So, I have not heard from my grandmother, but I have confirmation she read the e-mail. Apparently, she doesn't want to reply because she is afraid it will "affect my exams" which makes me curious about what she has to say to me. Christmas this year will be interesting if she doesn't end up going to Hawaii.
Now, WTH Blizzard? Nerfing spawn rates is fine, but if it is really only by 50% then I am a gnome in truth and not just in game. (i'm short, but not that short) Spend 15 minutes flying around the Briny Much, and saw maybe 5 nodes, and only me gathering. COmpared to 5 stacks before in that time, I think that's more than 50%.
And Blingtron. The rewards are so awesome it is now per account, not per character? I do lie the dressed to kill buff. Looks cool. BUt I haven't even been able to get the quest, on any toon, this week.
Stuck in Miami. Back to looking for eggs for the cloud serpent rep.
Friday, November 30, 2012
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Venting
So today will have little mentions of the lighter side of life, and a lot of talk about something that made me very angry.
I am am affable person. I get along with just about anyone. The number of people I have really hated can be counted on one hand with plenty of room left over.
An old roommate who was bad enough to make me move out after about a week of putting up with her BS.
My brother's ex-wife, for trying to half-assed abort her twins, taking being a jerk to an 11 year old to new heights, and pulling all sorts of crap after the separation with him and the kids.
My grandmother is on the verge of joining the list. I learned a bit about her today. Some I already knew- my older brother is bipolar, and she told my mom to give him to the courts when he was a child because he was really hard to deal with, and had to be hospitalized a few times. A few other things that showed me my brother has a good reason to dislike her.
And what pissed me off today, he attitude towards prescription drugs. My grandfather had a ton of scripts, and my Mom and I put them all in a bag so we could dispose of them. The pharmacy we called first doesn't take them, and we went out without calling anywhere else, so we left them at home. She had made comments about giving some of them to her friends, who might be on the same thing, to save money. I don't think that's a good idea. He was an 83 year old diabetic with heart failure, high blood pressure, parkinson's and dementia. Some things, like his glucose test strips, I'm ok with her giving away. His dementia meds? Not so much.
So I tried to take the bag of meds home with me, to dispose of them, and she blew up. Threw a fit, called me manipulative told stories of giving me meds as a child (cause tylenol is the same as this stuff) and basically really pissed me off. I don't do confrontations well, and I usually try to avoid them. But today I just didn't care. What was my mistake was doing this while my Mom had driven me up and was there. She turned on my Mom about not getting the drugs from her car, and not controlling me. Eventually, because I didn't want Mom to get reamed for this, I gave the bag back. She kept going, so I shut the door in her face and left her house.
Now, tonight she called my Mom and raked her over the coals. I have never wanted to call someone up and bitch them out as much as I do right now. So instead, I am writing her an e-mail, because I can edit out the phrase "manipulative bitch" easier than I can stop myself saying it. To vent some anger, I thought I would share here.
I did double check the laws here, and it is illegal to give away prescriptions like she wants to.
I may be a cold bitch for saying if her friends can't afford the medicine they need to suck it up and deal with it, or come up with the money. I feel it is worse to give someone a few week's worth when they can't afford it and have them start and stop, than for them to have none.
Especially without a doctor' consultation. If she called up her doctor and he said it was fine, then I will apologize and take her to wherever she wants to go to give them out.
Right now, I am trying to figure out how to tell her she is being a manipulative bitch without using that word, or getting my mother into more trouble with her. I am going back to Grenada in a week, and I won't have to deal with her. My mom lives half an hour away, and can't not answer the phone when she calls.
Well, hopefully we can come to some agreement. Goodnight all.
I am am affable person. I get along with just about anyone. The number of people I have really hated can be counted on one hand with plenty of room left over.
An old roommate who was bad enough to make me move out after about a week of putting up with her BS.
My brother's ex-wife, for trying to half-assed abort her twins, taking being a jerk to an 11 year old to new heights, and pulling all sorts of crap after the separation with him and the kids.
My grandmother is on the verge of joining the list. I learned a bit about her today. Some I already knew- my older brother is bipolar, and she told my mom to give him to the courts when he was a child because he was really hard to deal with, and had to be hospitalized a few times. A few other things that showed me my brother has a good reason to dislike her.
