The Not Happy Thread

16, innit?

 

My GCSE maths was a LONG time ago...

 

It'll be slurry spreading season around these parts soon. One deep lungful of that fresh country air and you could skip meals.

 

So got a call from the vet relating to my dog's injury he had this morning. It's his back. They couldn't find out what's wrong with him, but we're thinking now it's a slipped disk. Meaning we'd have to take him to Auburn for surgery like we did with Howie.

Fuck. *goes to crack open a cold one* Fuck. My. Life.

 

I'm so sorry to hear that! that must be so hard. i hope you can have it resolved expeditiously ... expediently (?)
Sending good energy your way.

 

I can't help but blame myself, like if I hadn't let him out to play early in the morning we wouldn't be in this situation, but how could I have known? And what am I going to do, lock a 60IB pitbull up in a cage the rest of his life because I'm afraid he'll hurt himself?

 

Don't blame yourself. Accidents happen to all of us, even animals. The best thing you can do now is love him, provide as many needs as you can and do your best to forgive yourself.

 

You’re right. I mean, it could’ve even been me with a sprained ankle. Accidents happen. He’s still alive, that’s the important thing.

 

You don't need to help me now, but thank you for trying to. I already answered this and it's only for review for math test. I think I'll still fail at that-

 

Im coming down with something...
Hopefully its just a seasonal cold.

 

Went online to pay this month's natural gas bill, and the screen said I had an amount past due. What? I paid last month's bill on time and in full.

They had a banner at the top inviting you to click and find out about the past due amount. OK. It says it's from a rate increase the state utilities commission granted them in January, and they're charging it retroactively.

Weird, they've never dealt with rate increases that way before. And why call it "past due," as if I did something wrong? Why sneak it onto the online bill? What if I'd chosen to send the counterfoil on the paper bill in with a check?* Why not put it on next month's bill and account for it properly?

If that weren't annoying enough, you take the amount on the printed bill, add to it the "past due" amount, and it still doesn't come up to the total they want me to send them. What's the other $11.46 for?

I wrote them a email about it. If they want me to pay random, out-of-the-blue amounts, they need to account for them. All of them.
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*Yeah, I still get paper bills. I need to see what I owe ahead of time with my eyeballs, on something I have to hold in my hand. If I did it all online I'd never look till around the due date and get blindsided by the amount. Especially in the winter.

 

Funny, back in the early to mid 1990s I found it to be just the opposite. My NHS dentist in Oxford was great, and he was able to get me in on short notice when I broke a tooth a week before my student status expired. The medical clinic was fine, too, for ordinary things like bronchitis and fallen arches and hearing tests. Oh, yes, and I had no problem seeing the doctor for eye exams or getting decent glasses. But that was Oxford, too.

For serious things, not so much. A middle-aged friend had his gall bladder go bad on him in July; excruciating, disabling pain, but the NHS said they couldn't get him in to get it removed till the following January. Happily for him, he was a veteran, and he got some sort of funding from his group to get it done privately in October.

Worse, the fiancee of a college friend developed severe pain in her breast one summer, but the NHS told her that at 22 she was too young for breast cancer and they wouldn't approve tests to screen for it. The pain got worse, and when she finally got tested in December, she had a malignant lump the size of a tennis ball. Maybe they did the right thing trying to shrink it with radiation first, I don't know. I do know her operation wasn't till mid-March, and by late July it had metasasized and she was dead.

If the situation has improved since then, good, good, good.

 

now i know why people say "never go to sleep angry"...... i must have clenched my jaw in my sleep because my jaw hurts so bad! whenever i open to eat, it feels terrible

 

I know it's kind of dumb, but I forgot I have a midterm due Sunday and I'm sort of losing my mind over it now.

That's one of the worst problems with online classes. You think you're all caught up and ready to just lay on the couch and watch endless hours of The 100 on Netflix (seriously hooked right now), but noooo. Of course not. There's discussion board posts you missed, a whole discord session you should have been online for, and a freakin mid term just left hanging. I went from an open weekend to like fifteen hours of school work. I hate it. I was so hopeful with going to school, but it's been just one thing after another and online school just seems like it was a bad decision more and more each day.

And the midterm has three essays...Three! I mean, seriously, why? Does it really need to be that ridiculous. I'm exhausted even thinking about it. And then next month I have another class that I just bought books for and I don't even want to start it.

Sorry. Just venting I guess. I was happy to find this place and hopefully have time to actually write like I wanted to. The whole purpose of my major. But I don't know if I'll even have time. School is kind of sucking the fun out of writing.

 

Oh god me too. I have a mid semeste test. I have to cram 4 weeks worth of work into... urm, 48 hours. I'm going to die.

 

Okay, so you def have it WAY worse...but still. I think I'd have a breakdown if I was that bad off. Probably die as well!

 

There was a comedian, I can't remember who, who had this funny routine about words that mean their opposite. For instance food which is advertised as "gourmet" is usually on like a TV dinner level. If someone tells you something is a bargain, you know they're probably ripping you off, etc.

Something I am painfully learning in my professional life is that if you have a boss who loudly proclaims "I am inclusive and value everyone's input", it's one of these situations, and you should run for the hills.