Random Rants ΟΔ: broken record
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riddleofsteel
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This! I love florid english words, and this one has me weeping. I'm already 'chambering' it for use this work week.
Timsup2nothin
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I have it ready to fire, but I'm concerned that I might not be ready to pronounce it correctly.
Timsup2nothin
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Thanks! I guessed right, by the way.
GoodSarmatian
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Damned insomnia again !
I went to bet at nine, woke up around midnight and I have to go to work in an hour.
I went to bet at nine, woke up around midnight and I have to go to work in an hour.
They change every year (except for the Friday of Spirit Week, which is always class color day), and student government gets to pick. Last year's were goofy (although most spirit days are goofy) but this year's are just strange. I'm really struggling to figure out how to participate in...all of them. I am spending more time on that than I am on grading, which is stupid.
That sucks. Let me make it worse for you and respond to a post of yours on a message board, feeding your insomnia with that sweet, sweet Internet notification dopamine rush.
Paul in Saudi
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Last night I got a text message “Tomorrow Holiday.” That was it.
At breakfast, there were rumors the King had given everyone another day off. Sunday was National Day, so this would give us a four-day weekend. I figured I would go to work just to be sure and maybe use the pool.
The guards were on duty, but no Bangladeshis came to open the buildings, including my office and the gym. I waited twenty minutes. Two confused Saudis arrived. I wandered to the car dealership to get routine stuff done. They are closed too.
On my compound we have a new crew of Nigerians. They have been in kingdom three weeks. They were waiting for their bus. I sent them back to bed.
You get this sort of nonsense in an absolute monarchy. If they had told us last week, I could have gone to Cairo for a beer.
At breakfast, there were rumors the King had given everyone another day off. Sunday was National Day, so this would give us a four-day weekend. I figured I would go to work just to be sure and maybe use the pool.
The guards were on duty, but no Bangladeshis came to open the buildings, including my office and the gym. I waited twenty minutes. Two confused Saudis arrived. I wandered to the car dealership to get routine stuff done. They are closed too.
On my compound we have a new crew of Nigerians. They have been in kingdom three weeks. They were waiting for their bus. I sent them back to bed.
You get this sort of nonsense in an absolute monarchy. If they had told us last week, I could have gone to Cairo for a beer.
Monday in the US is the Chinese Autumn festival (it's happening now in China), so you could go find a moon cake shop and celebrate that too! 
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don't know with whom am involved this time , but as there are talks of a daughter that ought to be the stuntwoman again . You see , without repeating a whole thousand posts , am an idiot who has acquired web friends who used to count for something before they were retired , like state business . Stuff goes wrong ; them Americans need access and stuff , they are denied , so yours idiotly , well , is seen as an option . Deny ı like solemnly , so them State Department gets incensed , 'cause unlike the prevalent city wide opinion of these days they know am crazy and idiot and whole bunch . Won't let me choose whether ı have a right like not to care a rat's backside for the US . Enter stuntwoman , entirely unrelated in any capacity . Bein' Jewish creates a whole new raft of issues because as people should all know Americans of such a kind are all Doomsday fanatics with there can only be 144 000 and Israeli Army famous with its web savviness of good looking troops with threads running into dozens of pages in the web , and reportedly she looks cool , so they do a Miss State Department or something , but ı can't tell where they had a Bikini part ... And the worst part is of course this is like actually true , like in its entirity , with just a couple of exaggerations . Oh well , let's give 'em some Sergeant Hicks option , the only true good option , the safe way , if Ellen Ripley can not be detached .
and of course this like naturally leads to some drunk giving speeches for hours in the middle of the night , on the other side of the street , so that ı had to shut the window in order to sleep . Repeating the same 5 or 10 sentences ever and ever . Like ı might sound exactly same to people , too .
apologies to people with rather more pressing problems .
and of course this like naturally leads to some drunk giving speeches for hours in the middle of the night , on the other side of the street , so that ı had to shut the window in order to sleep . Repeating the same 5 or 10 sentences ever and ever . Like ı might sound exactly same to people , too .
apologies to people with rather more pressing problems .
