ducksarecrazy

I just noticed the fullsize option on pics is functional now; sort of. Rather than something similar to the old pop-out viewer it shows a set of pics in a blog format. So far the few sets I've looked at have been full sized, or at least not obviously compressed.

That's my biggest issue with the new setup: in any of the other viewers, the...
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Anxiety beast turned into full panic attacks the last few days- even though I haven't left my apartment for pretty much a whole week. I turned the phone off and deactivated facebook, so it's just me and the brain chemistry in a staredown. According to old Eastern martial philosophies, a duel's outcome was decided before the first blow; the real fight is determined by will...
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It's nice to force the people you love to experience things you dig until they also dig them. My mom is now a Doctor Who fan. Dad would be if his off switch wasn't set to 8pm.

I've got some work in a silent auction tomorrow, a benefit for a local community group to help impoverished people. Ironically, if I didn't get a free ticket...
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I'm not sure if it's worse that I've barely left the apartment in a week, or that it's not bothering me.

I missed the retirement party for a close former professor, and a memorial for a close friend who died. I just couldn't force myself to be around people, even to do things I wanted (and needed) to do. And I don't feel bad about...
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I'm a little toasty. It was a late local trivia night and my team bailed on me. So I got a little tipsy and wandered around downtown a while.

I'm looking at a job that actually fits my qualifications to a T, so here's hoping.

Sweet Jesus, it was only a month and a half and there was still this odd hole in my bookmarks. So I had to come back.

Also, I have a small commission and couple of show possibilities in the works. Still no work, but I'm not homeless yet and I do have a couch-crashing backup plan and a supply of meds.

I've been looking for work for a month and a half now, and I haven't even gotten a call for an interview. I have 14 years of mostly steady work experience in a broad number of settings and roles, a college degree, solid references... and I can't get McDonald's to call me back. It's beyond frustrating, and I'm down to selling off my possessions to...
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Two anonymous hopeful's sets in a row? Or some login wonkiness?

If it's not the wonkiness, I'm slightly amused and one more step past the disappointment of how MR has turned out. There's been a handful of hopeful sets from girls with no profile pic before, as though they uploaded a set 10 minutes after they joined. I'm aware of the opportunists on here, the...
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In case anyone ran across the last post and is wondering, I am actually finished. BA in Art Studio, minors in Psychology and Art History, and currently looking for shows and "those people with money who buy art" and applying for a thousand jobs I'm unqualified to do.

Cause fuck it, that's why!

Until I get my website up, you can see all the current...
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Been a while since I put any thoughts in this little box. I've almost got a degree in studio art (painting focus) as well as minors in psychology and art history. The faster I'm done, the faster I can shake off all the academic bullshit and get some works done again.

Chances are I won't be posting blogs here anymore. For one, I'm not terribly...
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Sometimes I vote for an MR set solely because the hopeful's username is so painfully cheesy, I'd rather see them with an SG name instead.

I kinda wish I was a fly on the wall for some of the site decisions here. I don't know how or why the photographer decision was made, but I can damn well guess.

Maybe it's the same reason the front page articles disappeared, to be replaced with blogs for which no one needs to be paid.


Please, bring on the generic. Kill whatever's left...
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