You know, I never thought I could be mad at someone for not honking at me, but I managed to do it anyway.
So I need to buy a trace metal supplement to make some media for my experiment. Should be simple, right? Bacteria need trace metals and people grow them in media and so there's a demand for a trace metal supplement, right? Apparently this doesn't fucking exist. I'm searching with ten different search terms, thinking maybe I'm just using the wrong words to describe what I want, and there's just fucking nothing. (Okay, I exaggerate. There is one supplement available that doesn't have the right metals in it.) And sometimes I find something that might work, maybe, but I can't get the fucking DETAILS on it because the site just DIES on that particular product. Why the fuck is this so hard. This makes no sense. jesus h. f. christ
I'm trying to get out to Loyola today and I've never been there and I left slightly late because of body issues. So I'm not familiar with the bus I'm supposed to take, and I'm waiting for it, and it speeds by without stopping, and I'm like WTF?!... And then discover that the stop has been relocated two blocks over and one down, and only comes once every 20 minutes or so. So I swear, find a new route with Google maps, head on over to Red Line (which takes longer, I'm going to miss half the seminar at this point), and I realize as i get to the platform that I don't know which train I need to get on. I'm trying to fish out my phone and in the time it took me to check, the train I was supposed to get on left the station. I'm gonna see like 15 minutes of this seminar at this point. I feel like a stupid asshole.
my arm hurts like hell cause i tried to do a nice thing and donate blood for the first time ever at a nearby bloodmobile. went through the whole song and dance, cleared the screening, ate a donut, got settled down, poked and then was like 'should it still be hurting like crazy' and they were like 'no. whoops looks like ur vein collapsed, now go home :V' (Mind you they were all extremely nice and friendly and professional, I'm just abbreviating). They might have tried again, but since i was designated to donate low blood volume on account of I weigh barely over 110, they were like 'nope can't try again since we drew a little sample packet-full before having to yank it'. I CAN try again without waiting the normal month or so they require between donations, but ow. gotta let my arm heal first it hurts like the dickens QQ
I went to Burger King to treat myself to lunch and they did not have A Single Thing that I wanted. Even when I changed my order they still gave me fries instead of onion rings. Nothing has gone right today and I’m sick of it.
got snacks for snacking during shark week. have not touched anything but the chips. WELCOME TO THE BUBBLING NAUSEA HELL
I am sick. Like pretty dang sick. Nausea for two days, suddenly compounded by allergies so my head is swollen and itchy and painful, plus suddenly a loose stomach, and I keep running hot or cold flashes. I wanna not deal with this
Why the FUCK are winter coats so expensive ridiculous!! I got my last coat in fucking middle school, it's old and stained and the inner part smells and it's short, I feel like being 14 years out from middle school, it's a reasonable time to get a new winter coat especially since it was purchased for PNW winters and not midwest/upstate NY winters!! which is where i spend winters now!! BUT THEY'RE SO EXPENSIVE, THERE'S ONE COAT THAT COSTS AS MUCH AS A MONTH OF RENT. COATS SHOULDN'T COST THE SAME AS A MONTH OF RENT!!
I ought to find the form the clinic doc gave me so that I can get bloodwork and shit done...except that I need to make an appointment, and also I cannot fucking find the form. (I can probably make the appointment without the form, but. Uh. I am gonna need that form when I go into the appointment.) I've checked on top of my bureau (which is where I remembered putting it) and in the drawers of the side-table, so it's probably somewhere on my desk unless it got moved somewhere stupid. If I really have lost it, I could go to the clinic and ask for it to be reprinted. It's just...stupid and embarrassing, because I know I put it somewhere! Somewhere where past!me went "it will Absolutely Not get lost here, I will Definitely be able to get a hold of it when I need it" and Of Fucking Course it is nowhere to be found.
Today has gone from “visiting my brother and his girlfriend for lunch” to “Dad got in an accident at work and he and Mom are fighting.” I’m so tired. Why can’t I have a day that isn’t a rollercoaster? Why the ups and downs? Also I probably have to cancel my plans to attend a con in January.
I found a discount coat that's much more reasonably priced and there's a second sale on top of the discount, so my annoyance is now "I fell in love with a $240 North Face coat and I can't afford it and have to buy a much less pretty coat".
I went to get breakfast, put down my book at my table and went to the bathroom first thing, then when I came back there'd been a cup of coffee left for me (I don't like coffee at all). I was too Anxiety to mention it to the server, and then of course I got CHARGED for the thing I'd never asked for on my bill at the end but I was still too Anxiety to try to get it taken off so I just. bought a cup of coffee that went to waste because I HATE COFFEE. why did they assume I'd want it. arrrrgh
Spoiler: tw: mention of child abuse, sexual abuse All the questions on Quora that keep turning up for me to answer, in the vein of "is it okay for adults to try and get into a sexual relationship with a minor?" When no, no it is not, wtf is making these people think it's okay. The one saving grace is that everyone else who's answering these questions is also going "wtf, no, that's abuse, you will go to jail". Also, the person who keeps posting questions going "why are girls boring" where the only difference between each question is the age. And all the people asking what a healthy weight for a teenager is. And the questions trying to pick fights about religion, or trying to trick people into saying climate change or evolution aren't real. Also the way Quora keeps sucking my attention worse than tumblr.