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wildcatj said:
So friggin bummed. I was planning on flying home this weekend to take a breather before finals started. my first flight was delayed but we were supposed to get in on time to catch my next flight. We didn't, so I missed my connection and there were no more flights available to get me home until Sunday. I just turned around and got back on a plane to come back. So so bummed.
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🙁
 
wildcatj said:
So friggin bummed. I was planning on flying home this weekend to take a breather before finals started. my first flight was delayed but we were supposed to get in on time to catch my next flight. We didn't, so I missed my connection and there were no more flights available to get me home until Sunday. I just turned around and got back on a plane to come back. So so bummed.
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Finally home after 12 hours of useless travel. Time to drink a bottle of wine and snuggle with my cats in bed. I hate all the things!!
 
This really isn't a rant, but I'm super bummed. I was supposed to hang out with my boyfriend tonight after he got off work, but when I told him I was about to leave to head over he told me he was super tired and I should just stay home. So, now I'm sitting in bed...in my dress...writing on here how sucky this moment is. Happy Valentine's Day to me.
 
cloverbug said:
This really isn't a rant, but I'm super bummed. I was supposed to hang out with my boyfriend tonight after he got off work, but when I told him I was about to leave to head over he told me he was super tired and I should just stay home. So, now I'm sitting in bed...in my dress...writing on here how sucky this moment is. Happy Valentine's Day to me.
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You should go out somewhere with friends! You're already dressed 😛
 
wolfspeaker said:
Or go out by yourself if no one else wants to go!
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Only place I could go around here is to a bar and I'd really rather not do that by myself on this holiday. Unfortunately, all my friends either have kids or are under 21 so it would just be me anyway.
 
wildcatj said:
So friggin bummed. I was planning on flying home this weekend to take a breather before finals started. my first flight was delayed but we were supposed to get in on time to catch my next flight. We didn't, so I missed my connection and there were no more flights available to get me home until Sunday. I just turned around and got back on a plane to come back. So so bummed.
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That's really awful, I'm so sorry 🙁 I hope you had a decent night anyway.
 
I have a belated Valentine's double date this evening... at a Brazilian steakhouse. I eat vegetarian like 90% of the time, and am just not a big fan of hunks of red meat even when I do eat some. I've also been in a slump with my weight loss for the last couple months and limitless fatty meat really won't help there.

I'm just really, really not enthused by this, but my roomie and carnivore of a boyfriend is SUPER excited. Ugh.
 
Trilt said:
I have a belated Valentine's double date this evening... at a Brazilian steakhouse. I eat vegetarian like 90% of the time, and am just not a big fan of hunks of red meat even when I do eat some. I've also been in a slump with my weight loss for the last couple months and limitless fatty meat really won't help there.

I'm just really, really not enthused by this, but my roomie and carnivore of a boyfriend is SUPER excited. Ugh.
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Yep, I imagine for a non-carnivore having meat circling around and being carved onto the plates surrounding you is not ideal. But the salad bars at these places are usually fantastic and salmon and other seafood can be obtained there. You can still eat well, just going to have to keep your "I want meat" button turned to red (or whatever they do as a signal you don't want any). 🙂
 
Lupin21 said:
Yep, I imagine for a non-carnivore having meat circling around and being carved onto the plates surrounding you is not ideal. But the salad bars at these places are usually fantastic and salmon and other seafood can be obtained there. You can still eat well, just going to have to keep your "I want meat" button turned to red (or whatever they do as a signal you don't want any). 🙂
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They do have a FABULOUS salad bar, and I'm very much planning on devouring lots of food from there. I'm just in a bit of negative funk about it, I think.
 
Trilt said:
They do have a FABULOUS salad bar, and I'm very much planning on devouring lots of food from there. I'm just in a bit of negative funk about it, I think.
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I had to go to one of those places for a work thing once, and the salad bar was closed for some reason. Swordfish was the only thing I could eat. It was weird just having hunks of swordfish on my plate and nothing else, haha.
 
