Hotty Totty
► I took the garbage outside this morning and it's actually not too bad out right now (we're currently in a heat wave). Not too bad outside, cause inside the apartment it's sweltering. There's a slight breeze but it's coming from the North and we don't have any windows facing that direction. The cat seems fine and I keep checking his water dish. The front room and kitchen area isn't that bad since we have our tiny air conditioner running, but my room is over 30 degrees Celsius (around 88-90 degrees Fahrenheit) so it's a bit unpleasant in here. Of course I can't stand being in any other room for long so I'm buried in the hot box I call a bedroom.
► That tooth infection/abscess I mentioned yesterday seemed to burst some time last night. The stiffness, pain and pouch of gunk all seem lesser today. Good. I have a therapy appointment tomorrow and I don't want to have to worry about that acting up.
The past few days have actually been a bit odd, so to speak. I've had this infection, my vertigo was acting up all yesterday, the heat and humidity has been draining me, and topping all of that has been my anxiety and worrying about going out tomorrow. What's odd is that despite all that I feel pretty good emotionally. I think part of that is relief because Dean finally went back to work yesterday after 2 months of up and downs. I'm just happy to not have to worry about that for a little while.
Edit: Scratch that. Dean just came home at 10:30am, having left work after first break because of anxiety. Claims she's going back to work on Monday. Right.
► CNN: Middle schoolers bully bus monitor, 68, with stream of profanity, jeers - Revolting youth. Kids nowadays have no boundaries. They're entitled, spoiled and are taught that nothing is their fault. How do you punish these kids? Send them to their bedrooms with their computers, smartphones, flatscreen TVs, and Xboxes? Children don't learn about consequences anymore, because they don't have any. If a kid gets lousy grades it's the teachers fault. But don't worry, they'll never flunk the class.
A lot of parents today don't want the responsibility of actually parenting. Let the schools and the internet/video games do that. Besides, the bus monitor must have instigated it.
► NY Daily News: Teen who plotted to set boy on fire faces 15 years - So the price of lighting a kid on fire and destroying his body and life forever is "$5 to $10"?
► SFGate: Oracle's Ellison is buying a Hawaiian island - From chat:Dran: (I like how the article mentions that the people who live there are kind of confused by that.)
Derek: lot of celebrities own islands
Dran: :-@
Dran: :-D--"Could you name a couple?"
Derek: Johnny Depp owns an island in the Caribbean
Derek: I think Mel Gibson did too
Derek: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_island#List_of_high_profile_island_owners
Dran: oh, I see
Derek: this Oracle guy buying an island doesn't necessarily mean he's buying one of the eight major islands
Derek: I mean eight major Hawaiian islands
Derek: must be some smaller ones around them
Derek: oh
Derek: he IS buying one of the 8 major islands http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanai
Dran: haha
Dran: Because he is a WHACK JOB
► AICN: Your First Look At The Evil Angelina Jolie In MALEFICENT!! - Aww, she's not green.
Garfield Minus Garfield
Quote of the Moment
Fauna: Maleficent doesn't know anything about love, or kindness, or the joy of helping others. You know, sometimes I don't think she's really very happy.
- Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Drinking: water
Watching: Supernatural: Season 6 (DVD set);
Last Watched: The Core (2003; with director commentary);
► That tooth infection/abscess I mentioned yesterday seemed to burst some time last night. The stiffness, pain and pouch of gunk all seem lesser today. Good. I have a therapy appointment tomorrow and I don't want to have to worry about that acting up.
The past few days have actually been a bit odd, so to speak. I've had this infection, my vertigo was acting up all yesterday, the heat and humidity has been draining me, and topping all of that has been my anxiety and worrying about going out tomorrow. What's odd is that despite all that I feel pretty good emotionally. I think part of that is relief because Dean finally went back to work yesterday after 2 months of up and downs. I'm just happy to not have to worry about that for a little while.
Edit: Scratch that. Dean just came home at 10:30am, having left work after first break because of anxiety. Claims she's going back to work on Monday. Right.
► CNN: Middle schoolers bully bus monitor, 68, with stream of profanity, jeers - Revolting youth. Kids nowadays have no boundaries. They're entitled, spoiled and are taught that nothing is their fault. How do you punish these kids? Send them to their bedrooms with their computers, smartphones, flatscreen TVs, and Xboxes? Children don't learn about consequences anymore, because they don't have any. If a kid gets lousy grades it's the teachers fault. But don't worry, they'll never flunk the class.
A lot of parents today don't want the responsibility of actually parenting. Let the schools and the internet/video games do that. Besides, the bus monitor must have instigated it.
► NY Daily News: Teen who plotted to set boy on fire faces 15 years - So the price of lighting a kid on fire and destroying his body and life forever is "$5 to $10"?
► SFGate: Oracle's Ellison is buying a Hawaiian island - From chat:Dran: (I like how the article mentions that the people who live there are kind of confused by that.)
Derek: lot of celebrities own islands
Dran: :-@
Dran: :-D--"Could you name a couple?"
Derek: Johnny Depp owns an island in the Caribbean
Derek: I think Mel Gibson did too
Derek: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_island#List_of_high_profile_island_owners
Dran: oh, I see
Derek: this Oracle guy buying an island doesn't necessarily mean he's buying one of the eight major islands
Derek: I mean eight major Hawaiian islands
Derek: must be some smaller ones around them
Derek: oh
Derek: he IS buying one of the 8 major islands http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanai
Dran: haha
Dran: Because he is a WHACK JOB
► AICN: Your First Look At The Evil Angelina Jolie In MALEFICENT!! - Aww, she's not green.
Garfield Minus Garfield
Quote of the Moment
Fauna: Maleficent doesn't know anything about love, or kindness, or the joy of helping others. You know, sometimes I don't think she's really very happy.
- Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Drinking: water
Watching: Supernatural: Season 6 (DVD set);
Last Watched: The Core (2003; with director commentary);