Break it down!
11:10am
Been awhile since I updated again, so here we go!
Anyway, my mum is undergoing care, but as I suspected it is the minimum level of services.
She is supposed to be getting one on one care, but the doctors she is supposed to be getting one on one... meet with her as a group. They interrupt their session to take phone calls (and on one occasion has left for another session with someone else after being called) ... they're getting facts wrong (seemingly unable to interpret both on the records they were sent and what my mother says).
... but I suppose it is better than nothing?
The stress of that with the end of the semester mounting and moving (well, mostly the lack of money associated with paying my security deposit on the place in Madison and thus just barely being able to cut rent)... adds up. Then just random life stresses add onto that.
It's been randomly flaring up (there is no real precipitator for any given period of intense tension)... yesterday was particularly bad, as I became annoyed with just about everyone. When the stress gets really bad, ironically it makes it very difficult to focus, so it is rather like a cycle.
Anyway, Clymer has been patient and is willing to push deadlines back into the summer and that helps defray the academic stress a bit (though I still feel like a let down in that department for even asking), and Laura has been very supportive.
So the short version: My mom is getting help but it is every bit as iffy as I expected. I'm surviving, very stressed, but surviving.
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12:10pm
Came on Pandora, thought I'd share, but I really like this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhfIOXQJbpc
That is all.
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12:20pm
For the record, I'm still annoyed with media services.
I E-mailed them last Thursday to ask for a higher resolution version of the image that I am using on this post card... no response.
Hey, inept folks, if you don't have it, let me know so that I can redesign the stupid thing.
Scoff! Scoff! Mockmock!
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12:40pm
Having work to do at work helps the day go by so much faster!
In other news... there certainly seem to be a lot of natural disasters lately.
I wonder if it is because the news is playing them up, or if they really are becoming more frequent?
Hmm.
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1:35pm
Seriously, dude, when I tell you that I can't speak for what private organizations would or would not accept, I mean it. Don't ask me 5 times in a row after I explain it.
Also, you should probably listen when I say "They probably won't take an application a month late." ... because while I can't speak for them, I can say that a month past deadline is probably unacceptable. A day? Maybe. Two days? BIG maybe.
Sigh.
Also, when you tell me the contact information is wrong and you can't call them... and I call them to check (to make sure our records are up to date) ... and they answer, it makes me very annoyed. You wasted my time, you wasted your time, and now I wasted their time. If you didn't call because it didn't cross your mind, hey, fine, sometimes we miss the obvious... just tell me that, we can move on.
Grr.
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2:15pm
so I thought *I* had botched the postcard, but then I decided to measure it doesn't make sense. I am not sure where all the shite space is coming from.
Anyway. The image sucks to begin with, resolution-wise (otherwise it's a great, diverse image... colorful and NIU is prominently displayed) ... and with Media Services being unresponsive to a request for a larger image...
Oh, and officially... designing a document that they want to put too much information in... the address block of this dang thing now looks like a bloody novel.
... and if it were me (and it isn't, I'm following what they wanted) ... I would make bullet pointed ideas on the back. Students, ironically, don't like things that look like work to read.
Sigh.
It's just ugly and embarassing. I would've gladly taken my own pictures (at 4000x3000 HD) ...
Grumble.
Anyway! The changes are in, but we're moving ahead even though it isn't 100% perfect... bloody media services. I guess it is the content that matters, but I still feel bad about it.
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2:40pm
Alright, I'm posting this. Trying to get these numbers from "at risk" calling last week figured out.
Cheers!
P.S. For the record, the LJ ads are OBNOXIOUS! Almost enough to make me contemplate moving off of it... I'll have to see if Semagic works still (so I can avoid them)...
Been awhile since I updated again, so here we go!
Anyway, my mum is undergoing care, but as I suspected it is the minimum level of services.
She is supposed to be getting one on one care, but the doctors she is supposed to be getting one on one... meet with her as a group. They interrupt their session to take phone calls (and on one occasion has left for another session with someone else after being called) ... they're getting facts wrong (seemingly unable to interpret both on the records they were sent and what my mother says).
... but I suppose it is better than nothing?
The stress of that with the end of the semester mounting and moving (well, mostly the lack of money associated with paying my security deposit on the place in Madison and thus just barely being able to cut rent)... adds up. Then just random life stresses add onto that.
It's been randomly flaring up (there is no real precipitator for any given period of intense tension)... yesterday was particularly bad, as I became annoyed with just about everyone. When the stress gets really bad, ironically it makes it very difficult to focus, so it is rather like a cycle.
Anyway, Clymer has been patient and is willing to push deadlines back into the summer and that helps defray the academic stress a bit (though I still feel like a let down in that department for even asking), and Laura has been very supportive.
So the short version: My mom is getting help but it is every bit as iffy as I expected. I'm surviving, very stressed, but surviving.
===
12:10pm
Came on Pandora, thought I'd share, but I really like this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhfIOXQJbpc
That is all.
===
12:20pm
For the record, I'm still annoyed with media services.
I E-mailed them last Thursday to ask for a higher resolution version of the image that I am using on this post card... no response.
Hey, inept folks, if you don't have it, let me know so that I can redesign the stupid thing.
Scoff! Scoff! Mockmock!
===
12:40pm
Having work to do at work helps the day go by so much faster!
In other news... there certainly seem to be a lot of natural disasters lately.
I wonder if it is because the news is playing them up, or if they really are becoming more frequent?
Hmm.
===
1:35pm
Seriously, dude, when I tell you that I can't speak for what private organizations would or would not accept, I mean it. Don't ask me 5 times in a row after I explain it.
Also, you should probably listen when I say "They probably won't take an application a month late." ... because while I can't speak for them, I can say that a month past deadline is probably unacceptable. A day? Maybe. Two days? BIG maybe.
Sigh.
Also, when you tell me the contact information is wrong and you can't call them... and I call them to check (to make sure our records are up to date) ... and they answer, it makes me very annoyed. You wasted my time, you wasted your time, and now I wasted their time. If you didn't call because it didn't cross your mind, hey, fine, sometimes we miss the obvious... just tell me that, we can move on.
Grr.
===
2:15pm
so I thought *I* had botched the postcard, but then I decided to measure it doesn't make sense. I am not sure where all the shite space is coming from.
Anyway. The image sucks to begin with, resolution-wise (otherwise it's a great, diverse image... colorful and NIU is prominently displayed) ... and with Media Services being unresponsive to a request for a larger image...
Oh, and officially... designing a document that they want to put too much information in... the address block of this dang thing now looks like a bloody novel.
... and if it were me (and it isn't, I'm following what they wanted) ... I would make bullet pointed ideas on the back. Students, ironically, don't like things that look like work to read.
Sigh.
It's just ugly and embarassing. I would've gladly taken my own pictures (at 4000x3000 HD) ...
Grumble.
Anyway! The changes are in, but we're moving ahead even though it isn't 100% perfect... bloody media services. I guess it is the content that matters, but I still feel bad about it.
===
2:40pm
Alright, I'm posting this. Trying to get these numbers from "at risk" calling last week figured out.
Cheers!
P.S. For the record, the LJ ads are OBNOXIOUS! Almost enough to make me contemplate moving off of it... I'll have to see if Semagic works still (so I can avoid them)...