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leninisms · 2 years

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actually i think one of the funniest parts of glee is the characters regularly driving back and forth between lima and westerville

#that drive takes over an hour and a half #and kurt and blaine transfer schools like they’re one county over #instead of FIVE #shut up carley

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freckleslikestars · 15 days

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Tell me why the last bus to the train station is an hour before my train. And why the bus after that is three hours after my train. What the fuck is that about.

#I hate the public transport in this city it’s so useless it’s so unreliable #half the time the buses come five minutes early and don’t wait. which means that even if you get your timings correct to schedule you miss #them. and then they go ‘oh to correct it we’re sending the next bus five minutes later’ what? why? how does that help me?!#I hate that two singles is cheaper than a return.#I hate that if you’re in town for less than an hour or if there’s more than one of you it’s cheaper to drive and park than get the bus #I hate that half the time the ‘live map’ on the app with the live timetable is just blatantly wrong #I hate that the buses to the surrounding villages are so indirect and so infrequent #I was calculating how to get to a class I teach by bus last year when my car was out of service #and a drive that takes me 14 minutes would have take me 48 minutes by bus because I’d have to change over twice #I hate when people say I’m lucky to live in a place with good public transport when it’s really not got #and also all run by private companies who are only in it for the money. we should really think about nationalising public transport

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buffintruder · 3 months

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I, like many people, have recurring dreams that for some reason I am back in high school (I am 24) except instead of worrying about homework or tests or something, my dream is always that I need to go home at a weird time and so I can't ride the school bus home so I'm stuck

#in reality in these situations i'd wait until my dad could get off work and pick me up #which is probably why most of my dreams are that im in college but need to take one high school class and hace to go home at like 10 am #so i wouldnt want to wait until 4pm #but if i knew i only had to be at school for a couple hours and that my parents couldnt pick me up id probably coordinate with them #so that i could take a car and drive to and from school #what i usually end up doing in my dream is being like 'okay ill walk for an hour on sidewalkless roads its fine 😭'#sometimes i remember my town does have a public bus but it only takes me like 2 blocks in the rifht direction #okay i looked this up theres a bus that comes every half hour #and wpuld reduce over 2 hours of walking to 45 minutes of walking which is actually much better than i expected #personal posts

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ereborne · 10 months

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Song of the Day: December 9

"Allies or Enemies" by the Crane Wives

#song of the day #today class we will be discussing a tale of human suffering #so I mentioned yesterday how 'Slow Ride' by Foghat was the song of the day because of how the first ninety seconds were continuous-looping #alright yeah so now imagine me sitting shotgun as we drive half an hour to the movie theater #(to see Godzilla Minus One. it was bitchin I do very very recommend)#and the boys are discussing the latest construction along our highway #which has been a topic of great consideration for me actually #--I had a thought about erosion patterns and groundworks the other day and I went on a whole research spiral #downloaded some guy's doctoral research and all. we know how the research spirals go--#anyway this is a topic I would have loved to weigh in on!#but instead every mental width of band I had was dedicated to my subconscious' dogged insistence #that the assonance and emphasis and rhythm of 'are we allies or enemies' and 'slow ride / take it easy' were similar enough #that I should be able to find a way to match them up to one another's backings #so the boys were like 'Alexis what do you think of those pylons' and I was trying so so so hard to answer #(I think they're moving the I-95 interchange ramps entirely and adding a new lane over--y'all can't see me point. it's over there though)#I was trying so hard to answer but it was like a little cartoon man trying to climb up a rockslide #except the man is my answer about the bridges for the interstate ramps #and all the comically round rocks ponking off his forehead were different ways a person might be able to scrunch and/or stretch syllables #to fit the choruses of these two songs over one another. 'are we slow ride guitar sounds death of mee'#anyway yeah! I've got all these little focusing tricks painstakingly cultivated over three decades of ADD and living with little siblings #and now we know they can all every single one be absolutely obliterated by the lightest application of a single classic Foghat song

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tiny-feisty-gay · 4 months

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jobs will say they're disability friendly until you actually need them to be friendly about your disabilities

jobs will say they're mental health friendly until you actually have to miss work for it

jobs will say they support you taking time off until you actually do it

capitalism is a sham and employers do not and will not ever care about you, and if you're chronically ill, sucks to suck

i have an average of 1.5 absences a month and i'm tardy an average of twice a month, and somehow that's still too much.

