I’ve had a feeling of impending doom all day as if I have forgotten something important, but I know I have gone through everything.
Weird.
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Yutsano
Did you give His Highness his daily tuna ration?
jeffreyw
Death by chocolate?
Jennifer
Dude. You just described the feeling I have every day of my life.
But I did just put up a nice post about how Sarah Palin = Greg Stillson. It’s really eerie, in that Lincoln-Kennedy kind of way.
So I guess I’ll live to fight the feeling of doom for yet another day.
Polish the Guillotines
@jeffreyw:
You heartless bastard. Dessert pr0n. And I’ve got a 1.5 hour commute before I can eat dinner.
freelancer
“Ted! Don’t forget to wind your watch!”
Lavocat
You’re anticipating that which no one ever suspects – the Spanish Inquisition.
Or maybe you have gas.
lamh32
Guilty pleasure: I’m watching “So You Think You Can Dance”. I actually think it’s better than “American Idol” and now since Simon is gone, maybe FOX will put it up as a fall show. I think with the fresher and younger talent, that SYTYCD can probably give DWTS a run for it’s money, especially with the young demo.
Anyway, I’ve got dancing in my soul. So I watch this show every summer.
Plus I love how the Australian host pronounced judges as “jidges”
RSR
I was going to ask if Tunch had eaten recently, but I see that was covered in the #1 comment…lol
Yutsano
@jeffreyw: I am figuring out the division of labor in your household. You’re the main line cook, Mrs J is the pastry chef. I think I’m a wee bit jealous.
CalD
A B-Complex vitamin might help — preferably one with B-12 as methylcobalimin (not cyanicobalimin). No promises that I spelled either of those words correctly.
dmsilev
Feed the cat. Now.
Or else.
dms
Anne Laurie
Thursday Night Menu. Which I was posting when this went up.
(Testing to see if JC actually reads this far.)
ally
This is pretty doom for many –
“Senate Democratic leaders conceded late Thursday that an effort to extend unemployment benefits and other expiring provisions through the end of the year will fail.”
So much for Reid making them stay all thru Memorial Day Weekend. Useless.
delosgatos
There are known knowns and known unknowns, but you sound troubled by the unknown unknowns.
Calming Influence
So BP switched from expensive drilling mud to seawater, which led to the explosion. They are now pumping in expensive drilling mud, hoping to stem the flow of oil from the broken well; a large percentage of the expensive drilling mud is being pushed back out into the Gulf because of the pressure.
Any bets on whether “Loss of expensive drilling mud” shows up as a write-off on BP’s 2010 tax return? ( Not U.S. taxes of course, ’cause they don’t pay no stinkin’ taxes here.)
SIA
Maybe you told someone last night you’d “call them”?
Linda Featheringill
This whole half of the earth will be turned into one giant oil slick.
BP lied to us and told us that things were going well with the top kill. It didn’t. It failed and they stopped about midnight eastern time last night. CNN says they are pumping again but this is actually top kill take two. The guys at The Oil Drum give a second try at a top kill about 10% chance of succeeding.
Are we to believe anything BP tells us?
[and I really wanted to believe that the top kill might actually work]
geg6
Have a few more mojitos, John. Or prescribe yourself some medical marijuana. Or both. They usually take care of my free floating anxiety quite nicely.
SIA
According to the LA Times, the Top Kill stops the leak for now
The planet Uranus just moved into Aries, from Pisces (oil and gas). Hmmmm.
Thanks to Steeplejack for showing me how to do this linky thingy. Hope it works.
jl
Listen to Yutsano. Carefully check the latest reading on your TunchLocation decoder ring.
He’s probably been stalking you, we hope just for laffs this time.
Ah, you don’t have one? That explains the sense of doom.
danimal
Maybe we missed out on a detail or two from the mojito-dive crawl last night?
hal
I did not have a tv for almost four years, and the whole time did not miss it. Now that I’m back in college, I find myself coincidentally watching the Real Housewives of New York City, for which I will always be embarrassed.
