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RL Peeves
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Getting better from being sick and then a week later everything suspiciously feels like you’re getting sick again because you’ve tried an allergy pill and it did nothing. I guess we’ll see what the next 48 hours brings.
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I have been pretty sick for about 5 weeks now. Pneumonia is finally done after 2 rounds of antibiotics. There’s a lot of nasty stuff going around in the middle of allergy season, not fun! Hope you feel better soon!
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When you feel your depression taking a major downswing and all you want to do is just lie in bed for all hours of the day and everything feels like a much larger struggle than it usually is. You can’t stave it off, you can’t stop it from happening, no matter how much you try to tell your brain that it’s not that bad.
You just ready yourself for when it decides it wants to dump. When you start seeing everything in faded colors, you know it’s here.
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@Testament said in RL Peeves:
When you feel your depression taking a major downswing and all you want to do is just lie in bed for all hours of the day and everything feels like a much larger struggle than it usually is. You can’t stave it off, you can’t stop it from happening, no matter how much you try to tell your brain that it’s not that bad.
You just ready yourself for when it decides it wants to dump. When you start seeing everything in faded colors, you know it’s here.
For me, it’s the chains. Like you’re laying in bed, and someone is slowly, inexorably piling more and more lengths of steel chain around your body, and you’re sinking into the bed, and you’re like, “If I can just get up…” But it’s already far, far too late.
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I have a stronger feeling to this than a peeve, but it fits here best.
I help interview potential adoptors for the shelter I work with. One of them presented, and later confirmed, they were transitioning. Regardless of that the interview went well and I recommended them to adopt two of our kittens. Shelter director always does final approval and after reviewing my notes approved them also.
One of our old fart volunteers (70 years or more) asked if we were sure because clearly they had a mental illness and what if they hurt the cats because of it.
I’m so glad he didn’t say it to my face because I would have had to walk out. He is the most caring person in the world with our cats, but so ass backwards on so many things. (It is softened by the fact he tries to undermine every adoption so the blatant transphobia is at least in line…)
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Oh, god. Fuck my entire life.
My entire life.
I work at a company of almost 20,000 people. I’ve been here for most of nine years. In all that time and all those people, I have encountered exactly three-- just three! – that I never want to work with ever again. Including my manager’s manager in my last role that I left two years ago, the woman who single-handedly made me consider quitting a company where I’ve been planning to spend the rest of my career.
…guess who just messaged me because I’m somehow the aligned communications specialist for their current initiative, which is coming out of a subdivision that I’m not even a part of?
How did this happen?
Why?! FUCKING WHY??
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I got tickets to a movie that’s only showing for one night. Tomorrow night. I got sick on Monday. I’m still sick.
Barring some sort of amazing immune system rally, I won’t be able to go.
And I’m really sad.
And snotty.
UPDATE: My immune system rallied enough, I chugged a boatload of Dayquil and kept a mask on while avoiding people in the mostly empty theater, and the movie was great. Then I went home and faceplanted.
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allergies are turning my entire body inside out and i don’t have time to take more time off work so all I can do is suffer and whine a lot.
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Someone is getting fired. District wide the internet failed right in the middle of high stakes testing.
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@junipersky said in RL Peeves:
Someone is getting fired. District wide the internet failed right in the middle of high stakes testing.
Oh wow. How many administrators had to be hauled away for panic attacks?
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My VP for sure! This is her first time being the school testing admin and I think her poor heart will never be the same. I am her support person at the middle school so I was there when she went “!!!” at our district testing admin . The panic made her forget how to do the most basic thing. So I’m glad I was there to go “<district admin> I got it.”
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Lol, it failed again during our second session.
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@junipersky Ooof.
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Trying to find a house sucks. I keep finding beautiful houses about 10% out of our workable price range, while everything in my range is like, a murder shack next to a major highway. It’s discouraging and I hate it.
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When you think a patient is a nice person…until they see some black kids playing on their bicycles in the street.
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A cascade of events I do not understand and do not even with to pretend to begin to comprehend ended with our Social Studies teacher not being here for the rest of the year. (Was she fired? Asked to just leave and they’ll pay out the rest of her contract? I have no idea.) Since we can’t just have the children not supervised they asked me to step in and cover the last few days.
To do:- Finish teaching for the rest of the year any concepts not covered.
- Finish any grading that she hadn’t been able to do (this was holy shit)
- Give them a way to make up for anything earlier in the year (unique to our system because we don’t do letter grades, but competency.)
This is all fine, I can do this. At this point in my career I’ve done enough of almost everything that I can step into any classroom temporarily and help it limp along.
My peeve:
MIDDLE SCHOOL KIDS. Oh my god. I love them, don’t get me wrong, I absolutely adore them and all their weirdness.
BUT THE THINGS THAT FLY THROUGH THE AIR WITH ALARMING REGULARITY THAT SHOULD NOT FLY THROUGH THE AIR EVER.
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When I say “keep your feet on the ground” and then you go to another tree and climb up it while I am still standing there there will be consequences.
I don’t care that you are safe. I do not care that you have 1.5 days until you are no longer a child I’m legally liable for keeping safe during school hours.
It isn’t even about the safety issue any more. It is the fact you were too teenager to not get caught. Don’t be stupid children!
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Outdoor party season has started in my neighborhood and I fucking hate it.
I didn’t always hate it, either. When we had actual block parties, it was fun! But this isn’t a block party. This is one single family that moved in across the street. They invite 30-40 people over to their 1,200 square foot rowhome and because there’s no reasonable way to accommodate that many people in their house, they move the entire party into their front yard…
Speakers and all. I don’t mind that they’re playing music. I don’t even mind that they’re playing music so loudly that I can hear it clearly enough to make out every lyric through my closed windows. I live in a city. It comes with the territory.
I do mind that they’re playing (terrible) music so loudly that I can’t hear my own television turned up to full volume and the bass is physically shaking my house.
Best of all, they’re going to be doing this for at least the next six hours.
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If you sneeze while eating the food in your mouth can go up your nose. You can also not realize it till you start blowing your nose and food comes out of said nose.
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@junipersky My eyes got real big as I read this post. I’m sorry.
