The Syndicate

Sloonei wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 4:43 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 2:06 pm I was supposed to have my first class today. Instead we got a few feet of snow. If the school closes tomorrow as well, I’ll have to wait a whole nother week. At that point it will have been over two months since I had a class to attend.

What has my life come to that this is what upsets me?

I went outside to dig my car out of the snow. It’s so cold that my eyes started to water, and then that moisture froze my eyelashes together. It was a new experience.

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Thu Oct 11, 2018 11:41 am Today is National Coming Out Day so I wanted to share something. For a long time now I've identified myself as transgender. It's something I've kept hidden from my friends and family, mainly because I had no avenue to pursue it financially. I've never felt comfortable in my body, I've always felt like something was wrong on a fundamental level.

So, the idea is that this is something I'm finally going to act on. The road ahead looks long and challenging, but I can now say I have a real direction and real goals for my life whereas I previously had none of those things. It feels like I'm taking control of my own happiness for the first time.

G-Man wrote: ↑Fri Aug 24, 2018 7:01 am

ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Thu Aug 23, 2018 7:17 am Twitter is an overwhelmingly net negative in my life and in the world imo

I never understood the appeal of Twitter. I grew up in the heyday of AOL Instant Messenger, when reading people’s away messages was oftentimes as much fun as IM’ing people. Twitter strikes me as nothing but away messages. Sure, there’s an art to pinning your thoughts down in 140 characters but it all boils down to “this is what I’m doing” or “this is what I think”. The sheer volume of tweets posted in a day boggles my mind. Unless you spend a great deal of time reading through the feeds you follow, you might miss something worth reading. And unless you tweet a lot each day, your feed will get buried by those who do. It’s become, what this old-timer views as, an away message arms race.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Thu Aug 23, 2018 12:01 pm

ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Wed Aug 22, 2018 11:48 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Wed Aug 22, 2018 10:47 pm I am mostly settled into my new place. Classes start next week. It’s a huge relief, life feels like it’s in motion again.

Welcome to WNY. If you’ve got any questions about the area, I might know somebody who knows more than me about it

Is the weather always so severe? I was driving back to my hotel from dinner two nights ago and it went from no rain to flash flooding in 15 minutes.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Wed Aug 22, 2018 10:47 pm I am mostly settled into my new place. Classes start next week. It’s a huge relief, life feels like it’s in motion again.