I like to tell myself I watch it just to see NYC.
Calming Influence
@SIA: I’m watching the live video feed, and it looks like a hell of a lot of oil gushing out of a “stopped” leak.
SIA
@Calming Influence: Yeah, I was just looking for confirmation elsewhere and can’t find anything. Also, oddly, the LA Times article is dated 5/28/10. They time traveled into tomorrow? I’m wondering if I misread it, or what.
Bob Loblaw
Repost from downthread:
PLEASE STOP WITH THE LA TIMES PIECE, IT IS INCORRECT:
BP was full of shit. They stopped pumping mud LAST NIGHT (over 16 hours ago) when the first top kill attempt wasn’t going anywhere. There was no mud going into the well today. Only coming out.
They have to junk up the BOP first before they can move on with their new attempt tonight. Too much mud was being lost into the gulf to ensure a good seal for the cementing. The well is still flowing oil.
You people need to keep up with The Oil Drum and not MSM sources.
Oh, and by the way, not letting BP “miscommunicate” with the press is precisely one of those mystical abilities Obama has over the process that he’s not using. We shouldn’t have Thad Allen giving us day old information…
Something Fabulous
Oh I hate that feeling so much, Mr Cole. It’s one of the reasons I want to get out of freelance life; so many new things to master with each new company, so likely to have forgotten to dot their t’s and cross their i’s {Gladly, the Cross-Eyed…} in their particular mandatory way. Nagging feeling of doom/unfinished taskery.
mclaren
2010 elections.
SIA
@SIA: Now the article is not there. I have not had a Tunchito. But apparently I am in the twilight zone.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@SIA: they still dateline stuff for the print edition, I’m assuming.
TL
you decided to use seawater instead of mud to lubricate a hole that leads to the bottom of the earth.
SIA
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yes, that’s what I thought too. But the article is not there now. I wonder if it was the oil spill version of “Dewey Wins!”. They still had the link on the website, but when you click on it you get an entirely different article: ‘Top kill’ effort stops flow of oil into Gulf of Mexico, Coast Guard admiral says
Through the looking glass.
Legalize
Cut to:
Tunch twirling his mustache, laughing maniacally.
Cut to:
Cole frantically backing up the stairs swinging a Louisville slugger at an off-screen menace.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
One House REpublican votes to repeal DADT. I wonder who it is. Mike Castle? Oh, one more. 22 House Dems vote no. Three votes needed to pass… and it passes the House.
Cat Lady
2012. Get used to it.
/mayan
Corner Stone
It’s probably just due to the fact that you’re a raging douchebag.
Sheila
“What is man but a god who is afraid?”
Maurice Maeterlinck
justinslot
There ended up being five GOP votes for the DADT repeal: Djou, Cao, Biggert, Ros-Lehtinen and Ron Paul.
AhabTRuler
Looks like a piece of ‘junk’ is wedged in one of the fissures in the riser. This means that at least some of the junk failed to lodge in the passages of the BOP itself.
Brian J
I’m a little bit depressed. It turns out that the law school I had planned to go to would only give me loans–mostly unsubsidized at that–to attend in the fall. We’re talking a minimum of $200,000 for a school that is only decent, even if it is getting better, with no guarantee of a job when I get out. Unless something changes, like I get into a school I am still waiting to hear from with a much better financial aid package, I am not going to school in the fall.
I understand the difficulties facing the industry now, but I’m willing to deal with it. I also feel that I can do very well in school, but I don’t want to go with that big of a debt hanging over my head. I’ll probably try to get into another, probably better school for 2011, but man, I feel like the wind has been taken out of my sails.
Corner Stone
@Brian J: Sigh.
SIA
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Susan Collins was the republican who voted for repeal in the Senate AFC.
cynn
For the last fucking time, for what it’s even worth. You guys seem to be big cat people. I put my cat down today because she quit using her litter box. Now I can’t stop crying.
