[Rant] Minor Rant III: For a Few Hollers More

yeeesh. we don't have that.

Happens all across the south. We might be getting a little break for a day or so, some good rain heading for our area.

I've actually seen the pollen so bad that you can see it blow like dust through a parking lot. It's amazing how much plants can produce when the conditions are right.

The thing about early southern springs.... the pollen conditions can last several weeks.

I'm just putting this here because it's the thread I'm in...

Today has been a really, really crappy Monday.

Found out that a young man I used to work with in a church's youth group was in a very serious accident this morning. He's working as a policeman and was assisting another department in a search and ran his patrol car under the trailer of an 18-wheeler pulling into the road he was travelling on. Broke both his legs, several ribs, collapsed a lung and I don't know what else they may find. He's stable now, but still in critical condition.

Then tonight, found out that one of my wife's cousins, who has been in the hospital for several weeks, is dying. Her kidneys have started to shut down, dialysis is not an option and she signed a DNR. They told her to call in her family to make sure they knew what she wanted done with her affairs. My wife has always been close to her and this is hitting her very hard.

This has been a really, really crappy Monday.

When your day starts with a carjacking/kidnapping call that ties up two precinct's worth of officers for 2 hours, BEFORE YOU CAN EVEN LOG INTO SERVICE, you already know it's going to be a bad day.

Medication-induced insomnia, in a word, SUCKS.

The worst part of going on a binge eating half a pack of Oreos in one sitting: the messy, Oreo-colored poop for the next 2 or 3 bowel movements.

I pretty much tossed a coin between minor rant and whine like a bitch

Unless there was either a poop thread or an oreo thread that I missed

why are there three separate rant threads

so people can complain about stubbing their toe and not look petty when other people talk about dying family members

There's too damn many rant threads.

Charlie Don't Surf said:

why are there three separate rant threads

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Because fuck you.

I no longer call it pollen. I call it Tree-kkake.

Went to hibachi place with my sister tonight. The other people at our table were complete killjoys it sucked the fun out of everything. They were picky about the food and bitchy to the waiter and chef. I was like why are you even here? Especially since they said they had just been there yesterday.

On the plus side the food was good and there was a lot of it. On the down side, there was a fuckton of food! My sister and I were both instantly full so we just took it to go.

Me "Oh Chloe you are my cat, old and angry."
Social Coordinator "And white and orange."

Finally figured out the cause of all of my intestinal issues in the past 2.5 months. No, it wasn't the grapefruit that I'd been eating for breakfast (which seemed kinda odd to me, since I never used to have that issue, but intestines are odd creatures so you never know). Turns out I'm just one of those people who can't use metformin to manage type 2 diabetes. Every single thing I ate made me ill and it took a few days of me forgetting to take the metformin (and having no problems), followed by a few days of taking it again (and everything I ate making me sick), for me to realize that I only had to problem when I was on the meds. Talked to my doctor and convinced him to let me manage the illness with diet and exercise for a few months to see if we could avoid medications aside from the blood pressure med to help my kidneys and my anti-depressants. All of this sounds great right? Finally feeling a million times better. Still have to watch out for dairy products (another new issue, brought on by the metformin, but it's getting better), but aside from that I can eat pretty much whatever I want without getting sick (within reason). I can sleep again, I have energy throughout the day, I can focus when I'm at work, I finally feel like working out again; everything's looking up.

So where's the rant?

oh man yeah metformin is the devil. I finally said to my doctor listen I am taking medicine so I feel better.. no worse. He lowered my dosage. Which he can do since I am not taking it for diabetes not sure what would happen if i was.

I think my biggest complaint about it wasn't even necessarily the fact that everything I was eating was making me sick, it was the secondary effect of always being exhausted but not being able to get any sort of restful sleep, to the point that I was getting less and less sleep a night because I was drinking more and more coffee every day to try to stay awake. Before actually being diagnosed and being put on the meds I was hitting the gym three or four times a week, I was a lot more active, and I was building muscle and losing weight. I was sleeping better, eating better, and just all around felt healthier than I had in 10 years. Then I started the metformin and all of that went out the window. I was still losing weight, but I rarely had the energy to go to the gym, let alone get in a good workout, so I wasn't losing healthy weight or building muscle, I was losing weight only because none of my food stuck with me for more than a few hours and I was constantly dehydrated.

