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Supportive
supportive
Dear facebook, meta, whatever you are today:
Sorry about the voodoo doll. I don't really believe in things like that but it seems about as likely to help me get through and get an answer as my many, many attempts to contact support through the links you have so carefully hidden on your site have been. I didn't need my account to apparently self-destruct; you didn't need any funny stuff with little poppets with ear trumpets and pins and needles and candles. But here we are.
Yeah, the person posting isn't the customer and the grocery store doesn't care what the potatoes think, but what happens when they can't get potatoes any more?
Update: I never got through to any kind of support, and did lose about 2/3 of what I had posted there, and nearly everything since 2016. I hate Facebook so fucking much. I hope Mark Zuckerberg gets bedbugs for the rest of his cheap-ass life.
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Due to a sad and unfortunate incident two days ago, blue jays now follow the cat around and scream at him. Sometimes they dive at him.
It wasn't even his fault and he didn't do anything. He would have, because he is a cat, but he didn't. He was just there. The real killer was a snake, and he has a witness.
cat show
midnight
me: if I fall asleep right this minute I can get five and a half hours of sleep before I get up for work
12:15 am
me <staring angrily into the dark>
12:30 am
me <finally starting to drift off a little, still angry>
12:45 am
my cats: IT'S TIME FOR A RODEO! WE'RE GONNA HAVE WRASSLIN' AND RACIN', RIOT AND RUMPUS! WE'LL DO A SPECIAL HALFTIME ACROBATICS EXHIBITION ROUTINE AND CONFIRM THAT GRAVITY STILL WORKS! THEN IT'S BACK TO CHAOS AND PANDEMONIUM WITH RUNNING AMOK IN A BARREL-RACING GRAND FINALE! YEEEEEE-HAAAAAAW!
me: FML <pulling pillow over face>
achievements
I was reading through someone's voluminous therapy records for work yesterday and the therapist had a section about goals/objectives (the software probably required that) and the only goal listed was "become emotionally stable" and that just seems like asking a lot for anyone. Maybe they should include some goals that would be more within reach, like "don't use cocaine this week" " don't bite anyone unless provoked" or "keep your clothes on in public". I can only assume the client does not see and is not told the goals because knowing that you have failed or are failing to achieve your one goal of emotional stability does not strike me as a helpful thing.
dead ends
Oooh, another idea for a book that I will never ever write.
In the early years of the United States, Thomas Jefferson (or some similar morally dubious but notoriously inquisitive and scientifically/experimentally minded figure) sets up a supernatural system of protections for the new nation, possibly already including plans/provision for a ghost army. Years later, the emergence of the United States military cemetery system has been incorporated into this structure. Many years after leaving the service, a dead soldier is interred in a military cemetery, and finds themself recalled to duty in a spectral military operation.