The Awkward Silence

1:14 PM

heya @TheTinyMan!

And good morning to @ElizB too :)

'Morning! Last day of internship. Presentation in less than 6 hours. I'm in bed! I'm gonna go to the office after lunch to give the easy presentation, hand in my Id, and peace out :D

Tinkeringbell

Nice :D

ElizB

Yuuuup I'm so glad I'm on vacation

Only a few blips during the week to do but otherwise cleaning and cooking are gonna be happening

Tinkeringbell

Today is my first day back, I spent the entire morning discussing time sheets related stuff with a manager or three, and now I'm on low activity till tomorrow, that's when the new sprint will start :)

@ElizB Hahaha lovely! That was my vacation too, some cooking, some cleaning, some crochet, and a whole lot of nothing! :D

ElizB

So nice when I've been stressed from 9 to 5 Monday through Friday

avazula

1:20 PM

@ElizB Hey you! Sounds like a nice ending :) best of luck for your presentation!

ElizB

@avazula hey you! Haha yes indeed. Im still working out what to say but the slides are pretty much set. 15 minutes. Easy peasy.

avazula

@ElizB :)

ElizB

@avazula I'm really glad it feels good. So good to finish well.

avazula

@ElizB when do you go back to school?

ElizB

@avazula Classes start on the 27th. So in a week.

avazula

1:24 PM

Yay, full week of vacation! :D

ElizB

Yup! Wooot!

avazula

Mine are in 2 weeks 1/2. I'll have to take my driving exam during it. I'm so stressed ._.

Tinkeringbell

@avazula Ugh, driving exams :/ Glad I don't have to do that one anymore, I'd have never passed!

avazula

@Tinkeringbell I'm terrible at parking :p the rest is ok.

I defend myself by saying my car is too big lol

Tinkeringbell

@avazula I'm terrible at driving the speed limit :P I always end up going dangerously too slow

avazula

1:29 PM

@Tinkeringbell Picture wool/knitting thread sales, and the store closes in 10' :D

Tinkeringbell

@avazula Hahahaha :P That'd be cool if that worked XD

(I just ordered yarn for yet another blanket btw... birthday money :D)

ElizB

I passed my first attempt in my driving exam :)

Tinkeringbell

@ElizB I had to take it twice, first time I messed up on navigation driving and nearly ended up ghost driving :/

I did manage to pass theory in one go :D

ElizB

ghost driving?

Tinkeringbell

@ElizB Driving on the wrong side of the road?

avazula

1:32 PM

@Tinkeringbell yay! which colors?

Tinkeringbell

The Dutch word for that is a 'ghost driver' or 'ghost driving' :)

All of the colors!

avazula

@Tinkeringbell you already knitted it?!

ElizB

@Tinkeringbell Ahhh, gotcha. Interesting, I've never heard that term before.

That is so pretty.

Em C

@Tinkeringbell o: that looks so complicated!

Tinkeringbell

@avazula Nooo... that's how it's going to be ;)

When finished :)

@EmC I hope it is! The pattern I have now is boring. It looked really fun and intricate, but it's ... meh.

avazula

1:37 PM

@Tinkeringbell haha, okay :p

Em C

@Tinkeringbell yeah, that is my worry with blankets, the same stitches over and over again for ages..

ElizB

I consider anything created with our own hands pretty.

Tinkeringbell

@EmC Hmm.. this one isn't exactly the same for ages... but just... easy. dewolkast.nl/Files/2/81000/81299/ProductPhotos/MaxContent/…

Oh, there's also lots and lots of ends to sew in :(

Em C

@Tinkeringbell huh, would've fooled me too!

sewing ends in is the worst!!

3

avazula

@EmC +1

Tinkeringbell

1:41 PM

@EmC It's really just single, double and treble crochets, with one row of front post crochets to make little crosses.

