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Dear boss,

We had a procedure. I was following the procedure. You decided to throw the procedure out the window and go cowboy. I understand you THOUGHT you were being helpful, but it was not helpful at all. Instead I spent 40 minutes texting with you (when you SHOULD have been paying attention to recess duty...) with you using vague 'it' and 'them' instead of nouns and proper nouns which confused me even further.

So if we could please follow the procedure in the future, that would be great.

Thanks.

I had no problem with the first Pfizer shot beyond hella painful arm, but I was hot garbage after the second.

@aria

Mine lasted only about 24 hours, so you should be okay if yours follows like mine does. (I had exactly the same symptoms, minus the allergy stuff.

@aria

My Kiva use to be a heckin' chonk and I thought that was just how she was. Then we moved into a place with stairs and she shed the weight so fast I thought she might be sick.

Nope. Now she is a healthy boi and happy as a clam to be getting such good exercise.

If we go remote for the last three days of school I swear my zooms will be full of games and fuck work because... fuck work.

#pleasedonttestpositivekid

The little assholes caused panic this morning. They managed to open the drawer right behind the door and it prevented us from opening the door more than a crack.

I'm usually pretty calm but the idea of kittens trapped without food or fresh water had me shrieking for my husband. We got the door open by sticking a spoon in the crack and inching the drawer closed, not helped by asshole Jack sitting in said drawer and preventing it from being closed all the way. >.>

The name basically says exactly what it is about. It follows times that a wide held belief was just plain... wrong. I just finished an episode about leaded fuel and it was amazing.

The Constant: A history of getting things wrong

@derp

Alas, no. It isn't till evening. Thankfully my father and brother made it through. So that is good. Some of the extended family has bowed out.

@quinn

As a teacher (no, I don't have a list this year since I moved out of the classroom) I thank you for all of them.

My elder brother is a quadriplegic, going on 16 years or so now. He use to be my favorite person in the world, but he's slowly becoming that family member that you grit your teeth at and pick which battles you'll fight against their BS.

He gets especially nasty when talking about people who need government help. Housing/food/medical care, etc. As far as he's concerned they're a bunch of fraudsters.

What kills me most about the end is that HE doesn't have to work for anything. His housing, food, medical supplies, etc, it's all paid for by various government agencies. But because other people have "working" bodies then they should be able to get by without help. Only people with HIS level of difficulty should receive any help.

I'm happy to help and take care of him, but I'm also very much looking forward to going home and not having to grit my teeth/fight the urge to leave him hanging in a transfer between bed and chair utterly helpless after he's said something particularly bigoted, racist, anything-phobic or just generally hatetful.

#rant

So many of the things you all have described in your experiences are things that we also see in our exceptionally gifted children, but who aren't/haven't been identified on the spectrum.

So speaking as an educator who wants to have the open mind: Where does the line get crossed for a behavior to be more spectrum than a quirk?

@il-volpe

CHECKS THAT BOX SO HARD

We just had a super random I-am-emailing-the-HOA-tomorrow-to-see-when-they-will-inspect-the-roofs-for-damage hail storm. It freaked the crap out of our resident cats (Calypso and Kiva followed me downstairs to watch from the bottom step as my husband and I stared at the dime sized hail while Lyra hid.) and their fear made me go check on the fosters.

Apparently the nook in our cat tree holds one mommy and four babies. Which is sad, because it meant one baby couldn't get in and went and cowered all alone in the tunnel.

They came out when I sat down all all begged for reassurance. I think Mama sighed with relief her babies were no longer smothering her.

@mietze said in The Work Thread:

It really sucks to have so many people at work say how great I do the job when in fact I know I'm well below my own standard.

I vibe with this statement so completely I can't even express it. This is why I left the classroom.

I'm glad you took this step for yourself. I'm sorry it had to come to this.

@faraday

To follow up @kk - It is perfectly OKAY to feel bad though. You are leaving something that you poured your soul into. It is okay to mourn the loss, even if it was a shitty situation.

Bisexual =/= promiscuous or not monogamous!

You love and commit to whom you love and commit!

My female rogue married the princess, but the game wasn't QUITE ready for a female on female relationship. The emits decided I was a dude.

@ILuvGrumpyCat

Ha! Norwood.

Ohoh,

I also love failing rolls. The Moos I played didn't have this (the only exception I ever encountered being Ansible's Battle Room, but even then, it was more a "missed shot" or some such.) and there was always the temptation to just be amazing always.

Now when I feel that temptation I do a roll and then act out the roll. The failing ones lead to wonderfully funny poses.

@SuperiorHuron

There is nothing wrong with rereading. You never catch everything the first time.