SIA
@cynn: I am so sorry to hear that. Most of us have lost our loved pets and it’s so, so difficult.
Brian J
@Corner Stone:
Are you saying this because you were one of the people several months ago who advised against trying to go to law school at all?
That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal (JMN)
@cynn: I’m very sorry. There’s a possibility I’m looking at the same thing in the very near future.
cynn
I had been trying unsucessfuly to ask for advice. It never posted. Anyway, thanks for the kindness.
Corner Stone
@Brian J: Yes Brian J.
I don’t really know what else to say at this point.
The next 18 months are going to be a complete crackup for the legal field/industry.
After that? It’s turtles all the way down.
And anyone who will take on $100K+ of debt to speculate on something 3 years out is a little off the track, IMO.
I’m sorry. I guess a guy’s gotta follow his dreams.
tim
Cole, perhaps you forgot to wear a condom last night?
Brian J
@Corner Stone:
Well, I pretty clearly said I wasn’t going to be going to school next year unless something. Will I apply for the following year? Probably, but my current hope is to become a professor.
Anyway, why is the field cracking up?
D-Chance.
You forgot to put up a fresh Rand Paul thread. Your “serious” Libertarian watchers on BJ are disappointed.
Otherwise, I’m actually sad that Top Kill is working, if only because I think we all needed a Junk Shot…
Fwiffo
Oh man, I have felt that way all week.
AhabTRuler
@D-Chance.:
Well then, chin up buckaroo, it isn’t!
SIA
@cynn: Will be thinking healing thoughts of you and your departed kitty. Be good to yourself.
Corner Stone
John Finn: Too Fast Too Furious.
Corner Stone
@Brian J: I’m not going to get into it again.
Anyone who goes into private practice at this point is counting on the turtles.
Corner Stone
I’m pretty sure none of the Carrie Underwood songs are about me.
tripletee
It’s Thursday, you know. You haven’t randomly thinking “yellow,” have you? Might want to check for bulldozers outside your house.
Brian J
@Corner Stone:
I guess that’s fair. Like I said, the amount of debt, combined with the quality of the school, made it an unappealing decision now. $100,000? That I could deal with. But not $200,000, most of which would start accruing interest right away.
I’ll figure it out one way or the other. I do hope that as I investigate it, becoming a professor doesn’t look like a dead end.
mai naem
@Brian J: $200K if it was a tier 1 but an average school and you are talking 2 grand a month for a couple of decades – hell, no.
Brian J
@mai naem:
Exactly. It’s not a bad school, like Cooley or any of the other ones mocked on the law boards. It actually jumped a bunch of spots in the latest US News rankings, so it’s Tier II. And if was $100,000 or something around that, it’d be large but not insane. Even a relatively low paying job with that debt level wouldn’t be that bad, because I’d figure out a way to pay it back. I have a pretty good ability to manage money, and if I had to sacrifice my life for a short period of time to get ahead of debt, I could do it.
I still have to hear from a couple of schools. If one of them, also in New York, gives me some money, I’ll probably go and then work like a dog to transfer into something better.
But other than that, I’ll wait and see what happens. The more I think about it, the more becoming a professor law sounds nice. It’s certainly not easy to do, but the salary is probably nice, even if you aren’t at Yale or something, and it would only get better with time.
asiangrrlMN
@cynn: I’m so sorry for your loss. My deepest condolences to you.
Impending doom: It’s just the end of the world, Cole, that’s all. And, TUUUUUUUUUNCH!
@jeffreyw: Yes, please. Seriously, adopt me now.
Lit3Bolt
I think that feeling of “impending doom” was your brain saying, “Cole! I want more of that primo shit you gave me last night! I like Mount Gay Rum the best! None of that Captain Morgan shit! More sugar and EtOH! NOW!”
JL
Sounds to me as if you’re on the verge of an appointment in Samarra.
Chin up!
daryljfontaine
Open up the linen closet and let Tunch out. He will be pissed. That is the doom you sense.