And what pissed me off today, he attitude towards prescription drugs. My grandfather had a ton of scripts, and my Mom and I put them all in a bag so we could dispose of them. The pharmacy we called first doesn't take them, and we went out without calling anywhere else, so we left them at home. She had made comments about giving some of them to her friends, who might be on the same thing, to save money. I don't think that's a good idea. He was an 83 year old diabetic with heart failure, high blood pressure, parkinson's and dementia. Some things, like his glucose test strips, I'm ok with her giving away. His dementia meds? Not so much.
So I tried to take the bag of meds home with me, to dispose of them, and she blew up. Threw a fit, called me manipulative told stories of giving me meds as a child (cause tylenol is the same as this stuff) and basically really pissed me off. I don't do confrontations well, and I usually try to avoid them. But today I just didn't care. What was my mistake was doing this while my Mom had driven me up and was there. She turned on my Mom about not getting the drugs from her car, and not controlling me. Eventually, because I didn't want Mom to get reamed for this, I gave the bag back. She kept going, so I shut the door in her face and left her house.
Now, tonight she called my Mom and raked her over the coals. I have never wanted to call someone up and bitch them out as much as I do right now. So instead, I am writing her an e-mail, because I can edit out the phrase "manipulative bitch" easier than I can stop myself saying it. To vent some anger, I thought I would share here.
I did double check the laws here, and it is illegal to give away prescriptions like she wants to.
I may be a cold bitch for saying if her friends can't afford the medicine they need to suck it up and deal with it, or come up with the money. I feel it is worse to give someone a few week's worth when they can't afford it and have them start and stop, than for them to have none.
Especially without a doctor' consultation. If she called up her doctor and he said it was fine, then I will apologize and take her to wherever she wants to go to give them out.
Right now, I am trying to figure out how to tell her she is being a manipulative bitch without using that word, or getting my mother into more trouble with her. I am going back to Grenada in a week, and I won't have to deal with her. My mom lives half an hour away, and can't not answer the phone when she calls.
Well, hopefully we can come to some agreement. Goodnight all.
Friday, November 23, 2012
Thanksgiving
A day late, but still. Yesterday was American Thanksgiving, and I was home. After 6 hours on planes and 8 hours in Miami, I made it home.
As an aside, I fin it ridiculous that I had to pay for wireless in Miami, but in Grenada's teeny tiny airport there was free internet. Thank you, Lime.
I am glad I am here with my family, today and tomorrow are going to be tough.
I am thankful my boyfriend enjoys playing WoW with me. I am glad we have something to do together even when i am in school.
And onto WoW, I started my hunter, Renessa. So far so good, but with a horrible jerk of a tank in the Wailing Caverns run. I'll admit, it was annoying when the healer rolled need on the leather DPS gear that dropped, but we're all still leveling, so whatever. But the tank called him out on it, then demanded he give it to the monk. So I pointed out that the monk, me or my boyfriend's hunter all could have used it. Stupid tank thought we were supposed to wear mail at level 20. Which even if we were, we were level 17 at the time. We had 3 leather DPS drops in that run, and I did get 1. But that little interaction with the tank really bugged me.
I have fond memories of Wailing Caverns. My first hunter wore the leather boots that dropped there up past level 40, when I should have found mail boots. I thought the stats were better. That is one of my noob moments.
So to everyone, a happy belated thanksgiving and good luck anyone tackling black Friday sales.
As an aside, I fin it ridiculous that I had to pay for wireless in Miami, but in Grenada's teeny tiny airport there was free internet. Thank you, Lime.
I am glad I am here with my family, today and tomorrow are going to be tough.
I am thankful my boyfriend enjoys playing WoW with me. I am glad we have something to do together even when i am in school.
And onto WoW, I started my hunter, Renessa. So far so good, but with a horrible jerk of a tank in the Wailing Caverns run. I'll admit, it was annoying when the healer rolled need on the leather DPS gear that dropped, but we're all still leveling, so whatever. But the tank called him out on it, then demanded he give it to the monk. So I pointed out that the monk, me or my boyfriend's hunter all could have used it. Stupid tank thought we were supposed to wear mail at level 20. Which even if we were, we were level 17 at the time. We had 3 leather DPS drops in that run, and I did get 1. But that little interaction with the tank really bugged me.
I have fond memories of Wailing Caverns. My first hunter wore the leather boots that dropped there up past level 40, when I should have found mail boots. I thought the stats were better. That is one of my noob moments.
So to everyone, a happy belated thanksgiving and good luck anyone tackling black Friday sales.
