start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

There were commercials, also much breaking away to report on the state of Ronald Reagan's colon.

Trying to work out why I suddenly can't access seemingly any new website through firefox this morning. Thought it was bad enough when avast was blocking me from getting onto Demonoid yesterday.
Not sure if the 2 things are closely interrelated or just coincidental but it's a major pain.
Seems like everything is timing out, even something as popular as Amazon.

So not sure if problem is my computer, Firefox acting up or Avast becoming over stringent. But it is preventing me from getting anywhere on the net today.

bought a 6pack of bagels from winco on friday

ate 1 yesterday, got up this morning and every single bagel left in the bag now covered in grey mold D:

and not just spots here and there...like they had been dipped in paint

they werent even meant to expire til tuesday

FUCKERS

Writing a check to order checks.

the need for checks

fuck checks

Oh man, the mad scramble to find a checkbook when one is necessary.

i prefer checks

also i have 18 left and am dead set on ordering w/ a new address

the last time i tried using a check to purchase something it got denied because i never use checks

Paid some money into my savings account today and was given 20 questions because the cheque looked funny under their mysterious "illuminator" device, which it eventually turned out was probably because the chequebook was over a decade old (a combination of rarely using cheques and accidentally losing a chequebook, asking for a new one, and then finding the old one)

(is the illuminator just a UV light? wondering if I have a UV light to shine on my chequebook now. perhaps I should just go clubbing and bring a variety of chequebooks of various ages to inspect.)

(oh yeah I was transferring money into my ISA which is why the cheque was from my own chequebook)

One of the college stations I sometimes listen to (WRUW at Case Western Reserve U.) has a top-of-the-hour promo with Belle & Sebastian's "Women's Realm" as the music that says, "In the indie pop song of your life, we're the handclaps." It makes me want to punch my radio.

in the torture chamber of your life, we are the cages full of rats

People who sit down on the bus/train with their backpack still on.

people who leave backpacks on generally. was pleased to see nyc subway has signs telling people to take them off. that needs to be global.

It just makes no sense. You're going to crush your electronics and your lunch.

uh how about i'm tired and just want to sit the fuck down and then after i sit down i'll take off my bag tyvm

Acceptable.

One of the college stations I sometimes listen to (WRUW at Case Western Reserve U.) has a top-of-the-hour promo with Belle & Sebastian's "Women's Realm" as the music that says, "In the indie pop song of your life, we're the handclaps." It makes me want to punch my radio.

I doubt WCSB would pull that shit.

Haha, I listen to WCSB more than any other station!

scratching a small scab off your scalp, then losing it in your hair, having no access to mirror and worrying that you've got a clump of dried blood with hair sticking out of it adhering somewhere to your head in plain view of everyone

Reaching critical mass wrt to hacktivism. Has there ever been successful legislation or a genuine change as a result of these campaigns? Maybe the ineffectiveness of such weak efforts is why they have to go so hard on sounding like heroes "fighting the good fight".

Hah i meant slacktivism. Not hacktivism. Hah. Hackers rule.

Just the whole "fighting" and "battles" and pretending like you are coordinating with other leaders. It's like playing army in the woods. Grow up.

I think you could cut out a lot of IA if everyone using the word 'meta' had to replace it with 'derivative'.

I like when I go to a theatre rehearsal and one hour later we're still talking about starting. Glad I raced over after work for glorified social hour

Still have not started. This is the most insane thing I've ever experienced with a rehearsal.

theater people make me irrationally angry tbh

ia at myself - painted my nails yesterday & already peeling / scratching off the polish today

this is why i cant have nice things. i am a child

ia at my mum who saw sinead o connor perform live & gave the mommingest review ever "i would have left if i could, she didnt talk to the audience once"

fffuuuu god forbid she not tell a long story about her childhood jeez

People at work here who think it's perfectly OK to pop out staples on the carpet and leave them there. It's not like anyone runs around barefoot here, but it's still dropping trash on the floor.

People at work here who think it's perfectly OK to pop out sausage rolls on the carpet and leave them there. It's not like anyone runs around barefoot here, but it's still dropping trash on the floor.

