[ToxicShadow]

This is something of a miniature rant thread. Sometimes, things annoy us, be they big or small things, and sharing them and getting them off your chest can sometimes make you feel a little bit better.

It should be obvious that we should never rant about other users, staff, their work, and such things (even if you leave out names, it's rude and disrespectful), but the generalized Evelon related thing like, "It annoys me when I can't decide on a layout for my pen," would be okay.

So, what annoyed you today?

It annoys me when my bedroom is hotter than every other room in the house.

It also annoys me when I feel bored, have things I can do, but still don't feel like doing anything. Then I just sit there like a bump on a log. I wasted most of my morning because of this, dang it.

[Middy]

Shopping for Thanksgiving, so many people butting in front of one another or taking up whole aisles to chat with others. I just want to get in, get done, and go home.

Also, not being able to drink still. Just two more days and I can celebrate being off antibiotics =x

[Baconwizard]

I was trying to think of something that bugs me and I just remembered about a big stressful thing in my life ok so. To graduate from my school, you have to complete this big research thing. Basically, you choose a topic and then write a paper, complete 20 hours of volunteer work (5 of which have to relate to your topic), and then we make a very long and involved presentation at the end of the year. It's a new initiative thing that was introduced last year, and it's so convoluted and the teachers in charge have no idea what they're supposed to do, because the administrators gave us little to no guidelines for how they want things to be done. But they do want it to be ~*~*super duper spectacular great*~*~ because I go to a "smart" school, and so we're held to a higher "standard of excellence" and anyway, getting off topic because this program makes me so frustrated and stressed out.

It just makes me sad, because... I do like volunteering? And I like writing research papers, and I totally get passionate about certain subjects. But when they put this... ridiculous standard on students, and throw us out into a pool full of sharks when we don't know how to swim. It's so frustrating. And if any school in the district could do it, it's probably ours, but I don't... want to do it. It shouldn't be required, I think. It kind of turns me off to the idea of civil service and presentations, just because I hate being forced to do something. I can understand it if I chose a class that involves a research paper and project. I probably would really like it, if it was a class I chose. But it's something that every student is required to do, and that just sucks all the joy from it.

But yeah. I'm just trying to stay on top of it, because a lot of kids aren't turning in the work on time, and there's rumors that they're going to start making it for a grade (which they should have done before; like what did they expect, pfft.). Anyway, what really gets my goat is when teachers who make you do these types of projects, and ask for 5 billion components and 10 billion micro-components within said components, don't check their email. Because I have nooooooooo clue what I'm supposed to do, and my teacher isn't getting back to me. :'| Ah well. This turned out much longer than I meant it to be, whoops. Ranting is done.

[crow]

Right about October/November, our house always sees a huge influx of fruit flies. I have no idea why. They're the worst, and no matter how many of them I kill, it seems like there's always more... And we're stuck with them til spring or summer, I think.

I killed like twelve just this morning. :/ My hands hurt from slapping windows and walls. Fruit flies, please go away. You're not welcome here.

[Silver]

I just woke up, and my boyfriend snores SO LOUD.

Also waking up and it's all sticky and hot, that happens pretty much every morning during the spring and summer.

[Atoli01]

My body is extremely delicate.

...I just got splinters from a leaf today. Two of them. (Leaves and I have a bad rap. One sliced my finger open last year.) I get hurt by just about everything. My best friend's dog left a scar on my leg and I almost always have twenty bruises on my body of which I have no idea from where they came. Can my body just... not?

[Mojave]

Lots of things frustrate me. People in general, but lately my job and my headaches have driven me to the point that most days I seriously have to keep myself from crying.

I work in a mail order pharmacy, and I just went through training to handle the insurance aspect of the job. As if insurance and people getting pissed off because medical/prescription insurance pretty much leaves them up shit creek without a paddle aren't stressfull enough. But our training was LITERALLY just reading a training manual that's out of date. And the SOLE topic of this "training manual"? How to navigate the system which was built in the 80s and hasn't been updated since. Is there anything on how to do the job? No, not beyond running a trial claim. We have a GIANT list of reject codes as to why a person can't get their medication filled, but do we understand them? No. Where can we turn to figure it out? Guesswork. Reaching out via chat to an office in Florida, where nobody knows anything more than we do and they have to reach out to account managers, etc. Nor do they have access to the same things we have. And vise versa. Their sharepoint has TONS of information ours doesn't. And when we found out how to access theirs? How does the company react? "You can't use that". And as if this isn't horrible enough, they took away one of our systems so we can search to see if it's a specialty drug. WTF? I mean seriously, WHY hire over 200 people, if they're not going to give us the tools to do the job? Why expect us to handle calls in less than 3 minutes and have virtually no callbacks when we don't have the means to simply look at something concise and easy to read? The resources we do have are all out of date and never get updated. They have this shit up on a sharepoint, but instead of updating that file, the training team updates personal copies to their personal computers and keep those up to date and then get pissed when we can't help someone. Or worse, the head trainer looked at me and told me to check my manual to figure out what was going on with a claim and when I turned to the page that was supposed to have that information, I showed her TO HER FACE that it's not there. And I TOLD HER to her stupid face the book is useless. And she wants to get offended at me?! STFU and GTFO.

So now that that is out of the way, I've also been having migraine troubles again. Have been since before I moved up here. I don't know how my body hasn't adjusted to going from swamp bottom East Texas to over 3k in elevation after seven months. Unless this is just another piece of what's going on internally that's stopped my fertility cycles? Before we moved up here, I went to the doctors, they did the yearly examination of the baby factory. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. They checked for cysts with an ultrasound(?) and nothing looked out of the ordinary. Ran a full screening of any diseases/infections and it all came back negative. In conclusion, they have no idea why what's going on. I have no clue what this could possibly be. But I very rarely don't have a migraine. Which is why I'm pretty inactive now. By the time I get home, I do my dailies on FR because it doesn't require any thought. Or I just surf around on Evelon looking at what's going on. But I have absolutely nothing left to devote to any site. And it doesn't help that my migraines are more often than not complex lately. That means it mimics a stroke. Fun, right? No. Not at all.

