Having a Bad Day?: Get 'yer Hugs here!!

[Orlion Blight he/him]

Well, it appears that one of my laptops died, the one with a bunch of stuffs (including music). Going to try to connect the hard drive to an older laptop tomorrow.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

57 minutes ago, Silverblade5 said:

How to know your band director is incompetent: Half the people from the previous year quit the next one.

That's one way to tell, yeah.  

Not an incompetence story, but vaguely connected and funny: A choir teacher of mine had previously been the band director at a high school. She was also very short. Like, I'm so short that I'd make my coworkers at Outback laugh when I'd jump to reach a shelf in the stockroom, and I thought she was tiny. So, one day, she's leading the band during a football game. They were supposed to play during time-outs, but not when a player was injured. Well, there came a pause in the game, and Band Director couldn't see over the crowd, so she asked one of her tuba players to tell her what was going on. He said they had called a time-out, when in actuality a player was injured. So Band Director led them all in a rousing instrumental version….

….of "Another One Bites the Dust." 

7 minutes ago, Orlion Determined said:

Well, it appears that one of my laptops died, the one with a bunch of stuffs (including music). Going to try to connect the hard drive to an older laptop tomorrow.

Oh, computer troubles. Those suck.  Hope you can get all the stuff off of it. 

[Silverblade5 he/him]

27 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

That's one way to tell, yeah.  

Not an incompetence story, but vaguely connected and funny: A choir teacher of mine had previously been the band director at a high school. She was also very short. Like, I'm so short that I'd make my coworkers at Outback laugh when I'd jump to reach a shelf in the stockroom, and I thought she was tiny. So, one day, she's leading the band during a football game. They were supposed to play during time-outs, but not when a player was injured. Well, there came a pause in the game, and Band Director couldn't see over the crowd, so she asked one of her tuba players to tell her what was going on. He said they had called a time-out, when in actuality a player was injured. So Band Director led them all in a rousing instrumental version….

….of "Another One Bites the Dust." 

Oh, computer troubles. Those suck.  Hope you can get all the stuff off of it. 

So, teacher is bad, and everyone knows it. How do you solve problem? Keep in mind, he's also in tight with current principal

Edited August 20, 2016 by Silverblade5

[Elsecaller3414 she/her]

1 hour ago, Silverblade5 said:

How to know your band director is incompetent: Half the people from the previous year quit the next one.

This happened for me with orchestra; the teacher absolutely hated me and put me in the back just because I was better at playing my instrument than she was. She also was on her phone instead of directing, and she would let the students do whatever inappropriate things they wanted. SO glad she isn't my teacher anymore.

[Sunbird she/her]

I had to play under a band director once who was always shushing us in practice when she thought we weren't playing softly enough. (This was when I was in like 7th or 8th grade, so none of us had been playing more than a couple years.) I asked her once if she intended to shush us onstage during the concert, and you know what she said? "Not if you play quiet enough." And I'm sitting here thinking, we're already playing as softly as we are physically capable of doing. You're going to embarrass everyone because you have expectations for middle schoolers that we can't possibly fulfill?

[Briar King]

Fairly certain I had a baby seizure last night. I had one of my bad aches for a few hrs and while eating all my energy left me. Every other one I've had(4) I could feel happening but this was dif and yet the after effects were the same . Weird

[+Slowswift]

Potentially TMI? No great graphic detail, though. Anyways, Too Gross;Didn't Read: I've been feeling very not well.

Spoiler

 

Guess who woke up with a stomach bug today? Guess who has bowel issues? Guess who's got a stomachache that fluctuates between "ah, I feel fine" and "one twitch and I will puke"?  

On the bright side, I haven't tossed my cookies yet, nor have I had any of the symptoms that precipitate a massive barfing session (nasty taste in mouth, excess of saliva). *knocks on wood, hard, many times*

 

 

[Elsecaller3414 she/her]

Unfortunately, anyone who knows my mouth teases me about how much spit I have. Yet another reason why I don't like my new dentist, apart from the tool he calls "Mr. Bumpy" and the fact that I couldn't eat anything for days.

[Mistrunner]

1 hour ago, Slowswift said:

Potentially TMI? No great graphic detail, though. Anyways, Too Gross;Didn't Read: I've been feeling very not well.

  Reveal hidden contents

 

Guess who woke up with a stomach bug today? Guess who has bowel issues? Guess who's got a stomachache that fluctuates between "ah, I feel fine" and "one twitch and I will puke"?  

On the bright side, I haven't tossed my cookies yet, nor have I had any of the symptoms that precipitate a massive barfing session (nasty taste in mouth, excess of saliva). *knocks on wood, hard, many times*

 

 

Hug a teddy bear and don't let go.

[Delightful]

18 minutes ago, Elsecaller3414 said:

Unfortunately, anyone who knows my mouth teases me about how much spit I have. Yet another reason why I don't like my new dentist, apart from the tool he calls "Mr. Bumpy" and the fact that I couldn't eat anything for days.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Just had a patron ask for a supervisor because I didn't say a machine was cash only before they went to it. Did I mention this patron walked away from the desk before I could relay that bit of information? And that they got mad at me for not printing the document they wanted without telling me which documents they wanted printed ahead of time?

[Aonar he/him]

Does anyone else in here have RISP? (Recurrent Isolated Sleep Paralysis?) If you do, then I shouldn't have to explain why I can't sleep even though it's 2 AM, and I have to work in the morning.

For those that don't, RISP is a wonderful condition, where, every once in a while, for no particular reason, you wake up in the middle of the night. Paralyzed. Having difficulty breathing. And hallucinating things that generally belong in horror novels. It's fun.