It's worse that it's 29c in here and the things are growing.

argh for some reason I have a completely irrationally excessive annoyance response to the sound of sniffing, like it completely derails my train of thought and puts me on edge waiting for the next one, and the guy who sits two feet behind me has been sniffing approx every 15 seconds for the past week and I am a) almost ready to kill someone b) not managing to get useful amounts of work done c) cranking up my headphones (which I think are frowned upon in the office anyway and I have to keep taking them out when people are talking) until my ears hurt but still I can hear the magic frequency which makes all my nerves jangle

(angsty parenthetical: there is something fucking wrong with me that I can't function when another human is back-to-back with me and I wish I could fix it but I don't know how. every little noise or just the feeling of having a human right behind me seems to jam some neurotic lever to the ON position all day.)

but anyway. RARRRR

My boss used to have this tic of making a weird water drop Bloop sound with his mouth whenever something was tight against deadline. I learned to ignore it, but recently, he developed this much more annoying sidewinding five-note whistle. And he does this tic much more frequently. He does it so much that sometimes I think I hear it even when he's gone home for the day.

Anyway. I've got a routine doctors appointment today, and I'm sitting here with a bunch of oldies in the blood draw clinic. That fuckin whistle shoots out of some old lady's purse, and for the first time I realize, it's not an annoying tic my boss makes, but some stupid ass ringtone of some sort.

I've probably posted about it but there was this whistle thing that's apparently a default samsung ringtone and I somehow never encounter it in my normal life, but if I am traveling in airports it is EVERYWHERE and it took me a long time to figure out wtf it was

aps, I have a huge problem with head/mouth noises generally and sniffing specifically, especially if it's rhythmic or repetitive. Like, whatever else I'm doing doesn't matter and I might as well be standing inside a giant nose. Repetitive throat clearing also drives me nuts.

I can handle being back to back with someone, although it is not how I would prefer to sit, but I can totally empathize with how that would make you crazy. I have a problem with people standing directly behind me, especially if they direct their voice towards the back of my head. Like turn around and punch first, ask questions later problem.

My boss used to have this tic of making a weird water drop Bloop sound with his mouth whenever something was tight against deadline.

irl lol
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Like, whatever else I'm doing doesn't matter and I might as well be standing inside a giant nose.

I think it is a samsung whistle. Can't find it on the ipad.

I can't stand people standing right behind me either. Even well-intentioned coworkers who drop by, see my monitor, and go "yeah, that was some plane crash, wasn't it? Hey, let me ask you about..."

Co-worker of mine does that all the time, except he sneaks up behind me, then puts his face right next to mine while staring into my monitor.

I would involuntarily harm that person. I'm jumpy and easily startled as it is, but holy geez if someone did that to me I seriously think I would elbow him in the face before my executive functioning could kick in and override my lizard brain.

Jeff has so far managed to escape serious harm but I have called him terrible names at the height of my terror if he has the misfortune to walk too softly into a room and fail to announce himself. Once I was rocking the baby back to sleep late at night and he got up and stood in the doorway of her room to check on us, and all I saw was this dark shape looming in the door and there was a lot of shrieking.

A former boss used to help employees w/ computer stuff by leaning over and putting his arms around us to use the keyboard. Fucking awful enough even if his breath hadn't smelled like actual feces.

UGH NO gross where was that? That's terrible.

My personal biology and sinuses and whatever I got going on is kinda messed up, so I have always had to do that throat-clearing thing, particularly when I change atmospheres (for instance entering a building with AC) and it has definitely caused problems for me. I wish to hell I didn't do it but it's some kind of unconscious thing I can't control.

UGH NO gross where was that? That's terrible.

My sexual harassment flower shop job. His keyboard embrace wasn't (only) for sexual harassment though - he did it to every employee who needed help.

My dearly beloved has chronic sinus problems so I am legit sympathetic and I've worked really hard on being better about it but maybe I have repressed memories of being beaten by somebody with a bad cold because it still drives me nuts on like a primal level. xp

A bit shaken up by a sewing machine needle hitting me rather too close to my eye yesterday. Just bounced off the bottom of my eye socket/top of my cheek. Came pretty unexpectedly since i was just going through fabric on a shirt whose cuff I was doing.
Glad it didn't get any closer to my eye or the lens of my glasses which it might have shattered.
Needle snapped and sent this shard flying. Seemed to be a couple of cm away from something that would have caused some nastiness.

Also annoyed at myself for not getting more familiar with the overlocker during the course I was doing the shirt for since I might have been able to rethread the thing and get the garment closer to finishing. Would love one of those machines.

I would involuntarily harm that person. I'm jumpy and easily startled as it is, but holy geez if someone did that to me I seriously think I would elbow him in the face before my executive functioning could kick in and override my lizard brain.

― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Thursday, March 26, 2015 11:16 AM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've never hit anyone, but I nearly reflexively punched him in the face the other day.