There's nothing quite like putting in a new contact and realizing that the receptionist ordered the wrong prescription 😡
 
I am still dealing with grieving from my grandma passing away last month, but now doctors have found that my dad has a blood clot in his leg and have placed him on blood thinners (add in that he is diabetic and has high blood pressure). Also, my mom was just admitted to the hospital because she is having increased pressure in her brain and she is having mini-seizures, this combined with the fact that she is recovering from a severe URI and she is on immunosuppressants for lupus. She is stable and can talk and stuff, but so far no word from the doctors as to what is causing this. At least my uncle who has cancer is doing ok.

And somehow I am supposed to be able to push back all my worry and emotions and study for my midterm that is next week.... I just can't muster the ability to do this. 🙁😢
 
DVMD I'm so sorry.. you've had such a tough couple of months. 🙁 <3 big big big hugs!!!
 
So, I was initially told I wouldn't be going back to work until after March 1st. Then I get a phone call on Wed. from my Supervisor saying they found something for me to do and he'd let me know in a few days what days they were needing me. Great! I'm actually wanting to go back parttime. I then mentioned I'm going to be out of town this weekened.

So, I check my email last night and he had sent me an email on Thursday saying I was scheduled on Friday/Sat/Sun this weekend. We have NEVER done email schedules before. It's always been paper and/or phone calls. In fact, this is the first email I have ever gotten from him. Of course, I had already not shown up for Fridays shift and couldn't on Saturday because I was out of town(as I had already told him).

I sent a response back apologizing for not seeing his email sooner and reminded him that I wasn't going to be available this weekend. And said "I'm not sure if you tried calling me, I didnt see any missed calls".
He then sends a very crabby response and this(AND CC's two of the higher ups):
"Given your dysfunctional cell phone, limited computer access and your concern for reporting hours worked, I will notify your work comp representative and discuss how best to proceed moving forward. These problems will need to be address to avoid any further delays in a return to work."


Umm EXCUSE ME?! My phone is working just fine. It is not my fault that you decided to email instead of call, when we have never used that route of communication before and I told you I was busy this weekend!

If this interrupts my paycheck I get on Mondays, for being "uncooperative and refusing to do what's needed to go back to work", I am going to be pissed.

:bang:
 
wolfspeaker said:
So, I was initially told I wouldn't be going back to work until after March 1st. Then I get a phone call on Wed. from my Supervisor saying they found something for me to do and he'd let me know in a few days what days they were needing me. Great! I'm actually wanting to go back parttime. I then mentioned I'm going to be out of town this weekened.

So, I check my email last night and he had sent me an email on Thursday saying I was scheduled on Friday/Sat/Sun this weekend. We have NEVER done email schedules before. It's always been paper and/or phone calls. In fact, this is the first email I have ever gotten from him. Of course, I had already not shown up for Fridays shift and couldn't on Saturday because I was out of town(as I had already told him).

I sent a response back apologizing for not seeing his email sooner and reminded him that I wasn't going to be available this weekend. And said "I'm not sure if you tried calling me, I didnt see any missed calls".
He then sends a very crabby response and this(AND CC's two of the higher ups):
"Given your dysfunctional cell phone, limited computer access and your concern for reporting hours worked, I will notify your work comp representative and discuss how best to proceed moving forward. These problems will need to be address to avoid any further delays in a return to work."


Umm EXCUSE ME?! My phone is working just fine. It is not my fault that you decided to email instead of call, when we have never used that route of communication before and I told you I was busy this weekend!

If this interrupts my paycheck I get on Mondays, for being "uncooperative and refusing to do what's needed to go back to work", I am going to be pissed.

:bang:
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I would be emailing back immediately and saying something like "I'm sorry for the miscommunication, but I'm not sure what you mean regarding my "dysfunctional" cell phone. If you recall our perfectly functional phone discussion on Wednesday, I did say that I would not be available this weekend. In the future if you are going to send the schedule via email I would appreciate a heads up, because you've never used this method of communication before and I do not check my email daily."

That way it's on record with those higher ups and you have something to show to your workers comp rep to prove he's full of crap.
 
