Here is ramdomthought!

[vgtbls]

[maj]

Berkshire mate, Berkshire

[vgtbls]

Then where do Birks come from

[popcorn]

Have to take lessons and a training course before I can get my restricted and start driving myself to practice after school. Blah.

Really only excited about driving once swim season dies out in October so I have the free time to do things with people who I enjoy. Could not care less about driving myself to school, more about doing things that make me happy.

I'll be receiving the Hyundai which I am 2 years older than. (smiling))

[BIGBEE]

my RA is blasting drake on our floor; gonna be an awful year (smiling)

[ramseames]

That RA won't be the dude that bitches at u every Friday to turn the music down/about underage booze.

Also

[BIGBEE]

Dang I never thought about it that way, I guess my mind was too clouded by drakes voice

[exprof]

alternate winter version

[alby]

why don't we have a drake thread

[BIGBEE]

Take Care (tags)

[Yoder]

I'm down for a drake thread, should really just be a drake gifs thread though, lets be honest

[jrisk]

[can-]

[Blastoise]

On a related note, decoy sweatshirt successfully deployed (just an older one that I don't plan on wearing much anymore).

[bobo77]

I think I have a caffeine addiction? Embrace or reject?

[Stingray Sam]

I don't want to bring in drama, but fuck the response to all those celebrities having their nudes stolen is disgusting

[smiles]

actually in new york until wednesday. going to st. john the divine (for Xu bing) and aesop tomorrow.

[oucho]

hi im drunk

[stuki]

i'm apparently collecting business cards for modelling agencies.

[zayg]

walk in hours at academic advising sounded cool but fuck this line

[jrisk]

I'm sitting here with a big smile on my face because i'm listening to music for the first time on decent headphones (ath-m50x)

[zayg]

so apparently my dad was missed by about a foot on the highway on his motorcycle when this car passed him at around 120mph in the breakdown lane on the highway

yikes

http://www.wmur.com/news/police-say-met ... 80#!bPPRYe

[chilljin]

Every cloud

My year at amsterdam uni got cancelled - they have cut their program for my degree and the modules i'd be taking there would basically just be the same ones i've done already.

However, I've been offered places at either Leiden and Utrecht, which turn out to be a lot better universities (oldest and highest rated respectively). Hard decision choosing either currently.

Also offered a place at Paris, Helsinki and Liepzig, but I'm pretty keen on staying in the netherlands. Has anybody had any experience with either place?

[jrisk]

fuck people trying to pass in the breakdown lane. someone tried to do that to me and it was probably the closest I've come to road-raging.

[Stingray Sam]

flipped a dude off for blocking me out of a lane and he followed me on the highway for like 10 miles he looked like he was gonna have an aneurysm he was so angry. I just kept smiling and waving back at him and imitating his angry face. Honestly it was pretty funny that he would waste 20 minutes of his life because some kid flipped him off. that's the closest i've ever been to road rage.

Also O. M. G. dear SO's roommate please stop interrupting please stop interrupting our skype conversation. I have listened to you talk about your tinder conversations more than i have been able to talk to my SO >:[

[Syeknom]

Salsa lessons are well fun

[bels]

[Syeknom]

Giving it a try aren't I

[UnwashedMolasses]

How long does it typically take upon meeting somebody new for the various aspects of their being - face, hair, voice, mannerisms, posture, speech patterns, preferred slang / euphemisms / curses - cease to be individual qualities that may or may not seem altogether congruent, and gel into an overall impression of "that person"?

I dislike people getting uptight over old grammar rules as a matter of course but I get giddy when I see people use i.e. and e.g. correctly. Also because I like to imagine them listing examples of things related to Engineered Garments.

Any tips or relevant experience for making eye contact? I'm no longer as introverted and insecure as I was a child but the habit of looking anywhere but the conversational subject's eyes has irritatingly persisted, and I can't think of any more specific way to fix it than just forcing it, which I'm worried may appear as if or actually be that I'm just staring intently at the speaker.

[chadnik]

I used to have that same problem with eye contact (still may, but am definitely better than I used to be), where making eye contact felt uncomfortable and just really intense. For me, none of the silly little tricks like "look at the bridge of their nose!" worked for me—I feel like those always come off as odd and obviously not genuine. I don't have any surefire tips for you, but what I did was basically sit myself down and say, "look, self, eye contact is a really important thing, multiple people have told me I need to do it more, so obviously this is something that works for most humans" and basically forced myself to start practicing it in conversations. I definitely had to remind myself to do it many, many times (and still do sometimes), but eventually it has become not only normal but also really important; it helps to rethink eye contact as something people desire when talking as a means of connection, rather than, say, a way of staring you down or making you feel uncomfortable. The intensity you feel when making normal eye contact is probably not as intense for your interlocutor as it is for you—less eye contact is much weirder (of course, staring into someone's eyes directly without a break is weird too, but you get what I'm saying).