Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand

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Re: Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand

Postby elfprince13 » Thu Nov 15, 2012 4:26 pm

Just heard from a professor that my academic exploits were the subject of a little gossip at a curriculum committee meeting. woot.
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Re: Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand

Postby powerfulcheese04 » Thu Nov 15, 2012 8:22 pm

My husband is nominated for an Emmy!

I'm so excited!
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Postby LilBee91 » Thu Nov 15, 2012 8:26 pm

That makes you famous, right? That is awesome!
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Re: Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand

Postby Jayelle » Thu Nov 15, 2012 8:48 pm

My husband is nominated for an Emmy!

I'm so excited!
WHAAAAAAT? That's so awesome.
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Re: Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand

Postby elfprince13 » Thu Nov 15, 2012 9:00 pm

My husband is nominated for an Emmy!

I'm so excited!
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Re: Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand

Postby Syphon the Sun » Thu Nov 15, 2012 11:42 pm

My husband is nominated for an Emmy!

I'm so excited!
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Postby buckshot » Fri Nov 16, 2012 12:01 am

Wow!! Thats exciting wow!

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Re: Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand

Postby Mich » Fri Nov 16, 2012 12:02 am

That is amazing! So cool. Can we ask what for? Is that allowed?
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Postby jotabe » Fri Nov 16, 2012 3:15 am

Congrats and good luck! :) i second Mich's question!
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Postby Luet » Fri Nov 16, 2012 6:48 am

Congrats! And do you get to go to the Emmy's??
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Re: Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand

Postby powerfulcheese04 » Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:47 am

Its a regional Emmy nomination for the newscast he helped put together for the big tornadoes in west NC in March.

We're going to the gala in Nashville in January. I'm super excited!
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Postby jotabe » Fri Nov 16, 2012 7:39 pm

I reiterate: good luck! :) hope he gets it!
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Re: Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand

Postby locke » Fri Nov 16, 2012 8:14 pm

My husband is nominated for an Emmy!

I'm so excited!

Emmys are fun!

(I wish I was nominated for one, rather than just our producer winning one)

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Re: Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand

Postby powerfulcheese04 » Fri Nov 16, 2012 10:15 pm

We're under the impression that if his newscast wins it's category, everyone nominated on it would get a statue. And there are only 3 in his category (his tornado show, a hurricane Irene retrospective and a Superbowl Sunday show.)
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Re: Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand

Postby thoughtreader » Sat Nov 17, 2012 12:52 am

I found good cranberries, yesterday I went to the close grocery store and bought 4 bags. But each bag had a lot of sour berries in them :( It took forever to sort out the bad berries and the cranberry sauce I made was ok. Chris loves cranberry sauce so I try to make a bunch when the berries are fresh in the stores. I was really disappointed with the berries and sauce. So today i went to the safeway near campus and they had AMAZING cranberries. I bought 6 bags. I made 4 into sauce tonight and tomorrow I'm going tot try a cranberry pie ( at Chris' request) we will see how it turns out. I've never made one and the internet is only helping so much. I'm basically taking a blueberry pie recipe and switching the berries and adding a bunch of sugar.

They are great huge firm cranberries. can't wait to eat em up.

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Re: Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand

Postby Rei » Sat Nov 17, 2012 8:47 am

I pulled out my old clarinet. Also, apparently I am not as entirely hopeless at reading sheet music as I expected I would be by now.
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Postby elfprince13 » Thu Nov 29, 2012 1:27 pm

Discovered the toilet paper needed to be refilled BEFORE I sat down. This makes me happy.
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Re: Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand

Postby CezeN » Mon Dec 03, 2012 12:48 am

"Speak from your heart, and never compromise what you feel is real"

"Courage Under Fire Gave Me A Brave Heart: May the lord have,
mercy on my soul, forgive me for my fetishes, my purchases, my clothes.
Allow me to catch my rhythm so the nervousness just goes...
That feeling when you realize you've been working for your foes
and the curtains have just opened and their worthlessness exposed"

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Postby starlooker » Sun Dec 09, 2012 10:22 pm

I know all the words to all the verses of The First Noel.
There's another home somewhere,
There's another glimpse of sky...
There's another way to lean
into the wind, unafraid.
There's another life out there...

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Re: Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand

Postby Jayelle » Tue Dec 11, 2012 7:24 pm

I officially have an interview with the public library! Next Tuesday, which is the day before we leave for Christmas. I am excited, but nervous, since it's taken them so long to get back to me.

