Random Update

[quidditchgrrl]

I've been kind of offline recently, what with back troubles, work troubles, and my other job...I still loff you all and catch up with LJ as often as possible.

So what is the what:

My husband is being a twatwaffle because I didn't get him the sub that he wanted from Subway (they were out of the marinara/meatball sauce). He's been a peach about doing EVERY LAST THING these past two weeks, and this was his straw, I guess.  Too bad I am finding it annoying, but also seriously amusing.




Why, Shirley, why?  PeTA?  I'm taking my gay back, then. *sad face*

 In other news, Iggy Pop rules the world.  That is the ugliest, sexiest man on the planet.  Eat your heart out, Mick Jagger.

The Progressive has a great interview with Lewis Black. 

 

I'm starting a different insulin regimen with a new drug called Symlin. The doctor (I FINALLY got to see an endocrinologist!) claims that it will help with weight loss as well as to help lower my blood glucose. Too bad I ate 2800 calories today.  Darn chinese food and my inability to resist it!  He also lowered the amount of regular insulin I should take (Lantus and Humalog) - what the other doctor kept prescribing was the dose I was on when I weighed 250lbs. 

I ended up in a vicious cycle of panic whether I took my shots or not.  If I did take them, my bgl would crash at night and I'd wake up unable to breathe and barely able to walk.  If I didn't, then my HbA1c scores shot through the roof (5 is normal; my last one was 12.8) and that's when you go blind/lose limbs/have strokes.  Right now I'm good, but every day of high bgl means one day closer to some pathology (in my family, it's the eyes that go).

Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of all this angsting and cycling.  I'm armed with my Dexatrim Max, Excedrin Migraine, needles, and a bazillion lancets!

My back is getting better, slowly but surely.  I'll have 10 sessions of PT, but I'm off the muscle relaxers and I was able to get through the afternoon sans NSAIDs.  I also did my killer Wednesday workout - hour of step, 1/2 hour of circuit toning, and 45 minutes of spinning (gotta counteract that lunchtime lo mein) with only a few spasms.  Yay for getting better!  Hopefully I will be as close to 100% as one can be after PT.  I know that I will need to do extensive stretching and adjust some other things so I don't reinjure.  Thems the breaks, I guess.

Work is work, and the job hunt continues.  Too bad that the economy is such that I'm finding postings for jobs that are asking for folks with an MA, when the job description is clearly something a trained monkey could do and pays 10K less than a trained monkey would take.  That's not a swipe at anyone in grad school, but really - I hope anyone who is aspires to a starting salary larger than 25K and more challenging work than counseling college freshmen on what they should take their first semester.



If you've made it this far, kudos!  Hope you all are having fun wherever you are, whatever you're doing. 

Comments

[hermorrine.livejournal.com]

BLARGH SHIRLEY!!! I love Garbage and hey, I'm not into fur (I've inherited a fur coat from my grandmother and I've never yet worn it - who knows if I ever will, but I won't BUY fur), but OMG THAT AD IS DISGUSTING. Plus PETA are a bunch of crackshow freaks. Wah.

I'm totally feeling your diabetic woes - I remember when they couldn't control mine no matter how much insulin they had me shooting up. I really hope this new stuff will help!!

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

I know! PETA gives every animal lover a bad name. Boo Shirley.

This stuff is helping, a bit...it slows the emptying of the stomach and also boosts a hormone that...does something cool...can't remember, LOL! But it's been keeping the numbers lower.

[alissomora.livejournal.com]

Am glad to hear your back is getting better -- it's the worst thing to have *hugs*

[roguebitch.livejournal.com]

Are you telling me that Shirley doesn't wear leather, either? Because I believe in political consistency.

All that aside, the ad is gross. Ew.

And: Too bad that the economy is such that I'm finding postings for jobs that are asking for folks with an MA, when the job description is clearly something a trained monkey could do and pays 10K less than a trained monkey would take. That's not a swipe at anyone in grad school, but really - I hope anyone who is aspires to a starting salary larger than 25K and more challenging work than counseling college freshmen on what they should take their first semester.

Oh, hellyeah. I've given up on looking for library work right now, and am looking at city jobs. In this town, I can't even get interviewed for a library assistant's position, and I have an MLS and 10 years of paraprofessional experience.

I'm glad to hear that the physical outlook is better! I think about you all the time! *hugs*

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

*nod nod* Right you are - can't refuse fur and wear leather. No fair.

Too bad you're not looking for a Midwestern move, we're hiring here in the big O-H-I-O.

You've been in my thoughts much of late, as well! :)

[blue-eye.livejournal.com]

Isaw Iggy Pop in a small club around 1981. He was so obnoxious...I remember him spitting on stage.

[teshara.livejournal.com]

I think it truly says something about growing up in an agricultural area that my first thought is: 'Can you eat it? It looks gamey, but stew-worthy.'