BlackDog17 said:
I would be emailing back immediately and saying something like "I'm sorry for the miscommunication, but I'm not sure what you mean regarding my "dysfunctional" cell phone. If you recall our perfectly functional phone discussion on Wednesday, I did say that I would not be available this weekend. In the future if you are going to send the schedule via email I would appreciate a heads up, because you've never used this method of communication before and I do not check my email daily."

That way it's on record with those higher ups and you have something to show to your workers comp rep to prove he's full of crap.
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I did before ranting in here. 🙂 ( It was just about exactly what you wrote! haha)
 
Freaking out a little. I have 3 exams next week (one of which is a final) and I'm about two weeks behind on coursework. I missed all of this past week for a funeral, so I have a ton of lectures to listen to. I also have to make up a Poultry Med quiz, do Clin Path cases for tomorrow (on lectures I probably missed) and catch up on anesthesia for a quiz we have on Thursday. I also think we have another Poultry Med quiz on Friday on a lecture I missed last week.
 
mosquitoes have been DESTROYING me this weekend! I haven't had this many bites since 1st term! rawr!!! hopefully they were all night time mosquitoes and not day time dengue mosquitoes! itch itch itch
 
swingnsave said:
This article completely enraged me… please feel free to share your thoughts.

http://raymmar.com/7-reasons-youll-never-do-anything-amazing-life/
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I have a lot of problems with this article. For one thing, "Because while you’re sitting around failing to try, I am out there trying to fail, challenging myself, learning new things and failing as fast as possible." Where's the credibility here? While I am (I'm going with the intended audience here) stuck in a job I dislike but wanted at some point and is at least giving me a stable paycheck, you're, what? writing articles online? Because that's such a groundbreaking form of progress? Also, see: intended audience. This is written for a much narrower subset of people than it probably thinks it is, and the hyperbole probably means more people are going to reject what they're reading even if there is some good advice in there somewhere. Yeah, alienating your readers is going to get you so far...not. "you are probably not reading this article"--that is a direct quote, how does that make sense? Not only is it in the article, it is HALFWAY THROUGH the article. That's just insulting the readers who got halfway through your article for no reason. And then a cliche, because why think when you can let something like that make your point for you, right? And that whole thing was apparently an advertisement for his book. Wow, that made me really, really not want to get his book--such successful advertising!
 
swingnsave said:
This article completely enraged me… please feel free to share your thoughts.

http://raymmar.com/7-reasons-youll-never-do-anything-amazing-life/
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I honestly laughed. If this guy is this full of himself that he can't see that he DOESN'T know everything. That everyone you will EVER come across knows something you don't. That even the happiest, most well adjusted person may have faced trials and have demons that you can't even IMAGINE...

Well, then he isn't as smart as he thinks he is.
 
Ugh. This is the first time I've flown with my cat, and hopefully it will be the last. He's been an absolute rock star and is handling everything well but having him along adds sooooo much stress.

Had the entire population of China on my first flight. None of them spoke English, all of them were trying to carry on bags that were way too large, none of them could understand the flight attendant, and it seemed like none of them were very experienced with airplanes. Poor flight attendant spent forever trying to get them to sit down, turn their devices off, etc. I ended up getting moved to the emergency exit row (usually they don't allow pets there) simply because I was one of the only people on the flight who spoke English.

Thanks to them we took off more than half an hour late, and I only had a 50 minute layover. Then I got pulled aside for extra customs screening because of my cat, and the woman decided to give me a hard time about the fact that I wrote my US address as my home address. Despite the fact that it IS my home address - I don't have citizenship in Canada or residency on PEI, I rent a room by the month, if you wanted "Address where you spend certain months of the year" you should have specified that. 🙄

Thanks to the late flight and her bs, I missed my connection. Wouldn't be a big deal if it was just me, but I really just want to get my poor stressed kitty home and settled. 🙁
 
BlackDog17 said:
Ugh. This is the first time I've flown with my cat, and hopefully it will be the last. He's been an absolute rock star and is handling everything well but having him along adds sooooo much stress.

