[Jane Sherwood]

And so are bananas, but unless my body's really craving potassium, I can never eat more than two at a time.

Anyone else do that? Your body gets a bit low on a particular vitamin or nutrient, so you sudden get mad cravings for something that contains it without even realizing it? Isn't that weird?

[Slade]

I don't have it happen. I don't know if my body knows what it wants/needs. I've been sleeping so poorly; my internal clock has randomly shifted back a few hours, and on top of that, my sleep is getting worse so I find myself sleeping even later than ever. ><

That is, I'm not getting to sleep until after 4am, and then sleeping in until almost 3pm. It sucks. I'm still waiting to hear about that job. I feel like they're taking their sweet time with it. It'll at least force me to fight against my crappy sleep pattern if I get it.

[Deepsycher]

I always had problems with sleeping. I feel so insecure that I spend most nights worrying these past couple of years. When I am not required to get up I have evening naps to release off the stomache aches and sometimes it doesn't always work.

I better start advertising some private work soon to furfill my industrious interests in hardware then that might be enough to forget about some of my worries. Shame I am surrounded by locally cheap nasty negative things and mostly incompetent local people who encourage the same things in the large colleges nearby.

This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 17 June 2007 - 06:37 PM

[Spoon Poetic]

Janey, that happens to me a lot. Especially with protein. I don't like meat but if I haven't had enough protein lately I'll start craving it. Also with potassium, I'll start craving bananas - even though I'm allergic and don't even like them unless they're really green anyway.

And my sleeping has been really screwy, lately, too. Since half of my thyroid was jerked out of my body, and it wasn't a very good thyroid to begin with, I've developed hypothyroidism. It really sucks. The doctor said I could either get on the medicine that I'll have to take every day for the rest of my life right away, or I could wait a couple of months and see if my half-a-thyroid will start working regularly, and if not (which is the more probable outcome), then start on the medicine. So I picked the latter option... I'm starting to wish I had just gotten on the medicine. I'm constantly utterly exhausted, no matter how much sleep I get; I'm never hungry; my skin is getting grossly dry (and I hate lotion)... Bleh. This sucks.

[Deepsycher]

Sometimes it might be better not to depend on medicine and take the chances to fight the problem. It sounds really horrible but I still think it is worth a try to get the other part to work rather than leaving that part to fall back and become redundant unless for a treatment that can make it work.

This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 19 June 2007 - 01:27 PM

[Slade]

So it turns out that company was just leading me on, and decided today that they aren't going to hire me. Given the circumstances, I'm giving them some benefit of doubt and hoping they weren't meaning to lead me on so much, but I'm still pretty pissed and feel like I've wasted a whole lot of time on something that wasn't going to come to fruition.

Maybe Plan B or C will be a little better for me. Grr...

[Jane Sherwood]

Those utter bastards.

[Deepsycher]

Nonsensical attitude: "The business hasn't got time to go back and keep its promises. We have to consider the mass majority so why should YOU be any DIFFERENT? Why should we employ just ONE! person out of many superiors to pick from?"

I feel so sleepy from taking antibiotics for my toe.

So much is happening but little seems to be changing now.

This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 19 June 2007 - 04:31 PM

[Emu]

complaint: obnoxious people from other dorms who move into my dorm for the summer to "experience" a different place, namely my dorm's unique culture, and then proceed to destroy the things about the room in which they are staying that make that room unique. in particular, lofts. one guy was all like, "I don't need a loft! I have a standard institute bed!" and we tried to convince him he could use the loft for storage, but he wouldn't have any of it. he at least had the courtesy to take the loft apart in such a way that it could be reassembled fairly easily again when the room's usual occupant returns in the fall.

and then there was the other guy, who seemed fairly quiet and harmless when I met him, but his first question was, "what is the policy on painting rooms?" I told him I didn't know, if he was just staying there for the summer, but I informed him that the person who lived there the past semester would be returning to that same room in the fall, the implication being that it would be obnoxious and inconsiderate to repaint the walls.

