The Whine thread.

[Alelou]

And now I'm going to whine: I somehow managed to drop a three pound weight on top of a five pound weight with the tip of my finger in the middle.
OWWWWWWWWWWW. Also, it looks gross. And it hurts to type.

[TPoptarts]

Well, hey, you emailed them. Good for you.

To employ a fine Puerto Rican saying, it's the crying baby who gets the tit.

And obviously they're ignoring me. Duh. People always ignore me.

[Bookworm]

And now I'm going to whine: I somehow managed to drop a three pound weight on top of a five pound weight with the tip of my finger in the middle.
OWWWWWWWWWWW. Also, it looks gross. And it hurts to type.

Owwww!

I'm going to whine too about an injury. I was in a dance class today. I really like it and we have a very good teacher, but I don't have proper dance sneakers (too expencive) and we had a very difficult coreography today and I fell because of my too slippery shoes and injured my shoulder falling. I've had several pain meds and ice-pack and it still hurts. There is a silver lining because it's my left shoulder and I can still write with one hand so I'll be able to continue with my masters theses.

[Distracted]

And now I'm going to whine: I somehow managed to drop a three pound weight on top of a five pound weight with the tip of my finger in the middle.
OWWWWWWWWWWW. Also, it looks gross. And it hurts to type.

Owie.

If you have a purple fingernail, hie thee to a physician (or, alternatively, if you're in a do it yourself mood, you could melt a hole in the nail with a red-hot paper clip after wiping the nail down with alcohol) to drain the blood out. Maybe then you won't lose the nail.

[blacknblue]

And now I'm going to whine: I somehow managed to drop a three pound weight on top of a five pound weight with the tip of my finger in the middle.
OWWWWWWWWWWW. Also, it looks gross. And it hurts to type.

Owie.

[Alelou]

And now I'm going to whine: I somehow managed to drop a three pound weight on top of a five pound weight with the tip of my finger in the middle.
OWWWWWWWWWWW. Also, it looks gross. And it hurts to type.

Owie.

If you have a purple fingernail, hie thee to a physician (or, alternatively, if you're in a do it yourself mood, you could melt a hole in the nail with a red-hot paper clip after wiping the nail down with alcohol) to drain the blood out. Maybe then you won't lose the nail.

Well, I have a purple line down the middle of my fingernail, but the rest of it seems to be attached. Clearly it could have been a lot worse. It would be kind of tempting to puncture the other side of my finger and drain the blood out because it's throbbing, but I'd need my right hand to do that, and this is my right hand. By now it's probably done doing whatever it's going to do anyway. But thanks for the advice. Red hot paper clip, huh? That's kinda freaky!

Sorry about your shoulder, bookworm! After the initial inflammation goes down heat might feel good.

[blacknblue]

Is there something about ST that attracts the accident prone? Or does reading this stuff cause us to daze out and lose coordination?

[Alelou]

What, do you mean to suggest Star Trek nerds are accident prone? I sure hope this won't apply to any of you guys with guns and electric fences.

I still haven't gotten my wedding and engagement ring repaired from the last growing season, when something bit my ring finger about four times and we had to cut the rings off because my finger swelled up like a pumpkin. The year before that I nearly pruned off my finger when taking the tomatoes down for the season.

Thank God I'm not a surgeon. I'd be killing people.

[blacknblue]

My wife's second youngest sister' husband actually shot off one of his toes as a young man. I kid you not. But he is a Star Wars nerd, not a Star Trek nerd.

[enterprikayak]

My uncle used to play a game with his friends where you threw knives into the ground at each others' feet and tried to get the blade as close as possible without actually puncturing the shoes of the other person. Like horseshoes and chicken combined. Also, they were bad at it, and a lot of kids got stabbed feet.

Doesn't like Star Trek or Star Wars. Hmmmmmm.

He's an interesting guy though.

[blacknblue]

Yeah, we used to do that too. All the time. The rules were simple. If you hit the other guy, you lost a point. If he took the knife without flinching, he gained an extra point and you lost a second point.

[Drogna]

I'm a bit down. I guess life is getting to me. I gave up my job last year to spend more time with Mini Drogna, which is great in so many ways, but I find myself missing the challenge I got at work. Recently I started applying for jobs but since one of the reasons I gave up was because I hated my old job, I've been trying to get into something new. So far I haven't had a single interview for anything, either because I'm "over-qualified" or because I "lack experience" - which makes no sense. Surely I can't be both.

[Alelou]

Eh, I wouldn't get too discouraged. Frankly, you should probably ignore anything you hear from anyone in Human Resources. Half the time they don't even really know the job they're recruiting for. These days you're actually really lucky just to get a polite form letter that lets you know they're not interviewing.

Sometimes if you have a mini Drogna and an interest in a specific area it can be a good idea to temp or part-time in that field -- you get your foot in the door, you don't have the full-time pressure, and you get a real good look at the company before you commit to it.

But you also might want to run your resume past a friend or two, especially anyone already in the fields you find interesting.

[blacknblue]

With your writing skills, have you tried submitting articles to online publications? Some of them actually pay money, believe it or not.

[TPoptarts]

Whine: everything. I kinda wish I could just give up. Like who am I kidding it's not gonna get better. I don't have any friends or family or past or present or future or hope. Only pain and emptiness. In fact everything is like the universe is just trying to tell me to go away. And I can't blame it. I mean like there's really no reason to go on. I should give up. But I can't. I just go on and on and on without a reason. Why can't I just stop