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[Frumple]

Yeah, the way that gets one-upped is when you're largely immobile and someone else has to do it to you

it's only relatively better being the one dealing with the application

still pretty sure I'd choose lead over going through that again, really

[zhijinghaofromchina]

These days I felt somewhat depressed, because not only the classes, but also the stuff around me is also boring. For example, I took part in a drawing competition, but the organizer changed the voting rules, making it easier to cheat, she did this without any notifications, so the winner was just the organizer. Really ironically for such a laughable black box operation , right? Another thing is about the advanced Maths Test. For the students who learn pharmacy, the content I learnt is very easy, till now I don't know why I only get 78 points.

At the beginning of this term, I made up my mind to become the most excellent student, though laughed by my roommates, I still learnt very hard, just keeping the good habits I developed during my middle school time , I want to become the best , while I must acknowledge that I am ordinary , maybe I am the toad who wants to eat the meat of the white swan , haha !

By the way ,today I also take part in a extremely boring exam , the content is about writing a boring article which is advocating the good leadership of the CPC and the President Xi , haha , just very disgusting , I still remember the time when I was reading the 1984 written by George Orwell , the doublethinking strategy hears so realistic .

Now the hot enthusiasm created when I first entered the uni had cold down , just like a cup of warm tea left in the freezing winter , it will quickly and unavoidablely cold down .

[Akura]

Parents are constantly on me about seeing a doctor. For the past several years, about every year or so in the fall, I get this persistent cough the last weeks to month. This one is not the worst I've had, but it's one of the longer lasting.

The problem is, my parents don't know what the hell they are talking about. They don't even understand the basic chemistry of what they're talking about. They seem absolutely fixated on the fact I wear a mask at work(primarily because it's a dusty environment), and seem to think I wear it all the time. At one point, they suggested my cough is the result of "breathing too much of my own nitrogen" because of the mask. Except, my yearly cough has been happening well before the pandemic.

Just now, I stopped them from putting a humidifier in my room. I already know it won't help, and I doubt the various electronics in my room would appreciate it. And now they're also talking about calling my doctor behind my back, something they said to my face. I have in fact gone to a doctor about this years ago, and they said there wasn't much to do besides try to alleviate the symptoms.

[Great Order]

Been feeling generally bummed out this week. Dunno why. It's not depression, thank God, but I'm wondering if it's uni stress or isolation. I know a good few people here, but it's not like my last uni - There's no real solid friendships here. People I'd call friends, yes, but not tight friends if that makes sense.

Only two more weeks though and I'll be headed home, and I've got family to meet with and at least one day where I'll be meeting up with my best friends since it's become a Christmas tradition to get back to the town we went to school in and get out to the pub.

EDIT: I am down with the sickness.

Alas, it's a cold and not a song. Snotty nose, bit of phlegm, chest pain (Which has become a regular feature of my colds now, it seems), coughing and sneezing, and tiredness. Something's changed these past few years and I have a much more severe reaction when I get the things than I used to. Saving grace is that I don't get them near as frequently.

[MCreeper]

Wrong thread!
Or not. Wanted to download "The Fool and his Money" game once again, but it turned out that:
1. Game was available for purchase only from dev's own site with him manually mailing a key, and he, of course, couldn't be arsed to do that anymore.
2. Someone, exasperated at this, have finally made a keygen for it, and you could download the game itself from the site.
3. Post mentioning the keygen was from seven months ago. Now, site is closed down with vague promise of return.
4. "Torrents", from which game could be downloaded with no trouble before, have mysteriously vanished.

Developer seems to be one of the very few who successfully destroyed own offline game after it was out. It is hair-pulling to see a work of genius apparently disappear into thin air because... because?

[Eric Blank]

Not sure where to post this, but sometimes I worry my cat wasn't actually a stray, that the people at the houses I asked at just assumed she was, and I just picked up someone's kitten that happened to be out for the night and she followed me home because she was scared or something.

I don't know if I would have given her up, now. Obviously back then I would have in a heartbeat if i knew she had a home. But now I can't imagine life without her.

[None]

Stray hold laws probably mean she's yours, and absolutely mean she's yours if you've microchipped her. You've given her a happy, comfortable life that doesn't involve escaping into the night. You owe nobody nothing if someone were to come asking.

We have kind of a similar origin story to our pittie- found him wandering the sidewalk outside - no name tag, tattered collar and leash, no microchip. We put signs out about the lost dog, made posts on Facebook, informed animal control, the works. Nobody claimed him, and after the ten day stray hold, we adopted him in as our own and microchipped him- and just one day later, the family three doors down claimed he was theirs and called the police, who called animal control, who confirmed that yes, we did every step correctly and he's very legally our dog.

He doesn't escape the house, he's got a tracking collar if he does, plus the microchip for identification. He was filthy and dehydrated when we took him into our yard, so he was outside for longer than the ten days we had him in stray hold. His life is magnitudes better in our hands- shit, he cuddles in bed with us instead of outside in the dirt.

