Ugh, come on, students! Talk in class, will you!!!
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The doctor being monitored is bad enough, although it could have been a lot worse, but the quote from a child abuse enablement group (Transgender Trends) is the shit cherry on top.
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A follow up.
The good news is that the doctor doesnât think they need to amputate 
It was pretty much what I expected to be honest, a badly sprained knee. Iâm going to be wearing a knee brace and doing physiotherapy for the next few months. I donât think Iâm cutting down my DHC use anytime soon either (I like to go a week or so without opioids every so often to remind my body what normal feels like)
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Still no power. Sigh.
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Been there. Isabel knocked us out for 3 weeks. On one hand itâs a tremendous pain in the ass but, on the other one getâs used to a simpler and more quiet life. I never realized how much ambient noise a house makes until the power was gone. However, extremely happy when the power was restored!
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Got towed a second time in a week. From a parking spot I own. Cost me almost $500.
Turns out, when the HOA changed tow companies they signed off on a bunch of rules which werenât broadcast to the condo owners. Got dinged for my parking sticker not being âpermanently affixedâ , and because my registration sticker fell off and the new one hadnât arrived yet.
This is a big problem because I donât live at the unit I own for the most part. A problem Iâve had this year is not turning my car on for 5 or 6 weeks and finding the battery dead. Now this!
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Or how much the dogs fart! No lie, you just canât tell until everything else comes to a stop. Those guys were getting away with a lot under cover of noise from the fridge compressor and electronics fans.
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Everyone in the neighborhood used to end up at my house when the power failed, because I always maintain some means of cooking, heating and lighting that doesnât require electricity. Back in my first house, weâd have all the neighbor kids sitting in the living room of our house or my neighbor Timâs house (he had a woodstove) while we made the rounds draining everyoneâs plumbing so their pipes wouldnât burst.
Nowadays my neighbors are more high-falutinâ and their giant generators automatically roar into life as soon as the power fails. I miss the old neighborhood whenever that happens.
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Yeah, itâs a pain, especially since it makes working from home kind of hard (canât upload grades or the like), but the down time is nice, too. And Iâm grateful of course, because it could have been much worse. Weâre lucky, I know.
Still no power as of this morning. Double sigh.
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Itâs so incredibly stupid given more immediate problems but just the thought one day I will die, this ends hopefully not for many years but inevitable, is scaring the shit out of me. Why now? Iâve known this since I was small. So why now? Why is it bothering me so much now? I need to focus on more immediate things.
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Please stay off the Dead Celebrity thread, I donât want you there.
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This happens to me, usually at night, just around when I would go to bed. Then my adrenaline gets going and I canât fall asleep. Itâs the worst.
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I must have lifted something mildly heavy today. Now my shoulder hurts soo bad. I put a tennis ball between me and my chair but I think I made it worse 
Christ, I should do a god damn push up once in awhile or something.
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ThankfullyâŚ
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Craigslist just started requiring Googleâs JavaScript to be allowed in order to see contact information. Is there anything that world-spanning vampire blood-octopus canât get its suckers into?
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Good news. Glad he was found. Letâs hope he continues to get treatment for his mental health issues. I think that public figures like this speaking out about their own struggles goes a long way to normalizing them and helping people to better understand and empathize when others struggle.
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Are you familiar with the concept of a psychomotor gumption trap? From Pirsigâs Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? I think fear of death is a psychic loop that can rob you of the mental attributes you need to live a full happy life.
Keep in mind I donât know what will work for you; Iâm a migraineur, I have non-standard brain chemistry. But total uncritical acceptance of the immediacy and inevitability of death works for me - as far as Iâm concerned, death a good thing, and since time is just a subjective illusory phenomena the only thing that concerns me is how much beauty I can create and experience between the fixed terminii of my consciousness.
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Well, today I learned why I get so much symapthy from other people at my firm for being managed by my boss.
I was assigned way too much, and when I asked for help as instructed, I learned that was a trick instruction and actually I was supposed to have six hands and three keyboards last Friday so everyone could dump emergencies on me at once. The guy who totally screwed up (and brags about never working more than 40 hours a week, no matter the cost to co-worjkers who have to pick up slack for him) seems to be outside of the firing line.
Which I handled, and probably landed a six figure project for the company (a second one in my three months here, which is unheard of).
basically my boss is the dog that saves the day by always barking at the mailman. he is, like that doggo, convinced that his shit attitude âbe a bigger assholeâ and escalation of minor issues (RED CAPS IN EMAILS) is what keeps his group afloat - when really itâs the cause of the shockingly high turnover rate for people under him.
Fuck Today. I like this job, but damned if Iâll stick around long if this treatment carries on.
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I really used to be worried about this, until one year when four people dropped dead in front of me.
Much more interested in not wasting my limited time on being scared. When something scares me now, I just address it. Name it and solve it and move on. or donât solve it, and move on anyhow.
I wish you much luck, perhaps Camusâ Myth of Sisyphus can help? Strongly recommended reading if your looking for advice.
If itâs sympathy youâre after, You have mine fully.
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Woke up to play my some of my require daily crack on my phone (Final Fantasy Brave Exvius) and the god damn thing reset and then started to do an infinite boot loop. Googling shows this is a thing, but all the combinations of button pressing hasnât fixed it. I think I turned it off so at least it doesnât chime the boot up chime every 15 secs. FML.
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