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Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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I’m probably overreacting, but I feel that my second language skills have gotten rusty after an extended absence and I worry that signing up for a course at a slightly lower level will look super bad.
I don’t have to retest or take any training, but am choosing to do so because I want to improve after being off and not using it for so long. We have way fewer staff who have this capacity now and i want to be back where I was.
I had a short phone evaluation today and I didn’t place as high as I would have liked. The evaluator thinks I’ll be back to advanced in ten weeks.
I don’t have to retest or take any training, but am choosing to do so because I want to improve after being off and not using it for so long. We have way fewer staff who have this capacity now and i want to be back where I was.
I had a short phone evaluation today and I didn’t place as high as I would have liked. The evaluator thinks I’ll be back to advanced in ten weeks.
GasBandit
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Within 5 minutes of my arrival at my Dad's house in Colorado Springs, we got a call - my grandmother (his mother) has just had a heart attack and is in the hospital. We're trying to get details, but all our plans for this visit are now in jeopardy. I might have to drive to Grand Junction tomorrow, where we would do a couple days of moral support but otherwise be standing around useless and bored, before I have to drive home and go back to work :/
We're trying to find out if we're actually needed, if the heart attack is actually anything serious, but it's difficult to tell because the relatives who know what's going on aren't available for the phone, and all the ones that are available, are only able to give vague recollections.
On the one hand, I do of course want to be there for my grandma... but on the other hand, I hate to torpedo all our plans to sit useless in a waiting room for a couple days just to have to drive back again. :/
We're trying to find out if we're actually needed, if the heart attack is actually anything serious, but it's difficult to tell because the relatives who know what's going on aren't available for the phone, and all the ones that are available, are only able to give vague recollections.
On the one hand, I do of course want to be there for my grandma... but on the other hand, I hate to torpedo all our plans to sit useless in a waiting room for a couple days just to have to drive back again. :/
We have this stupid cyber security training at work that sends fake emails that are obviously mimicking spam. If you click on it, you have to rewatch this hour video. I got one, and deleted it. However, by clicking on the email to delete it, it triggered the loading of the HTML to load a 0x0 image with some link to their site indicating that i opened it (despite not opening the PDF attachment). Now I get to waste an hour of time on useless training.
Ugh, sounds like what I went through last year. I hope she has fewer issues with infection than I did.
Grumble grumble.
I have “never load remote images” turned on in my email just to avoid this kind of web beacon BS.
—Patrick
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So you're saying you missed your chance to politely refuse salad dressing by using your surgery as an excuse?
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None yet. The surgery was laparoscopic, and they only made 5 small holes, Externally, she's fine. In fact, she's 2 weeks ahead of schedule on physical therapy, they say.
Somehow, I think this news story is relevant to @GasBandit 's current situation:
Chrome’s ‘No Internet’ Dinosaur Gets a Party Hat For Chrome’s 10th Birthday
Chrome’s ‘No Internet’ Dinosaur Gets a Party Hat For Chrome’s 10th Birthday
Some PETA cultist got into my friend's head and has made her feel like she's committing a crime for getting a bunny. -_-
"I don't plan on keeping it. Oh, hey, you wanna come over for dinner next week?"
More "I can't believe I've spent my whole life having pets and never questioned if it was wrong." I feel like I'm talking to a wall; she's got this nonsense stuck in her mind now and until she backs away from it, there's not going to be any helping her.
If anyone would kill the bunny, it'd be PETA. They loooove killing animals.
It's ridiculous to think that having a pet is wrong. I'm hoping to get reincarnated as a housecat. If I woke up as a bunny, I'd be utterly relieved to be somebody's pet instead of constantly on the lookout against foxes.
Life in the wild is short and brutal, and we're doing good by keeping pets away from that horrour.
Life in the wild is short and brutal, and we're doing good by keeping pets away from that horrour.
Absolutely. While cats and dogs are most common, a lot of pets would be prey animals in the wild. Her rabbit has over a decade life expectancy right now as a pet. I promise that's better than any wild rabbit in the world.
Having a pet isn't in and of itself bad. Certainly many/most dogs, cats, pet bunnies, ferrets, but also cows and such, have all been domesticated so much they can't really survive on their own in the wild. Yes, there are wild or gone-feral dogs, but they're not exactly mini poodles.
On the other hand, some types of pets - and of pet owners - can be a bad idea. Having a border collie is a great idea, they're awesome dogs. Keeping a border collie cooped up in a small apartment 24/7 is a horrible idea, they need space to move and run. Some types of exotic birds, reptiles, fish (etc) are highly endangered, keeping them is wrong because they've most likely been caught in the wild and transported to the West - encouraging such practices is bad. Force-feeding your dog 'till it's a waddling ball of lard is pretty much animal abuse. Some behaviors some pet owners like and think are "funny" or "cute" are actually signs of severe stress and are signs your pet's doing bad. Buying bred pedigree dogs (or cats, etc) can be a problem - many breeders are in it for the money, leading to inbred, over-bred races with horrible defects ,badly socialized animals, serious misgrowths, types of dogs where over half of each litter is killed off because they're not up to spec,...Again, such things should be discouraged if not outright illegal.
Having a bunny, or rescuing a dog or cat from a shelter and giving them a warm home where they can live as animals (they're NOT miniature furry people) is a good thing for those animals.
Be smart about how you deal with your animal(s), research their type/breed, get to know their personality so you know what they need and want instead of just projecting your own needs and wants on them, and the animal will most likely have a great life.
On the other hand, some types of pets - and of pet owners - can be a bad idea. Having a border collie is a great idea, they're awesome dogs. Keeping a border collie cooped up in a small apartment 24/7 is a horrible idea, they need space to move and run. Some types of exotic birds, reptiles, fish (etc) are highly endangered, keeping them is wrong because they've most likely been caught in the wild and transported to the West - encouraging such practices is bad. Force-feeding your dog 'till it's a waddling ball of lard is pretty much animal abuse. Some behaviors some pet owners like and think are "funny" or "cute" are actually signs of severe stress and are signs your pet's doing bad. Buying bred pedigree dogs (or cats, etc) can be a problem - many breeders are in it for the money, leading to inbred, over-bred races with horrible defects ,badly socialized animals, serious misgrowths, types of dogs where over half of each litter is killed off because they're not up to spec,...Again, such things should be discouraged if not outright illegal.
Having a bunny, or rescuing a dog or cat from a shelter and giving them a warm home where they can live as animals (they're NOT miniature furry people) is a good thing for those animals.
Be smart about how you deal with your animal(s), research their type/breed, get to know their personality so you know what they need and want instead of just projecting your own needs and wants on them, and the animal will most likely have a great life.
Didn't I mention I got a new job? Yeah, it's babysitting 24 children and 18 teens. Quite the challenge, honestly.
I'm sure there's a website that can have someone bike over and deliver it to your door. I mean, we have them over here.
I'm picturing a cyclist traversing a sprawling town, baking under the Texas sun as he makes maybe 1 delivery an hour.
GasBandit
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Probably not for ~5 bucks though, which was the cost of shipping.