The Not Happy Thread

I have lost my phone. Technically it's my mum's old phone, which kind of makes it worse. Someone from the dance team sent it a text saying to call their number if it was found, and someone's got in touch, so I'll get it back tomorrow, but putting it in an unzipped pocket and going on the waltzer at the fair is still one of the stupidest things I've ever done. I couldn't even admit to Mum how I'd really lost it and gave her a half-truth about forgetting to zip up my pocket. I put it in my trouser pocket to make room for a bag of doughnuts in my coat pocket. I could have just put it in my other coat pocket. The whole thing is ridiculous.

 

At least you've got your priorities in order.

 

I was thinking those must be some damn good donuts.

 

I didn't think it would fall out! Why I didn't think that, I don't know, but there I was, all proud of organising my pockets like an idiot.

 

I'll trade you a phone for some doughnuts.

 

I got a summons for jury duty. On top of everything else, I now have to contend with that. I don't mind getting called for jury duty, it's an important civic function. Imagine if you were sitting in the defendant's chair- who would you want in the jury box? 12 people who couldn't get out of it, or people who recognize that if you want to fix the short comings in our legal system it starts from the inside out? It's only a pain in the ass because I never get seated on a jury. For me it's eight hours on a hard oak bench and at the end of the day I have a vicious back ache, ten dollars, and the judge's thanks for showing up.

 

Ministering to the dying is an act of mercy. You do important work.

 

What Mark Twain described as coughing up your immortal soul?

For me, the worse thing about those is dealing with other people's reaction to them. No, I'm not dying--- yet. Go away and let me cough in peace.

Hope yours is better by now.

 

Thank you very much. Still coughing unfortunately but I think it may be on it’s way out

And yes, the other people thing. My job involves a lot of traveling from site to site, sometimes with three of us in the van, which is very cozy in those cabs. I spent most of the time over the last few days trying to repress my coughs, which is nigh on impossible because they’re the type that insist on making themselves heard.

 

Oh, God I feel like crap. I'm still in bed but now I'm all over aches and pains. I'm hungry but I can't eat, and I've hardly had any dinner. I have a nasty cough, the shallow type that doesn't hurt too much but is almost constant and I have a horrible headache. I'm exhausted but I can't sleep. The dance team has just started preparing for a competition, and we can go to as many classes as we want before choosing which ones we want to commit to. If I want to get into an advanced dance, I need to attend the sessions and get good at the dances, and I've missed most of the sessions. It feels like my body has gone from striking to outright rioting.

 

An end-run, loophole, oddball technicality has been found that renders more or less moot a law that I find rather silly.

Why am I posting this in the "Not Happy" thread? Because the way to deal with silly or unjust laws is to either see them ruled unconstitutional by the courts or repeal them through the legislature. Finding a way to "cheat" the law isn't a good thing, it just undermines what little trust and respect in the rule of law we still have as a society.

And no, sorry, I'm not going to say which law or even category as that would put the discussion in the Debate Room so fast it would make all of hour heads spin.

 

I'm sad, and mad, and I just gotta breathe.

 

Not trying to kick this into a debate, but how else can a law be "ruled unconstitutional" except by seeking out its inconsistencies or challenging it in court? Or how else can the legislature be convinced to fix or repeal it?

 

I'd love to know.

 

There's no way to answer this without getting political. But just assume everything is unconstitutional, and a good chance it is

 

That's actually a very good point.

 

I found a half a recipe, but the other half seems to be missing.

Oven Baked French Cruller Donuts
Ingredients
Vegetarian
Refrigerated

• 3 Eggs

Baking & Spices

• 1 cup All purpose flour
• 1 Glaze
• 1 cup Powdered sugar
• 1/4 tsp Salt
• 2 tsp Sugar
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract

Dairy

• 6 tbsp Butter
• 1 1/2 tbsp Milk

Liquids

• 1 cup Water

 

Praise be Uncle Google! Ia!

 

Spoiler: eh

Anniversary’s coming up.

Getting a bit worried I’m going to have certain someone stop by unannounced.

Trying to counteract that by making a boatload of casual plans with other people so I’m too swamped or simply never at home.

I’m even making plans the surrounding weekends cause I’m too afraid she’s going to try to make whatever a surprise—even if I used to be the one who planned the dates & weekend trips.

This is the problem with having someone who was always just coming over to your place when you aren’t home and making themselves comfortable till you got there.

I’m trying to gently tell people not to just let her in, because who’s gonna think anything of a pretty woman saying she’s planning a surprise. She & I actively broke into our guy friends’ various apartments and houses as a long standing prank for years and no bystander ever questioned it or thwarted us. Clearly an OC privilege.

Here’s to hoping the day goes by completely without incident or comment.

 

Now would this be something Japanese, or a little ditty out of NYC facing the Supreme Court?

 

It's a US issue, but unrelated to current events on Capitol Hill, the White House, or the courts in NYC (as far as I know).

 

Well that narrows is down to everything else.