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If things continue as they are, I can retire from my military gig at 41 39, get another job using my schools and experience for another 20~25 years and retire like an f'in king.

I can't math.

Edited, Jun 12th 2012 11:34am by lolgaxe

I'm currently doing that sort of job (and getting paid more than professors at other universities in the country, apparently)... sitting on reddit all day and at any point between every 3 minutes and every 3 days depending on which simulation I'm running I have to check if my simulation has encountered an error or needs to be restarted.

And reading research papers and talking to my colleagues. Also, trying to understand their gossiping (in Urdu or sometimes Sindhi).

Our lab assistant is so adorable. Actually, he's the only person in my lab who isn't pretty but he will do grocery runs for us and stuff. He doesn't seem to really speak English... I'm not sure. He says Alhamdulillah every time I ask him something in Urdu, which is so awesome, and is just all around amazingly friendly. He also has a red beard.

What this is doing is giving me experience relevant to what I want to do later on no matter which career path I choose - if I end up in research, that's what I'm doing now, if I end up in development, this is counting toward 3rd world experience, and if I end up in an office I get practice wasting time on the Internet.

Haven't posted in a while, not that anyone missed me. I've been playing D3 the last couple weeks, and kept getting a sense of deja-vu every time I'm in act 3 fighting a Herald of Pestilence. Basically, it's a demon with one arm that's been replaced by a giant tentacle-claw-thing. The other day, I remembered about a year ago someone posted a short anime video of 4 teenage kids breaking into an indoor pool. One of the kids turns into a monster (that I think looks like these guys), kills two of the other kids, while one of the girls escapes.

I think the video was something Aeth posted, but I wouldn't swear to it. If anyone can find the post or has a link to the video, I'd appreciate it if you PM'd me (if you don't want to just repost it and inflict a f'n creepy video on everyone else.)

Hate those guys. They're right up there with the bees that shoot bees on the list of annoying enemies. Also desiccator + jailer elites.

No idea about the video though.


Edited, Jun 12th 2012 1:21pm by someproteinguy

I'd love to take credit for posting something that creepy but I have no recollection whatsoever of this video so nope, not me.

Arcane enhanced plagued illusionist vortex or similar combinations. **** that ****. Actually, illusionist invulnerable minions arcane enhanced plagued is pretty much the worst possible thing for my monk.

Also on my monk the big hard hitting mobs are a huge pita when you get them as champions. Although at the moment I'm stranded in Act 2 Inferno because it's not funny anymore there.

I got my witchdoctor to level 5 before I got annoyed and quit playing him. I've got a mage in NM and a DH in normal act 4 though, so yay me.

Also, hell is still fun, inferno act 1 is still fun, inferno act 2 normal mobs hit harder than the Butcher...

I'm going to try and use Captain Barbossa as my muse for my pirate accent... Not sure how well I'll succeed as I generally suck at accents and mimicking other people, but I figure it's worth a shot. Thus far, the only impression I'm really any good at is Cartman's mom. And that one just generally creeps people out lol.

And see, that's what makes the difference between having a job you completely hate (like the one I'm currently in), and having one to where you actually like some aspect of the job. I mean, we all know that with all jobs we're going to dislike some things, but it's a give and take situation. Enjoying the teaching while accepting the work of grading. It's expected anywhere. Hopefully, I can be in some situation where it's at least a job in sort of in the field I'm wanting to get into.

Playing coop helps, stacking vitality as high as you can get it helps too and being very very careful and not fighting difficult champions helps a lot too.

Some high schools have seniors as teaching assistants as well. Mine did.

I had roast lamb in my dream.

Pretty sure I did something else, but that's the only part I remember.

I don't remember your voices anymore. I remember Deli's, but only because he kept telling me how much I sucked at life whenever we'd lose a 2v2 match. Which, given my RTS skills, happened quite often.

I honestly don't remember. I'm more of a visual person, so I rarely remember sounds from my dreams. I DO however, remember finding a strawberry on the bottom of my tray, and taking a bite out of it, only to find out there was a worm in it. Theo found that very funny...