[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by pony

the owner closed the bar and is looking to sell it

oh shit. i expected more drama! that's still terrible though. do you get unemployment?

and do you still wanna work in a bar? could you maybe get a job with the next owner? in another bar in the neighborhood? or do you wanna do something completely different?

[pony]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

oh shit. i expected more drama! that's still terrible though. do you get unemployment?

and do you still wanna work in a bar? could you maybe get a job with the next owner? in another bar in the neighborhood? or do you wanna do something completely different?

nope, no umemployment, since i am still at uni. the only thing i *could* get is a monthly student loan, but apparently I am not poor enough HA HA HA

to be honest, i can't really see myself doing anything different right now. can't really work during the week and i hate sitting in an office n stuff. working weekend nights was PERFECT.
the bar closed at a really bad time, since all the bar hired their bar stuff for the summer 1,5-2 months ago. my plan for NOW is to enjoy my 1,5 last weeks of this semester without stressing too much and then visit my mum. after that I will panic about a job again. still hoping i can start at my friend's club.... we will have to see, i don't know.

also, books! this thread is about BOOKS!

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by pony

nope, no umemployment, since i am still at uni. the only thing i *could* get is a monthly student loan, but apparently I am not poor enough HA HA HA

to be honest, i can't really see myself doing anything different right now. can't really work during the week and i hate sitting in an office n stuff. working weekend nights was PERFECT.
the bar closed at a really bad time, since all the bar hired their bar stuff for the summer 1,5-2 months ago. my plan for NOW is to enjoy my 1,5 last weeks of this semester without stressing too much and then visit my mum. after that I will panic about a job again. still hoping i can start at my friend's club.... we will have to see, i don't know.

also, books! this thread is about BOOKS!

i know, but i thought you'd be all like jean rhys, desperate for money, with a husband in jail for writing bad checks, and beholden to ford maddox ford!

[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by pony

Pony's monthly book update:
Due to me losing my job, this month's book update will probably only be 2 or 3 books.
Maybe I'll find pdfs of good stuff online... that way I could read just as much AND finally use my kindle-- anyone knows a good source?

http://worldlibrary.org/

http://www.gutenberg.org/

http://www.techsupportalert.com/free-books-read-online

[pony]

thanky thanks robgator :-*

[!@#$%!]

oh! books, yes, i forgot…

http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/biblio...liotheken.html

http://www.buecherhallen.de


also, on kindle store, search for price = 0.

[Rob Instigator]

fold older books you can always do a search for the title and .pdf

You can usually come up with something

[!@#$%!]

you don't need a kindle, as kindle readers are free and installable in a variety of OSes.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

I live on PDF books, especially those rarer books that you really can't even buy aside from getting gouged. Ironically the internet made rare books MORE expensive because initially those might have sat dusty on a shelf for years and the seller just wants to get some money back. Now? The internet makes specialty, out-of-print, and niche topic books so damned expensive because its become a seller's market with all the access to customers.

You used to find these things in used book stores for cheap prices, now they have all become big shit because of internet "search" features which blatantly take all the fun and art out of "book shopping" much like it destroyed the art of shopping for records

I think PDF has been a liberator to this boogie tyranny, in a way that Google books pretended it would be until Google Books just became another damned overpriced retailer..

[pony]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

oh! books, yes, i forgot…

http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/biblio...liotheken.html

http://www.buecherhallen.de


also, on kindle store, search for price = 0.

i never ever got a book from our 2320093724 libraries. i feel uncomfortable having someone else's books at home/with me

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by pony

i never ever got a book from our 2320093724 libraries. i feel uncomfortable having someone else's books at home/with me

you buy used books!

[pony]

dude, i am just very irresponsible
i love libraries, but only for book i can read in the opening hours.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by pony

dude, i am just very irresponsible
i love libraries, but only for book i can read in the opening hours.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAH

i thought it was a "germs" thing, lolol

[pony]

nah. i am just scared of "breaking" things
i also feel very uncomfortable lending things to people, even if they are my friends.
property is a very weird concept for me, always WEIRD

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by pony

nah. i am just scared of "breaking" things

or throwing them into the river!

Originally Posted by pony

i also feel very uncomfortable lending things to people, even if they are my friends.

those fuckers broke my stuff

Originally Posted by pony

property is a very weird concept for me, always WEIRD

for me it's quite simple

 

[Bytor Peltor]

 

[pony]

!@#$%! --- ily ily ily!

[pony]

THIS WAS IN THE MAIL TODAY, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT!

 

[Bertrand]

Francis Scott Fitzgerald : fourth reading since 1998 of Tender Is the Night

I read Gastby for the first time last year I guess, and prefer Tender (the way I prefer John Dos Passos' USA trilogy over Manhattan Transfer)

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

 

Makes for phenomenal Independence Day reading...Only in California
could this be our in-class text book for AP US History in high school