MAD 2: MADDEN'S MADDENING.

Jensen

Keep your weird sexy uncomfortable costumes, I'll stick with sweatpants thank you very much.

Aryanne

I left Washington, where it is abnormally warm for this time of year (50s-60s when it is often in the teens) all unacclimated, come to Charlotte where it's freakin' windy and cold.

Normally, no biggie.
I forgot my coat and scarf at home, all I have is a couple cardigans.
Walked 15 minutes to dinner.
Oh my god, my face.

Thank goodness, I stash gloves EVERYWHERE so have two pairs of those.

Dristin

Aryanne said:

I left Washington, where it is abnormally warm for this time of year (50s-60s when it is often in the teens) all unacclimated, come to Charlotte where it's freakin' windy and cold.

Normally, no biggie.
I forgot my coat and scarf at home, all I have is a couple cardigans.
Walked 15 minutes to dinner.
Oh my god, my face.

Thank goodness, I stash gloves EVERYWHERE so have two pairs of those.

Need me to pick up anything from like target and swing it by for you? I could do that tomorrow at some point, maybe.

Aryanne

, you are so sweet, Dristin! One of our vendors who is particularly buddy-buddy with our company felt pity on me and bought me a scarf (two) at the gift shop.

I'm not regretting packing my tall boots though. They keep the cold off my calves like no one's business.

Jensen

Translating scanned, small, handwritten, geologists borehole logs into excel so they meet the unified soil classification system... felsic saprolite with white mineralized zones and micaceous zones does not translate well to the uscs style.

Can't hate too much though, it's not fun to log cores solo when the drillers get paid by the hole. Been there, done that.

Asaraii

Worked for 5 hours, made $150 cash. Easy day, made amazing progress on some things. Had fun with my side job. Asked to serve the back private rooms rather than bartend cus I picked it up, sure, wanted some extra cash.

Then, this table comes in. Two girls and a guy, order booze. I bring booze back. After giving them 15 minutes to argue, fight, swear, yell at me, carry on, a newborn baby appears magically. Where was this kid? In the car? In -10 weather? Who knows.

Mind you I work at a very upscale bar/restaurant. We get serious business bros and do steak/seafood/martinis/wine.

They complain about everything, f word every other sentence, screaming at each other in front of the newborn, one spills her wine (I watched her) then cursed me out for spilling her wine, they yell that they asked for apps and dinner together (15234 times, yelling and swearing at me) but when they come together that I ruined their appetizers. This continues the whole time. I drop their check off. Come back,they say YOU LEFT THIS EMPTY UNICORNS BOOK AND WE WANT OUR DRINKS AND APPS OFF CUS YOU RUINED EVERYTHING, proceed to fight amongst themselves, the newborn is now awake and smiling at me so I make the baby giggle and then they flip the unicorns out. The 'bitch with the money' as she called herself, left me 17 dollar tip on a 50 dollar bill (clearly, I wasn't a terrible server?). Then, they go to leave, and tell my table of a 2 people next to them, (who had a $130 bill) 'HERES 6 BUCKS, TO DEAL WITH SUFFERING OF THIS PLACE', to which my table says ....uhhhh. get away from us, before we call CPS.

Then that other table gets done, pays, leaves, stops to tell the owner 'Sitting next to the people we did tonight won't affect the way we feel, cus we love this place, but... she just dealt with the most terrible human beings we have ever watched in our lives in the most professional way we could imagine.'

Thankful for that table doing that, despite not ever seeing them before. But also, that child. I joke about being afraid of babies (I am), but my god. It utterly breaks my heart to see a baby be completely SCREWED from birth because of worthless unicorns scumbag druggies. Like........ I have never wanted to beat the unicorns out of something so hard. Why the hell... even as an EMT and firefighter, I had methods of handling neglect and abuse.

Infuriating. Sorry for the rant. I've never been so utterly helpless and angry.

Zsadist

Some people just don't deserve to be parents. Good on you though for staying professional.

Asaraii

I'm one of those babies that was screwed from birth, but lived to tell the tale. Seeing a baby like that brought some seriiious, serious feels out of me that I haven't felt in quite a while.

Do drugs all you want. But put your gd baby up for adoption if you are stupid enough to get knocked up without being a positive influence on a baby.

I didn't go out tonight for a friend's birthday because I knew I'd start a fight once I got a buzz on, I'm so irate still.

Erzsebet

People. Urrf.

Unrelated, at least traveling was over, that sucked, quite a bit.

Nola

Took tomorrow off for a fun event. It'll be my first full day off - no school or work, since the semester started.

Can't sleep, and I'm worried I won't fully enjoy what's in store for me tomorrow.

Hurting. I still don't feel like its getting any easier, any better. This was so much deeper than I ever thought something or someone could touch me. I find myself terrified and incapable of ever considering creating this kind of bond with someone ever again.

It sucks. Because I know I could be happy. Really happy, again.

Teani

*hug @Nola* Go anyway, even if you feel like you won't enjoy it fully. It will still be better than nothing, and you might surprise yourself.

Valenae

Nola said:

It'll be my first full day off - no school or work, since the semester started.

I'm in the same boat, man. I had a week off for break but my hours went up at work so I only got one day. I had to use the day marathoning all of the homework I got as a parting gift before break started lol.

Professors: Have fun on break! /gives you two papers, a lab report, and an art project to do.

Edit: Also, I rage that my tattoo artist moved back to Maine and now the artist the shop recommends wants to charge me for each individual session instead of the flat rate my artist was going to charge me. An artist can obviously charge whatever they want but it puts the sleeve out of the budget for now.

