Posted by Rebecca
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:40:00 GMT
Ever felt like you were just about done? Out of energy, out of patience, out of steam?
Maybe even out of caring?
I’m there today. Yesterday was absolutely terrible. I spent a few minutes in tears in the bathroom at work. I was about ready to quit my job, even though I love the people. I didn’t love a single one of them yesterday. I went to work early, got home late, and didn’t get anything done. Because of people.
I hadn’t slept well the night before because I was waking up hourly with cramps, and pretty much all day I couldn’t get them to go away. I probably about put a hole in my stomach because I took so much advil.
My nerves are so raw. Everything tiny little thing annoys the crap out of me. I feel like I may remove the head of the next person who smacks their gum around me, or incessantly taps their pencil in class, or eases over into the turn lane without using their directional.
There were two small redeeming factors from last night that sort of salvaged the day and gave me what I needed to come into work today.
1) I got three pages of my four page paper written. Yup. That’s right. After all that yesterday, I had to write a paper. Fanfreakingtastic.
2) I got to spend a little time with Dom in my own home. No concrete floors. No unfinished walls. No wallpaper shreds all over the kitchen. It was comfortable and relaxing and exactly what I needed. He somehow managed to completely diffuse the ticking time bomb that was me, just by being himself. He’s awesome like that.
I’m hoping that this weekend will provide me with some much needed down time. Otherwise, it won’t be pretty come Monday.
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Posted by Rebecca
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:25:00 GMT
There is a certain gymnasium for a certain sport involving ropes and special shoes and rock faces and people trying to reach certain goals.
This certain gymnasium is located in a particular northerly location in the city of Austin.
This gym shall remain nameless, even though it has me severely pissed off.
It has severely pissed me off because of the following incident.
On March 10 I put in a membership cancellation request via email as required by the gym.
On March 14 I received an email stating that my request had been received and that I would also receive a cancellation confirmation at the beginning of April.
Fine.
April rolled around and I received no confirmation. In fact, I have yet to receive any confirmation and it’s the twenty-first of April.
On top of that, my account was automatically debited for the membership fee this month, the month in which my membership was supposed to be canceled and no fee was to be charged.
I’ve left about five voice messages with the president of said gymnasium, one message with an actual human being, and I’ve sent two additional email messages addressing this issue.
I haven’t even received a phone call or an email response to any of them, and most of these messages were sent three weeks ago.
If I have to go down there in person, all hell will break loose. The president, who by the way is the only person trained on the accounts, and who by the way is only in the gym three hours a day, needs to do every aspect of job, not just the fun parts.
I’m considering having my attorney call this place, not that it would do any good, but maybe it would get the attention of some people and this matter would be taken care of.
If I end up with another charge debited from account in May, I may blow a gasket.
My recommendation to you is to not join aid gymnasium, because if you ever have to move or need to cancel your membership for any other reason, you may find out that it is impossible.
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Posted by Rebecca
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:14:00 GMT
In the kitchen:
The pantry was emptied. Food that was not thrown away was placed in plastic bags after their packages were disinfected. Bagged food was placed on table away from kitchen.
The counters were cleaned again and disinfected.
The floor was swept.
Boric acid was spread along all baseboards.
Baits were placed.
Egg stoppers were activated and placed.
In the Bathroom:
Every crevice, crack and pipe was caulked.
As soon as I can, I will re-clean the bathroom, spread boric acid, place baits and place an egg stopper.
For now we wait.
WE WAIT FOR THEIR DOOM!
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Posted by Rebecca
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:10:00 GMT
Becky discovered where they are aggregating.
Hooah!
They are SO. GONNA. DIE.
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Posted by Rebecca
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:09:00 GMT
I woke up this morning to a swollen upper lip and left cheek, and a painful blister (which I thought was a pimple) about an inch from my lip.
Is is a boil? Is it staph? Did I punch my face while sleeping last night?
Hopefully, we will find out this afternoon at 3:15 when I see a doctor about it.
UPDATE: The doctor had no clue what caused this. So, I got a steroid shot in the arse to make the swelling go away. I can already see a difference, and the doc said it should be normal by tomorrow morning.
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Posted by Rebecca
Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:49:00 GMT
For those of you who love to complain about the economy but still feel like you have some kind of natural right to a cup of ridiculously fancy coffee every day, check this out.
Looks like Starbucks may have a little cheap competition.
Now you can drink your cinnamon dolce latte at a lower price. Are you lovin’ it?
Maybe you can use that money you save (by purchasing cheaper coffee at Mickey D’s) to support a starving child in some third world country, and maybe then you’ll stop complaining about how our economy is so bad that you have to pinch pennies by purchasing fewer cups of gourmet coffee.
Or maybe your eyes will be opened (if you believe in magic, and I hope you do) and you’ll realize that a recession in our very wealthy country isn’t really as bad as you’d prefer to think it is.
Somehow, I doubt this will happen.
