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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Glad your daughter is OK, Taters. What a scary experience!

Bully? Us? Never! It’s straightforward recruitment. :smiley:

Interesting? In a good way, I hope! ::waves back::

Didn’t sleep enough last night. Hope to sleep more tonight.

Have started my first sweater. This easy cardigan.. I’m making it from yarn I reclaimed from a thrift-store sweater, so I won’t feel bad if it’s not perfect. I figure it gives me good practice for not much money. It’s nice yarn. Really didn’t like the original sweater, but thought the yarn was nice. We’ll see how it works out.

Off to sleep, I hope…

Hugs to all.

GT

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tired. long day, which unfortunately means short night and do it all over again tomorrow (well, today).
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OK, so you’re “encouraging” people to start MMPs and you have a very effective “recruitment” campaign going on there…have you considered taking up politics? With that kind of spin, you’d go far!

At last, it’s Friday and today is the first of our ten weekly teaching sessions so my first job is to round up tutors and make sure everybody knows where they’re going and what they’re doing. I tell you, herding cats would be easier.

We have just over 400 students in the 3rd year of the medicine degree, by and large they are showing themselves to be indolent and clueless. They get a handbook telling them all about the course we are teaching them, yet I have had a shedload of emails asking me what rooms they’re in and what time they start. It’s all been sent to you, people, you just have to read it!

As if that wasn’t enough, today I got an email from a student wanting to confirm that she didn’t have to come in until 2pm for her class because the 4th year med student she shares a house with told her so. Errr…what about your neurology lecture at 9am today, dear? Did your housemate manage to miss all of those last year because I know for a fact the timetable is exactly the same…

There’s a smiley for that, right?

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Wanna come here and train my kitchenmates? I didn’t know it was possible to know so little about cooking and cleaning.

I’m not sure whether I should try to train them or open a petting zoo. The second option might be illegal, sadly, plus I’m reasonably sure that it would break my lease.

  • scrubbers being used on the sharp edge of the “good knives” do, indeed, get cut up
  • taking a pan off the fire and placing it on the countertop while rummaging in the fridge will, indeed, scar the countertop
  • those scrubbers with the sponges? you’re supposed to grab the sponge and scrub with the scratchy side, not the other way round
  • taking the big trash bag out of its can and leaving it tied at the door not only won’t eliminate the eau de garbage, it may trip someone
  • the scrubbers? you use them to wash pots and dishes. You do not use the sharp knives to scrub. Neither do you pour the soup off the pot and then put the pot, hot and unwashed, under the clean pots

It’s like that conversation I’ve had a zillion times: the problem isn’t in men, it’s in their mothers!

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Don Juana go to French language class…

Don Juana do taxes…

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Don Juana have kitchenmates? Yours sound like they need to meet with a pointy stick, preferably one with rusty nails in the end. Those mothers have a lot to answer for.

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Yeah. Well, top of the effing morning to you all. Off to work now after driving for a long time in the dark and the rain.
Yeah.

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:D:D:DHockey season is here!!!:D:D:D

Nava, I feel your pain. I had a roommate who used to butter his toast before putting it into the toaster.

BooFae, these people are going to be doctors?:eek:

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VunderBob’s Lessons In Life #238: Melatonin causes midnight ambulance calls.

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Next time I’ll turn off the f*cking pager.

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Yup. Scary, isn’t it? Luckily this is only year 3 out of a five-year course so there’s plenty of time for the worst offenders to get kicked out!

Is there something happening about hockey then? I almost got that impression but your post was far too subtle…

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Hello! Busy morning and I shouldn’t even be stopping by…

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Good morning all, and I am very glad that today is FIRDAY!

Uh oh … who pissed off Rigs this morning?! Hope her day improves. Oh yeah, I have a friend who lives in Hoffman Estates! And she’s an OB nurse! I think Rigs was going to a librarian thing though. Oh well!

BooFae, what beervrages will be on tap tonight? Anything interesting? :slight_smile: I am looking forward to the tales of NYC, btw. And pictures too, hopefully.

My thyroid needs to be adjusted upwards. :eek: Doctor just put me at 225 micrograms/day. 200 is the highest they make, so I have to take one of the 200 and one of 25. I am also being referred to the endocrinologist; he’s a nice guy, though, so I’m hoping to be able to get an appt. with him.

Happy Friday all, and best wishes for a good weekend. :slight_smile:

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Sorry to hear about your daughter’s accident, Taters. Glad she’s ok though.

I just had a thought for **moonie **(if he checks back in): what about doing a co-op next semester and summer? You could earn some money to help stay in school and get some work experience. My husband did that, and it did mean it took longer to graduate, but he came out with fewer loans than otherwise and some good references when he went job hunting. Don’t know how the economy’s effecting co-op hiring right now, but it’d be worth looking in to.

We went to the outlet mall last night because Bass is having a buy 1 get 2 free boot sale! OK, so they probably marked the boots up for the sale, but 3 pairs for ~$100 is still pretty darned good. And sweaters were buy 1 get 2. So I have 3 new pairs of boots, 3 new sweaters, 2 pairs of jeans from Gap (YAY skinny jeans!), a Polo from Eddie Bauer (gotta help them out while they’re in bankruptcy!), a vest from Van Heusen (not Van Halen as KT said when we pulled into the parking lot), and a few pairs of socks and some t-shirts. Good time and a couple good deals.