Had the entire population of China on my first flight. None of them spoke English, all of them were trying to carry on bags that were way too large, none of them could understand the flight attendant, and it seemed like none of them were very experienced with airplanes. Poor flight attendant spent forever trying to get them to sit down, turn their devices off, etc. I ended up getting moved to the emergency exit row (usually they don't allow pets there) simply because I was one of the only people on the flight who spoke English.

Thanks to them we took off more than half an hour late, and I only had a 50 minute layover. Then I got pulled aside for extra customs screening because of my cat, and the woman decided to give me a hard time about the fact that I wrote my US address as my home address. Despite the fact that it IS my home address - I don't have citizenship in Canada or residency on PEI, I rent a room by the month, if you wanted "Address where you spend certain months of the year" you should have specified that. 🙄

Thanks to the late flight and her bs, I missed my connection. Wouldn't be a big deal if it was just me, but I really just want to get my poor stressed kitty home and settled. 🙁
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wow thats super lame - i dont know of anyone here who has been given those troubles with a pet and i'm pretty sure none of us list addresses in grenada!

also, what kind of extra screening? the most i've ever been subjected to was the little hand wipe stuff
 
jmo1012 said:
wow thats super lame - i dont know of anyone here who has been given those troubles with a pet and i'm pretty sure none of us list addresses in grenada!

also, what kind of extra screening? the most i've ever been subjected to was the little hand wipe stuff
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I got the hand wipe stuff in Boston (which was fun because I had to be holding my cat in my arms at the time!) and then in Halifax I made it through customs fine, but while I was waiting for my luggage a drug beagle took an interest in my cat and his handler sent me to wait forever in this sketchy little hallway until another customs agent finally realized I was there and took me to the annoying lady who asked for my cat's paperwork, wanted to know why his rabies tag was with the paperwork instead of on his collar (ummm, because metal detectors, maybe? :eyebrow:) and gave me crap about my address. Totally weird.

Fortunately Air Canada was surprisingly good about rebooking me and even gave me a $10 meal voucher for my trouble. We're standby for the next flight to PEI, so hopefully we'll make it on with no further troubles.



swingnsave said:
This article completely enraged me… please feel free to share your thoughts.

http://raymmar.com/7-reasons-youll-never-do-anything-amazing-life/
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Just read this. In the comments he says it's an internal argument he was having with his own thoughts. Personally I think he's just extremely bitter, so he needs to believe the rest of the world is lazy, unsuccessful, unhappy, and stupid to make himself feel superior. It's a shame it went viral because this idiot definitely doesn't deserve the attention he's getting.
 
I think the author would have saved himself a lot of grief and hatred if he had made it a bit more clear that the article was an internal battle with the voices in his head (as he is claiming it to be, though I have my doubts that is really what it is and if he really is writing about the battle between the voices in his head is this really a stable person you want to be listening to?) Once you do push aside the condescending and egotistical tone along with getting through the bad grammar and read through it more than once he makes some "ok" points. Though his claim that it is a battle between the voices in his head is really hard to believe especially when he says this:

"Because while you’re sitting around failing to try, I am out there trying to fail, challenging myself, learning new things and failing as fast as possible."

I am not sure how that can be an internal battle with yourself...

Or this:

"Because while you were away at college, I was studying life; because instead of learning about the world in a classroom I went out and learned it by living."

"Because I might not have a degree but I challenge you to find a topic that I can’t talk to you about cohesively."

How does one have an internal battle with themselves doing two very different things: going to college and not going to college.

After he tells you that basically college isn't learning about life he then tells you that you don't read enough and:

"Because you refuse to acknowledge that all the power in the world comes from the words of those that lived before us. That anything you desire can be had by searching through the multitude of words that are available to us now more abundantly than ever before."

Hmm, you mean power comes from those that lived before us and college teaches us what those people before us knew and said... interdasting. He is very contradictory within the article... he wants people to see that there is a benefit to learning about life/living (not book smarts), but then goes on to say things like... "I am reading about string theory and quantum mechanics." Which really aren't "street/living/life" smarts, that is still the same book smarts/stuff you would learn in college. I think he missed the ball. He had good intentions and with more thought, less use of the word "because", and removing some of the ego, it probably would have been a better article.

