Comments | value_meal_2: The perils of plastic

value_meal_2

The perils of plastic

Jul 13, 2006 22:26

It's amazing how much better being in Sunnyvale makes me feel. The drive home seems shorter, the air smells better, I even enjoy being around my family and the three crazy cats. What I DON'T enjoy is unpacking. That's what I spent most of today doing. I unloaded my entire car, though, which was PACKED with stuff ( Read more... )

davis, apartment, random, work, depression, bored

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prince_of_lies July 14 2006, 12:09:39 UTC

yayyy fellow music teacher! what are you doing at kindermusik? as a music teacher you get 10% off on sheet music at the music store next door =D

igferatu July 14 2006, 13:28:50 UTC

You know that credit card minimum payments are designed to keep you in debt for decades, right?

coupla links for ya

http://www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/news/cnsum03/minmax.html
http://www.bankrate.com/brm/calc/creditcardpay.asp

Seriously, please don't let the purpose of your life become transforming hard earned Kindermusik money into a roll of silk toilet paper on Citibank's corporate jet.

mooncancer July 14 2006, 15:47:45 UTC

Not directed at you specifically, but when I talk to mentally ill people--I find myself wondering if I should ask them about their condition, dish out that "turn that frown upside down" advice, or just not bring it up at all.

mooncancer July 14 2006, 15:49:04 UTC

of course, optimally I'd be able to take social cues about whether to talk about it or not... but alas, in real life, it's not that easy :\

value_meal_2 July 14 2006, 18:06:48 UTC

Yeah... it's weird. What really bothers me is, well, for example, the dental assistant I had yesterday. She asked me what sort of health changes I'd had, meds I'm on, etc. I said nothing had changed, and she was like "you're STILL on prozac?? What, you're not happy?" and started telling me all this stuff about how her daughter thinks she's depressed "but she's really not" and telling me that I probably get my feelings hurt too easily and I should just suck it up and be happy and all. Then she starts asking me all these questions like how am I depressed and what I'm like with and without the meds, and I'm sitting here thinking... is this REALLY your buisness? You're just here to clean my teeth, dammit. Anyway, it made me really uncomfortable.

igferatu July 14 2006, 20:45:27 UTC

That's really fucking unprofessional. And rude. People suck.

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