You give that cat the happy life she deserves.

[nenjin]

Kinda sounds a bit like my cat. Found him outside of work on a busy street just meowing his guts out. Climbed into my lap immediately. Clearly wasn't feral. His fur wasn't even matted. But oh boy he smelled like a dumpster.

So I know he was either someone's abandoned pet, a run away or something. But he lives comfortably with me now (if not exactly happily because he doesn't get to go outside on a whim.)

[Great Order]

Apparently cats can easily get lost if they wind up in unfamiliar territory, even if it's as little as a street over from a place they know.

Vitally important to get your pets chipped.

[nenjin]

And yet there are stories of cats that have crossed the country to find their families again.

Animals are just like people in that regard. Anyone that tells you animals don't have personalities that run the gamut is a fucking idiot.

What's got me upset today......

I take a week vacation, then a week of work travel, and come back to find almost no one on my team has done anything. Pissed off customers left and right, so I've been doing damage control for the last day and a half. Had to take my team to task and tell them "We're all slackers here, we know that, but slackers have to step up from time to time." They were both trying to come in late despite being the only two front line phone support people, and I thought it was REALLY understood that when the guy who normally is there in the morning was on the road, that they needed to show up at the start of the day. But no, I'm on site, getting ready to work with clients and I have to check in and ask them "why are neither of you clocked in yet."

I hate that as soon as I'm not watching the chicken coop, everyone gets lazy on me. I thought the last year+ of setting expectations means I didn't have to micromanage them. But no. Two weeks out of the office and not directly dealing with business, and I'm come back to half a dozen things that have sat for over a week because no one was grabbing work, or attempting to deal with things in my and another coworker's absence. I've had zero downtime the last day and a half as I try to clean up the last couple weeks of work, and don't anticipate I'm going to get any in the near future.

I'm just burnt out. I've been putting everything into work trying to stay dialed in but when the people around me start getting lazy it makes me feel like I'm the only one who actually cares and my cup is rather empty after a solid year of craziness. The last month is always a clusterfuck too as everyone tries to get their shit closed out before the end of year, and every disgruntled middle manager decides this is the month to blow up at us and tell us how unhappy they are with us.

It's always been like keeping plates spinning on sticks around here. But now I feel like I'm using both hands, both legs and my teeth and shit is STILL falling through the cracks. I'm fucking exhausted. The week off I got for Thanksgiving didn't recharge me at all. And I feel like Xmas isn't going to be any different. *sigh* I need to take a month off for mental health. I can't keep running at these RPMs for eternity.

Then again...I'd be terrified at the state of things if I was checked out of work for a month.

[Loud Whispers]

These days I felt somewhat depressed, because not only the classes, but also the stuff around me is also boring. For example, I took part in a drawing competition, but the organizer changed the voting rules, making it easier to cheat, she did this without any notifications, so the winner was just the organizer. Really ironically for such a laughable black box operation , right? Another thing is about the advanced Maths Test. For the students who learn pharmacy, the content I learnt is very easy, till now I don't know why I only get 78 points.

At the beginning of this term, I made up my mind to become the most excellent student, though laughed by my roommates, I still learnt very hard, just keeping the good habits I developed during my middle school time , I want to become the best , while I must acknowledge that I am ordinary , maybe I am the toad who wants to eat the meat of the white swan , haha !

By the way ,today I also take part in a extremely boring exam , the content is about writing a boring article which is advocating the good leadership of the CPC and the President Xi , haha , just very disgusting , I still remember the time when I was reading the 1984 written by George Orwell , the doublethinking strategy hears so realistic .

Now the hot enthusiasm created when I first entered the uni had cold down , just like a cup of warm tea left in the freezing winter , it will quickly and unavoidablely cold down .

Stay strong! Don't burn yourself out working too hard. It's very important to pace yourself

Apparently cats can easily get lost if they wind up in unfamiliar territory, even if it's as little as a street over from a place they know.

Vitally important to get your pets chipped.

One of my friends' cat once disappeared from London and was found by a football club in Birmingham. The football lads were very keen to keep the cat but when they brought it to the vet they found out it was chipped and registered. The legends actually drove all the way down to return the cat with a tearful goodbye to their one-time meow

[Egan_BW]

That cat felt the call of migration, I guess.

[Rolan7]

My cat would always get confused by the 2nd floor door under our apartment.  I guess she understood having to climb stairs to get home, but not that it was two flights.  I usually had to pick her up for the last flight, silly kitty~  Other than that she was amazing at staying close to me as we walked.

[Loud Whispers]

That cat felt the call of migration, I guess.

[after a 2 month oddyssey ending in a pub in birmingham]

cat: this isn't my house

[Frumple]

not its beautiful cat house
not its beautiful cat wife