The Syndicate

Golden wrote:Some days just don't work out right for no discernible reason. You end up feeling lonely when everyone is around, sad when you are having fun, hurt when no one has done anything to you that is hurtful. And then they pass again, and the next day is fine.

Today is one of those days.

thellama73 wrote:I'm a little bit sick and I haven't heard from Mongoose in weeks. I'm going to bug her now to comfort me during my time of illness.

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Wed Jul 26, 2017 11:25 am All 99 of my problems stem from the fact that the politics thread was deleted and no one bothered to tell me.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2017 8:09 pm To anyone who cares, my hand is back to about 90%. I have some numbness in my little finger and some mild weakness in my ring finger, but other than that, I feel good.

Spacedaisy wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2017 6:52 pm Be safe Juliets, I've been worrying about you.

Mongoose wrote: ↑Fri Jun 08, 2018 9:35 pm For some levity -- is anyone else scandalized by the sudden proliferation of rosé wine? I can't seem to get away from it. There's even a local place where you can have a flight of rosé (but you can also have a pinot noir flight).

Anyone else annoyed by this trend? It's ubiquitous!

Charlie Blackmon wrote: ↑Sat Jun 09, 2018 7:43 pm I just found out my good friend's little brother passed last night. He still looks like a little kid to me, even though he was a soldier. RIP Brian.

G-Man wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2019 9:09 pm Thankfully, my paranoia was just that. I currently have a large dirt patch where our old deck used to be.

sprityo wrote: ↑Mon Sep 23, 2019 5:24 am Found out the other day that financial aid only granted me $500 out of the $3000 I need that isn’t covered under my Military Tuition Assistance and scholarship. It was covered completely last academic school year so that’s why I was surprised. So I called and asked about paying it back and am stuck on either paying the $2500 now or waiting until I’m out of the military since my contract ends this upcoming June.

By that time I’ll be out, done with this second academic year, and switching my degree from the associates to the bachelors. I’ll also be using my Post 9/11 GI Bill to pay for what I estimated is the entirety of my tuition cost. I was hoping if I just waited it out until then that the gi bill would cover that owed cost but the school won’t give me an answer. The school did say however that I don’t get any late fees or interest accrued on the cost for the year, and I don’t have a time limit to pay it back.

So I’m just in a pickle whether I should foot the bill now or not. I’ll keep receiving emails saying I owe money but from what I’ve been told no consequence will happen if I don’t pay immediately. It’s not a matter if I can or not (I have the money) it’s just that’s a lot of money. Enough to cover one year of my life insurance policy, equal to one month of deployment pay, or two months stateside.

ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Sun Feb 02, 2020 10:16 am I haven’t been around much because I’ve had to devote my energy to finding a new job after quitting mine about 2 weeks ago. My last day was Wednesday and while I am posting in the misery thread the real problem was taking the job in the first place.

Suffice to say it was not for me and this was extremely apparent by only a few months in. Most of the time my work felt pointless and/or unethical, and my bosses were a bit of a nightmare. A lot of the time it felt like we were playing work instead of actually working. The reasons I took the job turned out to be fairy dust.

At any rate, there’s no reason to wake up every morning with dread consuming you if you can avoid it, so I quit. I was unemployed for a stretch when I was just out of school (when I started playing here) and it was a very difficult time for me, for a few reasons. I told myself when that ended I would never do it again ... well, this new job was even worse than whatever I went through not having one.

Honestly, I feel pretty good about it all. I’m going to end up dipping into my savings either a little or a lot but that’s what they’re there for. Realistically I think I might have an offer by this week or next, but even if I don’t, things will work out eventually! It’s more of an opportunity than it is a problem, as corny as that sounds. (And maybe I’ll have some extra time to play Mafia. )

nutella wrote: ↑Sun Jul 19, 2020 1:29 am my city is a fucking hotbed of fascist bullshit and i cannot bring myself to fucking care about anything

i'm burying myself in mafia to an unhealthy extent because i can't deal with sparing a single second to think about the fucking real world.

ola wrote: ↑Mon Apr 04, 2022 7:44 pm

dunya wrote: ↑Sun Feb 21, 2021 9:35 am yesterday i went running (sprinting?) and i had to stop and lay down on the grass. honestly felt like i was going to pass out and was disappointed that i didn't.

Don't go running when it's so hot and drink more water