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A few years ago I was working on a road construction project where the clients staff used to have a competition too insert the most obscure word into their letters to us. They also used to have graphs in there office with the number of letters per-week that they had sent us. We came back from the Christmas shut down too be given 140ish letters. The relationship broke down and it took ten years after completion to finalise payment.
Snerk
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Parking ticket. Rant end.
GoodSarmatian
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Nice try.
I'm old/wise enough to shut my phone off after posting something insomnia related in the Pernicious Hivemind.
MagisterCultuum
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I just spoke to a social worker at my sister's mental institution.
I did not get through even a third of the things I mentioned here when he said he wants get off the phone with me so he can pass on the information to her case manager immediately.
He thanked me for sharing my concerns and said they will probably want to hear everything else I noted at a later date. He said there is no possible excuse for her husband's behavior and we shouldn't let my sister try to defend him.
He agreed that the best thing would probably be for her to come home to live with me and my parents and then have the baby join us here a little later once we can get our house ready.
He then passed me on to speak with my sister. She sounded a lot better today than yesterday, which was already a lot better than before. I'd say she seemed about 98% of the way back to normal. She said that she slept well last night and that although she does not like how dehydrating the drugs leave her she does believe that are helping.
She was still trying to defend her husband and blaming how differently they were raised to communicate, but agreed with me that he needs therapy more than she does and that it would be best not to talk with him without a therapist present for a while.
One bit of bad news I learned was that her husband's first wife claimed that he beat her with his belt. He insisted that he never hit her, but admitted that he did once hold up a belt in a way that she misinterpreted as threatening due her own prior childhood traumas. My sister said she got the ex-wife's contact information but never used it to speak to her personally because she was afraid it would anger her husband, who was already upset that she had inappropriately aired some personal details about their relationship to members of his extended family.
I did not get through even a third of the things I mentioned here when he said he wants get off the phone with me so he can pass on the information to her case manager immediately.
He thanked me for sharing my concerns and said they will probably want to hear everything else I noted at a later date. He said there is no possible excuse for her husband's behavior and we shouldn't let my sister try to defend him.
He agreed that the best thing would probably be for her to come home to live with me and my parents and then have the baby join us here a little later once we can get our house ready.
He then passed me on to speak with my sister. She sounded a lot better today than yesterday, which was already a lot better than before. I'd say she seemed about 98% of the way back to normal. She said that she slept well last night and that although she does not like how dehydrating the drugs leave her she does believe that are helping.
She was still trying to defend her husband and blaming how differently they were raised to communicate, but agreed with me that he needs therapy more than she does and that it would be best not to talk with him without a therapist present for a while.
One bit of bad news I learned was that her husband's first wife claimed that he beat her with his belt. He insisted that he never hit her, but admitted that he did once hold up a belt in a way that she misinterpreted as threatening due her own prior childhood traumas. My sister said she got the ex-wife's contact information but never used it to speak to her personally because she was afraid it would anger her husband, who was already upset that she had inappropriately aired some personal details about their relationship to members of his extended family.
JohannaK
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I'm glad, and I hope that this can be resolved to the satisfaction of your sister and your family.
Thank you for everything you're doing for your sister, I'm very glad she has such a loving and dedicated brother like yourself. I'm sorry, but her husband sounds absolutely horrible, and reading about him is very disturbing for me. He sounds like an absolute creep, and he reminds me very much of my ex boyfriend; I'm very glad to hear she'll have a therapist present whenever she speaks to him. I feel it's really good your sister recognizes her husband needs therapy more than she does, I went through a similar form of mental abuse (but not nearly as severe as her) where he tried to convince me I was crazy and I was the one who needed help instead of him. Her recognition of this will help her with what she'll need to do.
My personal rant for today is I've had George Michael's "Last Christmas" stuck in my head for over a week now because of @JohannaK, lol!
My personal rant for today is I've had George Michael's "Last Christmas" stuck in my head for over a week now because of @JohannaK, lol!
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