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@kk said in RL Sads:

And there is not enough nurses to care for all the patient's there is right now. I just got home after my government provided replacement didn't show up and we had to scramble. A manager took over so I could get a few hours of sleep before tomorrow. At a certain point is just not enough nurses to care for everyone. I am working insane hours. So every person who stays home is lowering the burden on the medical system, which is about to break right now or at least it feels that way.

I would say a lot more about the situation right now, but I just don't have the words right now and I think I would get emotional and too intense real quick.

I hope your friend improves, Ghost and I am sorry to hear about her situation.

A lot of my city's nurses got sent to another city in the state where there was a worse outbreak and now it's worsening here so they've raised us to a level 4 and are begging people to not travel (since, surprise surprise, the state gov is once again blocking lockdown attempts) because we don't have enough nurses for the increase in patients.

And yet, this many months in, I have still seen posts on Twitter like 'Do you actually know anyone who has had covid?'

Like I'm sorry if you don't know anyone who has either a) you're lying, or b) THE ISOLATION IS WORKING YOU DONUT

@Macha said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

I don't know WTF is wrong with my legs. I've NEVER had dry skin issues, beyond needing some lotion now and then in the winter. Right now, my legs itch almost constantly, and I've scratched myself bloody more than once.

Different lotions, creams, moisturizers, and nothing seems to really work. I've cooled down the showers I take, use moisturizing body wash... I just.. I'm so befuddled.

This may be a totally weird one to ask, but: how's your liver?

I'm in a medical study for a medication for liver disease (and good news: my last labs came back with a marked drop in liver enzymes, so it seems I may be on the drug itself and it is working!) and one of the questions I got asked is if I get random bouts of itchiness. Apparently it can be one of the big symptoms! Not one I have (thank god), but it was something I got asked (since they can use it as one of their metrics to track if the drug is helping or not).

So if you do have liver disease, it might be the answer as to whyforitchy.

Solo Thanksgiving means all the cider and pumpkin pie to myself.

Watching my cat check out whipped cream (put a little bit in a bowl for her) for the first time was a treat. She sniffed at it and then got VERY excited.

@Aria

I found this pattern and I am absolutely making it.

If I have yarn left over / if it's not too tricky to make, I might be willing to make one or two for cost of supplies/shipping for anyone interested (this is all post-holidays since I've got a few gifts to make for people!).

Speaking of those gifts:
I'm delving into mini embroidery to make a necklace for my mom. I've meant to for ages, but I'm gonna finally give it a shot. :X

@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

She refused to yield, so it ended up having to go to mediation.

So, I'm going to be a professor in a few weeks, and y'all have me spooked.

I had like, 3 bad instructors out of the grand total. And in each case it boiled down to pure ego.

One who did the whole 'I don't give As to show that you have room to improve' (and so he BEGAN his grading at 90 and sharply went down from there). The lady who refused to acknowledge outside issues. And then the guy who would outright yell at us. He one time goaded a girl into speaking her mind and then yelled at her to shut up as soon as she started to do so.

I am PRETTY SURE you will be none of these things.

My best instructors were the ones who gave me honest, thorough feedback. Who were willing to take the time to talk to me when I had questions. Who provided a cut-and-dry syllabus (really, there is no need for cutesy shit with a syllabus: there's a reason there's a formula. it works and people understand it).

@aria said in The Work Thread:

@ganymede goddammit, let me be excited about one thing in 2020

have the kind of confetti you won't find in your bra three days later

Covid has impacted me a lot more than I'd like.

I'm normally kind of hermit-y, but...

***=I ended up realizing this became less about coping methods and more a rant about how much I've struggled***

so anyway
uh
I cope by sleeping way more than I should and playing video games

@too-old-for-this said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

I have bounced from job to job to job to decades because the repetition KILLS ME. I get so bored doing the same thing over and over and over again. And I'm afraid, because my current job is nothing but repetition, and I've just passed the one year mark, and I'm feeling antsy.

Most of your post is me, but this definitely is.

It's why I'm glad I finally found work as a writer. I could have potentially (unlikely since they all paid less than my unemployment was paying me and that's saying something) found a job in IT sooner, but I hate doing IT. I hate it I hate it I hate it. It's boring. It's repetitive. It's a fucking cog in a machine where you're punished for creative thinking.

But writing... I love words. I love crafting them. I love weaving them together. And I love technical writing (which is ... not a common mindset to be sure) because it takes that love of words, my technical aptitude, and combines it into a puzzle: learn this, learn it better than the person who will be performing it, now present it to them in text (and sometimes visuals if I'm lucky enough to do those, too!) so that they, too, can understand.