Or rather, storming terrifying.

Really, it's not that uncommon of a thing. Most people experience sleep paralysis once or twice in their lives. Results in a lot of claimed alien abductions, but most people put it down to a nightmare and forget about it within a couple days. I am not one of those people.

For some reason, my genes happen to be just broken enough that, whenever I'm stressed, or sad, or have drank too much caffeine, or sometimes for no reason at all, I'll experience sleep paralysis multiple times. Often in the same night. 

It was worse when I was young, (I've had it almost as long as i can remember) although I had no clue what was going on then. Incidents were frequent enough that I ended up teaching myself most of the tricks psychologists give to people to help manage it; learning to meditate through it, distancing myself from my emotions and focusing on moving my fingers and toes to break the paralysis. 

As I've gotten older, they've gotten less frequent, but I still usually get one or two every few months, usually when I'm feeling particularly down or stressed. Which, really, isn't any better, because now every once in a while when I get a particularly bad one, it catches me completely off guard. Like tonight. 

So here I am, over half an hour later, dead tired but unable to sleep, still half convinced there's a demon lurking in the shadows of my room, and only just starting to calm down. Sleep-deprived work tomorrow is going to be great. 

[Delightful]

@Aonar Faileas all of the hugs!

if it helps, imagine highstorm-Syl protecting you from the demons. 

Literally all of the hugs. That sounds awful. 

[Briar King]

Chiggers. They got me last night in a severely uncomfortable place and have made today maddening!!!!

[Sunbird she/her]

6 minutes ago, Briar King said:

Chiggers. They got me last night in a severely uncomfortable place and have made today maddening!!!!

Ugh. I used to get chiggers during the summer when I lived in Virginia. I think the only places they ever bite are severely uncomfortable places!

[Delightful]

The Burkini ban in France makes me angry. Maybe we should bring back men with rulers making sure people's bikinis are large enough too? 

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

I really hope I can get rid of Bruce's fleas soon. (The vet said it takes about three months, and I've been doing everything he said to do.) Not only for the obvious reasons, but because after I combed a few out of Bruce's fur, I caught myself whispering "Die….die….die…." as I flushed them down the toilet.  

[Kaymyth she/her]

7 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

I really hope I can get rid of Bruce's fleas soon. (The vet said it takes about three months, and I've been doing everything he said to do.) Not only for the obvious reasons, but because after I combed a few out of Bruce's fur, I caught myself whispering "Die….die….die…." as I flushed them down the toilet.  

Yeah, it took about that long to eradicate Leia's when she got them last year.  Regular doses of Frontline + regular baths (but spaced from each other so the bathing doesn't wash off the medicine).

[Mestiv he/him]

4 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

I really hope I can get rid of Bruce's fleas soon. (The vet said it takes about three months, and I've been doing everything he said to do.) Not only for the obvious reasons, but because after I combed a few out of Bruce's fur, I caught myself whispering "Die….die….die…." as I flushed them down the toilet.  

You must have some very resilent fleas there in the US when I get a cat with fleas, all it takes to kill them all is a few dozes of a special medicine applied on fur and they're dead the next day. All of them...

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

5 minutes ago, Kaymyth said:

Yeah, it took about that long to eradicate Leia's when she got them last year.  Regular doses of Frontline + regular baths (but spaced from each other so the bathing doesn't wash off the medicine).

That's what I've been doing—giving him the prescribed flea treatment once a month, bathing him once a week, going over his fur with a flea comb at least once a day, washing the sheets and bedding once a week, vacuuming every day. It's frustrating, though, still seeing fleas after doing all that. I know it's going to take time, but it still feels like I'm on the losing side of a war. A war against insects with superhuman jumping abilities and the resilience of a cockroach that's been genetically spliced with a Twinkie. 

4 minutes ago, Mestiv said:

You must have some very resilent fleas there in the US when I get a cat with fleas, all it takes to kill them all is a few dozes of a special medicine applied on fur and they're dead the next day. All of them...

I think cat fleas are easier to get rid of than dog fleas, though. I dimly remember having a litter of kittens that got fleas when I was a kid, and they were taken care of pretty quickly. 

[Kaymyth she/her]

18 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

That's what I've been doing—giving him the prescribed flea treatment once a month, bathing him once a week, going over his fur with a flea comb at least once a day, washing the sheets and bedding once a week, vacuuming every day. It's frustrating, though, still seeing fleas after doing all that. I know it's going to take time, but it still feels like I'm on the losing side of a war. A war against insects with superhuman jumping abilities and the resilience of a cockroach that's been genetically spliced with a Twinkie. 

I think cat fleas are easier to get rid of than dog fleas, though. I dimly remember having a litter of kittens that got fleas when I was a kid, and they were taken care of pretty quickly. 

It really depends more on how quickly you catch them.  Once they've gone through a full life cycle, you then have to wait for the next round to hatch and get poisoned before you can get them all.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

4 minutes ago, Kaymyth said:

It really depends more on how quickly you catch them.  Once they've gone through a full life cycle, you then have to wait for the next round to hatch and get poisoned before you can get them all.

So how do I catch them in time?

[Orlion Blight he/him]

23 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

So how do I catch them in time?

Luck. 

It's best to not get them in the first place 

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

3 hours ago, Orlion Determined said:

Luck. 

It's best to not get them in the first place 

Little late for that, Nostradamus.

[Quiver he/him]

3 hours ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

So how do I catch them in time?

I suggest a Net Ball. As bug types, that should get you a higher percentage chance of getting them before they flee.

...we're talking about pokemon, right?

(More seriously, good luck getting them.)