Rant: Something I'm really tired of: Sitting there with a smile on my face listening to people tell me how wonderful I am and how great I am at what I do but how they really just don't want to pay me to do it but would love the opportunity for me to do it for them for free.
Rant Exhaustion. The baby is sleeping worse than ever. Cry it out doesn't work. Night time feeding doesn't work. I have tired.
Rave: After 4 months of only being legally able to drive during business hours Mon-Fri I’m back on my full licence on Friday. Let this be a cautionary tale kids, my final BAC was .059 (Aus .05 limit) cost me over 2 grand all said with lawyer and fines and 4 months of a huge pain in the ass. Will not be putting myself in that position again. Rant: There are assholes who are charged with assaults who get a lesser penalty than me, this seems ass around. Rave: Will be in Malta in less than a month.
RAVE: Today is the first day of the nursing program. Excited and nervous. Mostly nervous about the huge change in my life. It's basically going to be a very challenging unpaid job for the next two years. I've worked from home for almost 10 years and was very comfortable and happy doing what I was doing. In the long run it will be totally worth it. I'm setting my self up for extremely gainful employment for the rest of my life in a career I will more than likely excel at to a great degree. RANT: The incredible amount of work it's going to be, getting up at 6:00 a.m. every day and getting home at 5:00 p.m.
RAVE: School is starting in a week. I'm so ready to get back to working on my degree. Having something too do with my day will be nice as well. RANT: My financial aid money won't show up for a few days yet. Why thank you IU I really want to fight crowds at the book store with only days before classes start. That sounds like an absolute blast.
I just got word today that I got the best possible risk classification for my personal life insurance. Sounds dry and boring, and it kinda is, but it means I'll save thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, over the course of my life. Or, put another way, my long term retirement investments just got a huge spike to their rate of return.
Rave: I always ordered books online with the knowledge I wouldn't need them until at least after the first day of class, and never before. In fact, most times I got away with not buying books for certain classes because I read the syllabus to see if the book was 'necessary' or more of an "I wrote this, so buy it!" kind of deal. Rant: Holy crap these are long days. I'm working from about 6:30 AM until about 6 PM every day. Fridays it is 6:30 AM until 11 PM-ish (maybe later, depending on away games and such), Saturday mornings for JV, and Sundays for scouting meetings. It is fun, but it is insane how little time I get with my family now. Rave: Kids seem to enjoy how I teach (which is to say, I make book-stuff easy as hell, and rarely give homework), I've gotten some good reviews from coworkers, and I've learned a few tips to greatly reduce my time grading. Last year, at the end, I was spending hours a day grading papers, so cutting back on that will absolutely help me keep my sanity. No tests yet, but that comes later this week. Rant: Teaching the same class all day cuts way back on prep, which is awesome, but by the last period of the day my mind is numb. Rave: Fantasy football season. I currently have two teams, maybe thinking about a third, but I don't know if I have the time. Not the week-to-week time, but the time to draft. I get about a few hours Saturday and Sunday, but that's it.
Rave: Usually our weeknight sex sessions are a little quicker because we're both tired and have to get up early for work, but last night we apparently didn't care. Hot damn, it was well over an hour of sweaty hot awesome.
Rant: Last night I wished upon a star and rubbed my rabbits foot hoping that the dipshit from our Miami office thats flying up on Friday is killed in a plane crash. Sadly, I dont think that wish is going to come true. Rave: Got my security deposit back from my old apartment and completely forgot about it ahead of time. Nothing better than money you werent expecting.
Rave: Solid job offer going into my senior year. Rave: Moving from the east coast to LA next summer. Rave: Got my motorcycle endorsement. Planning to buy myself a bike after graduation.
RANT: I was going over the requirements of our substance abuse aftercare program with one of my new probies. We're chatting and he says he was clean for years until his wife and 3 year old daughter were murdered in 2001. I asked their names and as it turns out, they were the victims in one of the most heinous crimes in the county's history. Three brothers broke into the house, molested the little girl, slit her throat and then shot momma in the head. Oldest is on death row, the two younger ones are serving life without. It was seriously the most fucked up feeling to hear this man describe his downward spiral. By the time he left my office I was almost in tears. Fuck this job sometimes. Having to see the horrors that other humans commit on one another is so horrendous.
Rant: For fucks sakes, wasn't paying enough attention to where i was driving on the fork lift and dropped the front wheel off the ledge and high centered it on the main mast. I was at our off site storage where there really isn't any tools. So i called my boss, when he got out there 40 minutes later, i had just gotten it free. Found a jack, found a tiny hammer, and a 4x4, well the jack wasn't big enough to fully lift it up but enough that it got the mast off the ground, dug as much gravel out as i could, and tried to hammer the 4x4 under the tire. I had to do this about 5 times to move it back 4 feet. But it worked.
RAVE: We have a member with the username "old hairy porno". Awesome. RAVE: In an office where there are normally 7-8 people, somehow today, I am alone until days end. RANT: Quiet is deafening. Weird. RANT: I cannot read. Hey lil' repper, bite me.
Rant What's wrong with people? Recently in a pint-sized town called Durham near me the grandmother of a 16-year-old autistic boy got an anonymous hate letter in the mail from another mother in their neighbourhood: ...so again...What's WRONG with people?
Rant: Just had a sidewall blow out on one of my truck's tires. Rave: It happened about 500 feet from home, so no tow truck needed. (The truck's lifted with oversized tires, the stock spare would never have worked.) Rant: The truck's lifted and the stock jack won't work either. Fuck, fuck, fuckity, fuck, fuck.
RANT: Had my first test in nursing school yesterday and holy fuck! They crammed our heads full of info in the first two days covering chapters, 1-7 amid mass confusion and then included about 15 questions on material they never even went over. After the test everyone I talked to was in what the fuck mode and worried as hell. I just passed with an 82 and I thought I might have gotten in the high 80s for a B. I can't wait to see how everyone did because if I got a fucking C I can't imagine what others did. How do you give a test on material you never even taught? I went in excited and eager and now I'm demoralized and confused. At this point, if it's going to be like this I hope I can at least pass the course. It's going to be a hellish year if this trend continues.