B!TC# IT OUT!

[Aziara]

Ugh. I have been sick for weeks now. The doctor says its either mono or post-concussive syndrome. Both suck. Two years ago when I last had mono, I missed five months of school. My social life fell apart, I lost any muscle I had. I do not want to go through that again, especially when I was doing really well in skiing and just getting comfortable with friends from switching school. And if its post-concussive. Thats even worse. A year and a half ago right as I was getting on my feet again from mono I got a very bad concussion, or rather upwards of fifty mini concussions. It was so bad that I cant remember the whole six months afterwards. I know I mostly just sat and stared at the wall. My concussion had a lot of effects, and even though I have just been feeling better from it for a couple months it is still effecting me. Like I have constant headaches, lost more than ten iq points, and can't ever jump on a trampoline again. So if I have post-concussive from somehow boggiling up my brains again, I could be out for a long time. Just bleh. This is not how I imagined my teen years would be, and I cannot deal with being sick/injured again, but I cannot even get through a day of school.

If it is the effects of a concussion, I know something that would help you greatly. I took it after I was in a car wreck and slammed the top of my head into the dashboard (ouch!) http://www.theherbsplace.com/Brain_P...ine_p_468.html It's called Brain Protex, and it helps your body to repair the damage from a concussion by increasing circulation in the brain. If you take too much at once, it will give you weird headaches because you're healing too fast, so only start out with one a day.

[Seatan]

So here I am at work at five pm printing out 60 page packets for two of my freshmen classes (35 kids each) who are being so bad they are being put on lockdown. There will be nothing but silent desk work for them until they show they can behave. I will be "graduating" students who give a shit so I can actually teach them worth a damn. I am so tired of teenagers having no respect--and I don't mean "oh they should respect mer I am a teacher" ( even though they should). I mean having any respect at all. I give instructions and they basically laugh in my face. I tell them to do something and I get a smart ass comment, I tell them to stop doing something and they do it right in front of me. People have all this bad stuff to say about teachers but they have no understanding of how we are treated day in and day out. The way these kids behave, they would be fired in an instant at a job and get a ticket for disruption of the peace at a mall. The patents never have your back, of course, so the kids just don't care! They know they will have no real consequences. I am so tired.....

[SeaGlass Siren]

[Mermaid Jaffa]

So here I am at work at five pm printing out 60 page packets for two of my freshmen classes (35 kids each) who are being so bad they are being put on lockdown. There will be nothing but silent desk work for them until they show they can behave. I will be "graduating" students who give a shit so I can actually teach them worth a damn. I am so tired of teenagers having no respect--and I don't mean "oh they should respect mer I am a teacher" ( even though they should). I mean having any respect at all. I give instructions and they basically laugh in my face. I tell them to do something and I get a smart ass comment, I tell them to stop doing something and they do it right in front of me. People have all this bad stuff to say about teachers but they have no understanding of how we are treated day in and day out. The way these kids behave, they would be fired in an instant at a job and get a ticket for disruption of the peace at a mall. The patents never have your back, of course, so the kids just don't care! They know they will have no real consequences. I am so tired.....

Kids have no respect these days.

To parents, a school is another name for daycare centre. They drop their kid(s) off, go off to work and come back for them 8 hours later. Just like a kiddy daycare centre.

Back in the day, when I was at primary school, had teachers that humiliate and nuns that hit with rulers. I was left handed then and the nuns used to hit my left hand across the knuckles whenever I wrote with it, until they were swollen. It was how they disciplined us. Parents hit us as kids, that was discipline too cos if we were naughty, we were beaten. And the teachers were worse, if you didn't do the homework for their classes, they made you hang that homework book on your belt (my school uniform had a belt), you had to wear it all day even at break times, so EVERYONE in the entire school could see you didn't do your homework. Total embarrassment and humiliation. This was 30 years ago. Times have changed in terms of discipline.

Can't do all that nowadays, its called abuse. Which kinda sucks for teachers cos the kids know if they do something wrong, they can get away with it.

[Mermaid Kelda]

Can't do all that nowadays, its called abuse. Which kinda sucks for teachers cos the kids know if they do something wrong, they can get away with it.

That is abuse. Being beaten because you're left handed is absurd.

