Things that are currently annoying you

The one day I'm actually feeling up to phone and the place I need to call is closed :T

 

Three weeks ago, a friend of mine was selling stuff ze had made to raise money, and I bought something. I know ze got the money, but ze hasnt sent the product yet and I don't know why.

Related to the above- January of last year, I asked a con friend if I could commission them to make a dress for me. They said it would take about a month. It's now been a YEAR, and I'm still waiting.

Never ask a friend to make you something or sell you something. They won't follow through.

 

This beef stew smells delicious and I want to eat it, but I need to wait at least another twenty gotdang minutes.

It's been almost four hooooours. Why did we use the slowcooker for this, I wasn't hungry at the time but I'm super hungry nooooow, and also super whiny nooooow.

 

"5 Insane Science Stunts You Won't Be Learning at School!"
The first one is sodium metal in water. We did that in high school.

 

Potassium in water on the other hand...

 

Well, it reacts more violently but doesn't produce as much hydrogen, so the explosion isn't as big.

 

don't tell me what to do
*casually throws a chunk of francium in a pond*
(if someone managed to produce enough francium to do this, the chemical reaction would be far from your biggest problem.)
(ETA: Wikipedia says it's also slightly less reactive than cesium.)

 

francieum: *objects pretentiously*

 

IBS is not IBD!! Argh!

(I totally get that IBS is also not a walk in the park, that it can majorly affect how a person lives, etc., but there's no inflammation involved, which is... kind of the hallmark of inflammatory bowel disease.)

 

The reactivity goes up and then down again as you go down the periodic table, because yeah, this:

Once you get past potassium, how much bigger and heavier the atoms are means the amount of metal you need for the same number of moles goes way up, so the reaction itself produces more energy but there's so much LESS of it you don't get as entertaining an explosion. That one video on Youtube where they toss samples into water and the explosion gets bigger and bigger is faked.

 

Everything on that side of the table 'splodes pretty good. It's great fun except for the things that kill you with radiation. :::PPP

 

Bus app: it'll get here in 35 mins.

Me: *gets ready to leave, checks 20 mins later*

Bus app: that one's gone now, the next one isn't for 50 minutes.


....why

 

Executive dysfunction fun and cake times.

 

I have a rather nasty cold, for the second time in... oh, two weeks or so? It's not fun.

 

For the last two weeks we've been swamped with fantasy football trophies and that's fine in and of itself, many of them are homebrew and hilariously creative, it's just that every. single. goddamned. day. at least one comes in with a league or a winning team named after a sex act and if while writing down the order I, a female-shaped person, react in any way whatsoever that is taken as an invitation for what is usually an old white dude to prod me for information on how I caught that reference and just. I'm done. I'm so fucking done.

tl;dr: I just took an order for a trophy commemorating the imaginary super bowl victory of the Rusty Trombones and had to keep a straight face while doing so, how's y'all's day been

 

sexual harassment from customers is always hard to deal with. We have this one old guy who harasses everyone, regardless of gender, but the managers can't seem to get rid of him. For a while I thought maybe he might be gone for good, but I was wrong.

 

Homework assignment: Find a dissertation or thesis that connects X with Y/Z
So I found a dissertation that connected X and Y, and just got feedback saying I only got 50% because... it had nothing to do with Z.



(I realize this is incredibly petty and only half a grade point but I can also see the average grade for the rest of the class and like a quarter of the class has only gotten 50%, so I'm sure I'm not the only one firing off an e-mail to the TA.)

 

So today in class we were talking about fables and parables and the difference between the two, and as examples we had a ton of aesops fables and biblical parables.

I already have an incredibly low opinion of christianity, and the parable of the prodigal son did absolutely nothing to raise it for me. I spent the entire class biting my tongue because, honestly, every single parable we read was either utterly fucking useless unless you were already a devout christian or set up to turn someone into the shittiest human being possible. In theory they're made so that they can be told to someone non-religeous to turn them into a follower. In practice, jesus had to tell his own desciples what the fuck he meant, because he commeth and spake complete fucking nonsense.