Not exactly what I wanted to do with my Sunday night...
Dreamstalker
up at me over Thanksgiving) had an art project due today; 9-foot wide
(full scale) viga, made out of cardboard. Of course, she waits until 5
PM last night to start doing anything with it. Another friend of mine
burned his hands with a hot glue gun and scraped his back raw on the
cardboard edges (corrugated boxes cut down) trying to put interior
braces in the thing. Then at about 9:30, she announces that we have to
spray-paint it.
Why didn't I listen to that voice in my head that told me helping would
be a bad idea? Oh yeah, I didn't want Jordan to do all the work...
She didn't buy masks, and clearly had never used spraypaint before in
her life...spraying into the wind (hence all of it was going back into
her face), keeping her face about 8 inches from the thing (she wanted to
"see if it was working"), spraying -me- with the solvent when she was
trying to get "just a bit more" out of the can, wasting what little
paint we had by spraying randomly...and somehow trying hard to spray
near my other poor friend who was having a cigarette well away from the
fiasco (I try to avoid smoke, but figured that staying with him was the
best idera as he'd be as far away as possible). Soon after the circus
started, she was acting extremely stoned and at one point threw a full
can down hard on the asphalt--and then acted hurt when we yelled at her
for doing that.
About 11 PM, she finally realized that two cans were not enough to cover
what must have been 25 square feet of white cardboard (unprimed so it
was soaking the paint up as fast as we could put it on). It was also
below freezing, so the paint was freezing and seperating before we could
apply it. During this, she was yelling at us (look, it's not our fault
that your midterm grade depends on this--you should have thought of that
sooner than 12 hours before it was due).
At the end of all this, she is breathing on her hands to try and warm
them, and 'accidentally' licks her palm which has wet silver Rustoleum
on it. We'd told her not to put her mouth near her hands, but of course
she didn't listen (the sculpture student who's never touched a can of
spraypaint before thinks she knows more than the two techies). At this
point it is quite obvious that she's inhaled too much of the stuff; she
then tries to clean the paint from under her fingernails with her teeth O_o
Surreal, sad and somehow funny at the same time...
SIGH...and this kid wants me to share an apartment with her next year?
I can just imagine...
--
"Be advised that although this is actually a live broadcast and is being
sent out at this very moment, it is quite possible that it might arrive
tomorrow, right now, or perhaps yesterday."
Jean Hoehn
> SIGH...and this kid wants me to share an apartment with her next year?
> I can just imagine...
Speaking as one who has btdt; DON'T DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Trust me on this.
--
Jean
Freaky roomate stories on request.
Jette Goldie
"Dreamstalker" <m...@privacy.net> wrote
<snip>
> At the end of all this, she is breathing on her hands to try and warm
> them, and 'accidentally' licks her palm which has wet silver Rustoleum
> on it. We'd told her not to put her mouth near her hands, but of course
> she didn't listen (the sculpture student who's never touched a can of
> spraypaint before thinks she knows more than the two techies). At this
> point it is quite obvious that she's inhaled too much of the stuff; she
> then tries to clean the paint from under her fingernails with her teeth
O_o
>
> Surreal, sad and somehow funny at the same time...
>
> SIGH...and this kid wants me to share an apartment with her next year?
> I can just imagine...
Maybe when she isn't stoned on paint fumes she won't
be so bad to live with.
--
Jette Goldie
je...@blueyonder.co.uk
Some people are like Slinkies . . . not really good for anything, but you
still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.
Rowan Hawthorn
"Dreamstalker" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:c1dq3p$1gefv4$1...@ID-180282.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Surreal, sad and somehow funny at the same time...
>
> SIGH...and this kid wants me to share an apartment with her next year?
> I can just imagine...
"Y'know, I'm sure she *means* well, but She reminds me too much of some of
my friends from back when. My advice would be to *run* - don't walk - to
the nearest exit. It just ain't worth it..."
--
Rowan Hawthorn
"I love mankind, it's people I can't stand." - Linus Van Pelt
saavik
Jette Goldie wrote:
Unless being stoned on something is a regular habit with her? That could prove
to be a major PITA.
Margo (just saying...)
Kevin Ahearn
>I can just imagine...
>
Run. Fast. Now.
--Kevin
Why, why can't the spammers just die
While they're looking for their free lunch and their pie in the sky
'Cause if they don't stop, we'll kiss free e-mail good-bye
Why, oh, why can't all the spammers just die?
