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Seriously! There are panhandlers who sit right next to the ATMs and I never give them anything.
It's just SO pushy and I feel really insecure with them there.

Speaking of, here was a homeless man under the pigeon poop bridge next to my flat for the past 5 months.
He must have been crazy cause he was covered with pigeon poop all the time but he seemed nice and never asked anyone for anything.
People gave him handouts.
A couple weeks ago I noticed he had a black eye, and now he's gone.
I hope he's ok.
Still, at the same time, I kind of feel like an ass, but I'm also really glad he's gone.
He smelled terrible from a block away and he just kept amassing stuff that was taking over the walkway (and also covered in poo).
 

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Went to an outdoor ATM in downtown (bad idea) only to be accosted by panhandlers demanding that I share with them.
I'm used to guys begging for "spare change", but expecting $20 handouts is some astonishing entitlement. ::batsu:: ::cred::
That's an amazing video XD *dead*

There are a lot of beggars in NYC, but I haven't met a lot of pushy ones actually. Usually they stand there but I don't have anyone following me around or repeatedly ask me. The only ones I don't like are the ones who put things on your table at a restaurant, like a keychain, even in McDonald's. It's not a popular thing, but it happens from time to time and I just really don't like that. I don't mind giving to people on the street (I have change around for that reason!), but I don't like the restaurant thing.

I'm getting the iPhone 6s Plus soon ::squee::
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Enjoy your turkeys xD and if someone is vegetarian, what they eat?
My family and I had McDonald's woo! XD Well, we don't really celebrate the holiday in a big way, maybe because it's only something done in 'murica and my father grew up in Peru. Although my mother grew up here her parents grew up in Peru so no one really celebrates it. So we acknowledge it as another day to be thankful for what we have and joke about cooking the turkey and gathering all our cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. ::meev::

Richard summarized his Thanksgiving for me:
I spent it with Griffith and (your favorite) Gelter. Griffith had us out to his house in New Jersey for the day. Griffith lives in a town called Colt’s Neck, but Gelter renamed it Cold Snack. So, Griffith lives in Cold Snack, New Jersey. Isn’t that hilarious? Anyway, the food was delicious, and we drank delicious port until Griffith got a little drunk and broke one of the decanters. Don’t tell anyone...
(Gelter is from Austria and has the biggest accent.)

I don't know why, but he reminds me of someone from another era... Piratey? Old English? Someone who should be wearing a top hat and monocle? Either way, I love it XD I told him I just imagined all of them drinking "delicious port" while discussing the topics of the day and breaking decanters. I felt the same way when he sent me pictures of the view from his villa in Barbados. It's just so... from another era or something, haha.

I've been studying non-stop these past few days and going out maybe for an hour lately, eek! I'm dyin'! I've been doing Corporations for days and just yesterday I did 4 chapters of Professional Responsibility. Hoo boy. Another week of studying to go @__@

Currently taking a break and watching "A Crown for Christmas," a Hallmark movie (OH GOD). It's about a New Yorker woman who gets hired out of luck as a governess for a king of a sovereign nation "near Luxembourg" named Winshire. The king has a daughter named Theodora who is supposed to be hell, but Miss Evans manages her well. Theodora's mother died from illness years ago and ever since then governesses have been trying to mold her.

I think I actually enjoy this movie because it has the staff, kings, etc. XD And the characters are so likable. Miss Claiborne the Cook is SO NICE OMG. And the head Butler, McMuffin (forgot his name), is so nice too! I love the staff! ::squee::

Miss Evans is also an artist, is smart, funny, laidback, and she and Theodora become close. Meanwhile, the King is in an arranged engagement with a Miss Celia, but he doesn't love her. This disappoints Miss Evans a little because she and the King have had some close moments and have been pretty friendly with each other. She has no dreams to be a princess or marry him though, but they relate because they both lost parents at a young age.

However, the Evil Chancellor REALLY WANTS the King and Miss Celia to get married and will even try to force it on them because the kingdom needs to raise morale and he can't BELIEVE the king is delaying this marriage for so long. It also doesn't help that Miss Celia is pretty snooty although she doesn't seem evil.

Miss Celia actually sat Miss Evans down and said she feels insecure because she's been waiting to marry the King for years so Miss Evans honestly says Miss Celia will have nothing to worry about. (But it's pretty clear the King really likes Miss Evans... Poor Miss Celia.)