"OMG! LOOK! IT"S AN ANIMAL!!"

"Yes, dear. Yum yum."

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHA! That is EXACTLY what Andy said when he saw it - "Mmm, smoked beast!"

It makes me want squirrel gravy...

[evelynnash.livejournal.com]

At least she happens to look SO BEAUTIFUL in that ad. And besides, animals without fur aren't cute, so I can't feel sympathy for that one.

[leonina.livejournal.com]

Gahh be careful, don't go blind! I don't know what I would do without reading your awesome fanfics ever again. I guess I would have to learn braille to get my fix.

PeTA rant - Just a little one

[authenticjoy.livejournal.com]

PeTA needs to STFU. I'm getting more than a little fucking sick of the "I care more about animals than you" attitude they have. If that's a dog she's holding up, I'd like to scratch ALL of her eyes out, including her "inner" ones. They did far too little to call attention to the problem of domestic animals being used to create fur coats. Plus, they euthanized adoptable dogs rather than working to rehabilitate them, and then left the corpses in dumpsters. Nice work.

They also support breed specific legislation.

The work they did in their early years to increase awareness about cruelty is just being negated by all the other bullshit they are pulling now. I realize that in order to make your voice heard now you have to be controversial and you have to yell really loud, but they are forgetting their original mission in the process.

Asshats.

The stuff about Iggy Pop made me smile. It reminded me of how the world has regressed in social attitudes since the '70s. It's sad.

Scary stuff about your eyes.

I'm still keeping my fingers crossed about your job hunt. People with degrees seem to be a dime a dozen on the job market these days, don't they? A Bachelor's degree is the equal of a high school degree now.

Re: PeTA rant - Just a little one

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

Nope, that's a fox. Even PeTA knows that a dog carcass would be going too far.

PeTA is not pro-animal. They are advancing a radical agenda with the ultimate aim of making extinct all domesticated animal species. But that's not what they promote - they act as if they have the animals in mind. My mind only got completely wrapped around that a year ago, and the things they do...horrific.

Still amazes me that education still trumps experience in the world of management.

Blahblahblah - Feel like blabbing...

[authenticjoy.livejournal.com]

PeTA going too far - They have used dogs and cats as a publicity stunt. I have NO doubt that this was a publicity stunt. I'm not sure that their dog dump got very much press outside the breed ban circles. Here are links to two blogs - One with graphic and disturbing pics, here (I read this on a semi-regular basis.) and here without the graphic pics, but with copies of the news stories and lots of information about PeTA and Breed Specific bans.

Here is a tv station's report of the necropsy report on the dumped bodies - Contrary to PeTA's claims, there was nothing wrong with the dogs. Plus, the dogs were just puppies. They had fleas, for crying out loud. Of all the dogs they could have euthanized, these were adoptable.

I really, really hate them.

You know that Hannah can be classified as a Pit Bull if she were ever to get into trouble, so I'm very concerned about this stuff. She has a good bit of Bull Terrier in her (along with other stuff). Pit Bulls get the Breed Ban all the time, but they aren't a real breed - They are a cross breed, which can honestly consist of several different breeds. What's thought of as the classic Pit Bull is the American Staffordshire Terrier, but the Pit Bull is actually a cross and that has caused problems in many, many communities. If we don't OWN dogs, our property rights go out the window and we can't fight effectively for our dogs in court. It's a huge concern when you own a dog that might be considered a Pit Bull and a Breed Ban goes into effect.

So - PeTA is very bad for people who need to own their Pit Bulls. It's kind of the front line of people who, like you, understand exactly what PeTA is doing.

Business...

Because the people in charge don't want to hear the real reasons why they aren't selling widgetX to the last few remaining people on earth who don't have one. They don't want to hear things that experience tells you. Like:

1. Because they don't NEED widgetX. Obtaining food is a more pressing concern for them.

2. They think that you suck personally. It's all over the Internets that you personally killed starving children in Uganda to make WidgetX, and we couldn't pay them to own the product. Frankly, after working for you for ten years, I think you are a reptile-human crossbreed myself. I saw you molting in the copy room, you know.

No, the people in charge, the board members, etc. want to hear things like this:

If you change the paradigm of WidgetX to subtlelift the market audience of the target mission-statement and attach it to rightshoring desks, we can increase the deliverables and achieve forward mobility.

It sounds like one of those dopey Fred Pryor seminars that make me cringe.

By the way, all the above means is that the company states in their policies that they will stop sending help/sales desk calls overseas and uses a company in the native country/language to answer telephone calls. If they tell people about this, they might get more business.

Duh. Mind you, I'll bet that an experienced person probably told them that sending calls to non-native speakers was a bad idea in the first place. I'll bet it was someone from the help desk who had been with them for twenty years and got the axe.

Is it any surprise that China is KICKING OUR ASS while Russia makes money and laughs about it?