Sunday, November 18, 2012
He passed away, very shortly after I wrote that post. I don't know if I will be able to make it home, but I will try. I guess i spend the rest of today studying physic and histo, and see what the funeral arrangements will be. Physio test is on Tuesday, and histo is the following Monday. I might be able to prepare for both well enough. Maybe Dr. G will let me take the histo test early if he has it ready, or late. I don't know what the school does for students in this situation.
Saturday, November 17, 2012
I don't even know
Shortly after I started school, my grandfather had a stroke. His health has been steadily declining since. I really hope he can hang in there until December 16th, when I can make it home to see him. But just in case, I have looked up ticket prices back home to make sure I can afford one on short notice. I need to study for my next 2 tests, physio and histo, and then animal nutrition, radiology and clinical orientation, then physic, anatomy, and histo again. I figure if I group them like that, and study for all of them together in advance, instead of my usual one at a time before each test, I should hopefully be prepared a week in advance. My professors are kind enough, I hope, to let me take a test early or late if I need to go home. I am not sure what the university has in place for situations like this, but I figure if I am prepared and talk to my professors if I have to leave they will work with me.
It was tough, seeing him on skype. He wasn't awake, he's in hospice care and pretty much comatose now. Doctor said it's a miracle he's lasted as long as he has.
I don't even know how I feel, and when I think about it too long, I cry.
I will just have to continue as if I were a much better student than I am and be prepared at least a week in advance.
It was tough, seeing him on skype. He wasn't awake, he's in hospice care and pretty much comatose now. Doctor said it's a miracle he's lasted as long as he has.
I don't even know how I feel, and when I think about it too long, I cry.
I will just have to continue as if I were a much better student than I am and be prepared at least a week in advance.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Bad Thing to Tell Vet Students
Did you know: you can buy a giraffe? There are website listing exotic animals. Zoos sell the extras from litters they don't need. All you need to do is get a license from the government, and buy the animal. That, is a Bad Thing to tell vet students. Not even an hour later there was a link online to the website. If I had the space and money to care for it, I'd totally be looking for a giraffe. But the idea anyone could get a large carnivore is a little scary to me.
I don't like people in general a whole lot. They're nice, sure, but when it comes to animals they are not very smart and animals are extremely important to me. Thus the four years of torture I am undertaking to become a veterinarian. People do stupid things just with dogs and cats. Do you know some people feed their pets a vegan diet? Cats are carnivores, and have specific dietary needs different from humans or dogs. A vegan cat is not a healthy cat, as far as I know. Maybe someone has figured out the prefect vegan cat diet, but I haven't seen it. So the thought of what people can do to dangerous animal worries me, because even a tame house cat or dog can do some serious injury under the worn circumstances, much less something that is supposed to kill and eat large mammals. Of course, those thoughts don't make me want to stay away from those animals. Just not own one.
On the WoW front, LFR is useful, but another example of people being awful. It's the tanks fault, it's the healers fault, everyone is undergeared, whatever excuse they could grab. We had today: a person who was part of the raid, answered ready checks, and hadn't left the Vale because they didn't want to to the first boss. 3 wipes later, I and one other person were apparently the only people to notice. I did whisper this person before initiating a kick, cause I don't like to kick people unless there is a good reason, like not zoning in for 20 minutes. He just didn't want to do that boss. So annoying.
And once again, our class schedule is wrong. We've had two now. Between the two, we've missed some classes because they weren't on our schedule so students didn't show up. We trust the schedule we're given and don't make another one based on the syllabus, which don't provide lecture times for some classes anyway. If we even get a syllabus. I suppose this is another case of TIG (this is Grenada) the phrase we use to explain anything that goes wrong down here.
So, we've missed classes because:
-the class coordinator was not on the island and didn't follow up with the lecturers to make sure things were happening as scheduled (for a Professionalism class. Great start there.) Missed 2 or 3 classes.
-One professor thinks all his classes are at 3:30, and if they are earlier doesn't come until 3:30 (missed 2 because of this)
-The schedule we were given did not list a class. Missed 2 from this now.
Lovely. Well, on to studying for the test tomorrow/clearing out the guild bank.