18 absences in a year if i go at the current rate. 18. out of the 208 days total that i work (4 on, 3 off, with a 3 hour commute each direction.) 18. days. of absences. and that's too many.

and god forbid i be more than 15 minutes late.

#it's because we're horrifically understaffed #animal rescue is understaffed and underpaid and burnt the fuck out #but where else am i gonna go #back to retail? my body can't take that anymore #a decade of 8 hours a day on my feet has quite literally crippled me #i called out today because i dared to have fun over my weekend and my hip pain flared so badly that i couldn't put weight on it #i should stay home and rest it tomorrow too #but i'm not #because my boss already texted me today to inform me that my absences are “alarmingly too frequent” and “becoming problematic”#i took fmla for a month and a half last year because i couldn't handle existing #i've been back for 3 months #my shelter laid off 15% of our staff within a month of me returning #critical teams were cut entirely #and my team #the adoptions team #has seven people total #that's not enough #that isn't NEARLY enough #not for an animal shelter of our size and animal volume #that's why me calling out is “problematic”#because HR won't greenlight us for more positions #because of a problem THE CEO caused by driving us into the ground financially #and if i leave i have to start all over somewhere else #i have to wait a year to be eligible for fmla at a new job #i lose my benefits #i don't even know if i could FIND a job #the market is awful and i will literally collapse if i have to work a standing job again #i made it six months at my last one #because i was so dizzy and in so much pain all the time #undiagnosed issues of course

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otter-byte · 2 years

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was watching this behind the scenes video about this fancy butter business, and they talk about how they rotate people between the various workstations during the day both avoid boredom but also to (hopefully) prevent RSI. literally why is this not the fucking standard in most jobs. Get your office workers on the floor to avoid desk injuries, let packers run phone support midshift to avoid strain/exhaustion, give your customer facing workers a break by letting them break down boxes for a while (personal fave).

#before anyone jumps down my dick 4-6 hour days and paid sick leave should be the standard for every single person.#even with short shifts repetitive impact work can be fucking brutal. I got wrist pain from 2 hours cutting pizza on a few occasions #I am also absolutely vehemently against multitasking and rapid task switching. I'm talking swapping roles around the hour mark or so #lmao shut up haz #even longer terms could work. take a two month break from accounting to drive a forklift or vice versa.#like this also helps keep long term employees. both by allowing career movement but also just making them more valuable over time #the best hospo workers I know could move between literally any role at the business and do fine #anyway I'm just mad because I can't just take half my day at work to go sort mail. I'd be good at it please I can be trusted with envelopes #the real enemy here is the weird precise scheduling of casuals and contractors. hire them fulltime and flex them between roles

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whenthegoldrays · 10 months

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#to continue with the thing about how I can't just think a guy is cute because I immediately enter Lovesick Mode #my mind wandered back to the guy with the nice smile #and now my brain is like sdhahgds #which is not going to help me focus on the million responsibilities I have #but aside from that the reason I even thought of him is because I might have to go to a different campus for spring semester which is three #times as far from my house as my current one and I was remembering how when I was talking to him he mentioned how lucky I was that I lived #10 minutes from campus and like dhshdh he jinxed it because now I'm gonna have to.. take steps #like bro I don't drive!! how can my mom drive half an hour four times over just to take me to school #so my next step would be going and getting my dang license but that process would still be ongoing by the time spring semester starts #and if I stay on this campus it will literally throw off my whole schedule and I could possibly even have to quit my job #ughhfhdgsg #elly's posts

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aorticvalve · 1 year

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I had a long night last night

#car troubles #my partner was driving me home from the card shop where we play dnd #and then all of a sudden his car made a weird sound #so we pull over at an empty parking lot #i tell him to ask someone for help so he did #and they take a look at the hood and it seemed the car needed oil #so we walk all the way to a gas station #for oil #then we walk all the way to a Home Depot because my partner insisted we needed a funnel #then we put the oil car amd start it #and as he goes to make a right out of the parking lot a tire falls off the car #a whole ass tire #so we had to stay parked right where we were #and call a tow truck #at first they said theyd be there im half an hour #then it turned into 2 hours #and this was at 11 pm and i couldn’t stay there that long bc i worked the mext morning #so i called my dad to get us and we left the key with the car #oh yeah and there was a murder investigation going on right where this happened