I picked up a sandwich for KT to eat on the drive up, and they were trying to get rid of thick-sliced whole grain bread at the sandwich place. Dunno why they had too much, but they were going to have to throw it out, so they were giving it away. I said it looked like it’d make good toast, and they said it makes good French toast. I woke up early this morning anyway so I made us some French toast before KT has to be on the road at 6:45. (So yes, it was really early.) It was good! I’m trying to figure out how to get more free bread in the future. :smiley: Great way to start a Firday!

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{{Taters}} Glad the kid’s okay. Cars can be replaced, but kids can’t… in the grand scheme of things, riding the bus ain’t so bad.

gt, that’s a super-cute sweater. You’ll have to share pix when you’re done.

Nava, you should beat them with a wet trout. Actually, no… make that the dirty pot they left in the sink, because that might get the message across better.

Well, you can get around this by sticking your beans in the freezer in an airtight container. They still won’t be as good as the really really really fresh kind, but still better than ones that have been stored at room temp for over a month.

Plus a good coffee place won’t blink if you’re buying in smallish quantities - it’s pretty much *de rigueur *for coffee snobs, anyways (actually, the super-snobby coffee geeks buy their beans green and roast small batches at home to ensure maximum freshness… but I refuse to go hardcore like that). Just snootily inform them that your coffee absolutely must be fresh if they give you 'tude. :slight_smile:

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I’m glad your daughter’s okay, Taters. Sorry about the car.

I have a great (funny, no one hurt) car story about Tall Blonde Friend’s brother, who has (I think) MS. He’s mentally challenged, big and friendly, enthusiastic, really nice kid. He was home alone, parents at the gold course, and he noticed his Mom’s car windows were down. There’s an extra set of car keys in the desk, and he’s used them to help empty the trunk and so on.

So he goes and gets them, and starts the car.

And slams it into drive,

And slams it into their front porch and decorative iron railing.

And panics, somehow gets it into reverse (it’s not automatic), and squeals backwards across the street, putting a full-length scratch on the neighbour’s car, and hits the retaining wall (concrete) on his neighbour’s house, going about sixty.

Neighbours all come out, mill around, see that it’s Graeme (they all know him) and call the police, because it’s more that $1000 damage.

The police come and ask to see his driver’s licence, with him wailing, “I just wanted to put the windows up! I just wanted to put the windows up!”, determine that he doesn’t need to be arrested, and call the paramedics to have him checked out.

Ambulance comes, Graeme’s fine, ask him if there’s anyone they can call, he tells them to call Tall Blonde Friend.

Police can’t take the car- it’s smoking slightly. Call firetruck.

By the time Tall Blonde Friend got there in a cab, Graeme was running around with a phone book, trying desperately to get someone to call a tow truck. He understood that he was in huge trouble, and if the car was gone, his parents wouldn’t know? Right? Right?

The 1 1/2 ft off the car, collapsed parts of houses, and caution tape would be totally unnoticeable.

Find the golf course number, track down parents. Parents get home, look at wreck, sigh.

They all went out for dinner. No one felt like cooking.

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smacks lips…

Uh oh- my son takes melatonin. Better be listening for sirens…

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Hmm… out snoot the snooties. I like it! :smiley:

Great story, LiLi!

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{{{Taters}}} Could have been a lot worse, in the grand scheme of things; but it sucks just the same. :frowning: Your daughter must have been scared out of her wits, being involved in an accident like that :eek: :frowning:

**Nava **-- that’s not ignorance of cooking. I’m (essentially) ignorant of cooking, but I know how to clean up after myself! And yes, I second using the dirty pot in lieu of a wet trout. Although being where you are trout should be relatively easy to come by!

**Doggio **-- was there something you wanted to tell us? Don’t be shy… :stuck_out_tongue:

Was at the cemetery today with dad and siblings for mom’s two-year Yahrzeit (yearly memorial.)

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Hugs to the tater chile. I think we all have one of those “eff me” stories. The good news is, it will probably make her a more attentive driver.

I am so glad it is FIRDAY!!! I am very tired of being a terrific team player and having it go unnoticed or not valued. Yeah, yeah, there’s a lot of stress going around these days and I have a pretty good job otherwise. Yada, yada… :rolleyes:

Taxi…Shopping Goddess! :smiley:

I cancelled my remaining two rehab sessions. I’m just not getting any benefit to continue. I’m still leaving early today. WHAT? I’m putting in for PTO to cover this. :wink:

That’s all I got.

Tupug

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We had a visitor last night in the back yard.

Our dog was barking madly. We turn on the light, and see two small bright spots staring at us. Off in the far corner, a possum decided our yard was a fine place to do whatever possums do when dogs are barking at them and humans are shining bright lights at them. Yep. The critter just froze. I’m sure it wandered away eventually.

swampy… Your employer sucks old rotten eggs! We had an exceptionally unsatisfactory experience in one of their retail stores.