Jade
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Post by Jade on Feb 21, 2013 19:10:50 GMT -6
Heh, unique, reminds me of the one lady who came into the Dr.'s office. I opened the window and thought 'Oh, man! Don't laugh" She had wild, red hair. I think she had had a perm because it was super poofy and she had big round blotches of pink blush on her cheeks and then bright blue eyeliner. She looked like a clown! After I closed the window I turned to my co-worker and I'm like 'Dude, you have to bring the patient back. She looks like a clown." She brought her back to the Dr's consultation office. My employer looked surprised when she saw her and then my co-worker came back and started laughing. Oh, I felt so terrible because I started laughing too. Don't people look in the mirror?
The patient who came in today was 86 and her appointment was at 11:30 and the patient before her needed a lot of time because he was new and had a lot of questions about surgery. It was going 11:50 and she comes tapping on the window asking 'How much longer is this going to be? I have a lunch engagement at 12:00.' I told the doctor was with another patient. "I don't see anyone else in this waiting room! Why haven't you taken me back. No one else is waiting!" she huffs. "There's a patient in the exam room now. The doctor is finishing up now. If you can wait five minutes--" "I can't wait five minutes I'm going to have to reschedule!"
Our office is pretty jiffy about getting patients in, but honestly, what every other office I know of you have to wait for hours. And she's complaining over a twenty-minute delay. You're 86, lady, where do you have be that is so important and who in the world do you have to meet? Your gossip gang?
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Post by lucia on Feb 21, 2013 19:42:31 GMT -6
What really bugs me right now is that the only place I can do archery is down at the elementary school by my house but I can't shoot there on weekdays because little kids are always running around everywhere! Saturdays I have musical practice so I can only go on the weekends sometimes.... Agggh!
I recently ran out of books to re-re-re-read so I had to go to the library and get a big stack for our trip to Michigan but that worked out well so I'm not too upset anymore despite the weeks boredom.
I hate coffee and I'm underage but I love penne ala vodka- doesn't count because the alcohol cooks off.
Things I love:
Cold air
Water
Puppies (especially pitbulls)
Pocket knives
Archery!
Wiring until you lose yourself and start to feel like your character
Teachers who really teach and can make a dull lesson into something that makes your day and that you'll never forget
A good book (doh)
Fireplaces
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Jade
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Post by Jade on Feb 21, 2013 19:46:58 GMT -6
Cold air?  I could complain until the day is long about how much I HATE the cold. I hate winter. I'm sick of winter. It's evil, evil, evil! |
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Post by Raphael on Feb 21, 2013 19:47:45 GMT -6
I'm jealous, you have a bow.
I can recamend a few good books, I just read a certain book by Brandon Sanderson called the Mistborn. (Thanks Sapphire it was great!)
The world is always going to suck in some waway or the other
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Jade
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Post by Jade on Feb 21, 2013 19:50:24 GMT -6
I'm a super picky reader. Skulduggery Pleasant wasn't too bad. Have to look up Mistborn. . . .
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Post by Raphael on Feb 21, 2013 19:52:08 GMT -6
What else...