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freebooter4ever · 1 year

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ignoring everybody in my phone, sorry not sorry ;_;

#i have been canceled on or weirded out too many times in the past four days #journal shit #you know how the baseball player was bragging about all the celebrities and best hiking spots he knew and how LA was better than my home?#and it turned out he wasnt a hiker at all according to his friends?#well this new guy is bragging about dancing spots in the city #im fucking tired of the bragging i dont care #but he may actually be legit so maybe next week ill think about it. i already told him i was busy this weekend #i feel like its really not actually hard to impress me #just be smart and very fucking funny have good timing and know when to surprise #like instead of bragging about something orchestrate a way for me to discover it #my point being if you're the one who introduces me to the turtle pond which is fucking free btw im going to be a lot more impressed #than the person who knows all the hot spots in town because they think it makes them look cool #or driving lmao #skilled driving is always sexy to me i am a DISASTER for someone who is good behind the wheel #i have a certain friend who im absolutely not attracted to #EXcEpT for when he is driving like fucking hell it's hot the way he takes those curves lol #one time i volunteered to ride along with him for 45 minutes both ways in LA traffic to drop off his watch for repair just so i could #watch him drive 🤣#thats over an hour and a half of LA traffic i mean #or god timmy whenever we are together if im not making him laugh hes making me laugh i dont think there is a minute we arent giggling #why is it so hard to find someone who combines all three :(#or even just one who isnt already in a relationship :(

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i-am-a-small-hobbit · 1 year

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I am sad. I've been growing my hair out for almost a year at this point, and up until recently I had no idea how much curl it has to it. I wish desperately to grow it out veeerrryyyyyy long, but unfortunately I don't think my job will allow that (not my employer, my job is just very dirty in nature and I have had cows shit directly on my head before and I just can't see myself dealing with waistlength hair in the agricultural/dairy industry). So I am sad. I will probably never get to see the full potential my hair has and that makes me sad

#today was a rough day #not sure why #yes i do thats a lie #its because i do not like the new kid #i say 'kid' but hes 3 years older than me #and i am constantly stuck with him #it is exhausting #i hate to say it but he is just dumb. stupid. he is not a very smart guy. sorry not sorry thats just the way it is #like ill be on the phone trouble shooting equipment with coworkers and he'll be listening in on the conversation #and then at the end (with no resolution or fix to the problem) he'll ask #'so whats wrong with it?'#DID YOU NOT JUST LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE DAMN CONVERSATION I HAD??!?!?!?!?#the man has no situatuinal awareness #he was almost run over twice by heavy equipment. i had to physically grab him and haul him out of the way #and then after i did he WENT BACK AND STOOD IN THE EXACT SAME SPOT #THE SAME SPOT THAT THE FARMERS HAVE BEEN DRIVING THEIR TRACTOR THROUGH EVER 2 MINUTES FOR THE PAST HOUR #WAKE UP YOU MORON #so thats how the last month and a half has been like for me #im trying to stay positive but it is taking its toll

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plutotheforgotten · 1 year

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I am not depressed right now why does it still take me a fucking hour to get out of bed

#why is it that doing bad means it takes two hours to get out of bed but doing well means it takes one hour #girl that’s still too long just get up #I really ducked myself over in high school by setting my alarm half an hour early so I could lay in bed and be mad about being awake #before that I used to just get up #also being able to drive has kinda fucked me over because I’m just like ‘I’ll drive faster’ which is not the correct answer #screaming into the void

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milo-is-rambling · 1 year

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Just remembered how one of my dedicated to people last roadtrip literally was like “oh actually I don’t think you can stay here tonight I have work early tomorrow :(“ after driving like seven and a half hours to him (and he texted me this when I was an hour away from his house and we had literally talked about my plans to stay there all day) like hello red flag red flag red flag

