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Just want to tell everyone to have a Happy New Year, however you celebrate it. I personally plan on going to a friend’s birthday/NYE party tonight, drinking a little, hugging a bunch of people, probably at least kissing a couple of them on the cheek.

This has been an… enlightening year for me. I somehow managed to fit a lot of crap in a year where I did little else but sit around, go to therapy, and take a biology class. I can honestly say I’m not the same person in so many ways as I was a year ago today.

In any case, everyone have a lot of safe fun tonight (or not so safe, just don’t hurt others ;) and thank you for put up with my up-and-downs, and for entertaining me on this site. It’s been a great year, and I look forward to another one being a geek/freak/random rambler :)

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stfuconservatives:

cognitivedissonance:

This is not The Onion. In New London, Conn., you apparently can be too smart to be a cop:

A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test.

Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took the exam in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent of an IQ of 125. But New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training.

The average score nationally for police officers is 21 to 22, the equivalent of an IQ of 104, or just a little above average.

I believe this is fairly revealing. I would also argue it may not be a matter of being bored with police work. More intelligent officers might question superiors, and orders they believe in violation of the US Constitution and their training. It appears the ideal cop for New London, Conn. is a person who is intelligent enough to absorb training, but not too smart. It’s Goldilocks - this one was too dumb, this one was too smart, but this one is just right.

… so can we at least say that all cops in that particular precinct are dumb and awful?

-Joe

If this is true (which I only say because I didn’t click through nor google the subject to check it out) it saddens me immensely. And pisses me off. The worst cops I’ve ever known are the ones with the dimmest bulbs. I couldn’t fathom my brother or my dad being told they couldn’t do what they chose to do because they were essentially too smart. How fucking pathetic.

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smackalicious replied to your post: Just found a good reason to celebrate being nearly 36

I would enjoy coming across some random money like that, lol. I would be like, “brb buying NCIS season 7.” LOL. And sticking the rest in my savings, so it can gain interest. :)

I’m going to pay off my Best Buy card, probably buy Season 8 of NCIS, possibly Season 5 too, and possibly get a new tattoo. It’s been SO LONG since I’ve been able to buy anything for myself! So I figure using more than half of it to be a responsible adult is enough (my BB card will suck at least that up) and then I can go on a mini-shopping spree. Being unemployed kind of sucks, you know? And possibly donate to a charity I just discovered that I’ve been wanting to donate to since I discovered it. Better than wasting all of the money on something that I don’t necessarily need :)

Dec 31, 2011

Just found a good reason to celebrate being nearly 36

Mom found 5 savings bonds my great-grandmother had bought for me the first few years I was around. According to treasury.gov, those 4-$25 and 1-$100 bonds are now worth more than a $1000. They are after all more than 30 years old.

Baba is buying a pair or two of jeans, possibly a pair of nicer shoes, and then likely dumping most of the rest onto her credit card.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Years to me! And thank you Mummum, you kind of made my New Years Eve :)

Dec 31, 2011

highsee:

mango2kw replied to your photo: As promised, pics of my freshly shorn pussy. It’s…

Why the hell did you shave your cat?!?!

Trust me, it wasn’t something I was doing for giggles. Keykey is my special boy. When I got him, his previous owner neglected to disclose the extent of his…

Did this to my cat over the summer. My aunt was visiting, and she’s super allergic to cats. We heard doing this would cut down the dander by like 90%. She was here for a week, and she never once had a reaction to Spot.

We paid to have it done, and it was absolutely adorable. I like her better with her fur, but for my aunt I’ll do it. And if she had a problem with mats and dingleberries, I’d do it then too.

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luipaardjack:

harempriestess replied to your post: to do list

Wait. Wait wait wait wait. Wait. YOU haven’t seen Shaun of the Dead? YOU HAVE NOT SEEN SHAUN OF THE DEAD? Even I’ve seen Shaun of the Dead! And I don’t watch that many movies!! *shaking head* Oh, Lui…. ;)

IT’S NOT MY FAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULT

~~it’s totally my fault~~

Yah think?? I never like to promise people they’ll love something even if I loved it (though it usually works in reverse; others often know better than I do what I’ll end up liking :/ but I can’t imagine you not liking that. Just THINKING about it makes me smile.

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marlenewatchesfromthewall:

smackalicious:

Soul Coughing
Hole
Eels
Regina Spektor
Rachael Yamagata
Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Almost wish my name was longer, lol. That was fun! :D

Jeugd van tegenwoordig

Altered Images

New Cool Collective

Elbow

Take That

Beatles

Annie Lennox

Robbie Williams

Beach Boys

ABBA

Rick Astley

Anastasia

A virtual $20 to anyone who can guess who my two favorite people are on this list. (And this was a pain in the ass. TOO MANY FUCKING As!!!!)

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Okay, I got it. Not Christmas but New Years. Sweet and sappy, inspired by things I’ve done, and hopefully shortish :) Just needed to share the happy.

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A writer.

whosshe:

You can re-read your work fifty times. You can get an A* in English lit. You can use thesaurus.com for every paragraph. You can learn from other writers. You can study night and day.

But if you can’t feel, and I mean really feel every emotion to its fullest then you will never truly be a writer. There are some that go through life feeling the bare minimum, and then there are those that feel everything so deeply, so intensely, so passionately that their minds can’t keep up. But it doesn’t matter.

It doesn’t matter if your spelling or grammar is flawed, if your paragraphs are not perfectly indented, if your vocabulary is weak or if your words go off on a tangent - because if you have heart and soul, if you can not just appreciate the beauty and brilliance of language but live it, breathe it, love it with everything that you are, if when you wake up all you can think about is describing every minute of every day, every feeling, every ache and every breath - then you are a writer.

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therearestillafewloosethreads:

Guys. My OTP is the Most Crushable Law Enforcement Couple on TV. If that doesnt mean something, I dont know what does. Crying cause Tiva is perfect and nothing hurts.

It means nothing. Considering they poll wasn’t “Most Crushable Law Enforcement Couple”, it was Male and Female. Two separate polls. Kinda cool they one* both, but the couple thing? Not technically true.

ETA *won

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