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That's funny. I hadn't even realized. And, besides, I seem to be experiencing déjà vu. I could have sworn I had already reached 3000... Isn't that right, Evaders? Woe the Great Crash of 2006. 3001 it is!

Again, Jahled, my friend, you are living my dreams. I am also looking into working for a zoological society, namely the National Zoo here in DC...

"Pregaming", then going to a bar and accidentally spilling water on a girl with a white t-shirt, offering her your shirt, then going back to my place with the offer of cleaning the shirt for her... It gets better from there. Sadly, this sometimes ends with one or both of us (the girl and I, that is) waking up in a puddle of our own puke. Luckily, co-ed showers are par for the course.

I think London. It's easy and relatively cheap to fly there from the States and rather close by for all of our European members. Otherwise, you could all come and crash at my place in DC.

I have to agree with Jahled, especially the post-Holidays bill. Other things... Um...an apartment in Georgetown (northern DC).

Thread discussing promotion and ranks in the forums.

Right. Here we are.

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Welcome to the forums, Ace! Okay, this has turned into a mighty good excuse for spam. I think in the future one of his admins/moderators will make a sticky thread exclusively for the sake of new members introducing themselves. In any event, welcome!

You live in London? Just kidding. I know you live in London. Anyway. You'd have to ask Jahled to tell you the story--he posted it some years back somewhere in the forums. Quite the story. I'm not really sure if it happened...in fact, I'm rather sure it didn't. It was just so funny when Jahled told it that I keep retelling it as though I were actually there... But don't worry, I think I'm going to London either this summer or next winter break, at which time we can all go out and have quite the time.

Ah, I love this city.

Didn't you also work as a receptionist for a time at an asylum, too?

Quiet you! No one gives moderator suggested orders to the moderators, except Jahled.

Speak of the devil, why it isn't the King himself! Good to see you, though I have this funny feeling you'll disappear again, akin Trej and Scath. Hope to see you around more often, mate!!

Honestly, I never truly understood the original topic's point. What are we calling ourselves as what? I mean, what do we refer to ourselves as when talking about Star Wars or our nicknames or...?

Right, except Africa is not a country, it is a continent made up of many countries. And I don't think anyone ever stated all of Africa is a bad place to live.

Three different jobs... Impressive. Maybe... It's really more a pain than it sounds...unless it sounds like a pain already... In any event, it's not much fun juggling three jobs and university all at once. Basically, I work at Borders the days I don't have classes, I work at the bank when I do have classes (after classes in the evenings since the bank is close to my university, except Fridays), and work as a receptionist Friday and sometimes Saturday nights (I am one of three, well, two now since one of the receptionists got sacked for losing some paperwork, but there are supposed to be three: one full-time, day-time receptionist, one part-time evening repcetionist, and one part-time weekend receptionist...me). Yeah, I'll second Mad's statement - more on the grounds of the fact you've got 3 jobs and can stand it I know people with 2 jobs and it drives them nuts, let alone 3 different jobs. Umm...did I read right? A drive through bank? That's new to me! Really? Interesting. It's not so much the entire bank is drive-through, we just have a few drive-thru tellers and I happen to work on during the evening shift.As for having three jobs and handling it...well, it does drive me rather crazy. In any event, the three job matter is only going to last until the start of the new semester, at which time I'll switch over to a single job on weekends only. I'm really only doing this insanity to make money over the winter break. Well, actually, I don't have to work, but it does help out when it comes to paying for gasoline and such other things. I prefer to let the parents pay tuition whilst I cover the other expenses. Plus, it helps to save for graduate and post-graduate school.

Oh...the old man bit... No worries, PI. It took me a moment to get back on the actual plot from the bathroom bit. Another really bad way to die is to be stuck in Tennessee for the rest of your life. Thank, God, I no longer live there for surely I would have suffered that sort of death. The damn place has a bloody cold hand and quite the grip!

Global Warming.

I like living anywhere along the coasts. No worries, and I have no discrimination issues that I know of--I get along with pretty much everyone. As far as worst places to live... Well, I won't start spouting off things like Iraq, the West Bank, Afghanistan, Darfur, or such because I am no expert on such seeing as how I haven't lived there. From my experiences: Clarksville, Tennessee: Worst Place On The Face Of The Earth.

I had this funny feeling that I'd get a serious response, another...and then Tofu. Just kidding, mate. Thanks for the comments--as long as I don't come across as a pissed off child. I agree he owes me an explanation, especially since I can legally take the class and just wave off his email since I was already accepted, but I think I'll just let it go. It's not worth pissing off a professor I'll likely end up getting paired with for my final degree thesis, plus all the other staff and faculty who would subsequently think I'm a prick. In any event, I found another class to take in its place, albeit not about Classical Antiquity and not a graduate course: History 388 World War I in Europe. At least it's an interesting substitute and not something wretched like the History of Blinds and Curtains in the United States between 1950 and 2000.

