The Not Happy Thread

Not crazy...It's pretty safe to say that's the goal many of us are working toward. It's just that sh*t happens while you're making other plans, and most people have no clue about true medical costs. For something like a traumatic brain injury, which is what my father died of, you can easily go through a Mil in ten days.

There was one cancer treatment my mom had (forgive me for not remembering which one, I've now blocked out quite a lot of it) that was $10K per week. It's insane!

So, no, I would never make fun of someone for having that goal. I would just say, be prepared for the hardcore reality.

 

Is that...Disneyland?

 

That's what they want you to think.

 

Right, first world problems whinge:

Student evaluations and counseling, or, how to say the same thing (You're not doing bad, study harder, review more) thirteen different ways so the education manager doesn't think that you're just copying and pasting.

Ugh.

ETA:

 

You are doing a good job.
You are doing a very good job.
You are doing a very, very good job.
You are doing a very, very, very good job.
Quit picking your nose and wiping it under your desk in class.

 

I hiccoughed while eating candy which started me on a coughing fit. Now I have Pop Rocks in my sinuses and it feels like mini hand grenades are going off directly inside my brain.

 

Sounds like happy thread material to me

 

Saw a joke on YouTube today:

"When you can't get a date, so you say you're asexual!"

Hahaha, very funny, that'll make our lives easier. Thank you for perpetuating the stereotype that asexuals are just straight people who want an excuse for being single.

 

The tendonitis at the base of my thumb has flared up, making it difficult and painful to write, and of course I'm in a housing unit with 9 watches today. That means every 15 minutes, I have to write on 9 different sheets of paper, then also in my logbook. Blah.

 

Headache for two days. It won't stop. Send help. Gahhhhhh.

 

Gah. I've been without a job for almost 5 months now. It's ridiculous and outright fucking frustrating. I'm running out of patience, I'm not as productive with my days as I should be and worst of all the financial strain is giving me all kinds of anxiety.

 

Why are working papers such a pain....I have to deliver them to a different school, but they close at 3. I wont be able to get there before 3?

 

My apartment complex keeps having problems with bed bugs, and I may have brought them to my dad's house. I hate living here.

 

WTF????

I was working. Looking up not so random coordinates (and the country they belong to, don't ask why or you'll get a lesson in seismology), but anyway.

There was one particular coordinate pair on Jersey. For all that don't know - I didn't as well, so I looked it up: Jersey is apparently a dependency of the UK. Bear with me, this actually matters in my narrative. While googling Jersey and finding out that it IS British, I saw the mention about a historical monument on this island, the war tunnels, dug by forced labour during WWII. I can imagine under just which kind of conditions they have been dug. Can you? Good.

So I went to the website of the 'Museum' because someday I might like to go there myself. And I found something which sickened me to the pit of my stomach.

They have a thing which is called the #The Escape Tunnels = Can you make it out?# And then there's the #Lovebird Shop & Nest Art#

I'm all about experience and fun for families. I love art and creativity. But please, please people, use some kind of sensitivity at historical war sites. Be conscious about what happened here. For fuck's sake, think before making sites of human suffering a joke.

 

Have you heard of this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand

 

This reminds me of the story of when someone was playing Pokemon Go in a Holocaust Museum and found a Koffing (Poison Gas Type).

 

I'm sorry you were in discomfort from that happening, but damn your description of it made me laugh! Thank you! And...I hope your sinuses feel better. Better pop rocks than Andean rocket fuel.

 

Looks more like Disneyworld / Epcot, actually...

 

I'm sorry. That's stressful indeed. Is there something you can change about your approach? Look for a different kind of job? Etc. Not saying there is, but if there is, you might want to consider it. Have you got anybody helping you out in the meantime?

 

That might have been Custom Retention, not Customer Service.

 

If it was, they need to train their people not to alienate the customers they're trying to retain. My next payment to them will be my last. Then I'm taking my business elsewhere.