I don't know if I just happened to grow up in a good area or if Australian schools are on the whole better than US ones, but holy crap the stuff I hear kids doing over there is insane. I think people tend to generalise, though; "kids have no respect these days" is a very broad term to use. There are millions of well adjusted, bright, progressive kids out there, who aren't that way because they were beaten. Honestly I think most of it is the parents' fault; I feel that kids need the right kind of love and education and discipline from their parents, otherwise it's tough for them to grow up into kind, smart adults, no matter how good their school teachers are.

[Mermaid Jaffa]

Yea that's true. I think also depends on the parents. If they don't give a hoot, then their kids are going to copy their parents attitude.

[SeaGlass Siren]

Different situations I suppose.

My parents stopped disciplining me when I got into grade 6. Dunno what happened but i still remained a decent child. My older half sister however is the most spoiled brat ever. When my mother tried to discipline her, that halfbreed punched her. She hasn't been disciplined in forever but because of that she thinks she can do whatever she wants :/


And then there's my younger sister who was not disciplined at all and is a good kid. I dunno. My trance is it also depends on the kid ._.

[Mermaid Lorelei]

This might be my first post in this thread, but I'm seriously ready to punch someone right now.
People are stupid. -.-' I'm tired of people constantly asking me for free tails and other free stuff on my mermaid page. Stuff like MAKE ME ONE, or CAN I HAVE ONE FOR FREE, or (my favorite) YOU NEED TO GIVE ME YOUR BEST QUALITY TAIL FOR FREE OR I'M GOING TO TRASH YOUR BUSINESS!!!??! ... I see the same thing happen on other mermaid's pages too and it bugs me. Why in the world do people think it's acceptable to demand free things from small businesses? I mentioned once on another friend's page that it might be nice to say please when demanding free stuff and I was told to screw myself. Go figure. -pissed-

[Mermaid Adriel]

People are stupid. -.-' I'm tired of people constantly asking me for free tails and other free stuff on my mermaid page. Stuff like MAKE ME ONE, or CAN I HAVE ONE FOR FREE, or (my favorite) YOU NEED TO GIVE ME YOUR BEST QUALITY TAIL FOR FREE OR I'M GOING TO TRASH YOUR BUSINESS!!!??! ... I see the same thing happen on other mermaid's pages too and it bugs me. Why in the world do people think it's acceptable to demand free things from small businesses? I mentioned once on another friend's page that it might be nice to say please when demanding free stuff and I was told to screw myself. Go figure. -pissed-

I can't stand them too -_-' classic of facebook/youtube...

[PearlieMae]

"YOU NEED TO GIVE ME YOUR BEST QUALITY TAIL FOR FREE OR I'M GOING TO TRASH YOUR BUSINESS!!!??!"

WTF is that all about?

[Mermaid Momo]

Okay, I know I haven't been on for a while (hiii ) but i've been busy trying to get this facebook group into top shape. So as the story goes, I was looking for a facebook group for teens who were interested in paganism and witchcraft (sort of a discussion group not filled with RPers ) and I thought I found a really nice group. BOY WAS I WRONG. People posted things that were really like an RP (like they did a spell that made them tranform their face, or to control people's minds) and it was really getting on my nerves so you know what I did? after I noticed that the admin and creator of the group had abandoned it, I sat myself down on the throne and called it a dictatorship. lol. I remade the whole group. Put in some rules (with the most important ones being don't BS and say you can do those kinds of spells because we all know you can't and you might confuse newbies) Some people left, but more people came in. The group was turning into a cool new discussion group. that was until a certain couple of people aroused from their slumber.(I guess all the recent activity started giving them notifications?) Well my problem with this is that these people are the people who claim that they can do spells to turn people into things or control thoughts. And they keep giving people really horrible advice and choosing to ignore whenever I and other people try to help them with information. (one example is when a new person asked about the different ways you can do magic i.e poppets, sigils, divination etc and this person told them that paganism is one way and wicca another. -___- even after I kept telling them that paganism is an umbrella term they insisted it was a religion like being kemetic or something.)
Another example is this girl who keeps posting that she's a vampire. Now I don't mind otherkin or sanguine vampires. So I asked her if she was otherkin or sanguine or psychic or what kind she was if she wasn't that and she just replied "no i am real." So I and a few others tried to explain to her that those were the types of vampires and she explodes! claiming that we're attacking her and all.
I really don't want to delete them from the group because they need to learn all that they can but It's getting really really hard not to.

[SeaGlass Siren]

i left so many groups before because people were obsessing about how "GACKT IS MINE" or 'HE WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND MY LOVE FOR HIM" as if he knows them personally ._.