Or nearly burning to death whilst trying to scramble up ash-ridden with a terribly ugly gold mechanical arm that freaks the hell out of your girlfriend just after yelling "I hate you" at your best friend and surrogate father without really meaning it, then surviving with just enough skin intact to stay alive long enough so a crazy, withered old man who can do back flips comes picks you up with his white-clad clone soldiers to then take you to a hospital where the doctors are all robots and everything is extremely dark and, despite technological advances, they apparently lack any way of giving you pain medicine to at least numb the pain as they tear off pieces of cloth that have fused to what remains of your skin, screaming for bacta, yet they apply none and force you to live the rest of your days in a black tin can that makes your voice sound like Barry White, yet you can't sing and the air is recycled, and every time you have to go the bathroom you have to excuse yourself for an hour because it takes so long to take off the damn thing to then be electrocuted to death by the same crazy old man who saved you from certain death at the hands of molten lava and have your son strike the final punch by pulling off your mask so you can't breath, all because you told him to in a fit of sarcasm about taking off your helmet so you can see him with your own eyes. I would hate to die like that.

I believe an appropriate comparison for those of us in the United States is:-Are we taught of the massacre of Native Americans by European colonists? Or American forces following the American Revolution? -Are we taught of the invasion of Mexico we committed before World War I? These sort of things are known, but hardly understood and rarely taught. It's not America's most shining moment, to say the least, so I imagine the German and French governments take a similar stance in that regard when it comes to the Second World War.

So now I'm going to vent. One of my prospective history professors here at George Mason University told me that I could take his History 635 course on Alexander the Great. Immediately after confirming this, I went to my adviser and completed the appropriate paperwork for taking a graduate-level class for undergraduate credit; in this way, the class would appear on my transcript at History 498: Independent Studies, Alexander the Great. Good and all, especially after the professor giving the course, my adviser, and the Office of the Registrar approved the matter. So I checked my email only a few minutes ago and found this: And then he signed his name. I find a few things objectionable here. First, he says I have done "minimal work at GMU", which I supposed is, of course, my fault since I just transferred this summer from another university! Then he states I haven't had enough work in upper-division level courses, which is untrue. I have taken and completed three upper-division level courses (300-level) and was in the midst of taking three more in addition to a senior-level upper-division course (400-level) when I was forced to leave my previous university (you all know the reason, so I don't have explain that bit). Additionally, I took another upper-division class this past semester, which I passed with a near-perfect score. All this before I was even a junior. Now he looks at my transcripts, sees that I have yet to complete George Mason's required upper-division classes for the major, none of which are expected from most other accredited universities. The situation goes, while a freshman and sophomore at my previous university, I took mostly upper-division classes, leaving the core-required classes (the simple ones like communications, science, and the like) for last, a different course, but one I enjoyed and my adviser at my previous university agreed to. Well, now that I am at George Mason, those upper-division classes, though indeed on my transcript, do not count towards the residency portion of the degree; that is to say, they count towards the major, but George Mason still requires I take a certain number of hours of their upper-division classes. In addition to that, the few core-required classes I took at my previous university are apparently not required here at George Mason, which means I am having to play catch up in taking ridiculous core-level classes (e.g. Astronomy, Communications 101, etc), which has knocked my academic standing from being a junior going on to be a senior next semester, to a sophomore becoming a junior next semester. Absolute rubbish! In any event, I think it comes down to him not wanting an undergraduate in his class, despite the fact he already approved it. He is using nonsense as an excuse, and technically I can still take the matter to the Office of the Registrar and have my way since the paperwork has been completed, filed, and entered into the system. I won't do this, though, since it would make me out to be a complete ass. Even so, I wrote this in reply: I believe I was professional in my response and in delivery of my thoughts. Personally, I find it to have been unprofessional of him to agree, then change his mind after the fact. This does not mean I think he is a bad professor or anything of the sort, on the contrary; I have the highest respect for the man and his knowledge, but I do not believe he went about this matter the right way. What do you guys think? Was this right of the professor to do this after already accepting me into the class? Also, and most importantly, do you believe my email to him was rude or did it seem professional in disagreeing, but still accepting?

O-K. I'm a little worried this thread is going to start giving potential members or merely anyone doing a Google search concerning SWR a bad impression of the site. I hate to say it, but perhaps we should shy away from the gruesome and grizzly and perhaps steer towards the "silly." Just a concern from your friendly neighborhood moderator.