UTIs and other crap - August Minirants!

The BBQ Pit
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Thank you for doing the right thing. I know most healthcare staff do, because they don’t have their heads up their asses, but it pissed me off so much when my ex husband and my stepdad have been in hospital, and people have just waltzed in to visit family or friends, sniffing and snuffling and coughing and wheezing. Especially when they do it around my stepdad, because he’s currently waiting for a liver transplant and has almost no immune system left at this point in time.

KEEP THAT SHIT AT HOME MOTHERFUCKERS.

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And cat brains are the strangest of all.

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Cats have brains?
:slight_smile:

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In June I decided to do research with a Professor at my University. That’s great, and hey, there’s a class called “directed research” I can take for credit on the side! Well, the teacher takes a two week vacation after I sign up and doesn’t give me anything to do over that time, then he says a week after he returns that he wants to meet the course objectives and extends it into the next summer semester… which ends in exactly one week, during this month he’s taken one other one week vacation. We haven’t even STARTED on the main thrust of the project because I’ve barely been given anything to really work on. In other words, we’re still setting up the environment so we can DO the actual novel research stuff, which I need his input for since he knows what kind of environment we need.

I’m taking an independent study with him next semester (Fall) that is heavily related to the research, I hope he’ll just pass me and say we can continue the project during that class, but if he doesn’t I don’t know what I’ll do. Contest it? I mean, it’s pass/fail which doesn’t even count towards my GPA, so it’s not like he’s falsely giving me an A on my record, but at the same time, failing a pass fail looks really bad on your transcript.

I can understand me not meeting the objectives so therefore I don’t get the pass, but I’ve done everything he’s told me to do, along with a little extra when I was bored. So now I’m pulling my hair out hoping I don’t SOMEHOW fail a stupid summer Pass/Fail course I didn’t even need the credits for. I really should’ve just done research and not gone through the trouble (and $1000) for registering it as an actual course.

Edit: The Professor is a nice, rather casual guy. He’s just kind of a flake, which has ended up sort of being a major problem.

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Not everybody who sniffles has a cold. I sniffle and sneeze pretty much all the time, due to allergies, which are not contagious.

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I live in north Texas. The highs have been 109 to 110 for the past .. week? decade? Feels like forfuckingever. The lows at night are in the low 80s, which means it doesn’t even get down to eighty motherfucking degrees at night to “cool” things off. (80 F = 27 C, and 110 F = 44 C.) A walk every evening helps me, too. Really, that and attending to my plants is my version of free therapy, and lordy do I need it. Unfortunately, I live in a part of the country that only allows me to do those things for about 3.5 minutes per year. :frowning:

Actually, I dropped of the Dope not long after posting that because I came down with a massive case of the fuckits and took the afternoon off. Had a little lunch, took a nap, briefly quarrelled and then made up with the Other Shoe, got some shit done around the house, and just generally got myself feeling better. Plus my buddy’s ex-wifegot a hold of him (generally he has to track her down, so this was a pretty big deal in and of itself) and they hashed out some agreement for him to be able to see his kid twice a week. I’m thrilled for him, and proud of him for standing up for himself. :cool:

Also, grandboss’s computer went kaput today so she went home to work, plus she will be out ALL NEXT WEEK at some conference, and those two facts have really gotten me re-centered this morning. **Happy dance!! **Oh, sorry - that’s not a mini-rant. Ah, well - the first paragraph of this post will have to suffice. The rest is just me having something good to share here for once :o and dammit, I will do so.
TL/DR: it’s really motherfucking crazy hot out, I took a nap, my grandboss is AWOL and my friend gets a thumbs-up and a gold star sticker.

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I started to rant, but its reaching several pages…I’ll post a pit thread of my own instead.

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I’m not ranty today, I’m just irritated at everything and everyone.

Gawdamn connection for work has crashed five, yes FIVE times. I called the “Help” Desk, was told I am wrong, NetMotion is working just fine. No, it keeps crashing. “I’m thinking you don’t know what ‘crashing’ means, ma’am”. Listen, asshat. I’m working away, then everything freezes. The little light that should be green no longer is. I can still get on the internet. BTW, I can’t access the county intERnet site either. “Well, of course not, if NetMotion isn’t working you can’t get to the intRAnet”. I spoke clearly, you moron, I know the difference between intERnet and intRAnet. Finally get back on, see an email stating there have been reported problems with NetMotion and access to the county internet site.