Shoulder pain? You're screwed. When I worked for Siemens we had an employee who allegedly screwed up her shoulder at a previous job, bilked them out of tens of thousands of dollars of worker's comp and short and long-term disability pay (she was still being paid by that company's long-term disability insurance while working for us), then came to work for us as a customer service rep with no physical exertion requirements. She never had an issue with her shoulder while working for us until she was put up for review for doing a shitty job, then all of a sudden she started having really bad shoulder pain from sitting at her desk all day. We had to give her special equipment to make sure she had the right desk to chair height ratio and special break times to allow her to get up and move around so her shoulder didn't "tense up." When her work continued to suffer and she was getting closer and closer to being fired for poor performance, the same doctor who had originally "treated" her shoulder injury miraculously discovered that her shoulder injury had been re-aggravated by sitting at a desk for 8 hours a day, and wrote her a note to excuse her from work while she continued to collect short-term (and later, long-term) disability from us as well as her long-term disability from her previous job. HR refused to ever have a second doctor check out the injury (as was their right according to the law) even after we discovered that she was spending her "recovery time" selling cosmetics, candles, and dildos, and working other part-time jobs that were either work-at-home jobs or involved door-to-door sales, where she'd have to lug around samples of her products. She stayed on the payroll for 2 years, until her long-term disability money from the first job ran out and she started collecting state disability pay because she just couldn't return to work - and her husband had finally managed to get a good enough job to pay their bills.

Organizing this show of mine will kill me.

I got home after dark last Friday. Since I live out in the boonies it is quite dark out there. As I was picking my way to the front door, I startled a bird. It flew up toward my face and SHAT on my arm.

I think I should volunteer my time at the gallery I'm showing at! They really do need a better system for organizing their new artist and perhaps an FAQ written up for the uninitiated.

As it is they only give a short amount of notice for things they know about weeks in advance and pass out misinformation, stuff that could easily be corrected with proper scheduling and interoffice communication.

I'll probably never come forward with this though for fear of burning my already meager bridges.

After giving myself 7 hours to lay in bed and triple checking that my ipod was set to ring at 7:30, I had a night of insomnia and got up thinking "huh... it's bright outside... should the alarm be going off soon?" and found it was 9:30 because after making a big deal making sure the alarm was on, I completely forgot to make sure the volume was turned on. Completely missed my morning class for the first time this semester. Luckily we just finished the midterm on Monday, so there shouldn't have been anything but a lecture today that I can catch up on in the book.

So, I think I just had someone set a new bar for worst interview ever. I work as the director of software development in the IT department at a private college. The college is looking for a new chair and full time professor of the Computer Science department, which is small enough such that it is the only full-time position. So, as the only other full time employee that is well-educated in computer science, I get to interview all the candidates.

Today's candidate not only refused to answer my questions about his teaching preferences or methods, because it was "none of my business as support staff", he concluded his interview by telling me what questions I should have been asking him, since it was my fault he wasn't prepared for me to actually interview him about his teaching. Maybe he thought he could fluff his way through the interview process since nobody else knew a damned thing about computer science, and he didn't think he'd actually have to answer any computer science questions.

I submitted my recommendation to the HR department as that I recommend he issue me a written apology for the condescension in the interview.

That's pretty spectacularly bad Piotyr. I cannot fathom doing anything like that in an interview.

Wow what a tool.

Gared said:

That's pretty spectacularly bad Piotyr. I cannot fathom doing anything like that in an interview.

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It's especially amazing when you consider that Piotyr is the gatekeeper; if the guys wants something from you (a job!), why the hell would he be such an ass to you? There's probably a good reason he's currently looking for work.

preparing for a colonoscopy sucks ass