Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.

Jayne ,'Jaynestown'


Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Liese S. - Dec 13, 2012 5:54:42 pm PST #4371 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

That's a lot.

I'm tired, and I didn't do near that much. But I think I'm mostly anticipatorily tired.


Kat - Dec 13, 2012 5:57:44 pm PST #4372 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Also, I'm doing a ton of work around text sets because the next set of standardized tests in CA will all be built around text sets. As I'm creating them, I keep thinking, well, I can only use them with 12th because if I use them in 9th, then I can't use them again.

Then I began thinking. I almost NEVER re-teach the same thing unless I'm totally exhausted. Since I've been teaching, I recreate curriculum every single year. This year, I have not yet taught ONE book I've taught before. Perhaps that's why I'm tired?


erikaj - Dec 13, 2012 5:59:13 pm PST #4373 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!

I'd say check your thyroid, Kat. But that also sound like tons of stuff. (it's just that my mom felt like that and her thyroid stopped working...)


§ ita § - Dec 13, 2012 6:10:06 pm PST #4374 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Same resident, told me it wasn't fair of me to "tattle" and bounced me again. I explained to her that I had two specialists working on my behalf, that I am seeing them each once a month ,changing meds, having procedure (she allowed that this was true) and that me being in pain isn't (shouldn't and won't) going to make them work faster or better. It's just going to make me non-functional.

She says that the ER is not to be used this way (false--they have pain contracts with a number of chronic pain patients--I don't know how regular they all are, but I do know the sickle cell lady is doing what I do, almost down to the dosage), and so she won't administer any pain medication.

So I'm in the lobby, where I've been about all day, hoping my specialist calls back, because I have no idea what to do. I told her I followed her instructions--she said to go back to my doctor and ask them what to do--she just disagreed with their decision. I told her my "I'm just following instructions" schitck (which is true--I didn't ask him to send me back--I asked him what to do) and she just doesn't care.

And there's no way she's not going to spray paint DO NOT TREAT all over my file, so I don't know. I really don't know.

It hurts, and I'm scared.


Ginger - Dec 13, 2012 6:10:44 pm PST #4375 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Local police just arrested several women who had stolen thousands of dollars worth of nail polish. Does everyone have an alibi?


shrift - Dec 13, 2012 6:14:49 pm PST #4376 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Other than the boss's assessment, why are you a life ruiner, shrift?

I work on an abuse team. We find bad stuff and make it stop happening. It's no surprise that the people doing the bad stuff really don't like it when we do that.


Dana - Dec 13, 2012 6:19:02 pm PST #4377 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I am stuck in my usual loop of not knowing what to get my mother for Christmas.


Ginger - Dec 13, 2012 6:24:05 pm PST #4378 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

ita, it just seems insane that practically every week the hospital ignores your doctor's orders. When an overeager intern treated my father in defiance of a DNR order, his doctor raised hell with the hospital.

How many drug-seekers do they get with doctor's orders and complicated infusion regimens who come in once a week? There is insane troll logic going on.


Lee - Dec 13, 2012 6:26:24 pm PST #4379 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Oh ita. I am so sorry. I wish there were something we could do.

I am on the weekend, so I have a Pisco Sour.

Did Nora or I tell you we found a place on the Embarcadero with a $5 pisco sour special on Sunday? We should do that some time


Consuela - Dec 13, 2012 6:31:15 pm PST #4380 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

It hurts, and I'm scared.

FUCK, ita. I wish I could go down there and raise merry hell.

Christ, you need a medical advocate. Can we hire one for you? I can hire professionals to help care for my parents--why can't we hire someone to navigate the health system for you? This should not be happening.

I would happily contribute to such an effort. I'm sure there are people out there who do this professionally, and you should not be forced to negotiate for yourself while you're in debilitating pain.

It's unconscionable of the ER doc to do this to you: she's NOT a specialist. Damnit.