D
Tattoosydney
@lamh32:
Heh.
MJ
@BrianJ
Have you looked into a law school with a good Public Interest Law Repayment program? I’m not sure, but I think that going into academia may fairly be considered public service work. So my suggestion is that b/4 you make any big decisions, you should call each school you are considering and ask to speak w/ the Public Service folks in the Placement office. Perhaps they can help you to figure out some options available to you.
FWIW, I worked as an undergrad residential advisor when I was in law school and saved quite a bit of cash b/c I didn’t have to pay for room and board. It was hard work, but I was able to do well and keep my grades high enough to get a federal clerkship. So don’t be afraid to think out of the box.
Anne Laurie
@Brian J:
Um, you may want to research that a little more. One of my siblings is a law professor in the Northeast, and he doesn’t make much more than I did as an administrative assistant. And, yeah, he’s not teaching at ‘Yale or something’, but that’s because the competition to teach law is insane. Every corporate lawyer who doesn’t make partner, plus every lawyer who realizes after a couple exhausting years that self-employment doing injury & estate work is a good way to die young, wants to find a safe place in the education community. I have a handful of friends who’ve passed their bar exams but none of them are working as lawyers, and most of them are happy doing jobs that they could’ve gotten just as easily if they’d never gotten those degrees.
Go to law school if you’re fascinated by the law, or if you really really want to do something that requires a law degree. But don’t spend all that money & energy just because you figure it’ll be a “safe” profession — it isn’t now and it probably won’t be in the future.
Ruckus
Cole
Welcome to my world. Every day just like the last. Sunrise, sunset, it just keeps on coming. Ah the funk, the glorious funk. You know one day it will end, the funk, or the day.
Just remember, the funk may feel like crap but the funk is still better than the alternative. No funk, no feeling at all, no expectations, no 2% hope 98% wishful thinking that this too will pass.
Or maybe in your case it’s just the mojito aftermath.
Yutsano
The quiet of the late night descends upon us, and we are left to forever speculate upon just what exactly occurred on John’s mojito driven drunken evening. Without witnesses, the world may never know.
Brian J
@MJ:
That was something that people mentioned to me when I brought this up on law boards, but it didn’t seem to be ideal with that level of debt. It seemed like I’d either live like a pauper for a long time, or start forking over large sums of money, understandably so, if I ever started making money.
@Anne Laurie:
If you don’t mind me asking, are you talking $40,000 a year, or $80,000? Has this sibling hit the salary cap yet?
Maybe my opinion would change as I learn more about it, but it seems safe in the sense of being pretty secure once you get it. That doesn’t mean it’s easy to get, nor that it’s an absolute lock once you get it, only that it’s probably far less likely you’ll lose your job once you get it than it’d be in some other situation.
The reason I am high on being a professor is that it seems like a good way to influence the the discussion of what is happening in our financial system. I wrote my admissions statement and briefly alluded to how I wanted to change the financial system (I was going to write more about that, but was told to write more about myself). Of course, becoming a professor means you’d have to do well, and probably attend a great school, which is one more reason why, unless I somehow get accepted into a better school with a little money, I will be waiting a year. If that year off propels me to better things, then it’ll have been worth it. (Assuming I do it at all, of course.)
John Cole
@Anne Laurie: I was unaware there would be pop quizzes involved.
SGBurton
maybe you forgot about all those songs you illegally downloaded
nicteis
Agree with @10. Alcohol is a big B12 depleter. I went through weeks of free-floating doom in my twenties, couldn’t figure it out. One B12 capsule, and boom. The world was rosy again.
Well, okay. Nixon was still president. But that was already-arrived doom, not the impending variety.
tones
From HHGTTG:
Arthur: All my life I’ve had this strange feeling that there’s something big and sinister going on in the world.
Slartibartfast: No, that’s perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the universe gets that.
Arthur : Everyone?
Slartibartfast: Everyone.
Seriously though , the full moon was yesterday too, that sets people on edge.