And because of Miss Evans the King and his daughter are actually getting closer and having fun again!

Now it's the Christmas gala and the King has to announce his engagement to Miss Celia... OMG WHAT WILL HAPPEN.

Miss Claiborne the Cook gives Miss Evans the dress *she* wore when she was young, when she danced with a handsome young man before he went away to war, so Miss Evans can wear it to the gala. THATS SO SWEET.

BEST MOVIE EVER...
 

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PureElegance wrote:
I don't mind giving to people on the street (I have change around for that reason!)
As long as you're not giving anything to those fraudulent "charity" guys. Every time I see one I have the urge to steal their money box and donate all the money inside to an actual charity for homeless people. I think to them, that would be the ultimate insult XD

Made it back from Boston last night after an excruciatingly long trip. The highway was backed up for hours because there was a car parked on the side of the road. Not crashed or on fire or anything, just parked there ::hora::

Anyone get any good shopping deals this weekend? I found a couple Xmas items (ahead of the game for once) but not much else.
 

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I got Game of Thrones season 1 for $10, and some cheap t shirts at Target but that's about it. A lot of the "deals" I saw were things you can get on sale for the same price or less all year round.
I spent more money on cheap crap at Daiso the day after than I did on Black Friday. ::meev::
 

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I watched other people buy things? Does that count? xD It wasn't Black Friday-related, but the other week I snagged some Klaha stuff off Yahoo Auctions! Nothing terribly rare, just Nostal Lab, Märchen, and Systems of Romance! I'm pretty excited to finally own them physically :)
 

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I hate people sometimes.
My friend's friend found a box of poisoned kittens by the forest a couple weeks ago.
Only 2 were still alive. One of the remaining ones died, and we've been taking care of the one who is left..
His name is Jonsey cause of Alien. He'll be ok but the poison seems to have made him a little brain damaged.

The police found the person who did it.
It was a restaurant owner who bought a cat and threw it in the basement to take care of a mouse problem.
He left it there for months without checking on it, and during that time it had kittens.
So he poisoned them and left them out in the cold to die.

Worst is, the police could only charge him with abandonment because they had no absolute evidence that he poisoned them on purpose.
I hope he dies. I hope some day I get the chance to poison him to death and no one can charge me because there's no evidence.
Fuck that guy.
 

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^ I'm so sorry to hear that, this is absolutely deplorable... I have a friend who was by the sea at the beach and then she heard a splash and a car speed off. She saw a bag floating in the water and ran to get it and found it was filled with puppies. She did her best to get them out and managed to save one of them. She was also walking by a dumpster once and heard meowing from inside and she found a cat shut in a suitcase in the dumpster.

Not OK, world. Not OK.
 

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Wow faith, is that story public at all? I don't always support Internet vigilante justice because a lot of the time it's wrong, but somebody who poisons animals shouldn't be preparing food for a living and it could be pretty damaging to his business if enough people knew about it.

Well, here's an animal story with a happy ending.
 

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Aww thanks for the cheery story and sympathy!
Fox's cat story is happy-ish too cause he saved the cat (I'm assuming).

I'm trying to find out the restaurant's name so I can start a boycott against it.
But I have to be really careful with defamation because they can sue...

What drives me crazy about these situations is that a lot of people say "they're just animals" etc.
First of all they're not "just" animals.
But also, people who hurt animals would probably have no issue doing the same thing to people if there weren't harsher laws against it.
Mean is mean. I think there should be harsher laws for animal abuse.
 

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faith wrote:
Aww thanks for the cheery story and sympathy!
Fox's cat story is happy-ish too cause he saved the cat (I'm assuming).
Yep! The cat was rescued and now lives with my friend and her boyfriend with 2 other cats and they all get along just fine~ :D
 

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You sir, rock socks.
Pictures or it didn't happen tho! *bwahahaha*
 

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Hi.

A friend reminded me of everyone so I thought I'd pop in and say that I miss you guys and hope everyone's doing well and things aren't going too badly (inconsiderate kitten killers aside- that's a f-ing awful thing to run across).

I won't cramp up on you guys anymore, but keep keepin' on. :cool:
 

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I'm trying to find out the restaurant's name so I can start a boycott against it.
But I have to be really careful with defamation because they can sue...
I wish you had a street artist among your friends and he could let the world know what kind of a scumbag is running that business.
 