Dreamstalker
> Quoth Dreamstalker on 2/23/04 3:08 PM:
>
>>SIGH...and this kid wants me to share an apartment with her next year?
>>I can just imagine...
>
> Speaking as one who has btdt; DON'T DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
> Trust me on this.
I plan not to. I have another person lined up, but getting ahold of her
is the issue (tight class schedule). I think a "roommate" is a
requiremnt to get into the campus apartments...
Dreamstalker
> "Dreamstalker" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
> news:c1dq3p$1gefv4$1...@ID-180282.news.uni-berlin.de...
>
>>Surreal, sad and somehow funny at the same time...
>>
>>SIGH...and this kid wants me to share an apartment with her next year?
>>I can just imagine...
>
> "Y'know, I'm sure she *means* well, but She reminds me too much of some of
> my friends from back when. My advice would be to *run* - don't walk - to
> the nearest exit. It just ain't worth it..."
*nod* Jordan and I came to that conclusion when we were buying (the rest
of) the paint...she's OK to be around for about an hour or so, but after
that... She's basically a spoiled Valley girl who likes other people to
do stuff for her.
Dreamstalker
> Jette Goldie wrote:
>
>>"Dreamstalker" <m...@privacy.net> wrote
>><snip>
>>
>>>At the end of all this, she is breathing on her hands to try and warm
>>>them, and 'accidentally' licks her palm which has wet silver Rustoleum
>>>on it. We'd told her not to put her mouth near her hands, but of course
>>>she didn't listen (the sculpture student who's never touched a can of
>>>spraypaint before thinks she knows more than the two techies). At this
>>>point it is quite obvious that she's inhaled too much of the stuff; she
>>>then tries to clean the paint from under her fingernails with her teeth
>>
>>O_o
>>
>>>Surreal, sad and somehow funny at the same time...
>>>
>>>SIGH...and this kid wants me to share an apartment with her next year?
>>>I can just imagine...
>>
>>Maybe when she isn't stoned on paint fumes she won't
>>be so bad to live with.
>
> Unless being stoned on something is a regular habit with her? That
> could prove to be a major PITA.
From what she's told me, that's not any type of habit. Could be that,
never having been around spraypaint and the like, she has zero tolerance
for the fumes.
K
Kevin Ahearn wrote:
>>SIGH...and this kid wants me to share an apartment with her next year?
>>I can just imagine...
>>
>
>
> Run. Fast. Now.
>
And if she has your cell phone/telephone number? Change it. FAST!
karen
Wesley Struebing
wrote:
<viga fiasco snipped - don't you wish YOU could...>
>
>Surreal, sad and somehow funny at the same time...
>
>SIGH...and this kid wants me to share an apartment with her next year?
>I can just imagine...
Umm, did you by any chance piss of an old Jew? (as in the Jewish
Curse - may you live in interesting times...)
--
Wes Struebing
Like many other tools, government is dangerous
in direct proportion to its usefulness. - Jerry Hollombe
saavik
Wesley Struebing wrote:
Hunh? I thought it was a Chinese curse.
Margo (perplexed)
Dreamstalker
> Wesley Struebing wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:08:06 -0700, Dreamstalker <m...@privacy.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>><viga fiasco snipped - don't you wish YOU could...>
>>
>>>Surreal, sad and somehow funny at the same time...
>>>
>>>SIGH...and this kid wants me to share an apartment with her next year?
>>>I can just imagine...
>>
>>Umm, did you by any chance piss of an old Jew? (as in the Jewish
>>Curse - may you live in interesting times...)
>
> Hunh? I thought it was a Chinese curse.
It is. Probably one of those that's been adopted by everyone...
Engr Bohn
Hail, Dreamstalker! We who are about to post salute you.
> apply it. During this, she was yelling at us (look, it's not our fault
> that your midterm grade depends on this--you should have thought of that
> sooner than 12 hours before it was due).
"Reminds me of something a co-worker used to have on his door:"
FAILURE TO PLAN ON YOUR PART
DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN EMERGENCY ON MINE
Take care,
cb
--
Christopher A. Bohn ____________|____________
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~bohn/ ' ** ** " (o) " ** ** '
"Scientific results cannot be used effectively by soldiers who
have no understanding of them, and scientists cannot produce
results useful for warfare without an understanding of the
operations."
- Dr Theodore Von Karman, Scientific Advisory Group Chairman,
Appointed by Gen "Hap" Arnold (1944)
Wesley Struebing
That, too, Margo. Depends on your background, I guess. Having heard
it both ways, I picked the first ones that came to mind...<G>