I will have to look and put up some more
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Post by Zoom on Feb 22, 2013 0:48:48 GMT -6
Hahaha, politics. Don't even get me started. It astonishes me that politicians can be so incredibly incompetent and yet still manage to get elected. So much in fact that I'm beginning to suspect it's a trick. Either that, or we fucked ourselves over by creating a govermental system that ONLY allows psycopathic idiots who accept lobbying into office. YIKES GUYS Books: Paper Towns by John Green. On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Going Bovine by Libba Bray. Great books about roadtrips  Pocket knives! I got a Swiss Army knife when I was a kid and it's gone everywhere I go ever since. So useful. "Cold air? I could complain until the day is long about how much I HATE the cold. I hate winter. I'm sick of winter. It's evil, evil, evil! " Haha, wait till summertime You'll be singing the praises of AC soon enough. |
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Post by Jade on Feb 22, 2013 10:19:13 GMT -6
Hahaha, politics. Don't even get me started. It astonishes me that politicians can be so incredibly incompetent and yet still manage to get elected. Like Guam capsizing! Link. At least we have an admiral's word that he doesn't anticipate that to happen. Actually I love the heat. We don't have air conditioning. It's only the humidity that's terrible. |
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Post by sapphire on Feb 22, 2013 17:05:19 GMT -6
Mistborn is incredible, and everyone should read it. Just saying. (Glad you liked it, Raphael!) It's a trilogy, so that's even better. Actually, anything by Brandon Sanderson is worth a read. He's my favorite author, and I'm super picky about what I read these days. I wish I'd had more practice with archery. I only ever got to try in gym class, and I think I was pretty good - also, I loved it - but my family doesn't really do that kind of thing, so I never got any farther than that. I love cold air! Winter is my favorite season. I've actually been missing it a ton since I moved to New York. It just isn't the same in the city. All the snow vanishes so quickly, and it doesn't ever really get that cold. Politics.  I hate politics. I just try to stay out of it. + getting out of the city and remembering what trees smell like + jumping horseback + the sound of a tent zipper + cutting through construction paper with scissors |
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Post by Spectre on Feb 22, 2013 17:20:27 GMT -6
I think you brought up that author a few months ago; Elantris was mentioned, and I didn't have anything I was currently reading, so I picked it up from my library.
I was blown away. I'd never read a stand-alone story (I'm fairly sure it wasn't part of a series) that put together an entire world, with its own cultures, religions, nations, and a ridiculously cool magic system. And then I found out it was his FIRST book? Good Lord.
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Jade
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Post by Jade on Feb 22, 2013 19:24:58 GMT -6
I just put both Elantris and Mistborn on hold at the library. I'll have to pick 'em up soon and see how they are. I'm a picky reader and don't stumble across that many good books.
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Post by sapphire on Feb 22, 2013 21:03:51 GMT -6
I know, right, Spectre? (Also, I bring him up ALL the time. Not just here.)
You (as in everyone) should definitely read The Way of Kings. It's the first of a predicted ten books in the Stormlight Archive, and it is the best fantasy book I have ever read. Seriously. I'm so excited for the second book. There's also Warbreaker and The Alloy of Law (set in the Mistborn universe, 300 years later) and the Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians series (children's, but hilarious). He also has a few novellas out, one of which is set in the Elantris universe. I haven't read them yet.
(So, yeah... That's what happens when I start talking about Brandon Sanderson.)
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Post by Zoom on Feb 23, 2013 3:13:31 GMT -6
I feel bad for the admiral. How does he keep from saying, "Guam is an island. Islands are just a part of the Earth that sticks out of the water. It literally cannot capsize."
He's a better person than me.
And then there's the Tea Party. Yikes.
"+ the sound of a tent zipper"
YES
+ Long summer days at the beach + popsicles at the general store + sitting on the porch drinking beers and listening to the peepers
+ Getting into bed after a long day
+ Waking up on the day you've been looking forwards to for a while
+ Finding something PERFECT in a discount store
I don't usually read much fantasy, but it sounds like I've got to check these out! Of the library
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Post by Jade on Feb 23, 2013 13:37:00 GMT -6
I feel bad for the admiral. How does he keep from saying, "Guam is an island. Islands are just a part of the Earth that sticks out of the water. It literally cannot capsize." He's a better person than me. If you watch his facial expressions you can tell he wants to laugh. I love the sound of zippers too and the sound of breaking glassand scissors snipping. |
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Post by Zoom on Feb 24, 2013 10:06:00 GMT -6
I love the sound of breaking glass too  And the look of it - it seems to fracture in a completely random way. And that tempered glass that shatters into little diamonds. Speaking of which, + Finding an abandoned car in the woods + When a really big puddle dries up most of the way but not all the way and there's this perfect perfect cracked mud at the bottom that's super-smooth like the inside of a Lindt chocolate ball. + Sledding down a big hill and realizing when you're almost to the trees at the bottom that you're gonna have to bail out + When somebody teaches you a new trick and you get it right the first time + Wearing new clothes for the first time |
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I could complain until the day is long about how much I HATE the cold. I hate winter. I'm sick of winter. It's evil, evil, evil!
I hate politics. I just try to stay out of it.
And the look of it - it seems to fracture in a completely random way.
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