Good News Everyone!!! (The joysplosion thread)

So did you take the job? :V

They normally contract it to Howl rather than Howell

AHH CONGRATULATIONS!!

Yaaaaaaaaay!

I, too, have received a job offer! It's only seasonal, so if I get accepted to one of the other jobs I just applied to I'll go with that instead, but the fact remains that even in the worst-case scenario I'm gonna be earning money, getting experience and having a good time.

Or print it on Members Only jackets with a picture of a flexin' ghost on the back

passed my driver's test.

I just got clearance from the third year English teacher to introduce a few unusual measurements in the class going over "measurement".

I'm going to teach 800 Japanese kids what a smoot is. And a beard-second. Can't wait.

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We did it.

WE DID IT!

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SpoilerTHE campaign for control of one of the last right-wing-held student unions ended this week after a farcical two-month election campaign characterised by allegations of corruption, bullying and dodgy electioneering.

The bitterly fought student elections at the University of Queensland have brought to an end the six-year reign of the Liberal National Party-aligned Fresh group, which finished third after counting concluded on Monday night.

It trailed the left-wing Reform ticket and Lift, a Fresh splinter group.

During the campaign, several harassment claims were filed with the police.

And a Fresh campaign manual that was circulated highlighted some absurd campaign tactics. It suggested campaigners "dress like ordinary students ... Guys - go casual bogan ... Girls - hot clothing is a guaranteed vote-winner if you're comfortable in it. A bit of midriff, leg, all good".

The manual instructed campaigners to "do whatever it takes" to win votes from international students, including telling them "that it is compulsory they vote and need to vote (for Fresh)". The manual suggests several ripostes for graduating students who say they don't want to vote, including: "Just do it and stop being a queer."

The manual was first used in 2009, but has been updated.
Elections were called off in August after the UQ Union electoral tribunal found the appointment of returning officer Peter Travers was invalid. Reform was set to win that vote before Lift's Jared Peut lodged an appeal.

Last year, the Fresh party passed a new set of rules three days before the election date was announced that allowed it to register the names of rival tickets, forcing them to run as below-the-line independents.

Joshua Millroy, the incoming president, said the past six years were characterised by a "strong shift away from core student support services".

He accused the Fresh team of stripping funding from environmental, women's, gay, lesbian, transsexual and political groups. He said Fresh would refuse to affiliate any club or society that it perceived as an electoral threat.
He added: "While the initial Fresh teams did some good work, in recent years they focused heavily upon winning and manipulated electoral regulations to cement their incumbency."

An audit of union funds conducted by the university earlier this year found nearly $64,000 was directed towards Fresh election paraphernalia, including $51,000 for 13,000 T-shirts with the Fresh logo.

But Rohan Watt, the outgoing president who was elected on the Fresh ticket last year, said the matter and been dealt with and they had been well within their right. He said it was his view that such expenditure was no longer desirable, but it was a reaction to student demands to know who was running the union.
"You don't get six years (in office) unless you're doing something right," he said. "Reform ran on a platform of electoral reform whereas we have focused on getting things done. Our plan was more than a year long - it wasn't ideological."
Reform has promised to investigate improper spending and said constitutional and electoral changes were on the cards.

LNP members including Brett Mason and George Brandis have long crowed about the Right's control of UQU and hailed their "friends" on the campus.

Today I quit a job. It remains to be seen whether this belongs here or in the flipout thread.

Today I quit a job. It remains to be seen whether this belongs here or in the flipout thread.

conversely, i got my first job.

~ every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end ~

i made a computer is this how parenthood feels like

yes

don't tilt your computer or child while it is running, unless you have an SSD

how do i install solid state drive in child

please help

carefully; you do not want to instill poor dental hygiene

how do i install solid state drive in child

please help

the best part about alive beings as opposed to computers is that they regenerate themselves, so you should just be able to open your baby and throw the drive in there and it will connect itself in a couple weeks at most

Just don't try putting your children in The Cloud, they never seem to stay there for some reason and it's so hard to find them back on the ground

Whoop whoop I managed to get the following done today:

Put out the trash (Japanese rubbish collection is scary so results pending to see if I actually did it right)
Run a class of 20 3rd year boys by myself
Helped a girl out after school with some (really bloody difficult) revision for her English exams (the above two were because the teacher who'd normally do that with me/with the students is away on yearly leave)
Cleaned my room, did some laundry
Wrote some letters, wrote some web shit

Life's just generally pretty ok right now. Gimme functional IRC at work and I'd give it a solid 10/10.

Yaaaaaay i'm glad for you! :>

That is indeed good news! When are they going?

I moved into my apartment like three weeks ago and I forgot to put it here but yay I don't live with my mom anymore

You forgot to put your apartment here?

Okay, that was a buttload of driving. I mean, it was worth it; all my stuff (including my shiny new degree) is successfully here at home with me. Just, next time, I'm going to go ahead and come up with a plan that isn't spending >50 hours in a car over a total of five days on the road.

I'll probably post graduation pictures and properly joysplode later. For now, I'm just worn out. Woo, though.

On the other hand, Pines, if you played Ingress you wouldn't mind the travel so much!

But only if you're Enlghtened.

(I *do* have ten invites on hand, incidentally, so if that prospects interests you, step over here to my nice, blue tent...)