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  Graduating Massage School

  by darkuncle29 in

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  hey you peoples, i'm graduating massage school tomorrow, and i take my national certification exam on tuesday the 22nd.. i'm going to get my liscenses and business/legal stuff all set up, and then take a much needed break for my health and sanity.. i'm hoping to start off with outcall massage and some spa/wellness treatments, i've got a menu already prepared.. i haven't been around much, so if you want to reach me, to say "howdy" or "whot?!?

  " here's my myspace:.

  http://www.myspace.com/81587245.

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  You rock!!!

  Congrats my friend.

  Hugs, Cady
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  So, who's awake and online, and why?

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  hey all,.

  it's 230am here and i'm at work.

  we're installing new software, which we have to do at night when everybody is off the various systems.. hopefully we'll get outta here by 4am.

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  Cause I just broke up with my boyfriend last night, and I broke it off but I still miss him like crazy and can't sleep.
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  Panhandlers piss me off!

  by Nosferatu in

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  yesterday, my brother and his son were in town visiting.

  me and the wife decided to go out and get some pizza to bring back for supper.. when we pulled up to the pizza shop, a guy came up to the car window and gave us his sob story about how he had cancer removed, how he refused to stay in the homeless shelter, and presented a stack of papers stapled together along with his mb health card.

  he asked for any change that we may have.

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  I'm of two minds on this...

  There's a guy who sits outside near my lab with a sign that says "unemployed poet." He reads all day and occasionally writes very bad poetry which he displays on the sign next to his unemployed poet - give money - etc sign. I get ticked off no end, especially as I see him right as I leave work after a crazy long day.

  On the other hand, most people dip below the poverty line only temporarily, and these dips correlate with major transitions in life. When I was getting divorced I walked into the bank to see if I could get a loan and the guy in front of me had cancer. He was dying, he had lost his job b/c he couldn't work, but b/c he wasn't going to live six months (and you have to be disabled for 6+ months to get assistance) he couldn't get anything from the government. He and his wife and kids were losing their home.

  And, on my own for the first time and a divorce settlement months away, I was scared alot too. I'd been working 30 hours a week prior to my divorce and what I made wouldn't cover my bills, and although I could have worked full time I'd sacrificed a lot to go to school and didn't want to give up the only chance I had at ever really being able to take care of myself. (Which, btw, turned out to be a great choice, as I've recently been awarded a small scholarship, am taking the lead on a study which now has NSF funding, and will be speaking a major conference in the UK in September vs. working full time and ending up doing crap jobs forever.) Without contact with my family b/c of the JW thing, I didn't feel I had a backup plan. If things went wrong, what was I going to do? Where was I going to go? And what if... What if I'd had kids and been on my own? What if the bike accident that landed me in the hospital last year (with a $3,000 bill) had left me seriously injured? What if my car had broken down? What if I hadn't had any skills to support myself with, and had been left with the option of working for minimum wage full-time? One thing could have tipped the scale and I would have been left sleeping on someone's couch, or maybe I wouldn't have known enough people in Seattle and would have eventually ended up...??

  I just think the idea that there are plenty of services out there is a nice thing we tell ourselves so we don't have to feel guilty or afraid. Sorry, but I looked when I was in trouble, and what services are available often require (such as food stamps or help for the medical bill from my accident) an inch thick packet of paperwork which is nearly impossible to manage when your life is a disaster and you're exhausted and stressed.
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  Graduate students or ex-grad students on this board?

  by silentWatcher in

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  hey, .

  are there any current or ex-graduate students (hopefully graduated :0) on the board?

  professional degrees (law, medicine, etc) count too.

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  Btw silent, what school?
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  Graduate students or ex-grad students on this board?

  by silentWatcher in

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  hey, .

  are there any current or ex-graduate students (hopefully graduated :0) on the board?

  professional degrees (law, medicine, etc) count too.

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  Applying to grad school this fall in psychology or HCI (still up in the air a bit). Currently a research assistant at a lab at Univ of WA.
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  Keep me company!! I'll be up all night packing...

  by Cady in

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  i'm moving tomorrow, it's incredibly hot here in seattle (and it's never hot, so who needs a/c?

  except uh, for now!).

  i'm melting, and up late getting ready to move.

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  OFG - Yeah, so I don't actually know what your operation is, but you can fill me in sometime. :-) And I don't know if my mad DJ'ing skills would impress you that much, currently I have some 80's rock on. lol I live in Seattle, eventually I have to get sick of indie music!! Orb - First time on your own in your life? Good for you!! That takes courage. Omg!! So in the process of getting ready to move I was looking at some old journals I had in the back of my closet. 1998, still an incredibly good jw. So here's the most horrific line ever: (discussing what I did today...) "I made a chicken. Oops! I cooked a chicken. God made it." Wow. Thankfully Jehovah forgave me my error and didn't keep me out of the promised land for taking undue credit!
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  Keep me company!! I'll be up all night packing...

  by Cady in

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  i'm moving tomorrow, it's incredibly hot here in seattle (and it's never hot, so who needs a/c?

  except uh, for now!).

  i'm melting, and up late getting ready to move.

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  trb mind - that could have turned out very badly, glad they're okay!
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  Keep me company!! I'll be up all night packing...

  by Cady in

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  i'm moving tomorrow, it's incredibly hot here in seattle (and it's never hot, so who needs a/c?

  except uh, for now!).

  i'm melting, and up late getting ready to move.

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  Orb - very good move, to a studio (vs having a roommate) - in Seattle finding a nice studio I can afford on a student budget is a one in a million stroke of luck. Spaz - where are you moving? Flash - I know, I need to throw this stuff away! Help me... Aargh. It's all part of Satan's system, I won't get to take it into the paradise with me anyway. :D
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  Keep me company!! I'll be up all night packing...

  by Cady in

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  i'm moving tomorrow, it's incredibly hot here in seattle (and it's never hot, so who needs a/c?

  except uh, for now!).

  i'm melting, and up late getting ready to move.

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  Cady

  open fire - Any skills? Hmm... I'm designing a robot. My music is up really loud, so I'll say skill #2 is annoying my neighbors. Would either of those contribute to your operation?
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  Keep me company!! I'll be up all night packing...

  by Cady in

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  i'm moving tomorrow, it's incredibly hot here in seattle (and it's never hot, so who needs a/c?

  except uh, for now!).

  i'm melting, and up late getting ready to move.

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  Cady

  open-fire - nope, all the pot's making you delusional ;-)