#the way he made me drive ten hours in one day when it was like less than a week after my fathers funeral like bro hello #he really was like idk you should be able to just drive three hours to your next person idk ur gonna figure it out #insane insane insane #not to be that guy but literally to be that guy I am so glad I am making my own plans to sleep in random places on the road and not staying #at anyone’s house besides Millie and direct family #it was literally snowing in the mountains of West Virginia he was like yeah just drive three extra hours at night thru the mountains while #it snows #GRAH MAKES ME SO UPSET STILL #AM I THAT SHITTY OF A PERSON THAT HE DIDNT REALIZE THAT WAS A SHITTY THING TO DO #me willing to wake up at four in the morning to get out of his hair before work just for a bed to sleep in and not drive #I literally stopped and napped in his bed while the he smoked weed with our West Virginia friends before driving the extra three hours #he should’ve just let me crash if he was willing to have me and three other ppl over that night #god. angry. okay. gonna go shower and try to stop thinking about dedicated to people. I think I’ve also decided I’m not even gonna try to #talk to my Chattanooga almost friend at least not on the way up maybe on the way back I’ll shoot him a text #it only cuts like half an hour off of my trip but like whatever I’ll take that time over an awkward hang out with someone I haven’t talked #to in six months #ugh having friends is hard I hate it #Millie I love you. I know you don’t really tumblr often and don’t even follow this blog but Millie forever #gives me as much space as I need but then we randomly call each other and talk for hours and then go mute for a week again #send each other random pictures or texts or videos and then call in another week or two #and then we meet up in person and just absolutely love the vibes and then go back to being low key distant #I love it she is so awesome Millie ily forever and ever dude ur so good and so cool I am so excited to visit again even tho it’s only been #a couple months #okay I’m back to ranting I’m still thinking about it. we literally fucked and then he (dedicated to…) rolled over and tweeted abojt thinking #about someone else during sex LIKE I WAS LAYING NEXT TO HIM #AND HE TWEETED THAT. LIKE WHAT THE FUCK. Not to mention all the just so so clearly ignoring me and talking to dudes on grindr while I was #sitting in his living room trying to hang out with him #still mad but I don’t want to be mad but I am still so mad he treated me like shit and I just was like yeah this is how having friends works #I was so dumb but I wanted attention and when he gave me attention it was incredible but so fucking rare but I actually cared about him and #he just didn’t care at all about hurting me while I was literally going thru the worst shit in my personal life like god I was so dumb

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opens-up-4-nobody · 2 years

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#*problems occur on a project multiple ppl r working on* my boss @ me: what do u wanna do?#me. disastrously burnt out: i couldnt not even to give a fuck abt all this. i dont care i dont care i dont care #but thats not what i say. i say ok ill talk to the ppl and see how i can drop everything to help. and that probably means driving an hour #away to the other uni which is irrationally terrifying to me to the point where it will probably destroy my whole week a prevent me from #sleeping when i already am struggling to sleep. but its fine. ill get it done and itll be fine. for this stupid fucking project i dont #care abt. ay its so weird. ive never been this angry abt things. i mean its not even really anger its more dispair and frustration but it #manifests as just wanting to scream and throw a fit like a toddler. and i mean its my fault. i dont have to live the way that i do. i mean #i do but in an irrational compulsive way that i cant entirely control. but like its Saturday and i sepent 6 and a half hours taking #measurements and then met with my boss for like an hour and she was showing me cool imagines and talking abt cool new collaborators at her #new school and im just sitting there trying to maintain a smile bc my brain is semi disconnected from my body and im so exhausted #ugh. my brain is so fucked rn. i dont want to drive with even lower functioning thsn usual. and i was gonna meet my friend Tuesday morning #for once. and i might have to drive back and forth multiple days. ans what's my reward if were successful? two fucking weeks of watering #and measurement taking and i might have to stand around other ppl in all that time as well. usually im off spinning in circles by myself #amd looking unapproachable. i dont want to have to b a person around the undergrads #god im so weird. its like from the outside perspective if u were looking thru the window at me u would see me using a hammer and assume im #putting something together and i am but im also hammering nails thru my hand which no one asked me to do #so then why do i have to do it? ugh. thats y its a hard thing to complain abt bc ppl r like oh it sounds like ur compulsive habbits make u #productive and successful and yea sure but they're also destroying my life. im laying on the floor doubled over in pain and ppl r like oh #look how useful u r. who gives a fuck everything feels stretched and distorted like im suffering some sort of selfimposed Devin punishment #whatever. fuck this. tomorrow ill try my hardest to relax. literally i cant remember the last time i stayed in bed until at least 7am. ugh #but i also have some bullshit i have to get done tomorrow so well see #uuuuuugh let me leave this place @ schools send me ur official offers pls i wanna plan out my life for the next 5yrs #unrelated

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itstimeforstarwars · 2 years

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Desperately need want and desire a large chef’s salad but I don’t have the ingredients at home and I don’t wanna drive 35 minutes to acquire a fucking salad.

