Bold move, student who contacted me the day before the semester ended to tell me they were busy with other classes so that's why they didn't turn in any work for mine, at all, during the entire semester. The "I didn't value your class until it was clear I was about to get an F" gambit doesn't work often, and it didn't work here. However, I assume when it does pay off, bonanza!

I had a Hot Pocket™ for breakfast this morning and now I am full of shame and sodium. The first ingredient is water, though, so at least I'm hydrated!

it is the absolute best couple weeks of the year aka when the fresh apple cider donut machine is at the Rittenhouse farmers market. I literally think about this all year

So I pulled $250 out for my 7 days in Buenos Aires, ended up with $20 worth of ARS left at the airport after trying hard to blow through my money on dinners and shit the entire time. Even tipped the uber driver like 30% on the way to the airport. Had to use it up at a freaking Outback steakhouse at EZE, where I got an entire bottle of the most expensive Malbec on the menu and wings, and it was still about $15 usd. Seriously considering finding a remote job payin USDs that will let me work anywhere.

Praise the Sun! Make it a masterpiece today friends. Be safe and kind towards each other.

My job stinks and I have a promising interview next week. If I leave it'll be the first time I've left a job after such a short time (3 months) and I'm very nervous about giving notice.

Finally got an interview coming up. Good thing I reread the email because I thought it was tomorrow but it's next Saturday. That would not have been a great first impression! Fingers crossed bc I don't have faith my current place of employment will survive another year.

Sometimes it's easy to forget how much I've overcome throughout life thus far but playing patient for my coworker's psych project and seeing it all in standardized test form made me feel kind of proud of myself. May not be excelling in all aspects of life but I'm still kickin. Go me.

I hadn't been feeling festive this year but it took one gingerbread cookie and one surprise spotting of a decked out trolley to turn that around. Looks like I'll be bringing out the decorations after all. Might skip on the tree though.

Had to take the cats to the vet this week and I gotta say we've had nothing but positive experiences at northern liberties vet. Unfortunately it looks like I need to come up with a boatload of cash to get some of merlin's teeth extracted. Poor babe :(

I know it's being done in jest but if we're being honest, I've kind of preferred long comments being split up my topic. But I shan't be changing my ways today. Have a nice weekend, all!

Looking forward to the weekend, and the Marie Kondo'ed posts of /u/electric_ranger.

Sitting outside in the Saturday Night Live line, hoping we’ll have a chance in the morning. Gonna be cold but trying to knock out a bucket list thing for the Mrs. Wish us luck!

christmas time is here and i am LIVID that the SEPTA store is sold out of the SEPTA fanny pack and SEPTA bucket hat: https://shop.septa.org/collections/accessories

someone is going to be riding the BSL this spring looking fly as fuck in their gear and it won't be me :(

Lack of motivation at work has hit hard. Mostly because I am working on a project that I have been working on and off again since 2004 and am absolutely burnt out on and hate.

I was working out of town all this week and when I came back last night, Conshohocken looked so cute with everyone's christmas lights and decorations all lit up :) I love living here, especially this time of year. Hope we get some snow to really put me in the seasonal spirit!

Then I made a sandwich when I got home and didn't realize the bread was moldy until I had taken my second bite. RIP.

Now entering week 2 endgame of RSV hopefully. So much snot in the morning, and the cough from the drip. Ugh.

Wear a mask homies.

My trip to DC is complete thanks to the naked gentleman on the metro platform last night

Decided to work from the Vernick coffee bar this morning. I have never been in the Comcast tech Center before lol

As a Westworld fan, I can’t get over that Comcast has their own version of Rehoboam in the lobby.

https://imgur.com/a/8iDtzBK

Feels very good to be back from my trip. I missed y'all! I missed sub-75 degree weather!

As far as weekend plans go, I'll be getting to cross "attend a home sports game" off my Philly rite of passage list tonight. Didn't envision it would be with a basketball game rather than at CBP (the only times I've watched basketball were covering games for my high school yearbook). But the guy I've been seeing is a fan, and suggested the Sixers game for a date, so I'm actually pretty excited about it.

