Unplugged Chit Chat Thread

I'm working - thankfully my commute is about 5 steps from my bedroom to my office. I work from home doing tier one tech support for an ISP. People are really cranky so far today :(

But I paid off my Disney trip yesterday! Next week I go to Dragon Con! So it's like mini vacation and then real vacation less than a month afterwards.

I need to finish my Ghostbusters costume - sewing a ton once I'm done with work.
 
Can't complain too much today. I mean, I still have to work, but thankful for a job and thankful Thursday and Friday are my days to remote in from home. We hit our peak work season in a few weeks and I'll have to be in the office every day with extra long hours, so...reveling in this calm before the storm :) Still, I'm with @TheMaxRebo - I want that parallel universe where they're paying me to go to Disney = BLISS! :)
 
I would love to work for Disney - I think I'd be great as a call center person. But sadly, I don't live where that is a possibility.
 
Last night I got one more piece to my MNSSHP "costume". My friend and I are Disneybounding as Dweedle Dee and Dweedle Dum. I got the ribbon to make the bows for headbands. I just need to get some felt to make the collar with the bows.

Sunday is my dad's family reunion, so this weekend will be busy making food for Sunday.
 
chillitsanne said:
How's the food? I hated the food at my college lol
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College cafeterias have gotten SO much better. I love visiting my daughter and eating in their cafeteria. There are multiple stations, brick oven pizza, a wok station, a grill station where they're cooking to order - it's like a luxury resort (which it should be for what we're paying).

Freshman year of college, I lost 23 pounds if that tells you anything about how the food was at our place, and I wasn't a big guy to start with.
 
The food at Rutgers University was always awesome - but then again I think my palette is simple, and it had pretty much all the essentials that a young college person could need.

We also had four cafeterias too!
 
Eoywin said:
I would love to work for Disney - I think I'd be great as a call center person. But sadly, I don't live where that is a possibility.
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Funny you should say that. Continental Airlines ran/runs (now United) a large call center in Houston. But they also used their Call Center agents in that center for other companies, including "The Walt Disney World Resort." They did everything from ADRs to Hotel reservations.
 
Alicenwonderment said:
Ryan I hope you are busy meeting new people. I didn't realize schools have curfews. I just thought curfews were something that happened during my mom's generation (I think she went to college in early 60s.) Her school was a Baptist School and the women curfew was 10 while males curfew was midnight. On Sundays they had to sign out to attend church. My mom told me she knew the names of all the churches not because she attended by was using it so she would get caught by the Profs.
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Interestingly the college I had a curfew at was a Baptist college as well and that was in 2006-2007. I believe they still have curfew. There are also some pretty gnarly rules they have. They claim they are "open" and "inclusive" but no matter what your religion you had to go to chapel on Tuesdays and Thursday, all freshman dorms had curfew of like 10 during the week and midnight on the weekends. Then you could only have visitors on the hall floors for certain hours, you had to sign them in with your RA, and if it was of the opposite sex there was a "3 legs" rule meaning only 1 of 4 legs could be off the floor at any given time. It was so silly! My second semester my room mate and I moved to the sophomore dorm since we had enough credits to be sophomores and we got a ground floor room and that opposite sex rule was broken a few times here and there thanks to our window haha. I got threatened with a $20 PDA fine for laying on a guy friend while studying. There were 4 girls using him as a pillow in the quad and the professor came over and was going to give all of us a fine for inappropriate touching until the guy (snarky junior we were all freshman girls) said "What am I going to do molest all 4 of them here in the open? We are studying." he got a fine for back talking but saved all of us fines. I left after my first year. Not just the rules but the fact classes like "Christianity and Evolution" were scrapped from the offerings due to being controversial and the Theater Department was put on probation because of our portrayal of the Tempest.
 
disneysteve said:
College cafeterias have gotten SO much better. I love visiting my daughter and eating in their cafeteria. There are multiple stations, brick oven pizza, a wok station, a grill station where they're cooking to order - it's like a luxury resort (which it should be for what we're paying).

Freshman year of college, I lost 23 pounds if that tells you anything about how the food was at our place, and I wasn't a big guy to start with
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Brick oven pizza?! That's amazing. We had a couple stations as well but the food just wasn't good.

I lost about 10 but i was pretty excited about it since everyone always talks about the dreaded "freshman 15" so i guess in a way I am glad the food wasn't that great. lol
 
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Got to work to a nice surprise. It is kind of a win/win situation. If I can get two of my certifications in Salesforce (really only need one but I have to get the pre-req before I take the actual certification) I get a bonus and it is something I can take to another company. I have until October 1 so guess I'll be studying before my Disney trip.
 
CampbellzSoup said:
The food at Rutgers University was always awesome - but then again I think my palette is simple, and it had pretty much all the essentials that a young college person could need.

We also had four cafeterias too!
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Rutgers New Burnswick? Did they have the food trucks when you were there? I had the fat sandwich there before and it was delicious
 
disneysteve said:
College cafeterias have gotten SO much better. I love visiting my daughter and eating in their cafeteria. There are multiple stations, brick oven pizza, a wok station, a grill station where they're cooking to order - it's like a luxury resort (which it should be for what we're paying).
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We had a sushi bar... and that was about it.

Seriously, I pretty much lived on PB&J and instant mashed potatos in college. Along with the occasional sushi. And frozen yogurt (peanut butter frozen yogurt day was basically mass chaos in the cafeteria). The cafeteria food was edible, but not always great.
I was also in midtown Manhattan, and we had restaurants and stores nearby, so no need to starve ... although the pizza place I liked closed partway through my freshman year, which was sad.

Also ... we didn't really have curfew, but they locked the doors to the dorms at 2 AM and you had to bang incessantly on the door to have security let you in after that (happened to me a few times ... mostly coming back from events at our other campus, actually). And boys were not allowed anywhere other than the main lounge in each dorm (I went to an all girls school).
 
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