TheKid is on my last damn nerve. She has been given responsibilities in her youth group. Heaven fucking forbid she is the only person EVER to have responsibilities! You’d never know having a job, paying the bills timely and, oh, I dunno, raising a kid, are responsibilities. I am tired of her stomping around, closing herself in her room, generally not communicating because somehow this is all my fault - WTF? And OH NO! You had to see your ex-boyfriend yesterday. Tears, sobbing, much carrying on ensued. Grow the fuck up.

Coworker: You are a moron. Quit asking me crap that you can easily find in the damn manual. “Oh, I hate trying to find stuff in there, it’s difficult”. There’s a search field, idiot. Then you note that you probably gave a client the wrong information with a “whatever”. It’s not a whatever situation, dumbass. When I say you need to do things on your own like the grown ass woman you are, you pout. Pout. You’re 57 years old. Jesus Harold Christ.

Mom, no one is ‘hacking’ your phone line to access Facebook. That makes no sense whatsoever. You have a cordless phone. No internet access. I’ve given up attempting to explain things to you, I know you’re having senility issues again and you’re very stressed. I end up crying when I think of how far you’re off the rocker. I don’t even want to know why you have such a hate on for Facebook. You don’t even know what Facebook is.

I just want to crawl into bed, pull the covers over my head, and cry. I’m tired of being the ‘rational’ one, the ‘strong’ one.

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Wow after that, Miss Take (great handle, BTW), I should feel guilty posting this, but I’m so fed up I could just cuss a blue streak:

Tunnel Traffic Rant

Since the local DOT is having their semi-annual “You can’t get there from here” festival, I have to go out of my way and pass through a long two lane tunnel to get home. The lanes are seperated by double yellow lines (no passing) and the right lane is clearly marked with lighted signs saying Right Turn Only After 2:30PM along with a nice big arrow. I get it that you flunked kindergarten and can’t wait in line like the rest of us and I’m grateful you were sweet enough to signal your mid-tunnel lane-change. In what universe is this even remotely legal? Hey Sherlock, get a clue! There’s a damn good reason the left lane is so popular after 2:30!

Bri2k

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If you’re sniffling AND snuffling AND coughing AND wheezing, keep that shit at home, don’t bring it to a hospital.

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Bleeding and puking up noxious material?

Look, what you do in your private life is no concern of ours. Keep that shit at home and stop bringing it around our medical facilities!

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My entire rant was about fuckwits who have “just a cold” who bring it into the wards where immune-compromised patients are. What is “just a cold” for someone who’s visiting a friend or family member can turn into double pneumonia for someone who’s already severely ill.

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Agree x10.

A good friend went into the hospital with ovarian cancer. She died of pneumonia.

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Today a guy from my long-ago past, a guy who was one of the creepiest nastiest people I ever had the bad fortune to become involved with, sent me an apology via Facebook along with a Friend invite.

Yeah, back then you were the kind of creep that would do something like that just to fuck with me because you thought it was funny. You make my skin crawl. Thanks for bringing all that shit up for me today.

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This is like a little microminirant, but…why the fuck does the individual pack of lube need scissors to open?! And why does it look exactly like the twist off top, but isn’t? How does that even make sense? Who the hell has time to read the instructions and go find scissors when the iron’s hot, so to speak?! I’m dealing with ED people; time is of the essence, there should be no scissor finding in this equation!!! :mad:

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Stupid cat.

Vet can’t find anything wrong other than you being a trifle overweight.[sup]1[/sup] He suggests I get you some “stinky food”. You turn your nose up at the canned food I bought (the other cat scarfed it *right *up).

I open the new bag of kibble and feed you some of that while I try to figure out what to do. You hoover it up.

In fact, you’ve hoovered it up every feeding since then.

I’ve had suggestions that maybe the food was stale and/or rancid (dry food gets rancid? who knew?) and that the fresh food now smells right to you.

Thanks for two restless nights, a vet visit, and a lot of worry, you idiot furrball.
Yeah, ok. I’m glad you’re not sick.

[sup]1[/sup] OK, other than a heart murmur that doesn’t seem to be affecting your blood oxygen and some tartar on your teeth.

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People who are using minirants to stealth brag about gettin’ some need to GTFO :wink:

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Even the dry food has some fat in it. And haven’t you ever eaten stale crackers? So yeah, dry food DOES get stale.

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I wasn’t surprised at the stale, just the rancid.

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Well I ***woulda ***gotten some if I coulda found the damn scissors!!! :mad:

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