manimal
Obvioulsy, the original, UNCUT Star Wars Trilogy exists outside of normal time.
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Cameron T. @ 09/17/2006 6:23 PM EDT
I had a pretty good week. The best part was when I was at this store that specializes in halloween costumes and props, and I was asked to work there. To think that im gonna spend the next two months after school with nothing to do but be around halloween stuff already makes me excited!
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Chris @ 09/17/2006 7:22 PM EDT
Ok, I’m a little late on the SNT.
Highlights: Saw Kevin Nealon (of Saturday Night Live fame, not to be confused with Saturday Night THREAD) Friday night at the Funny Bone in St. Louis. We got to talk to him and take pictures. Funny guy. Saw Classical Myster Tour (Beatles tribute) Saturday night with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. That was freakin’ awesome.
Here’s a highlight for this week: I just met my future wife who works at this new coffee place down the street. *sigh* I might have to go there more often.
Lowlights: It started getting HOT again. Just when I thought the nice fall weather was setting in. That, and I’m still stuck here at work…blughh. Can’t complain though.
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Justin @ 09/18/2006 11:33 AM EDT
Highlight: Gallant
Lowlight: Goofus
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kingklash @ 09/18/2006 11:58 AM EDT
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