#chit chat #food mention #i miss living in the city #i had two grocery stores within a ten minute walk from me #now? now i cannot walk anywhere and even driving takes over a half an hour

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wildermouse · 2 years

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vent ii.

#so i guess i went over the tag limit and didn't realize so half of that vent post was cut off #cool cool #basically i said i think next year is gonna be a year of figuring shit out #probably not fixing anything but trying to figure out ways to make my life.. work better #i also really want to travel next year. because travel is the only thing that makes me feel sane and alive and happy #i already have a trip to amsterdam in the works to meet up with a bunch of online friends and i wanna make it work so bad #so i need to make sure i have enough money for that #but i also want to do a trip somewhere pretty that i haven't been like wales or scotland #or even a road trip somewhere in north america #but i cannot drive and so i can't go alone and also i like sharing my adventures with people #but i don't think anybody wants to travel with me so there's that #i need to figure out another way to make income apart from my shop bc i'm barely scraping by #and i WANT to do barn chores again #even tho it take a huge physical toll on my body i would rather do that than another job bc i can do things at my #own pace and i rarely have to interact with anyone and i can be around horses all day #but to do that i would have to move in with my mom and i don't think she wants me living there and idk how much she would charge me rent #it would also cause a lot of problems with my dad. he would be uspet and bitter and probably mad at me.#and would also try and convince me to stay like 'i'll drive you to the barn every week!' which would be 2+ hours of driving and #him driving me to work every day was part of why i had a breakdown and quit my last job bc he would cause so much anxiety #but my mom is literally surrounded by barns where she lives aND is on a bus route so #tbc

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icewindandboringhorror · 2 years

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WHY are there still days where it’s in the 80s in tHE MIDDLE OF OCTOBERR

#............climent charnge............... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr #it is supposed to FINALLY get like.. a little cooler later this week BUT that's happened before #like a few days of 60-70F weather then right back to 80s #the cooler weather now is projected to start friday. wwhich is october 21st!!!!!!!#thats like over half of the entire month that was spent in the high 70s mid/low 80s still like......HEWWo #It does get cooler at night now at least. like at 1am it's more like 50F instead of only getting down to 68 or something #but... like even in the PEAK afternoon sun hours I just feel like it should never be 85F in mid october #It also hasn't rained in probably 4+ months lol #there was a time like 2 weeks ago that it rained for maybe a few hours lightly. and then I think 3 weeks before that it rained for maybe an #hour. but still weirdly rare #I was promised a cool moderate rainy climate when I first moved here by people I was talking to who had lived here a while #i wonder if they even sell those '~~ oo it's so rainy in oregon~~' type tourist merch anymore or if they've removed it from #all the stores. I used to see a lot of like shirts or mugs that said stuff like that maybe 10 years ago but now all #the merch is probably just like 'dont fucking come here please i beg you dont fucking come here we dont even have a dunkin #donuts and it gets to like 105F+ in the summer now fuck off take this mug and fucking run'#''it doesnt rain here anymore than it does in plenty of other places we are not an outlier also fires are getting worse and we're #uncomfortably close to like fault lines or some shit if you dont get out in 2 years were all going to die in an earth quake #white hipsters with dreads handing you weird pamphlets on public transportation are the least of your worries turn back NOW'#'if youre not a hiking loving SUV having middle class liberal with 5 dogs who loves driving like 2 hours to the plain looking #beach like 10 times a month for no fucking reason and socializes exclusively through late dinner meetings at gentrified hipster foodie bars #with weird gimmics and subpar food then fuck off. take your tourist shirt and get out. youre better off whetever you are now.'#*whereever #ANYWAY..#We better randomly have a fluke winter where it snows like 5 feet + or something or else I'm going to go crazey hhh #something must compensate for the endless summer.. the people need retribution. if the winter sucks at least give every household #like $5000 and free installation of actual central heating and air system as a thanks for staying here lol.

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