I don't like people in general a whole lot. They're nice, sure, but when it comes to animals they are not very smart and animals are extremely important to me. Thus the four years of torture I am undertaking to become a veterinarian. People do stupid things just with dogs and cats. Do you know some people feed their pets a vegan diet? Cats are carnivores, and have specific dietary needs different from humans or dogs. A vegan cat is not a healthy cat, as far as I know. Maybe someone has figured out the prefect vegan cat diet, but I haven't seen it. So the thought of what people can do to dangerous animal worries me, because even a tame house cat or dog can do some serious injury under the worn circumstances, much less something that is supposed to kill and eat large mammals. Of course, those thoughts don't make me want to stay away from those animals. Just not own one.
On the WoW front, LFR is useful, but another example of people being awful. It's the tanks fault, it's the healers fault, everyone is undergeared, whatever excuse they could grab. We had today: a person who was part of the raid, answered ready checks, and hadn't left the Vale because they didn't want to to the first boss. 3 wipes later, I and one other person were apparently the only people to notice. I did whisper this person before initiating a kick, cause I don't like to kick people unless there is a good reason, like not zoning in for 20 minutes. He just didn't want to do that boss. So annoying.
And once again, our class schedule is wrong. We've had two now. Between the two, we've missed some classes because they weren't on our schedule so students didn't show up. We trust the schedule we're given and don't make another one based on the syllabus, which don't provide lecture times for some classes anyway. If we even get a syllabus. I suppose this is another case of TIG (this is Grenada) the phrase we use to explain anything that goes wrong down here.
So, we've missed classes because:
-the class coordinator was not on the island and didn't follow up with the lecturers to make sure things were happening as scheduled (for a Professionalism class. Great start there.) Missed 2 or 3 classes.
-One professor thinks all his classes are at 3:30, and if they are earlier doesn't come until 3:30 (missed 2 because of this)
-The schedule we were given did not list a class. Missed 2 from this now.
Lovely. Well, on to studying for the test tomorrow/clearing out the guild bank.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Ah, Vet School
As an undergrad, I never would have though professional school would be this regularly entertaining. I don't know why the thought never occurred to me, i worked in a research lab with a bunch of crazy fun people. And most of the fun comes from our anatomy professor. Today's lecture was fun. He gave the cat castration talk, and we discussed the male reproductive system. While discussing the cremaster muscle, and the other muscle in the scrotum and their purpose we were asked if we had ever really looked at a scrotum. I don't believe anyone spoke up, we were all laughing, especially when he continued on in his talk telling us we really should, and about swimming in cold mountain lakes. Ah, Dr. P's class is endlessly entertaining. If I wanted any kind of structured lecturing or explanations about what we were about to do, rather than all over the board skipping around as needed with no real clue what is in some of the power points, I would probably hate it. As it is, this test had repro questions on it "so we would've learned it all before [he] teaches it" to us.
A lot of jumping about, but a lot of fun. One of the few classes i can stay awake in without the aid of my computer. Sorry, histo and physic, I know you're important but you're so dull sometimes.
The test went well, I think. One major mistake on my drawing, but not too shabby. I am also finally able to gain August Celestial rep on my tailor, so bag recipe here I come! ...in about a month. 89 on the monk, soon my boyfriend and I can start them on heroics. I want to gear Renala up to raid. I'd love if he could come with me, but with a job with fluctuating hours I am not sure he could promise raid times every week. But I look forward to monk healing, and finishing the Dread Wastes. I hate bugs, so very much, even if I think the Klaxxi lore is cool.
One more test to go this wee, then 2 more weeks until finals! I will be home in a month! Woohoo! I am so excited! I bet all the exclamation points cleverly hid that.
Good night, and good luck to everyone with an equine nutrition test on Friday!
A lot of jumping about, but a lot of fun. One of the few classes i can stay awake in without the aid of my computer. Sorry, histo and physic, I know you're important but you're so dull sometimes.
The test went well, I think. One major mistake on my drawing, but not too shabby. I am also finally able to gain August Celestial rep on my tailor, so bag recipe here I come! ...in about a month. 89 on the monk, soon my boyfriend and I can start them on heroics. I want to gear Renala up to raid. I'd love if he could come with me, but with a job with fluctuating hours I am not sure he could promise raid times every week. But I look forward to monk healing, and finishing the Dread Wastes. I hate bugs, so very much, even if I think the Klaxxi lore is cool.
One more test to go this wee, then 2 more weeks until finals! I will be home in a month! Woohoo! I am so excited! I bet all the exclamation points cleverly hid that.
Good night, and good luck to everyone with an equine nutrition test on Friday!
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