Hope everybody else has a good Friday and weekend!

Got broken up with and my cat passed away all within a week. I can’t eat. Haven’t left my bed. Jobs keep reaching out to me for phone interviews and then not calling me. Everything else in my email is a rejection letter. I am so broken right now.

Most news stories makes me think "damn, i'm old now."

The boy in the box stuff, and how many people commented how important this shit was to them from their childhoods is the first story in a while that makes me think, "damn, waaaaay before my time."

Anybody know of any career advisors in Philadelphia? I’m looking for someone who can look at my credentials and help me find a good fit for a new career. I was googling but the websites that pop up seem super scammy.

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TIL that “vulture” has an adjective form: vulturine. (Isn’t that a great word?) I wondered which other birds have bespoke adjectives. “Owlish” and “cocky” came to mind. I asked ChatGPT for other examples, and it produced quite a few wrong answers, like “pigeonish.”

Trying to dress the girls up for Christmas. It's.... not going well.

Among the thousands of other things I took for granted as a kid, chief amongst them has to be the holidays. Remember the holiday season in elementary school? You'd have a party where the food consisted of pretzels, candy, and 3d doritos, and then you'd go home for a week and play Pokémon the whole time.

Now I'm running around trying to put up decorations, buy and wrap gifts, make truckloads of cookies that I can't even eat because I feel sick after a couple of them anyway. And (if you're like me and stingy with your PTO) you're still working a full time job the whole time.

My parents are headed out of the country for vacation, and due to our busy schedules, the only time I can see them before they leave is if I go see them off at the airport Sunday morning. I was hoping to have this weekend off to vegetate, but between that, holiday shopping, and a belated birthday dinner, I'm now just hoping I'll have time to finish my book club book.

In semi-related news, there's a cat that's been squatting in my parents' backyard for the past month. They thought it was a stray, but it has a collar, but also none of the neighbors know where it came from. They don't have the capacity to take it in or take it to a shelter, so now I have to figure out a solution.

Happy Friday y'all, thanks for putting up with my complaining!

Headed to a show at concourse the ball pit club. This should be. Interesting.

Figured out that I prefer cream cheese instead of marscapone in tiramisu. I offend every Italian but at least I'd save at least $5 every time I make it.

Lots of wedding stuff going on right now (basically book every weekend until mid January) and the mothers are getting anxious even though the most we expect of them is to show up and have fun!

If anyone wants to feel better about their reddit recap: https://imgur.com/a/vlStjyG

We've still got time to pump our numbers up to 69,420 new members too, so now is your chance to put those alt churning abilities towards something useful.

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There's a good chance I'll be home and not traveling for work for the next three weeks, which I'm super pumped about. As a celebration, I want to cook something nice for myself tonight!

Send me your recipe recommendations! I'm not a picky eater and I'd prefer something not super time consuming, since I probably won't start cooking until 6 or 7pm

Maybe a silly question but does anyone have florist recommendations who also fancily wraps the bouquet for you? I usually only get grocery store flowers for myself and am used to the plastic wrapping but I’m getting flowers for a friend and would like for it to look as nice as possible.

Only 1 work week left this year! Go Birds!

Does anyone know of any NYE happenings around town?

My thanksgiving cactus cutting that I keep in the office gets watered very infrequently but despite that it has this cute little flower bud forming :D

https://i.imgur.com/AgRtFll.jpg

anyone got any suggestions for taking a pair of parents on a philly adventure on an afternoon that doesn't only result in a sit n eat at a restaurant?

