I think we’re a bit overdue for another open thread for personal stuff. As per usual, no trolls, no flames, no being a butthead.
I’ll paste in some recent personal comments from other threads.
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Open Thread for Personal Stuff: November Rain Edition
pecunium – love that OED swipe at Dawkins. How ironic that Professor Miserygobshite wants to introduce “dundridge” as an insult for other people.
Perhaps we need the word dawkinsludge to describe a misogynistic, pompous, blinkered, racist and generally bigoted Oxbridge snob who thinks achievements in one field qualify him to pontificate on the world in general.
Dawkins is all like “I made up a word and now it’s in the dictionary. I’ll just start making up words for all my pet issues and then they will go in the dictionary and everyone will have to admit I’m right about everything!”
(Should we tell him that meme, as it’s actually used, means something totally different than what he meant?)
Nah, he’ll just react with his usual “LA LA LA I can’t hear you and also you are a poopyhead because you are not me” reaction.
Oh, katz, I emailed my gf in LA to see if she knows anyone looking for an adult cat.
React and reaction in one sentence, well done there.
In other amusing news, Creeper McCreepyson that I was having issues with earlier clutched his pearls over me blocking him. Obviously I am now the BAD kind of crazy, the kind that needs meds and counselling! (Note that this was the dude who was creepily fixated on my deep dark secrets and traumas. Guess he doesn’t like it so much that I have boundaries and actual wherewithal to give him the boot!)
So if you’re the Bad Dangerous type, how come he’s hanging around your blog? [rhetorical question]
You blocked him before, didn’t you? Has he done the new IP address thingy?
Maybe you need to wax your mo’ and practice twirling it to scare him off in true cartoon villain fashion.
Hm…I created an email to use for the admin account instead of exposing any of our emails to trolls…you want to use it?
RE: Kittehs and Argenti
Nah, he’s not that clever. He’s just whining on his own blog, and one of my friends told me about it. I ended up drawing myself holding a sign reading, U MAD BRO? I figure I won’t really have any more problems with him. He has two whines left in him, tops, and then I expect him to fizzle like a cheap erection.
Awesome, we have a post! Thanks, Ally!
LBT – oh, gotcha, I thought you meant he was doing a Mr 90% on your blog.
Re: Cats. I’m not really a pet person, but I have a friend who’s a retired cat behaviourist, and her cat has an advice blog: http://catadvisor.blogspot.ca
Ally, I agree that it sounds like your father is trying to mess with your head. Even when I was a kid, the optometrist included me in the conversation about my vision. Given his history of trying to control you, and the fact that you don’t experience any vision problems, it sounds like bullshit to me. (I got laser vision about 12 years ago. Best money I ever spent–but the trick is, of course, to have the money in the first place.)
Also, don’t get too hung up on the type of job you go after. It would be NICE if you could get something that would develop your skills and experience for the type of career you want to pursue, and it would be LOVELY if you do could something that feeds your soul and passion. But if the issue is money (and getting away from your dad for a few hours, and being less dependant on him), there’s nothing wrong with fast food or convenience store clerk, or janitor, or what have you. People your age are expected to have non-career jobs to pay some bills while you’re getting experience and credentials.
I do really appreciate everyone who tries to help my kitty cats; I wrote a post about them with photos in case anyone wants to share it.
@katz, I will share and ask all my friends to share too. I wish I could adopt Sweet Pea. Oh hell, I wish I could adopt them all…
You already found a forever home for one of my kitties and I will always be grateful for that!
Beth loves Shana so much. It’s sweet. I’ll signal boost all I can!
I really do wish I could take one more cat, because Sweet Pea is so adorable. Tawny is lovely too.
Remind me what the rules are, so when I post I don’t get any false positives…
I got a jury duty letter. FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK.
(Is it bad that I’m sort of excited even though transportation’s going to be a bitch?)
Oh shit. I just realized that I used a misogynistic slur. I’m sorry!
🙁
Rules for adoptions? Indoor-only is the only important one.
I wish the kitties could travel via the intertubes and come here!
(All right, it’d have to be a kitty who likes other kitties, but still.)
Ech, jury duty. I got that letter once, but was excused because the trial conflicted with my teaching schedule. I didn’t know how stressful the whole thing was for me until I left the courthouse and realized I had NO IDEA where my car was, beyond that it was in the underground parkade. Took me about 45 minutes to track it down.
I’ve been called for jury duty a couple of times – first, didn’t go in at all, second, I’d just got some work and was able to beg off on that account. Haven’t been called since and that was thirteen years ago. ::crosses fingers::
It’s my first time, so I’ll have to see whether I’ll be called in. I had to postpone it so that it starts first day of Winter Break. FUN!
I really hope my dad isn’t actually lying to me about that eye doctor appointment. But’s most likely true, given that yesterday he never mentioned the eyeglasses again. I’m pretty sure he only mentioned the eyeglasses thing in an effort to make me feel guilty for not listening to him and obeying everything he says.
@moldybrehd
I…honestly had no idea that eyesight could improve over time. o_O That really changes my perspective on things.
Also, I just want to say that I really appreciate talking to all of you guys. I apologize for coming here all the time to dump negative thoughts, but it really does help. And with that, I should probably hit the sack.
I have cheering news – the witchy kitties have learnt how to use the catflap.
On the advice of a friend who came to stay, I spent the week with the catflap taped open (and with frozen feet as a consequence). Each day, the catflap was lowered a little so that the kitties gradually got used to pushing a little as they went through it. And this weekend, I removed the tape and was ruthless about leaving the kitties out in the cold. Strangely, when howling pathetically failed to bring their human under control, they decided to make use of the flap.