Point: Internet be crayy.

[Merman Dan]

GAAAAHHH!!! There's an inch of snow on the ground, the roads are slippery, and I have seven kids with no school today!!!

[Mermaid Dottie]

I am so sorry Dan. That has got to suck squidface.

[Merman Dan]

I'll adapt... add a few extra cups of coffee for me, put some movies on TV, and get ready for an excursion out into the frozen tundra.

[SeaGlass Siren]

Lol an inch? XD try 5 inches and growing ;-; Dan hold me

[Mermaid Dottie]

Normally winters here in Utah are near alaskan in quality, this year has been very mild.

Why must you venture out of doors, Dan? Is it for work, or other errands?

[Merman Dan]

Lol an inch? XD try 5 inches and growing ;-; Dan hold me

LOL! To be fair, when water turns solid my brain short-circuits.

[MerEmma]

I've vented to my friend's basically the same thing a few times already but here goes, since I still don't feel like I've got it out of my system yet. Haha.

So, my raptor costume. Lots of work, huge project hopefully coming to a finish pretty soon along here. When I asked for the spandex skin for Christmas, I also asked for some sparkly blue & silver that matches my Merbella Bracers. I've been hoping to finish it before MegaCon, mostly because it'd be fun to get to swim with it in a different pool than our timeshare. Right now the raptor is at a standstill until the weather warms up (Friday) we buy duct tape, or buy resin. I've had one or two other few-day periods like this and during them I was like hey, let's sew me a tail! 8D
Obviously I'm very anxious to do that, haha. Each time my mum says no way, not starting another project until this is done. I totally get it and understand it, heck, maybe even agree. But still, she's seeing this as being a longer project than it is. From what I can tell, it won't take more than 5 hours. Very simple spandex tail skin, maybe with extra fins or different color fluke. Even then, still not crazy difficult.
I understand it, but I'm still a bit frustrated. At this point I'm hoping the raptor is done at least a week before the con so I can do it then. Maybe not though. :/

Second vent :P
It's a really long story for why but I can't watch more than one episode of Supernatural per day. It's my favorite show ever--literally, the show is just 10/10 every time imo and I love it so much. I was a lil bit addicted to it but I'm genuinely not anymore. So with a show like that...spoilers are KILLER. I'm only in season 8 and I started in September. I had seen a few spoilers at that point so when I got into the show I UNFOLLOWED everyone on Tumblr that was into it too, and downloaded this hardcore Chrome add on called Unspoiler. Blocks every paragraph with the episode title or certain keywords I choose. Really annoying but it has saved my ass from major spoilers before so I'm thankful for it.
The other day I did my usual routine when I find someone new on Tumblr--check their tags for the show, look at the past 10 pages, then followed them. No sight of them enjoying the show.
My laptop and the desktop are an hour away for maintenance as of Monday so I'm using my iPod, scrolling down slowly on the Tumblr mobile site since my iPod is so old I can't download the app or anything, and that user I followed the other day posts a MAJOR SPOILER for Supernatural. And guess what? I can't unfollow them from mobile. So now I'm completely off of Tumblr until I get my laptop back. The spoiler was so major for season 9 and I can't just forget it and now I'm really upset. The show surprises me a lot and spoilers just plain ruin it. Rewatching it and knowing what's going to happen is fun, but there's nothing like the first time I sat there for an episode sobbing. ;\
So most websites I visit don't work on mobile. Mernetwork, another forum & tumblr are really the only ones I've bothered with aside from occasionally Reddit (when it will load :/ ) so earlier I'm scrolling down the What's New and there's a Supernatural thread.

If I had my laptop I'd have no problem, Unspoiler would block it and I could carry on. Now I'm just upset because I'm only left with Reddit and the other forum now. Really forgot how much I appreciate that add on until I get a huge spoiler and it's not there to save me. :/ I don't think I'll log on again until I get my laptop back because I cannot risk more spoilers.
Just...spoilers. They ruin everything.

So now I don't have my favorite websites to comfort me in this time of no-good weather and no cash. If I had the raptor to work on I'd be fine but I'm stuck until then.
Oh goodness my trivial problems
But I think I feel better now
;\

[SeaGlass Siren]

i didnt realize i was bugging people so much until today. just a little hurt because i was trying to help. a little sad and a bit angry. i'm just not gonna come on the forum for a while.