@EmC I have crocheted over a lot of ends already, so I only need to weave them back. I usually use a small (2 mm) crochet hook for it. I find that goes better than using a yarn needle :)

Em C

avazula

1:59 PM

flg-pls,del-pls (NaA): interpersonal.stackexchange.com/a/17732/4550

Em C

@avazula looks a bit spammy, too

avazula

@EmC That's what I thought too afterwards, but my mind was already set on "commentary"

ElizB

2:26 PM

It feels weird on a Monday morning not being at work

@ElizB Enjoy haha

Yup I'm loving it

@ElizB :D

I'm tweaking my PowerPoint for the afternoon after talking to myself for the last 15 or so minutes lol

Avantgarde

Got a presentation to give?

ElizB

2:28 PM

Hubby's sleeping as usual. He always sleeps in and I can't go back to sleep after 9-10 am

avazula

@ElizB "I'm gonna crush this, of course I can do it - wooh! Pancakes!!"

ElizB

@Avantgarde yup, got a 15 minute presentation to mark the end of my 12 week internship

Avantgarde

@ElizB Nice. All the best.

ElizB

@avazula pancakes? :P

avazula

@ElizB I was picturing your talking-to-myself time :p

ElizB

2:30 PM

@Avantgarde thanks :) easy peasy presentation.

avazula

Pancakes are the best

ElizB

@avazula bahahaha yeah

Avantgarde

I haven't done a powerpoint ppt in so long.

ElizB

@Avantgarde I've got only one more year of grad school then I'll be done!

Ooo, husband's up! :)

Avantgarde

Maybe not :P This world needs many presentations every day.

ElizB

2:47 PM

@Avantgarde Haha true that.

Extroverted Main Man

3:15 PM

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I had some guests in town visiting from Europe this past weekend. They wanted to treat me to a nice meal as a thank you for me hosting them so we went out to one of my favorite restaurants, which was very nice of them. When the check came I noticed they didn't leave a tip so I kindly explained wh...

JBis

4:08 PM

Hello again!

ElizB

4:28 PM

Hello!

Tinkeringbell

Evening!

ElizB

Presentation is in 2.5 hours! :P Gonna eat, fidget around the apartment, practice, and then go. :P

Richard U

@ElizB good luck

ElizB

@RichardU Thanks! :) I feel pretty good about it.

TheTinyMan

6:39 PM

@Tinkeringbell Oh, hi! ^.^

Tinkeringbell

@TheTinyMan What happened to 'back to work'? :P

TheTinyMan

@Tinkeringbell This IS me being back to work, I'm typing now! See! Work!

Tinkeringbell

Ahhh. okay :) Hello!

TheTinyMan

:-D

Tinkeringbell

@TheTinyMan Fun fact: In the laboratory, paleontologists have been able to fossilise lobster and shrimp eggs in just 2 – 8 weeks!

TheTinyMan

6:43 PM

@Tinkeringbell Hey, there we go! So I'll just put one of THOSE in the stuffed dinosaur that I'm burying!

Tinkeringbell

@TheTinyMan You're going to fossilize it first? Or hoping it fossilizes while in the stuffed dinosaur? :P

TheTinyMan

@Tinkeringbell I think I'll fossilize it first. :-) Although doing all of that inside the dinosaur sounds like a pretty cool idea, too, maybe I should do that...

Tinkeringbell

@TheTinyMan Let me know how that's going ;) Make pictures!

TheTinyMan

@Tinkeringbell Noooo, you can't "discover" it if you see pictures of it first!

Tinkeringbell

@TheTinyMan I thought I just had to dig it up?

TheTinyMan

6:47 PM

@Tinkeringbell That's right, you didn't need to discover it, you just needed to dig it up... okay, I'll send pictures! :-P

Tinkeringbell

Cool :D

TheTinyMan

I'll start with that stuffed dinosaur :-D

Tinkeringbell

@TheTinyMan If you bury that one, I'm so NOT going to dig it up :P

TheTinyMan

@Tinkeringbell xD

Richard U

7:28 PM

I told my girlfriend that she did her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.

Mithrandir

7:38 PM

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Extroverted Main Man

8:02 PM

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Richard U

That's an interesting question about journalists. Personally, I wouldn't approach one, as I've known too many journalists. That's not a joke, either.

Mithrandir

8:26 PM

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Extroverted Main Man

9:16 PM

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10:13 PM

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