Oh, and I have no clue what exactly we'll do about childcare, since it's a substitute position.
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Re: Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand

Postby Gravity Defier » Tue Dec 11, 2012 8:27 pm

Good luck!
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Re: Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand

Postby wizzard » Mon Dec 17, 2012 7:29 am

Today's Triumph: I didn't read the Gun Control thread.
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Postby Gravity Defier » Mon Dec 17, 2012 11:02 pm

I am down to 90 pages to go in Ruins, which I like quite a bit but was not in the right mind to try when I started it.
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Postby starlooker » Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:27 pm

Oh my God ohmygod! I'm, like, feeling SO EXCITED!

Okay. I am a frequenter of slate.com, an online liberal magazine. And they have a feature called The Explainer, which answers interesting questions from readers, generally having to do with items in the news. About once or twice a year, I send in some random question at 3 AM. Anyhow, at the end of the year, they pull a bunch of unanswered questions and poll readers to determine Question of the Year, which they answer. MY QUESTION IS ON THE POLL!

SO EXCITED. It's dumb, but I am, like, star-struck!

My question: How long could a lactating woman survive on her own breast milk?

Here's the URL if anyone wants to vote:

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/expl ... bathe.html

SO EXCITED! THEY NOTICED ME!
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There's another glimpse of sky...
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There's another life out there...

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Postby Mich » Tue Dec 18, 2012 7:23 pm

AAAH I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT CLICKING DID AND I VOTED ON THE FIRST ONE I AM A TERRIBLE PERSON I TAKE IT BACK.
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Postby starlooker » Tue Dec 18, 2012 7:40 pm

It's okay. I accidentally voted for another question, too. I hadn't read all the way down the list and didn't realize mine was on there.

There are actually a lot of interesting questions. I'm disappointed the sunbathing one looks like it's going to win.
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There's another glimpse of sky...
There's another way to lean
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There's another life out there...

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Postby jotabe » Tue Dec 18, 2012 8:12 pm

I'm disappointed the sunbathing one looks like it's going to win.
It has such an obvious answer! :bash:
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Re: Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand

Postby Rei » Wed Dec 19, 2012 5:04 am

The sunbathing one is not even an interesting question, especially up against many of the ones listed there.
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Postby starlooker » Wed Dec 19, 2012 9:51 am

Sunbathing looks unbeatable at this point. Unfortunately. I'm in eleventh place, but at least I'm edging out "Why do Arab men wear track suits?"
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There's another glimpse of sky...
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There's another life out there...

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Postby Mich » Wed Dec 19, 2012 10:16 am

For the record, I've been voting on a number of different IPs in the hope we could at least turn the tide. I need to make up for my mistake.

But seriously. "Why are they topless lolololol?" Stupid question, stupid answer.
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Postby thoughtreader » Wed Dec 19, 2012 11:08 am

I voted a bunch of times by refreshing my browser...

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Postby starlooker » Wed Dec 19, 2012 2:04 pm

Hee! Thanks so much, guys!
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Postby Mich » Wed Dec 19, 2012 7:15 pm

My mom reported to me that a recent graduate from my alma mater had heard of some of my exploits from when I was a freshman there. That's pretty cool.
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Postby jotabe » Wed Dec 19, 2012 9:14 pm

My mom reported to me that a recent graduate from my alma mater had heard of some of my exploits from when I was a freshman there. That's pretty cool.
So... you are some kind of legend of your Uni! :bow:
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Postby Eaquae Legit » Wed Dec 19, 2012 10:29 pm

I voted, Kirsten, but I thought I'd take a stab at things myself. If you win, we'll see how close I am! Folks, feel free to refine or adjust my assumptions and/or math!

This website says that a daily resting calorie expenditure for a 180lb 5'6" woman* is 1623 kcal.

This website says it takes about 500 calories to make 24-28 oz. of breast milk. Let's be conservative and use the lower figure. Therefore it costs about 21kcal per ounce of milk.

Finally, this website tells me there is approximately 70kcal per 100ml of mature breast milk, so it works out to almost 21kcal/ounce there, too.

Hmm. I'm not sure everyone is accurate. Looking at that, a woman could not survive on breast milk alone for very long. Anyone have anything to correct that, or any idea how to calculate the starvation point?




* Heavy, yes, but since she's breastfeeding and inactive, she is carrying baby weight and hasn't lost it. For the sake of argument.
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