Life is teh suck today because (a.ka. the official B_tch & Moan thread)

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#541

Yep, making next to nothing sure helps keep you unperturbed in chaotic financial times. I might be starting a third job at my local PBS station later this month. It’ll mean zero free hours during the week, but once it gets more consistent, I hope to be able to drop the bagel place and eventually the Omnimax theater gig. Guess that’s kind of a gripe and a hope.

Oh yeah, the bagel shop just closed for two days for remodeling, giving me two days off, and I just got sick. Still, I haven’t had consecutive days off in a few months, so I’ve stocked up on Kleenex, tea, and protein bars and plan to spend the next couple days wallowing. Heroes is on tonight, so there’s a good start!

#542

Man I couldn’t work at a bagel shop. Getting up at like 4 am, serving people in a rush with really specific orders + Mass orders from like construction workers…holy craaaaaaaap

#543

You should try teaching at a conservatory! :wink:

I get up at 6 a.m. (that’s not too bad, I guess, except I’m naturally a night owl). Shower, have breakfast and run out the door by 6:45. It takes me a while to get up to Baltimore from where I live outside DC. I’m lucky if I’m in the building by 7:45-8:00 (traffic was great today for a while and I thought I was going to make it in by 7:30, enough time to catch up on email. But no. There was a disabled vehicle on the BW parkway and traffic drew to a standstill for a couple of miles. Frakking rubberneckers!) then teaching at 8:30. At best, my students are near catatonic. At worst they’re complaining about me to my department chair because they think I’m improvising rather than teaching from a lesson plan (I guess all those hours I spend during my weekend prepping lessons for the coming week were wasted), complain that they’re not getting the concepts clearly but then are practically asleep any time I ask if there are any questions or concerns AND they complain if I give too much homework in order to reinforce the concepts they complain that they’re not getting in the first place.

They simply don’t pay me enough for this crap, but I can’t afford to give up this job right now. UGH! I hate, hate, HAAAAAATE my theory II class right now.

#544

Are you teaching at the Peabody?

#545

Whereabouts outside of DC? I’ve got family like right on the border on the Maryland side

#546

Yes indeedie.

Whereabouts outside of DC? I’ve got family like right on the border on the Maryland side

I’m on the Virginia side, just past the Wilson Bridge. Hence my hellishly long commute.

#547

My car is dead. Its dead, Dave. Dave, its dead. Its just not worth the 2500 to fix it so i must take it out back and go Ole’ Yeller on it. I might be able to give it a patch for a little while but probably not. So i get to spend time and money i don’t have lookin for a car. Joy of Joys.

Rip: Sarya 1997 to 2008…

#548

Good luck getting a loan these days!

#549

That’s not a pep talk! THIS is a pep talk:

“Maybe if you’re lucky, it’ll pop into gear and roll over you and kill you while you’re trying to strip it for parts, thereby saving you the trouble of applying and then gettting rejected for a loan.”

#550

I’m handing over my geek card as I ask this: what is that a quote from?

#551

Yo West Coasters,

what’s that I heard about on the news today? Arnie has to close down his state because he’s running out of money? What’s behind that?

#552

Good news, you get to keep your Geek Cred Card. I made it up myself…but it makes me feel very good about myself that it was so good you thought it was a quote from something you should know. :smiley:

#553

Hey, did I mention that someone was using our main credit card to attempt hundreds of dollars of charges all over the country?? We have a Disney Visa that we earn Disney dollars on. We use it for literally EVERYTHING, since we get those coveted Disney dollars that we can then use for park passes or food or merchandise when we visit WDW (which is roughly every other year). I digress…

Anyway, there was an erroneous $2.48 internet charge on our account that I told my husband he should call about because I knew it wasn’t me. When he called that’s when we discovered that the card company had been declining charges attempted all over the country because they didn’t fit our normal spending pattern. (Not sure what that means–if I travel somewhere will I have trouble? I never have, but it makes me wonder.) Anywho, the account was closed and new cards with new numbers were immediately issued but it took them 5 days to get here. That slowed up a lot of things, since we have a lot of automatic payments coming from those cards–Netflix, Paypal, etc. I’m going through and updating some of them right now. What a pain in the arse.

#554

Do you get Disney Dollars on the fraudulent charges?

#555

I figured I’d be asleep by now but I’m not so I only acquired half the first season of Bones and I’ve almost run out T_T Two episodes left

#556

Well, since those charges were declined, no. Honestly, if anything, this just leads me to tell everyone to do what we do and diligently look at your credit card account online every couple days. It only takes a few minutes. Compare your receipts to what you see on your account and if there’s something on your account that doesn’t look right, even if it’s really small like that $2.48 charge we had, call your credit card company.

#557

Ugh. It’s so hot here in Southern California. In October. Something here isn’t right.

And for those of you who say “California = hot, duh”… Well, okay, yeah, but 90+ degree weather? In the fall? It should be overcast and slightly rainy by now.

#558

Yes, it’s an unseasonably warm 75 degrees here in PA today. Not insanely hot, but it doesn’t “feel” like fall. The trees, which have begun to drop their leaves, aren’t sure whether or not to bend down and start picking them up again.

#559

Keara, it’s not just PA - in my area we hit 80.

#560

I was out this evening walking the neighborhood with the kids at 7 pm.
And we had T shirts on. Warm as can be. October in New Hampshire and this warm?
That just ain’t right.