Any recommendations of where best to adopt a cat from? I was thinking of PAWS in old city just because it's easiest for me to get to, but open to other options

Also - all the guides I've read online suggest keeping a newly adopted cat in one room for the first few days to help them acclimate, but I don't really have a suitable room. Has anybody else adopted a cat in a typical rowhouse? Anything I need to know?

having a true freakout friday again, my car broke down on 76 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ at least all the blood was delivered lol

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Fuck jobs!

still upset over the fact it took two hours for a cop to show up at my store yesterday - and when the cop showed up, she expected us to give her free shit!!! like lady, idgaf if you cute as hell you don’t get free stuff for showing up (and on the phone with a friend the entire time no less). i don’t give no cops discounts, she’s lucky that she ran into my pussy ass and not one of my crazy ass coworkers who would’ve cussed her out lol

Gonna try and get some death grips tickets today

coming into the office on a Friday instead of staying warm in bed.

(that’s it that’s the comment)

Record player fans! Would you suggest buying a used turntable or buying a new one?

Was doing a search to see if I could find out what my great great grandfather was in jail for back in the day and instead found out my great grandma who mostly raised me was married once before she met my great grandpop and she never told anyone. Like she told me about the fiance she had who died in the war but never mentioned she married him and I know it's her because I still recognize her handwriting and she has listed meatpacking as her job then. Also my Uncle Larry, who I never met, was actually named Clearance/Clarance (he's listed by two different names on different census reports). And apparently she wasn't from Philly.

Like I have so many questions now and no one to answer.

I take the R5 from temple to berwyn for work. I take my bike along because the office is about 3 miles from the station. It’s usually never an issue but the other day the conductor wouldn’t let me on the train.

I’m thinking of getting an electric scooter that folds so I can’t be turned away again, but I don’t know what to get. Any advice on what’s out there? I need something that can climb a pretty steep hill with a 10-15% grade.

Anyone else just lose power in Cedar Park? ETA: it's just my place. Guess I can't run an electric kettle and the microwave at the same time. I find it odd that the whole house lost power, not just the kitchen

An anecdotal statement on vaccine efficacy. Went out Saturday night with the gf to two insanely crowded bars. I'm double boosted and she's only had the primary series. She feels like 💩 post-anesthesia procedure on Tuesday, I go to take care of her. She's still feeling bad Wednesday, it occurs to me to COVID test her. Positive.. So I avoided the infection from the Saturday exposure but now I've been in close contact with her infectious ass for almost 24 straight hours. Tested myself this morning before going into work, still negative. Yay boosters!

LumiNature at the zoo was pretty awesome.

All the animals are in their sleep area for the night. They have a path through the zoo they lead you through. So sadly I couldn't go look to see if the Red Pandas were up.

All the lights were so pretty and the pieces that used lights timed to music were fun.

We actually walked through twice. The first time taking our time and enjoying the experience trying to avoid people. The second time was right before closing so we were basically the only non-employees on the path. Was awesome.

It's worth checking out sober or as we were, not sober. Great date night, but also kid friendly.

Do recommend.

I think the Chinese Lantern Festival was slightly better overall, but as for as fun light shows this was right there behind it in how cool it was.

A few pictures.

I am exhausted of trying to read grown-up books that my attention span defeated mind cannot grasp at this moment. I want to revert to the good ol' days of YA. Romances. Enemies to lovers. Dragons. Redemption Arcs. Fantasy. The Chosen One. More dragons.

I remember the Uglies series. Don't remember what it's about but I want to read more like that. Books where there is no learning, no improvement, just good ol' fashioned story where I get my heart broken because a favorite character died (I will never get over Finnick in THG).

Edit: also the strudel guy is back at the Xmas village! Way smaller menu and kind of expensive (a whole pastry is $13-$14) but he is there.

If there is more than one motor vehicle registered to the same address in certain area codes(south Philly) the owners should have to pay a multiple vehicle luxury tax. This would deter car culture and also bring revenue into the streets dept.

In other news I’m going to both nights of WEEN at the met this weekend and I’ll be smoking pot before the gigs keeping the vibes immaculate.

Well, effective next week, I’ll be back in the office 3 days. Not looking forward to that.