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kodé wrote:Amen to this! I'm now happily married over three years, and life could not be more marvelous!
Congratulations! I am too! :)
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About a week until I go on vacation to central France. At last. Hoping the strikes will have entirely stopped by then, but, with Euro 2016 going on, I sadly don't have much hope about that.
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It's always nice to be able to make a friend laugh hard. :)

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More of a passive-agressive thing, but it still made me laugh: fighting the neighbour's shitty music with Mongolian throat singing.

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Ars Lande wrote:More of a passive-agressive thing, but it still made me laugh: fighting the neighbour's shitty music with Mongolian throat singing.
Up Mongolian throat singing!
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That reminds me of the time my parents were arguing so loud for so long one night that I played the loudest Beijing opera I knew of (on YouTube) continuously to block their voices out. They didn't notice a thing. (I believe it was parts of "Royal Concubine Yang of the Tang Dynasty" or something).

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So, in completely random things, I got to visit the Île d'Yeu today. Cute little place.
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I got my psych to increase my lithium (but not my carbamazepine) back to where it was before. Hopefully I will start stabilizing now.
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I'm out of inpatient.
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Good!
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I second kodé—good to hear you're out of inpatient.

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I talked for quite a while with my friend Liz yesterday, and amongst other things, she's quite happy being my support system (e.g. who I talk to when I'm suicidal), when previously I was really only assuming that she'd be willing to do it, along with that she feels towards me much of the same way I've felt towards her about us (we're not a couple, even though people have mistaken us for one, but rather are very close friends), such that we can both talk to each other about things that we probably would speak to no one else with, me and me psych aside, and in particular with me towards her, I can rely on her for things I would not rely on anyone else for. So I'm definitely happy about that.

(Okay, I'm not happy anymore.)
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My two root canals were not as bad as I expected.
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I'm getting an article published in a peer-reviewed journal!!! Although it won't appear in print until about a year from now (which is why people are starting not to like ink-and-paper journals anymore).

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kodé wrote:I'm getting an article published in a peer-reviewed journal!!! Although it won't appear in print until about a year from now (which is why people are starting not to like ink-and-paper journals anymore).
Congratulations!! Also isn't that true! It takes a ridiculously long time. I don't look forward to that process if I so pursue that path.

What journal?
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Viktor77 wrote:
kodé wrote:I'm getting an article published in a peer-reviewed journal!!! Although it won't appear in print until about a year from now (which is why people are starting not to like ink-and-paper journals anymore).
Congratulations!! Also isn't that true! It takes a ridiculously long time. I don't look forward to that process if I so pursue that path.

What journal?
Not sure I can say until it's official official. But it has to do with templatic morphology in a yokuts language...

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kodé wrote:
Viktor77 wrote:
kodé wrote:I'm getting an article published in a peer-reviewed journal!!! Although it won't appear in print until about a year from now (which is why people are starting not to like ink-and-paper journals anymore).
Congratulations!! Also isn't that true! It takes a ridiculously long time. I don't look forward to that process if I so pursue that path.

What journal?
Not sure I can say until it's official official. But it has to do with templatic morphology in a yokuts language...
Ooh, congrats. But, yeah, even an online print can take a while: the one article I have been on and have had published took about six months from submission to appearing online (granted, it was five months to even have the initial response from the journal that published it!), but it's quite a relief and quite a nice feeling when the publication is finalized. Am working on a draft of an article to try to get submitted by the first or second week of September, but who knows how long (or short) the wait will be for an initial response.

In happy things, my trip to the US was just what I needed. Definitely was nice to be back home for the first time in about a year (and in the States for the first time in nine months), and both the conference I attended and stay at NC State were quite productive. Didn't also hurt that I was able to piggyback the trip with personal vacation, which was also lovely.
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I held off on pre-ordering a new book (a translation of a huge Kurdish novel) the moment I heard about it last night because I thought I might be able to get it at a competitive price at the local bookstore former coworkers of mine founded. In fact, it will cost me 49¢ less to buy from them, despite Amazon's 28% discount.

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I now have a ten-year Luxembourgish driver's license. (insert pom-pom shaking)
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vampireshark wrote:I now have a ten-year Luxembourgish driver's license. (insert pom-pom shaking)
I hope you can use it outside of the country as well. ;-)

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hwhatting wrote:
vampireshark wrote:I now have a ten-year Luxembourgish driver's license. (insert pom-pom shaking)
I hope you can use it outside of the country as well. ;-)
All of my research implies it's good throughout Europe, but I guess there's one way to find out!
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vampireshark wrote: All of my research implies it's good throughout Europe, but I guess there's one way to find out!
Good luck.
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a real man builds his own bed with nothing but a hatchet and some salvaged wood
okay, not really. but i still feel badass for doing it :D
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Dang, Torco, that's so cool!

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Torco wrote:a real man builds his own bed with nothing but a hatchet and some salvaged wood
okay, not really. but i still feel badass for doing it :D
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Next time you need to build your own mattress with nothing but a hatchet and wood. :P
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