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So this happened, and the shooter lives really close to me right on a street I drive down every day to get to work. It was solid police and news crews when I was coming home so I had to take a detour.
Pretty surreal day.
 

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So this happened, and the shooter lives really close to me right on a street I drive down every day to get to work. It was solid police and news crews when I was coming home so I had to take a detour.
Pretty surreal day.

CRAP!! I was watching that all day- the whole thing is so confusing. I'm so glad you're ok and seem to have missed the bad parts. I hope your neighbors are ok, too. :oops:
 

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So this happened, and the shooter lives really close to me right on a street I drive down every day to get to work. It was solid police and news crews when I was coming home so I had to take a detour.
Pretty surreal day.
:shock: Yeah, glad you're OK, Cerceaux.
 

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Yeah the actual shooting happened in another city, it's just their apartment that's in my city so I was well out of harm's way. It's all anybody is talking about though.
Interesting tidbit: the police bought armored vehicles last year after the riots sparked by the police shootings, and people complained that it was too militaristic, etc. Those vehicles are what they used to stop the shooters' car yesterday, so they came in handy after all. :cool:
 

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So sad about this, and so happy you're fine, Cerceaux.
 

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Yes, glad you're safe!

Jonsey died a little while ago. I was there and pet him and he died.
There was nothing I could do.
 

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GONNA SEE MISS ELIZAAAA
GONNA GO TO MISSISSIPEHHH

I just read an article about someone at an vent who was supposed to speak about Virginia Woolf's books, but the topic of interest to the audience was about why didn't Virginia have children.
http://harpers.org/archive/2015/10/the- ... /?single=1

Ugh ::meev:: (I think it's an interesting question about Woolf because of her mental illness and how that affected her decisions, but yeah...)
And then this:
The line of questioning was familiar enough to me. A decade ago, during a conversation that was supposed to be about a book I had written on politics, the British man interviewing me insisted that instead of talking about the products of my mind, we should talk about the fruit of my loins, or the lack thereof. Onstage, he hounded me about why I didn’t have children. No answer I gave could satisfy him. His position seemed to be that I must have children, that it was incomprehensible that I did not, and so we had to talk about why I didn’t, rather than about the books I did have.
I can't imagine ever asking someone about that XD

My last class of Gender, Sexuality, and the Law was nice and I ended up sounding very pro-porn ::meev:: I didn't mean to, but it bothered me that the Indianapolis statute (that was struck down) basically said any porn having women in a submissive position or enjoying that sort of thing and rape fantasy was banned. I sided with the judge (who I saw in person just a few months ago!) on that because the statute was so paternalistic (as if women couldn't enjoy that sort of thing) and when it boiled down to it was "thought regulation." I thought the sentiment was nice though and I do understand the "link." We ended up talking about a lot of other things too, like parades and free speech, Dale v. Boy Scouts, etc. :) That was a fun class!

I dunno, I also think that even though I'm pro-a lot of things and all that I have this streak of "why are you forcing people to do things" or "why do you make people go against their beliefs" and I noticed I had that opinion throughout the semester.

Shannen texted me, "Ugh Adela you would understand. This beautiful analyst I work with who is quitting in 2 weeks... I'm so jealous of his girlfriend. I just heard him ask some of the female analysts do they spend 4 digits or 5 on their purses cause he's looking to get his girl one for Christmas."
The first thing I said was, "Does he wear a suit well."
IT'S THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS ::meev::
She said he had blonde hair and blue eyes and was stunning, but she was like, "Woah" when she heard about how much he spent on his girlfriend. Shannen is a nerd.

I just wonder if he really asked, "Do you spend 4 digits or 5 on your purses 'cause I'm looking get my girl one ::cam::" What kind of person says that?? XD

I slipped into Richard's office before class to say a little hi and he didn't even notice I was inside for a minute, but I saw him drinking tea and reading some papers. He was wearing a really nice blue tie that I haven't seen before that brought out the color in his eyes and with his white shirt... Oof~ He thinks I'm going to make the Corporations exam my slave. Last time he told me to feast on my exam's innards. He always comes up with something different to say.

I'll never forget walking in and seeing him wearing a white collar shirt and suit vest though and tie, oh LORD ALMIGHTY. THREE PIECE SUIT. *mentally drooling*

Shannen would understand ::meev::

Back to studying Corporations ::batsu:: I CAN DO THIS!!!
 
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