On that topic, that takes me back to work. I've got a LOT of missed days at work because of my headaches. I've had to go home MANY times with them because I could no longer perform my job. I'm close to being fired for my attendance. I tried to talk to HR about an LOA, so that when I go home with a migraine I don't get any further points against me. I told them I've had migraine problems off and on since middle school. Do they care? Nope. A mail order pharmacy. Doesn't care that I have documentation from a fucking DOCTOR. It's not good enough.

I'm just ready to quit. Quit my job and quit Colorado. This place has been a nightmare from day one. And I hope we seriously do move to Arlington, TX next year.

[Azura Rayume]

My dad trying to talk about science in any way. Apparently, since science has learned some things in the past x amount of years and changed how things are viewed, science is actually dumb and invalid and his opinion matters about it. I mean, you can't show a herpetologist a garter snake and tell them its actually "a deformed ribbon snake" without actual proof (i.e. "I bred it from two confirmed ribbon snakes"). You can't show a female skeleton to an anthropologist and say it's male even though the pelvis is wrong because "well, no, he's deformed there, no, he has lady hips." AND THEN WHEN AN ACTUAL EXPERT TELLS YOU YOU'RE WRONG, SAYING "THAT'S YOUR OPINION" DOES NOT MAKE YOU RIGHT.

If being a dumbass was a superpower, he'd be the greatest hero in the world.

[Mojave]

Something else that annoys me to no end? Snow. It was just 60 degrees yesterday. Now I can't even see the mountains because it's snowing again. And sticking. FML.

[crow]

My caffeine tolerance. Or rather, my complete and utter lack thereof. Seriously. I had a slice (just the one!) of tuxedo cake at my friend's birthday party four hours ago and I can still feel my heart rate doing funky things, and I've got a mild headache now. It was a chocolate cake, for goodness sakes! Not an espresso!

... I'd probably have to go to the hospital if I had an espresso, to be honest.

I didn't grow up with this either, it's only come about in the last year and a half or so. I miss chocolate so much but every time I have it now I regret it.

Gosh it wasn't even a big slice of cake. Why me, man? Why? Other people can guzzle coffee like it's nothing but here's me, four hours later, bemoaning a slice of chocolate cake.

[Silverin]

Getting sick... I don't wanna be sick... I was fine yesterday, no sore throat, cough or stuffy nose, but today? Nope all of those. I can't even focus properly. x^x I wanted to have wave over for supper Wednesday but I don't want her to get sick either.

[zapdragon555]

I second Wizard's sentiments on this project. It's terrible.
Also @crow I experience that too as of late? I can never eat much sugar without getting kinda anxious / irregular heart rate and idk what makes that happen. If I had to guess it might just be that you're not used to it. We never got unpleasant sugar side effects as kids because we ate sugar all the time and in pretty large quantities (at least that was me lolol) but nowadays I usually stay away from lots and lots of sugar. It's a funky thing.

As for what's making me upset right now I s2g I can't enjoy delicious fried catfish without my gut screaming at me for days afterwards. I hate acid reflux, man, it ain't fun, frowny face.

[Middy]

Looking through my closet and trying on shirts I KNEW fit me, but don't anymore because my boobs got up to a 40C. I dfk how, but they grew so much. Used to be a 32C... WTF? So I either have to give them away, or use some as jacket-shirts, so bye bye some of my favorite clothes because my momma muffins grew so much. Without gaining that much weight due to birth control pills packing some on, I'm still mostly muscle =| Blaming my German heritage on this one.

Trying to get some work done around the house because I'm feeling better, but stupid nerve damage comes to bite me in the ass and make my legs so shaky I can barely walk. Now I have to take more time off re-doing the floor in my room because some shitty drug perma scarred my brain meats into not working properly. ALSO, being on antibiotics at the same time that makes me feel so sleepy and kinda icky. Thank goodness I am on the last day.

ALSO... nurses asking me for a urine test to see if I am pregnant.

WHAT
THE
SHIT

If they read my MEDICAL HISTORY they would see I had I dunno... something called a hysterectomy!? Do they know what that is or just stupid? My goodness, when I got asked that I just rolled my eyes in disbelief. How do I read durrrrr....

[Kylo]

People on the frickin bus not knowing how to cover their damned coughs and sneezes. If there is anything in the world that drives me up the wall it's poor hygiene and not covering your nasty disease spreading orifices when currently hacking something up. It makes me so fricking paranoid that I seriously consider wearing my n-95 masks on the bus. I hate being ill, I get ill easily, so therefore I scream at adults who act like two year olds and don't cover their coughs! *eye twitch*

Another thing that really ticks me off is when someone denies doing something for a long time and then one day goes "oh lol I did do that I just forgot and made you out to be some crazy idiot who makes stuff up, sorry, lol." My mother does this consistently and it drives me batty. She tries to make me out to be the one who is losing their mind, when it's her and after a while I start to doubt myself, because I'm consistently told it never happened when I know it did. Don't do this to people. It fricks with their head and is very cruel.

[Azura Rayume]

I can't beat this damn quest. I can't even hit the thing! This is supposed to be Novice? People keep saying it was "easy" and "pitiful?" I'm on my fourth try and have wasted as many inventories of resources, and I can still only get it to half! Worst part it, it's only a lv 54. I'm almost DOUBLE that. I shouldn't be having this kind of issue but I JUST CAN'T HIT IT.

-punts RuneScape into the sun-