Mariena

I have some bad teeth areas. Genetics, man. One of those bad areas decided to become a worse area last night. Mouth paaaaain. Tomorrow morning I need to call a few dentists and see how they deal with this stupid new insurance + if they have any payment plan options.

Rashar

Not sure if love or mad or sad. Flying home.

See you in 17 hours, America.

Goodbye, paradise.

Ishin

This goddamn snow needs to fuck off. IT'S FEBRUARY YOU IDIOT. COME SEE ME IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, THEN PISS OFF.

Hadrak

It was a high of 30 F today. The snow began to melt--oh wait, now it's -8 F now that the sun's set and the wind's picked up again! SKATING RINK TIME

Work is just running me ragged lately. I was very sick-y on Monday and Tuesday (my two days off) and couldn't really shake off my fatigue. Gonna have another 10 hours of overtime this week and just wanna sleep for a month.

Ishin

Hadrak said:

It was a high of 30 F today. The snow began to melt--oh wait, now it's -8 F now that the sun's set and the wind's picked up again! SKATING RINK TIME

Work is just running me ragged lately. I was very sick-y on Monday and Tuesday (my two days off) and couldn't really shake off my fatigue. Gonna have another 10 hours of overtime this week and just wanna sleep for a month.

Geez man. What do you DO???

Hadrak

Work with the developmentally disabled in their home.

Setne

Hadrak said:

Work with the developmentally disabled in their home.

There's a joke here I could make about certain Aetolians, but it's in bad taste I feel.

Damonicus

We are all special and awesome. Because, everything is awesome.

Kendri

Hadrak said:

Work with the developmentally disabled in their home.

As someone with a child with special needs it's people in your line of work who make an amazing amount of difference in day to day life. Our two respite workers are some of the kindest and most loving people I know. Thanks.

In keeping with the thread, I hate that it takes so long to get an appointment with a pediatric sleep specialist.

Moirean

First day back at work in a week. I have cracked ribs, so sleeping sucks, and sitting in my chair all day (and wearing a bra) was surprisingly painful. Production build was weird all day and every upload was going up as an engineering build (so there were things enabled like dev artifacts/tools like image resolution readouts). Getting ready to head home and the project owner rolls in, all like, "So, we uhhh want to push to google play store tonight, so we need you to stay for overtime..."

2 hours of sitting around doing nothing and being in pain and tired later, the build is still being wonky and we give up. -_-

Now I'm home doing work for my OTHER job.

12 hour workday, my first day back. So...tired...

Nola

Not comparable to cracked ribs (ouch! Sorry Moi), but my lower back has been strained since Saturday (as I was getting my things ready to leave for the fun event I mentioned, of course). I have had to be careful with what I do, and how I do it, because I'd rather not induce more painful spasms. Having to stand at work all day was just stressing it more and it hurt enough this morning that I didn't feel like doing anything - so I didn't, I just slept, nearly all day.

That isn't so bad, but, I haven't been able to do any exercises, zumba included, because of it, to work off all the delicious food I ate over the weekend. I hate that my routine is being interrupted like this when I worked so hard to maintain it.

On the plus side, some love:

My coworker/friend wanted to treat me to a Valentines get away, belatedly. Since I'm trying to be of the mindset that I shouldn't wait around and should aspire to enjoy life and its opportunities, I've been open to his efforts.

He took me to the nicest hotel we have in town for a night and bought me some really nice dragonfruit wine that I haven't tried yet (he left the bottle opener by accident at home), and some of my favorite chocolate (I have a soft spot for lindt truffles). The companion wine glasses he got for me to go with it would have been empty, but I had brought a bottle of my favorite white wine as a surprise, so it worked out! We went to the nicest Indian restaurant we have in town and ate deliciousness. I tried gobi manchurian for the first time and fell in love! I'm going to try to make some myself. I took him to breakfast the next day at my family's restaurant - coincidentally all these places were right around the corner from the hotel - the only sad part is when we went back to the room to get our leftovers from the night before, having packed everything else in my car, the lady had already gone into the room and cleaned it out (which they weren't supposed to do until after we checked out). It seems the management might not even charge us for the visit because of that.

Overall, it was really nice to get away, even though it was just like a mini one-day vacation in town!

Colette

I'm glad you had a nice vacation @nola. You totally deserved it and I hope you get better soon.

I didn't go to Zumba tonight because I'm trying to be responsible at school. Annnd I just got a job. I just miss playing aetolia that's my only mad right now I suppose. I hate being busy all the time it's the worst.

Ishin

Need some hard sex to realign that lower back or something, @Nola

My rage is that my forklift at work has air tires on it. Like. Who the fuck puts air tires on a lift in a manufacturing plant.

Then they wanna look at me fucking crooked when I flatten tires regularly. Mother fucker, I'm a redneck on a lift with big-ass tires. RUNNING SHIT OVER JUST HAPPENS. IT'S LIKE BREATHING.

Areka

I get to drive a forklift at an urban farm in the city when I volunteer over the summer. It makes me feel powerful.

I hate alcoholism, and the elderly, and complications of the utter inability to do anything until a judge says we can step in, and watching my grandparents just waste away in unsafe conditions and their utter inability to help themselves.

Mariena

Wonky back is being wonky. I don't have the money to pay for m y chiropractor until next week. I am going to be a sad, angry, pain-filled creature for the next 7 days. Joy.

Carivah

Typos in player-described rooms are frustrating.

Typos in org rooms where you don't know who to blame are worse.

Obyn

@Carivah if it's in an organization's room, feel free to TYPO it.

Erzsebet

...wait, are you serious? @Obyn We can typo them instead of paying 20000000 gold to re-do everything? The Lunare hall is just. Horrible. Typos bloody everywhere. I avoid it because it makes my eyes bleed.