I also do not believe he was writing this as an internal debate; I think he is claiming that now that people have mentioned to him he is a an egotistical asshat. There are just too many points within the article where you can tell based on tone, writing, etc that this is not an internal debate. Read Hamlet if you want a good internal debate, this article is just a condescending asshat, who may have been able to make some decent points if he had thought a little bit longer about what he was writing.
 
BlackDog17 said:
I got the hand wipe stuff in Boston (which was fun because I had to be holding my cat in my arms at the time!) and then in Halifax I made it through customs fine, but while I was waiting for my luggage a drug beagle took an interest in my cat and his handler sent me to wait forever in this sketchy little hallway until another customs agent finally realized I was there and took me to the annoying lady who asked for my cat's paperwork, wanted to know why his rabies tag was with the paperwork instead of on his collar (ummm, because metal detectors, maybe? :eyebrow:) and gave me crap about my address. Totally weird.

Fortunately Air Canada was surprisingly good about rebooking me and even gave me a $10 meal voucher for my trouble. We're standby for the next flight to PEI, so hopefully we'll make it on with no further troubles.
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wow crazy! my dog doesnt wear his rabies tag or registration tag (for either country!)...

not sure if you do this or not, but the little slip leashes you can get for dogs don't trigger the detectors so you could rig one up into a harness (its nifty!) and then at least have some extra security for peace of mind
 
I hate being the last to know things. Found out some unsettling news about our friendly farm that provides a lot of students with produce.
 
A screw from a pot fell down the sink and is jamming our garbage disposal. I wanted to fix the problem, but apparently there is not a single circuit breaker that is linked to the garbage disposal. Best part is, the ones labeled kitchen lights/kitchen GFIC didn't even turn off the lights when turned off. Totally confused and can't find a second box in the house.
 
orca2011 said:
A screw from a pot fell down the sink and is jamming our garbage disposal. I wanted to fix the problem, but apparently there is not a single circuit breaker that is linked to the garbage disposal. Best part is, the ones labeled kitchen lights/kitchen GFIC didn't even turn off the lights when turned off. Totally confused and can't find a second box in the house.
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Some garbage disposals are actually plugged into an outlet under the sink.
 
Hmmm, that's a possibility. Would it get actually down in the disposal unit? I think the screw is actually down in the disposal now cause it either makes a "grrr" noise if you turn it on or sounds like it's shooting shrapnel everywhere and you can't feel the screw if you just feel the top blade from the sink.
 
orca2011 said:
Hmmm, that's a possibility. Would it get actually down in the disposal unit? I think the screw is actually down in the disposal now cause it either makes a "grrr" noise if you turn it on or sounds like it's shooting shrapnel everywhere and you can't feel the screw if you just feel the top blade from the sink.
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I'm not sure but could be worth a try.
 
cowgirla said:
My disposal has an "escape hatch" on the bottom specifically for retrieving lost items. Gives you access to the canister below the blade. Did you check yours for something similar?
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No, I did not. I did take the little wrench thingy and at least loosen it so that the sink now drains. I'll take a look.

Does yours require a screw driver to open it? We have something that looks like it could slide, but would require one to loosen it.
 
Update on my rant: finally made it back to PEI in the last seat on the last flight of the night. Really tempted to skip classes today because I am exhausted, but I really can't afford to miss anything.

TooLove said:
I hate being the last to know things. Found out some unsettling news about our friendly farm that provides a lot of students with produce.
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Well you definitely aren't the last to know because I have no idea what this is about.
 
BlackDog17 said:
Update on my rant: finally made it back to PEI in the last seat on the last flight of the night. Really tempted to skip classes today because I am exhausted, but I really can't afford to miss anything.



Well you definitely aren't the last to know because I have no idea what this is about.
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Glad you made it back! I'll message you.
 
I diagnosed my cat with diabetes today. Now I'm freaking out because I am supposed to fly to New York in a couple weeks. My husband works 24 hour shifts so I don't know who will take care of her and do her insulin etc. while I'm gone. I'm also freaking out about how much her care is going to cost (mostly about how my husband is going to react when he finds out how much insulin and syringes cost).
 
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