This rant is going to be long and all over the place. I’m sorry, but I have a lot of frustration/rage/anger and if I don’t release it now, it may kill me. I’m going to start with the most insignificant in the Grand Scheme of Things and end with the Thing That Really Pissed Me Off. Please note that some of the things (well most) are trivial and inane. They are just ways to focus my frustration. They are just small parts of THE WHOLE.
To The Instructional Technology Center.
I love working here, it’s the greatest job ever. Really. But I have one small request. I notice that we have 3 computers in the office area, and three printers. In the back where my bosses work, there are three more computers. So we have one top of the line printer for every 2 computers. Here’s a novel idea…HOOK THE FUCKING THINGS UP! Jesus Christ people. I would do it myself, but quite frankly, I don’t know and even if I did I don’t know where the drivers are. You people are paid to be Computer Gurus, yet we only have one computer hooked up to a printer!
To My Crazy German Teacher
Yes, I am anal. When people email me, or IM me, or otherwise contact me OL I expect them to use proper grammar and punctuation. That includes capitalizing proper nouns, and words at the beginning of sentences. I’m crazy like that. No, if you send me an email that looks like this
I will not read past the first line, I also will not respond. Why? Because I expect you to take the extra .25 second to actually push the shift key. I don’t think it’s asking a lot. I really don’t. Actually, it doesn’t take extra time at all because you push the buttons simultaneously! How cool is that? Man, those people who invented typewriters sure thought of everything. And I don’t care about typos. They happen to everybody. I probably have 100 in the post alone!
And saying to me, “Well, if you can’t accept that, why should I accept your misspelled German words?” Uh…because you have known English all your life, and I just started German 4 weeks ago? My mistakes are genuine, yours are out of laziness.
To My Philosophy Teacher
This rant is actually two-fold:
1-I like Malcom X. I just finished the Autobiography, and I can honestly say it’s one of the best books I have ever read. It’s life changing. As a matter of fact, it’s a book I will probably re-read at least once a year. But my admiration of Malcom X does not change the fact that he had a strong prejudiced against women. I don’t have the exact quotes right now, I left my book at home, but if I replaced the word “woman” with “Negro” I would be called racist, and rightly so. So don’t get on my case over it, or look at me like I’m making shit up.
2-Your stance on the whole Taliban issue is confusing to me. Why should we talk to the Taliban? Yes, you want to literally talk to them and negotiate a deal. Guess what, they don’t want to negotiate. Not at all. Even if they did, so what? They don’t deserve it. Even if they weren’t supporting the man who killed thousands of Americans, their gross human rights violations should be punished. Jesus Christ, they treat women like chattel. The title of the course is called Power and Oppression. These people in Afghanastan are truly oppressed. We should have taken out the Taliban years ago, AFAIC. As far as bin Laden goes, everybody else in the world is convinced that he did it based on the evidence, but we will never “prove” it to the Taliban, so get the fuck off your soapbox.
My Husband
I work 25 hours a week, and I go to school 50 hours a week. (8:30-6:30 Mon-Fri) I’m up three hours before you are, and I go to bed a few hours after you do. I run all the errands. I go to the grocery store. In all that time I am working, doing HW, etc etc. I don’t have time to clean the house and make your dinner every night. Surprise surprise, you have to pick up the slack. And yes, I will get extremely angry when I come home after working 8 hours, tired and hungry, only to find that not only have you not made dinner, you haven’t even cleaned! Why do we have to have this fight every fucking day? Why? WHY?! WHY!?!?!?! Please, help me understand, because I just don’t. In two weeks the only “down” time I’ve had is when I’m asleep.
NOTE: I understand that in this world, and on this board, there are people who work harder, longer hours, and have kids on top of that! My hat goes off to you, because I honestly have no idea how you do it. You’re amazing.
and finally
To The Fuckwits Who Compared Pro-Choice People to Hitler and the Ku Klux Klan today on TWO Giant BillBoards Traveling down a Major Freeway at 40 m/h.
Fuck you, fuck you, a million times FUCK YOU. You had three graphic photos of A)A hanging black man, B)Decapitated children in Nazi camps and C)A fetus. Wow, you’ve convinced me! :rolleyes:
I don’t care if you think that I’m the next Hitler/Stalin/(Insert favorite despot/dictator/psycho of your choice) because I believe a woman has the right to choose. But when you communicate your feelings by three large graphic photos in the middle of morning rush traffic at 40 m/h it really, really PISSES ME OFF! There is a time, place, and manner appropriate for abortion discussions/debate and you failed all three.
I don’t even have the adequate energy to really flame these fuckwads, so I’ll leave that up to anybody else who is so inclined.
Well, if you made it this far, I commend you for it. Thanks for letting me rant.
