How was your day?

[Rick]

Went to the gym and holy HELL is it busy. Thankfully, all the cardio machines are taken and not many are using the weights. Why? I don't really know. But I'll take it.

So these are the new years resolutioners, eh? They do cardio for a couple of weeks, notice no real results or strength gains from it and quit. :(

My gym is currently suffering from a similar issue. I give them a fortnight.

[xlxlxlxl]

I went to the dentist yesterday and they told me I'd need oral surgery to have my lower two wisdom teeth removed, as they are leaning in the direction of my molars nearly perpendicularly. Aside from some minor irritation to my jaws, they felt fine, but lo and behold today they are hurting like hell.

I'm supposed to be heading back to campus on Friday, but I might have to stay here and get this damn surgery now instead of waiting until Spring break or Summer.

[PoetryIsFail]

Went out with friends and upon realizing how little of my last summer holidays I had and how cancerous my maplestory addiction was to my studies and artistic goals I uninstalled that time sucker asap.

[OmegazeroGA]

Every single person in all of my periods today:"Hey Chris, do you want to build a snowman?"
Me:"Pomegranate you to hell. Dare ask again, and I will stuff you in a freezer."
The backlash of everyone watching Frozen as a field trip...

[KhainiWest]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...mare-bacteria/

...That sucks

[Malthe]

Just got a mail about passing one of three exams from last semester.
One down two to go(One of them is tomorrow ).

I'm happy though.

[Moonlapse]

After a year of on and off grinding, I have hit max level on World of Warcraft. I feel that is a good way to end the break.

[Tay]

Today is one of those days I can't ever forget. I did my last truck shift with Phaedra, afterward we went to H-Mart and got yummy Korean food. Then we surprised Julia because today is her birthday, then I got my second tattoo which I'm VERY pleased with. Ended the night with a coworker friend dinner. I'm back in San Antonio on Saturday, and classes start on Monday. I'm so nervous!

Here's the tattoo, it's on my right ankle area.

Spoiler

[Corn]

Accepted into the Game Design class in my school with 3 other sophomores! It's a rough competition; I managed to sneak in past 15 of the juniors. There's about 80 students competing for 30 spots.

[holycow]

saw the girl I liked just now and I didn't have the guts to approach her. Fml

[Sn1perJohnE]

My great grandma passes away today at 5:35 pm Ohio time. We are leaving tomorrow around 6:30 to drive that to Ohio for the memorial.

Apparently my great grandma has her body being donated to science.

[Rick]

Teaching myself to code Excel macros is one of the best things I have ever done.

[李船長]

Single again.

[KhainiWest]

So my dad got that promotion he fought over back in like October finally. He's now the Chief director for this;


INTERNATIONAL BRANCH


Lead all WRC preparatory activities for the DoD including development and coordination of DoD positions for all WRC agenda items.
Represent DoD interests at national, international, allied, and regional WRC preparatory forums including:
National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA)
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and its regional groups
NATO
Combined Communications Electronics Board (CCEB)
Lead the DoD satellite registration/coordination process to ensure access to orbital slots for the DoD, and mitigate electromagnetic interference to DoD satellites
Represent DoD interests at bilateral satellite coordination meetings
Oversee analyses and studies supporting DoD spectrum use

Props if you get it LOL

[Hypermug]

So my dad got that promotion he fought over back in like October finally. He's now the Chief director for this;


INTERNATIONAL BRANCH


Lead all WRC preparatory activities for the DoD including development and coordination of DoD positions for all WRC agenda items.
Represent DoD interests at national, international, allied, and regional WRC preparatory forums including:
National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA)
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and its regional groups
NATO
Combined Communications Electronics Board (CCEB)
Lead the DoD satellite registration/coordination process to ensure access to orbital slots for the DoD, and mitigate electromagnetic interference to DoD satellites
Represent DoD interests at bilateral satellite coordination meetings
Oversee analyses and studies supporting DoD spectrum use

Props if you get it LOL

Jesus christ. Out of curiosity, what is the pay band/grade for that?

[Baklava]

We both know that this is what we want...there's no reason to beat around the bush despite the situation, which in its current state, shouldn't even be considered anymore. I still feel kind of iffy, being an eternal optimist who feels like everything can be worked out, but she has reaffirmed me time after time that her situation is already far past the point of no return. If she has no regrets...then I don't either.

Regardless, this whole chain of events within the past two weeks has felt incredibly surreal and like a dream, but it's not. Today, for the first time in my life, I can finally say "I'm taken" and it's an amazing feeling.

<3

[xlxlxlxl]

Water or something spilled in my dorm over the break. There's a huge pineappleing stain on my carpet. At first I though the AC might have leaked since it's right next to the carpet, but there was water on the bottom of my shoes in the closet as well, making me think some came from the door as well. Two of the three shoes I had out in my closet were foamposites, so the water didn't really mess with them, but my Penny Vs have a big stain on the toe of the right shoe. Hopefully this will be the end of the series of unfortunate events has plagued me for over a month. Winter break sucked and 2014 already seems to be off to a pomegranatety start for me.

[Jedward]

shit.

[KhainiWest]

Jesus christ. Out of curiosity, what is the pay band/grade for that?

GS15 which is the highest you can get in civil service I think, unless you want to get into political which he does not. It's the equivalent of a military Colonel, before I thought it was General because one of his direct supervisors is a General he has to give a briefing too. In fact I normally wouldn't bring something like this up, but I'm so proud of him because the General wanted him back so bad he tailored this position to not have him require to have a master degree in engineering, which is like unheard of. Plus he had people fighting on his behalf over this. He got this job through hard work/experience, which is like the epitome of the american dream lol

To give you an idea of the prestige of this position, no one can contact you with inquiries if they are below GS 15, and any WRC meeting you attend is specifically dealing with ambassadors, in fact he's meeting the Australian one this summer. I don't know the paid grade but my estimation is it bumps him to the 150-160 range.

[Hypermug]

GS15 which is the highest you can get in civil service I think, unless you want to get into political which he does not. It's the equivalent of a military Colonel, before I thought it was General because one of his direct supervisors is a General he has to give a briefing too. In fact I normally wouldn't bring something like this up, but I'm so proud of him because the General wanted him back so bad he tailored this position to not have him require to have a master degree in engineering, which is like unheard of. Plus he had people fighting on his behalf over this. He got this job through hard work/experience, which is like the epitome of the american dream lol

To give you an idea of the prestige of this position, no one can contact you with inquiries if they are below GS 15, and any WRC meeting you attend is specifically dealing with ambassadors, in fact he's meeting the Australian one this summer. I don't know the paid grade but my estimation is it bumps him to the 150-160 range.

My god, you SHOULD be proud. That's crazy. But yeah, I'm familiar with the GS scale, I'm a DoD civilian employee :) I've only met one GS 15 in my life. All of the 14s I know are superintendents/branch heads/etc of their departments