chabib, I need an intervention
 

I've become detrimentally addicted to coming on here during work.

I need to be stopped.

I'm avoiding things I find unpleasant and coming onto this forum, and reading/writing what are for the most part bullshit posts about absolutely nothing pertinent.

I am whittling away my existence online. My professional reputation is suffering over such dire matters as The Arctic Monkeys.

I hate Chicago artists (tangent).

I need my work IP address blocked, because I am a pathetic soul of no conviction or willpower. I am slowly submerging myself into a virtual reality, and soon I will be housebound, eating porkrinds at my computer and getting engaged online to a man named Melvin from Mississippi.

Please help me.

No! Come on during work! PEER PRESSURE!

where do you work?

there's no hope if pork rinds are even hazily visible in the crystal ball.

I've never actually seen a pork rind. But it seems like an apt universal talisman of absolute, all-encompassing doom. Don't write me off so easily though chabib, I still wash my hair, and get out of my pajamas (most days).

I work for the guv'ment. My title is "cultural events coordinator," which is a snooty way of saying that I throw parties 'n stuff in my city. I am responsible for coming up with events that would be beneficial and edifying to my community as a whole. Then I have to organize and run them.

My job is SUPER FUN because I get to be a nazi.

I can throw art fairs, dance exhibitions, battle(s?) of the bands, lecture series, theater productions. I can host interactive art workshops, let people paint streetlights (which I'm doing over the summer, fun stuff), construct a visual history of rock and roll (also on the bill) in the industrial park, throw outdoor concerts, demolish vacant buildings in throes of destructiveness and a need for catharsis...

I can do ANYTHING

which makes it difficult to focus, because no one is monitoring me, so I have trouble sometimes with incentive to produce. I'm in the middle of an especially frustrating project right now, which is why I keep coming on this goddamn forum and avoiding my occupational obligations.

I confess. I am an addict. I simply am not capable of curbing this on my own. chabib, I implore you.

I don't really download that much anymore. Only YSI/Badongo stuff.

I deleted my Torrent junk and P2P programs.

Shit! Double Post.

hey truncated don't be such a wuss by putting the control in someone else's hands. you have willpower. use it. or maybe i'm selfish, but most of your posts seem smart & funny so i demand more. but don't avoid the issue. maybe you need a new job.

btw we drove by mississipi, melvin says hi :D

Downloading music is one thing, Peaches. Hanging around this place all goddamn day, trying to explain to people that no, Led Zeppelin is not more overrated than The Fall *twitch* - now that is unhealthy.

Haha. I'm on here all day as well.

Well thanks !@#$%

I might need a new job. I'd like to be a clothing inspector so I can have my own stickers.

I'm upset with Melvin at the moment. He's gone on webcam strike, I swore he was chatting up some bitch named xxxStaceyxxx on Yahoo, and he PROMISED he was going to sell his WWII stamp collection to fix the Corvair and come up to Chicago.

Can't trust anyone on here.

your job sounds like fun.

so who is overrated the fall and led zeppelin, or just one?

Fuck that Stacey bitch up!

As I said, I have never seen a pork rind. Maybe I psychologically block them out.

To the toilet man:
I don't really know that the Fall gets all that much hype - at least not in my experience. So no, I wouldn't say they're overrated. However, nearly EVERYONE in that thread agreed that Zeppelin was overrated. ZEPPELIN!

I can't bear to rehash it. If you're in for some masochism, go check it out under Non-Sonic Sonics.

I would give Stacey a good ass-kicking, but from what I see of her profile picture, she's got tits the size of beach balls. She could crush my skull with one strategically orchestrated squeeze.

"gimme job"
Diesel, I'm afraid that if you want my job (or most jobs for that matter), you'll have to stop scratching your balls and formulate coherent sentences.

See ya Peaches. Don't break a sweat.

By the way, I was serious about that intervention.

pork rind is what i am gonna call a song one day.

coming on here at work is about the only thing that keeps me sane. i have very little to do anyway, but even when i do i am on here far too much. the only thing is though that it somehow seeped into my life and now i am on here all the godamn time, home, work etc.

my advice is to just go with the flow.

Yeah, this board is way more addictive than the old one. I try to limit myself to just coming on a couple of times a day while I'm at work, but I..... just.... can't.... do.....

It had begun to happen with the old one too. Actually, this new board could deter me from logging on as much, because now that there are avatars, it's much more visibly obvious to someone who happens to stroll into my office that I'm not doing real work. So I have to be much stealthier about being on here.

*Edit: I realized that probably didn't make much sense. It's damn early here. What I mean is, with being mostly text, the old forum was less obtrusive, didn't jump out at you as a forum, so I could disguise my evil doings better.

truncated...
... I have the same work/board problem. Just leave the mouse hovering over a relevant tab, ready to click.

its a constant danger at work to be discovered doing this, but as a temp with only a few weeks left to work i really dont care all that much. it seems like a scurge to employers to let people have internet access, not that i am complaining. at anyone one time i can scan my eyes accross the office and see at least 8 out of 12 people looking on the internet here.

Well you see...

I'm a one-person office, so unfortunately if I get caught, I can't point to my cubicle neighbor and whine, "Well SHE'S doing it too!"

My job situation/set-up is a bit strange. I work for a municipality, which has a few buildings that it operates out of. So, as it happens, because there was room there, I work out of the fire station.

Everyone there is very friendly and social (I wish they'd share their drugs with me), so people are walking in and out of my office all day long (even when the door is closed) just to 'chat.' Which I really don't mind, as I start to get a bit weird when I'm on my own all day long, but I DO mind when I'm sneaking onto this forum and the door flies open, leaving me no time to conceal my infractious behavior.

Have you tried setting up some kind of elaborate Scooby Doo-like warning system? You could build it out of bits of old, discared fire service equipment.

That's an excellent idea, but what if they confuse the warnings for actual fire alarms? Then they'll all be running amok, miss the real fires, and I could be single-handedly responsible for the flaming destruction of an entire city.

Every plan has it's downsides.

;)

thats a pretty big one.

perhaps some kind of mirror system could be put in place. if you get asked then you could just say you are arranging the office. actually thats a shit idea, forget i ever said anything.

its funny as well because when people do expect me to work here i get kinda pissed off with them as they cant see that i have more important things to do, like being on here.

SHIT!!!!!! I came on the board while I had some food boiling in a pan, just to see what's been going on overnight, forgot all about the food on the stove, and it's completely boiled dry. The pan's been burned to death. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

Stupid addictive board!

I can take it or leave it.

wow, you've been digging deep.

how do your fingernails look?

And thank you Pookie, for that long-awaited, monumental contribution.

It took some thinking about.