Are you pissed off? I'm pissed off. Vent Thread.

[r00]

Yeah, it may be a smart play for you to stay over there for a while.  This is a double or triple dip recession happening right now regardless of what the mainstream media tries to tell people.  Repubs threw the pitch and the dems are running the bases.  lose/lose

[naut]

I was just coming in to whinge about money.

[Naylzie]

I think teaching is prematurely turning me into the old lady that shakes her cane and yells at the damn kids to get off her lawn.

I have one who simply CANNOT stay after school because she takes the BUS and there is no possible alternative EVER for her (even though I *know* this school does have some sort of late-bus system in place), who today gave me MASSIVE attitude, to the point where I almost threw her out, about writing her up for skipping out on what was already a second-chance detention.  To clarify, the incident went thusly:

I have had to implement a policy where coming to class unprepared is an offense worthy of after school detention in order to get them to bring their shit to class.  The student in question didn't bring her things to class two days ago.  I told her to stay after, she countered with "omg bus," to which I answered, "Okay, this ONCE, I will allow you to stay for me TOMORROW.  Make alternate arrangements and BE HERE."  To her good fortune, I even REMINDED her yesterday.  She still opted not to show, so I wrote her up.  She comes in this morning all attitude and bluster, DEMANDING to know WHY I wrote her up when she TOLD me she couldn't stay after.  I calmly and curtly responded that I had given her the benefit of the doubt in allowing her to defer her detention, and that she had made the choice to skip anyway.  She then accused me of not reminding her, to which I responded that a) it's HER responsibility to remember when she owes me time and b) that I *had*, in fact, reminded her anyway.  I then informed her that there was no further discussion to be had, and that she could take her seat.  She continued to attempt to argue the point, to which I loudly remarked that if she did not sit down and take out her things for class, that I would send her BACK to her VP (we have two, one for 9&11 and one for 10&12). 

The first half of class, she sits silently in her seat and seethes.  Then, after lunch, she's suddenly Miss Star Student.  At the end of the period, when I make the mistake of complimenting her maturity in getting over her misplaced anger and participating in class, she proceeds to ask me if I'll mention it to her VP because she REALLY can't stay after school because it will jeopardize some REALLY IMPORTANT dance competition or something.

Ugh.  Kid, get your fucking priorities in order.  If you cared HALF as much about getting to English class and doing well as you do about dance, we wouldn't be having this conversation.  One of these things will affect your eligibility for a majority of decent-paying jobs, nevermind college.  One of these is a nice hobby, possibly a scholarship, but honey, you are probably not gonna go pro because those are few and far between, and I'm pretty sure you're too old to start at it now. 

[luna]

You teach high school? You are a brave woman.

[dee]

Brave and/or insane  *hugs*

Am thoroughly irritated at the other half. He's decided to NOT give me a firm departure date and yet expects me to finalise our trip/moving plans.  AND he still hasn't brought me boxes in which to pack our shit. Arrgghh!

[TPD]

Word.  On the plus side, that is pretty much the best profile picture ever.

SIR, THAT IS WIN.
DID YOU MAKE THAT?
DO YOU HAVE A LARGER ONE?
NEEEEED IT.
<3




vents... hands better but i'm still wasting away. think i may be dying. kinda sucks. maybe i can milk it for pussy?

[sin]

Here you go.

I did it in 5 minutes while drunk.

[TPD]

<3

[Naylzie]

You teach high school? You are a brave woman.

Brave and/or insane  *hugs*

I like to think it's and.  I might just be insane at this point though.  Thanks for the support though   In fairness to my meatspace peeps, it's not like there's a shortage, but this one class is running me DOWN, so I am totally feeding on kind words right now.

Am thoroughly irritated at the other half. He's decided to NOT give me a firm departure date and yet expects me to finalise our trip/moving plans.  AND he still hasn't brought me boxes in which to pack our shit. Arrgghh!

I hate to buy into anti-male stereotyping almost as much as I hate to bandy about anti-feminist insults, but I'm finding more and more that that is a wicked guy thing.  We can't figure out the budget, but he's upset that I'm not planning the wedding.  He never knows when he'll be off work, but he always wants me there to get him right when he does. Ughhhhhhhhh.  I am sorry your other half is also being irritating, and about bigger issues than mine is.  *hugs*

[dee]

Ric's just a world-class procrastinator. Therefore, it's my job to hold things together while he's off dreaming of world domination. And normally I do that rather well. It's just times like this when he apparently thinks I'm psychic that it irritates me. I guess that's what I get for being mostly psychic the rest of the time. 

[TPD]

whoa, naylzie teaches hs?
i got it bad i got it bad i got it baaaaad i'm hot for naylzie...

[rokken like dokken]

I hate to buy into anti-male stereotyping almost as much as I hate to bandy about anti-feminist insults, but I'm finding more and more that that is a wicked guy thing.  We can't figure out the budget, but he's upset that I'm not planning the wedding.  He never knows when he'll be off work, but he always wants me there to get him right when he does. Ughhhhhhhhh.  I am sorry your other half is also being irritating, and about bigger issues than mine is.  *hugs*

That's not a "guy" thing, that's an oblivious thing.  If I were living somewhere like KSA and planning to come back you better believe I'd have a firm departure date.  And the packing, well, yeah; I've been with my dad helping people move long enough to know that you had better be packed well in advance.  It might be an upbringing thing, too; it's hard to say. 

[Aaron]

I fucking hate going to the doctor. I don't mind getting stabbed by needles (not doing drugs. Just doesn't bug me. Also don't mind seeing blood, mine or someone else's.) (I also have a very high tolerance to pain... Like stupid high...) I just hate going... I don't know why. But I do. I have health insurance which should cover most of the bill. (If not all. I think I get like 4 doctor visits free or some thing like that.)


I need to go to a foot doctor and see if they can't just take the whole nail out. Christ maybe both of them. That would be sweeeeeet.

[MrMonster]

I just got word the lawyers are sending me back to the doctor who sent me back to work the 2nd time saying "it shouldn't get any worse". Yeah sure, now I've got numbness in the entire right side of my body from the bottom of my foot up to my face. (original injury there was only numbness from the waist down) So going to the teaching hospital and spending $450 out of pocket to get the opinion of a GOOD doctor apparently meant nothing. >_<

Oh and my dad is still kind of insane. So I'm still worried about where the fuck I'm going to live if things get any worse

[doom]

My sleeping habits are horrible lately. even on my days off I have trouble sleeping past 9:30. I also can't seem to get to bed until after 1:30 a.m.