however, I stopped by my hall earlier this afternoon, and a very unpleasant sight accosted my eyes. unless I am mistaken, (and I very much hope I am mistaken,) I saw the roughly-sawn-in-half, hastily-dismembered, completely irreparable remains of the loft that lived in that room. and this wasn't just any crap pile-of-two-by-fours-stuck-together-with-wood-screws loft like mine is. this loft was nicely finished with wood stain, with beautifully-constructed joints that were made to fit together seamlessly, and carpeted steps leading up to the top part.

not only did this kid destroy a very carefully constructed loft that its maker will be very unhappy to find gone when he returns in the fall, but he left its splintery remains in the middle hallway where the house manager's crew will have to take it out and our hall will get fined for that. that means it comes out of our budget for events and projects.

I should clarify that I am living off-campus for the summer, to "experience a different place," namely, the unique culture belonging to the student house I am staying at. the guy who normally lives in the room I am staying in for the summer asked if he could leave some stuff here, and my roommate and I were fine with it. we just stored it all in a corner. we didn't throw away his robot that we found under the couch. we didn't dismantle the totally awesome lofts. there was an extra desk that we did have to get out of the room, but it is still intact and it is still in the house somewhere, so he can get it back easily when he returns in the fall.

there is no rule that says that summer residents of the dorms can't do whatever they want to the rooms. people who live there during term can build or take apart lofts, paint the walls, etc., and so can summer residents. they are well within their rights to repaint and to take down lofts. that doesn't mean that it's not a total asshole thing to do, though, and there really should be a rule against it. if someone has lived in a room for two years and they are returning to it for a third in the fall, shouldn't they have priority over someone who is staying in the room for all of three months?

sorry for the rant, but I just can't get over how that kid just completely destroyed my friend's loft, so he could have a little extra space in his room for three months.

[Deepsycher]

I would feel devastated if that happened to me. At one time when I was boarding they rented the rooms out on one of the holidays to a bunch of French students and didn't tell anyone who left some of their stuff there.

I was robbed I think of a Star War Triology video set, now remembering an MCA dual ethernet network card (probably doesn't work) and a server rack interface panel (untested). They left an apple at the side of my bath. I think I mentioned this before somewhere.

I was not pleased.

This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 21 June 2007 - 08:16 PM

[Emu]

I would, too. that's why I was extra-difficult about letting someone move into my room on campus for the summer. I thought that perhaps I was overreacting and being overly paranoid, but now I see that I was not.

that's awful that they let people live in your rooms without telling you. it feels like a violation of privacy to come back and find that someone's been using your stuff. it's especially bad that they let the boarders rob you.

[Deepsycher]

They did a lot of things without telling me for the negative. Thats why I don't want to go back to school and I still remain paranoid of people who patronise me.

I get annoyed at television guides on newspapers and on screen listenings when can't get the information right! It is happening more frequently than ever and it is wasting my time.

I wonder if that goes down to the work of some idiots? Very rarely happened some years ago apart from delays mentioned in advance to the schedule or something about a technical fault. Now it seems that wasting people's time is the normal.

"Don't always believe what you read in the newspaper" is become true even for a film! Now onscreen listenings are conflicting to that as well.

"Recently some good films are on, not!"

This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 25 June 2007 - 06:13 PM

[Slade]

Complaints: My girlfriend had to go home and has been having a crappy connecting flight due to the weather in DC. And now I'm back to being reminded that my coop fell through and I have to deal with crappy B and C plans.

[Otal Nimrodi]

Complaints: My girlfriend had to go home and has been having a crappy connecting flight due to the weather in DC. And now I'm back to being reminded that my coop fell through and I have to deal with crappy B and C plans.

I know I'm gonna regret this, but... Coup. You mean coup. Unless you actually had a chicken coop, and the roof fell through in it. That would suck yet, still be strangely awesome because you're a chicken farmer.

[Deepsycher]

..,And don't forget the battery.