Official bored at work / just shooting the shit / no rails to derail thread

[Yygdrasil]

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There is an Archaeology find in WoW called the "Scandalous Silk Nightgown," it's an unequippable (thank god) Night Elf artifact. I found a thread about it on the WoW forums, someone QQing that he (yes he) could not equip it on his male toon. After the facepalming ensued on my end, I read further into the thread, and I came across this post:



To which I replied:



And nobody got it. Son, I am disappoint.

Lol.

[Feba]

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Feba, its nice when that happens, I have a "padded" frame and I tend to attract women wanting to snuggle up when I have a gf or close friends

Given the angle we were are, I don't think it was that. Unless a foot in your breast is comfortable.

[NightShayde]

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I discovered last night that taking a muscle relaxant and a migraine pill in rapid succession makes for a very sleepy relaxed Nightshayde. Didn't feel loopy or zingy or fuzzy-brained -- just relaxed, calm, and sleepy. I'll have to remember that combination. I slept very well.

[Aksannyi]

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So I just printed something out for work and apparently some time last week I printed something from this forum out and I have no idea when or how that was, but it was sitting there by the printer. Oops. I just tossed it in the trash but I'm a little annoyed at myself for somehow managing to print something from here that is obviously not work related.

[Aksannyi]

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Well, it's that time of year again, the time of year when my loans come out of forebearance and I have to call Sallie Mae and haggle with them to both continue to keep most of my payments on forebearance and work out a reasonable amount to continue paying what I can.

I have 18 total loans with them. Why they split it this way, I'll never understand, but meh. Four of them are with Sallie Mae Department of Education and the rest are with Sallie Mae Federal Something something. So you'd think I could contact them and work out everything all at once, right? Wrong. I have been on hold with the DoE branch of Sallie Mae for 40 minutes because apparently people didn't quite make it to work, thanks snowstorms. At least I have until the 21st when their outrageous payment amount that they think I'm going to pay them but I'm totally not is due. (Protip: when your bill is more than my rent, I'm not gonna be able to afford that.) At least I got through to the other side, they're content to let me keep paying what I am, since I've paid on time over the past year and I've shown no signs of being slow to pay them.

I could go back to school, and I plan to, but that just means I'm going to be gaining more debt while attempting to continue paying what I've already got. Someone please explain to me why college is a good investment again? Because really, I don't make a lot, but I get by, and I owe more in student loans than I will ever make working with or without a degree. That totally makes sense.

I hope I can get some grants this time around.

[Feba]

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Someone please explain to me why college is a good investment again?

It isn't always.




A lot of time, the big benefit of a college degree doesn't pay off until you're well and middle aged; but in the mean time, the higher salary can allow you more opportunities in terms of credit. Of course, if you use that credit to dig yourself into debt so bad that you don't get out of it later, it doesn't do you any good.

[Ufgt]

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Post Secondary Education is a total farce. Work experience, networking, and social skills are far more important than GPA.

[Aksannyi]

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I'm really frustrated since I've checked on my loans and the highest interest rate one (and thank god it's one of the ones I'm paying right now, and also the only one with a rate that high) isn't even being dented into. I have 18 total loans and I pay for four of them, and the amount applied toward the high-interest loan is paying off only the interest and not even touching the principal. I check my loans every few months or so, and last time I checked, I was still making progress on the loan itself. Minimal progress as it was, it was still progress. Basically, at this rate, the loan will never get paid off and I'll just be tossing money at Sallie Mae forever.

Obviously that's not how I plan to do this. When my damn W2 finally gets here (please explain to me why my coworker got hers two weeks ago and I have not gotten mine yet, what the flying bloody fuck mate) and I file my taxes, I am putting as much as I can after what I've decided to set aside for a few other things - paying some people back, getting a new tattoo, taking a trip to Mexico - whatever's left after those things, I'm giving to Sallie Mae, and I'm applying it to that fucking loan. Then I'll have paid a big chunk of the principal off in addition to all of the currently accrued interest, and I'll also have less of a principal for the interest to draw from, and therefore it will take longer for me to get back to the point where I'm paying only interest on the goddamn thing. Though the goal is to pay that one off as quickly as fucking possible, so whenever I have some extra money to play with, I will treat myself here and there, of course, but I will be making sure that Sallie Mae and that holyfuckingretardedhighrate loan gets paid the fuck off. And after that, all of my rates are 6.8% and lower, which is so much more manageable in the long term.

I just hate that I checked a few months ago what my total balance is and I checked today, and it hasn't gone down at all. Like, minimally. I wrote it down somewhere, but it was really in pretty much the same ballpark. Interest is killing me. And what sucks the most, is I have no degree and I'll probably never be able to buy a house because I have too much debt, and with what I make, I'm not going to magically end up being debt-free in the near future. And even if I wanted to, you can't declare bankruptcy on student loans.

Needz sugar daddy with paid off house to let me move in, for srs.

[Aksannyi]

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I love random insane text messages from total strangers. Lol. If my phone didn't die a few minutes ago I'd copy the weird text but I was mostly like ... wtf?

[Yygdrasil]

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GOOD MORNING!!!!!!

[Aksannyi]

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See now we can fuck off to our hearts' content without pissing off the people who actually want to read FFXI and FFXIV news. Although I am one of those people, since I do enjoy hearing about the state of both games, but yeah.


WATS GOIN ON IN DIS THRED!!!!!?

[Yygdrasil]

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See now we can fuck off to our hearts' content without pissing off the people who actually want to read FFXI and FFXIV news. Although I am one of those people, since I do enjoy hearing about the state of both games, but yeah.


WATS GOIN ON IN DIS THRED!!!!!?

Made it. It's under Off Topic.

[Aksannyi]

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I was informed this morning by a guy who was putting a new program on my computer that by April, they will be installing IE8 on all of the computers here. About fucking time.

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Also, today is, if you were unaware, the day to wear red as a show of awareness for women's heart health. I am pleased as I walk around work today to see so much red. (More than usual since I work at Coke and people wear Coke shirts a lot of the time) So if you've not already gotten dressed this morning, wear something red.

[Yygdrasil]

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More than usual since I work at Coke

Thats why when I jynxed you yesterday you said "sure, have all you want"...

You have an unfair advantage.

So I would like to withdraw my previous jynx and replace the word coke for Mr Pibb.

I'm waiting.

[Aksannyi]

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I can get that too. It's a Coke procuct, there's some in the vending machines here.