Posted in Pissed Off | Tags coffee, complain, McCafe, recession, sarcasm | 2 comments
Posted by Rebecca
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:35:00 GMT
One of the things you learn quickly when working for the state is that there is no lack of rules.
Rules abound!
New rules are made that supersede old rules but only in certain situations.
Whatever the case though, you have to follow the rules.
Now, anyone who knows me knows that I think some of the rules are stupid. I also think some of the rules are convoluted to the point that you can’t even understand their original purpose.
But I follow the rules. I have to. I just do. Because I am under authority, and I have to follow it.
So it really bothers me when I try to enforce the rules and they get undermined by someone else, someone who should be setting an example of honor in the academic community.
This happened today when a beloved prof gave his long-distance code to a student so that the student could send a personal fax.
Big no-no.
I was in the middle of explaining to the student that he could go to Kinko’s and pay out of pocket to send a personal fax (which is what he should have done), when his advisor interrupted and said he would give the student his code.
I said “You’re really not supposed to do that.”
To which the prof replied, “I know but sometimes it’s a pain.”
I felt like saying “Paying taxes is a pain to, but that doesn’t mean it’s right to just not do it.”
I kept silent, however. I knew it would just start an argument that I really didn’t want to have.
I know it’s a pain to have to walk down the street, or take a bus down the street and pay 50 cents to send a fax. HUGE FREAKING PAIN. So much of a pain that it’s an act worthy of laziness, theft and dishonesty.
I’m really not the moral police, but it just bugs me when things like this happen. Dishonesty is constantly reinforced around here. No wonder you can’t trust anybody these days.
Sigh.
Posted in Pissed Off | Tags dishonesty, rules | 1 comment
Posted by Rebecca
Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:28:00 GMT
Here is an interesting article on the “cloned meat” issue of late.
If you didn’t know already, yesterday the FDA gave the green light for the meat of offspring of certain cloned animals and their milk to enter the food supply.
Can you say “controversy?”
What bugs me the most is that right now, labels are not required for this kind of meat, and there’s a high probability that some has already been in the food supply for awhile. That burger you ate for lunch that’s making you sleepy? Its grandmother may have been a clone.
I guess this bothers me because I feel that I have a right to know if that New York Strip that I bought the other day is a clone’s offspring. Why do I feel I have a right?
Let me ask you this. Have you ever come across a package of sausage or hotdogs that didn’t list what kind of meat they were made from? What about a canned meat product (if you’ve eaten them or read the label for sheer entertainment) like potted meat, vienna sausages, or spam?
No?
Of course not, because almost every Muslim and Jew in the nation would refuse to purchase something that contained meat that might be pork but isn’t labeled.
Why?
Because according to their religious and cultural convictions, it’s immoral to eat pork - a downright sin, even.
So what about the people who have a problem with cloning because of their religious outlook on life? What about their desire to not eat meat from an animal that had a cloned ancestor? Do they not count?
If farmers and ranchers want to do this, I can’t stop them. But out of respect for the views of people in this country, Mr. FDA, please require a label on the meat. People should have the right to choose what they eat.
And to all you people who complain that beef is tough and that meat from the offspring of clones would be more tender, I can only say this:
Learn to cook. If you have a tough steak, there’s a very large chance that it’s your fault.
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Posted by Rebecca
Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:23:00 GMT
I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.
I’ve done what I can to take care of myself this semester…I’ve rested when I needed rest, relaxed and given myself permission to not be perfect, I’ve started exercising irregularly (which is better than before, when I wasn’t exercising at all) and I’ve worked hard to eat better, which overall has worked well save a few recent binges.
I’m on allergy medication to prevent myself from becoming needlessly sick, and my stomach is back to normal after a year of battling duodenitis and heartburn.
Yesterday though, my head and limbs started feeling heavy, I got a tiny sore throat and a pounding headache.
Lat night I was up until nearly 3 AM with a fever and I finally got up and set the A/C three degrees lower because the temperature in my apartment was ridiculous. My pillow and sheets were drenched with sweat and that kind of sleeping environment wasn’t pleasant to crawl back into.
I had to send another email message to my people at work and to my professor letting them know that yet again, I wouldn’t be in today. I’m out of sick days and have stated eating into my vacation time, which is depressing, but there it is.
This year has been plagued with fatigue and illness, and I’m very much ready for it to be over. Maybe next year will be better. I certainly hope so.
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Posted by Rebecca
Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:11:00 GMT
If one more person:
-complains about the website (even though I’ve said multiple times that there is nothing we can do RIGHT AT THIS INSTANT!)
-bitches about the clock being too loud (which is new because they bitched that the last one was too slow and don’t you know we are paid by the state so we can’t always get EXACTLY WHAT WE WANT!)
-moans about their picture being off-color (again with the state and the money and the rules, and the fact that your old picture which I replaced at your request was 20 YEARS OUT OF DATE AND YOU MOANED ABOUT THAT TOO!)
or anything else, I may just pull my hair out.
All of it.
So there.
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