I've been so frustrated lately because I keep hyperfocusing at the wrong times on the wrong things. It's like midnight rolls around, people start winding off to go to bed, and I go 'I'll work a bit on <insert craft project here> to wind down before bed'

Next thing I know it's 6am and I'm still caught up in 'Just one more row' 'Just one more section'

@greenflashlight said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

@auspice said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

I don't know how people can. You can't look at two eyes at once.

Wait, can people look someone in both eyes at once? Is that something other people can do?

that's what I assume looking someone in the eyes is?
Because it seems super weird to stare at one eye
i don't know
this is why i hate it and it makes me anxious

@too-old-for-this said in Critters!:

@auspice Yours look almost exactly like mine! XD One big fat white/tabby and one skinny black (well dark brown in my case). And yes, the 20 lb asshole wants me to hold and cuddle and scritch his butt all day long. And if I do not, he will go loudly complain to my housemate.

Both my cats want cuddles almost 24/7 but the boy will settle for screaming at me until I let him go out on the balcony.

@badger said in Critters!:

@auspice

WHOA YOU'RE RIGHT.

That explains why our grey boyo is turning orangey.

Hey if human hair can sun-bleach so can cat fur and they spend hella time lying in the sun if they can get away with it

@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

As a former child

lies.
you entered this world a crochety old man.

I hate snow. I hate it so much. 26F in Austin is just wrong.

That said.
I love adaptive all wheel drive.
And seeing kids making snowmen and throwing snowballs was p damn heartwarming.

@Coin
I more mean in the cases where it's the same person. Over and over. When you've spoken to them about it: 'Hey, if you don't think you can keep up with this, don't promise it.'

It gets frustrating after a while. And it's never a 'I'll try to...' it's always this guarantee they want you to trust.

I get that people forget. That things come up. Totally understand. But I don't appreciate the person who gets bent out of shape when they say 2 hours, then after that window has passed, I'm asleep, busy with other things, etc.

It's the expectation that my life is on hold for theirs that gets me.

@Coin said in RL Anger:

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

Oh, I absolutely get it. I'm just saying it's likely not on purpose. You still have the right to be annoyed about it, obviously.

It's one of those situations where... I know I put effort into keeping up with such promises. Or if something comes up, I drop a note: 'Hey, I know I said I'd get together with you tonight, but I totally spaced on something else I had already committed to. We will get together soon!'

I guess some days, I want that same level of dedication/consideration, damnit!

@Coin said in RL Anger:

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

@Coin said in RL Anger:

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

Oh, I absolutely get it. I'm just saying it's likely not on purpose. You still have the right to be annoyed about it, obviously.

It's one of those situations where... I know I put effort into keeping up with such promises. Or if something comes up, I drop a note: 'Hey, I know I said I'd get together with you tonight, but I totally spaced on something else I had already committed to. We will get together soon!'

I guess some days, I want that same level of dedication/consideration, damnit!

Yeah, I know the feeling.

I also know sometimes I am the source of that feeling in others.

It's a strange dichotomy that I am not always very proud of.

Not being a hermit is hard sometimes. It's part of why (along with trust issues >.>) that I keep a fairly narrow circle of friends.

@Apu said in LootCrate Experiences:

As for liking everything in a box, I look at it this way. I might not like everything in the box but even if I don't I can save what I don't like for gifts. I'd be spending money on something to give someone as a present anyhow, plus I'd have to run out to the mall or wherever and all that. So in my mind it kind of all balances out for me.

That's how I treat it. I tend to like 50-75% of what's in each month. I've had it over a year and there's only been about 3 that I felt 'meh' about overall. But in each of those cases, the crate had items that I know friends of mine would be into. So I held onto them for gifts.

@silentsophia

Those things have made people fucking nuts. Now, I like some Funko, but goddamn the scalpers.

I went to ECCC this year. 2nd day. Got there super early so I could be early on in the vendor hall lines. Have a friend who collects and there were a couple exclusives she wanted. I got in to find that every single (they sold X amount of exclusives each day) exclusive sold out BEFORE they opened the doors to attendees because of the vendors buying them all up.

Spoke to a guy later in the day who had a VIP pass, which let him in earlier than the standard attendees. He said even he wasn't able to get any... because of the vendors.

I put some of the blame on Funko for how they do this, but a lot of it on the resellers.

I played the beta fairly extensively, so I can try answering questions also. However, the release version is already fairly different... so my info may be incomplete.