sorbier

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house update. i attended my first condo board meeting. my house is a townhouse with 7 other houses in the block. the only thing the houses share, which the condo board must manage, is a driveway... and yet the meeting devolved into intense passive aggressive conflict within 15m. i was so stressed out. what have i gotten myself into
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skep's avatar skep 5 days ago

I estimate there is a 50% chance that I run for my neighborhood's HOA board purely out of spite by the time I turn 40

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emilynhoward's avatar emilynhoward 5 days ago

I have never heard of anyone having a functional, polite condo board EVER.

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sorbier's avatar sorbier 4 days ago

@skep ...i already got roped onto being on the condo board...

heya, just want you to know that canada post is on strike ): i haven't forgotten!!!
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emilynhoward's avatar emilynhoward 5 days ago

No worries! I hope it gets resolved soon!

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skep's avatar skep 1 week ago

There are two types of people: those that put zero thought into whatever drinking vessel chances into their life, and those who are incapable of feeling the warm, comforting surrender of contentment (I assume that's what it feels like)

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emilynhoward's avatar emilynhoward 1 week ago

Congratulations on the house! And on finding a suitable water bottle.

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drinkmoretea's avatar drinkmoretea 1 week ago

congrats on the house! i know you say you don't like double walled bottles but out of all the bottles i've had (and ive had a lot) i've enjoyed Hydroflasks a lot because they can keep my water at a cool temp in 100+ F weather

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balckwell's avatar balckwell 1 week ago

I also bought a house earlier this year and have only recently stopped obsessively checking my mortgage account all the time for no reason, as if the more I check the faster it's going to go away.

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limovars's avatar limovars 2 months ago

Sonder: "the feeling one has on realizing that every other individual one sees has a life as full and real as one’s own, in which they are the central character and others, including oneself, have secondary or insignificant roles"

oopsiedoodle's avatar oopsiedoodle 2 months ago

So relate to being bad at houseplants. Even when they die and get crispy, their crispiness just becomes a part of the decor for months until I realize that I'm living in a dead plant graveyard. My brain just doesn't notice them, and expects them to be self sufficient. I do love having plants, though.

sorbier's avatar sorbier 2 months ago

@limovars -- sometimes i feel overwhelmed with that feeling when i look at the street from a condo... each of those car lights standing for one full life... so many of them flowing through endlessly...

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sorbier's avatar sorbier 2 months ago

@oopsiedoodle get a pothos!!!! lol

hi internet neurotic friends, please comment on the grammar of the following sentence that i saw yesterday: "it's going to take some time for me to get used to it and i may never will"
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oopsiedoodle's avatar oopsiedoodle 3 months ago

i like it. i'm a professional editor and it would never fly for my purposes (kids books). but the meaning is clear and it has good flavor despite being gramatically incorrect.

ghostscape's avatar ghostscape 3 months ago

that "will" would bug me, I'd personally change it to "do"

sorbier's avatar sorbier 3 months ago

@oopsiedoodle interesting! i will think about the flavour of the sentence... i agree the will adds some emphasis

sorbier's avatar sorbier 3 months ago

@ghostscape yes the will is crazy, personally i would just delete it: "and i may never"

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sorbier's avatar sorbier 3 months ago

@owlroost i had a whole late-night delirium conversation during college (you know the type) about that horse raced by the barn sentence... i didn't know it was called a garden path sentence! it's almost the sentence equivalent of a shaggy dog story

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