I had a trainee tonight, which I hate.  Not that she was in any way objectionable, in fact she's a lovely girl who's asking good questions and is likely to be a fine operator once she's got the details down. I just despise training, and I always have.

It's a strain for me. Being observed while I work makes me nervous. It's one of those learned ( Read more... )

OK, so I went to the hospital a few weeks ago, and they kept me in for a few days, and then they let me go because I was going absolutely nuts and there's a really nice outpatient place that just opened near me where I could do my ongoing IV therapy ( Read more... )

Hey, you know what?

I was bullied as a kid. I know you're shocked, I'm SUCH an accomplished and savvy person now, it can't be possible!

( Right. Ahem. )

Am I the only one who, when viewing fic-community entries on my flist, sees that someone has coded non-default fonts and colours into their post and immediately skips over it, because this is someone who thinks they are a speshul snowflake ( Read more... )

So. Gord is on IV and being force fed, and the vet says he's keeping it down. He's not making a lot of fuss right now, but I can hardly blame the poor guy. He's got a line stuck in him, and they're forcing him to eat, and he doesn't know why or where I am, etc... I OK'd some bloodwork, as the X-ray didn't show anything. I hope my little guy comes ( Read more... )

Took Gord to vet. He bitched only a little, and not very stridently, and that alone is proof positive that he wasn't well.

( Cut for veterinary blah blah blah. )

Yep, my furry idiot is back. He came waltzing up to me as I came home from work, yelling. I took these pictures shortly after I brushed him out, as he was freaking grimy, and he's now had food and more water than I thought he could hold, and is hanging out very close to me.


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An entry in one of the atheism-related communities I follow reminded me of an incident when I was nineteen or twenty, and got invited to a church-sponsored picnic in a Florida town ( Read more... )

I have to stop watching movies like this (it's a dark comedy, I guess?) when I'm tired. I have no defences left by the time they get to the gut-punch.

Did you really leave me again ( Read more... )

It's official. Gord's getting his name changed to Bag of Soup ( Read more... )