My rant: Noola!

Just call him Kelly! You don't have to add 'the IT guy' every time!

Man, I should try that.

Speaking with some authority, I believe there is a law or some unwritten rule to not call IT people by their names but only by an approximation of their title that isn’t as funny as you think it is. Also, thanking them in any way is strictly prohibited.

All communication with them in person has to be as if they weren’t in the room using the third person whenever possible. You can only call them when they are eating lunch or get up to go pee. If by chance you do catch them on the phone you have to make it very clear that you are smarter than they are and that they are the one who did something wrong causing the problem in question.

Oh and don’t forget that, just to keep them on their toes, everyone is supposed to open attachments from Nigerian Royalty or ridiculous pharmaceutical ads at least once a month after turning off your virus protection software.

Heh, I'm always nice to the IT guys, even though they tend to get a little snippy when I forget to unplug my ethernet cable and flood the company with hundreds of tcp messages a second.

Get back in your cage, code monkey.

So, I get home from my PSAT, totally exhausted, at 11 in the morning. We had it at 8 in the morning on a Saturday.

I logged into Lusternia, grabbed something to drink, and started checking things. I eventually went upstairs to grab something, ended up passing out on my bed.

When I wake up several hours later, Zmud's still open and I'm scrolling up through all the auto-reconnect screens and I see that people are talking about the Vernal Ascendant. And me. And how I don't deserve it. While I'm asleep at the time.

Great.

That's usually what happens. It's not fun, for sure.

I had a really bad cavity (top row, left side, last tooth) and went to the dentist.

He didn't believe me it was a cavity, so he used this hook thing and shoved it in my cavity, and my gums began to bleed.

At first, he was just going to fill it, and then he went and realized I had a filling right next to it, same tooth. So he removed the old filling, put this gel in my mouth, sprayed my mouth three times with this numbing stuff, and gave me THREE SHOTS of novacaine(sp?). And it still hurt. And hours later, it still hurts.

And the left side of my mouth is a bit swollen. Ow.

Don't go back. Seriously.

People think going to the dentist is painful. It doesn't have to be, for anything. I've had everything from fillings to root canals, and none of them ever hurt at all, except for one filling I got from a different dentist when I was out of state once.

Ah, dentist fun!

The last time I went to the dentist, I had two little cavities, one on each side of my lower jaw. So, I'm sitting in that chair and the dentist shoots half a dose of Novocaine on each side cause they're not big cavities. A few minutes later, he starts drilling. But I can feel it, so I reach up and push him back and refuse to let him near me unless he gives me more novocaine cause I don't like pain. So, I get a full dose on each side, for a total of a dose and a half of Novocaine on each side of my lower jaw. A few minutes later, he comes back and drills and fills each side and of course I can't feel it and I'm happy. Then, I get up and notice that I can't feel anything from my cheekbones down to my colarbone. Too much novocaine! I wound up biting my tongue twice, I was drooling, I talked funny, it was really pretty hilarious.

Needless to say, I didn't go back to work that day.

I haven't gotten a cavity since I got hooked on trident (4-5 pieces a day at work), which is awesome because I used to get them all the time since my enamel is weird.

Once they did some numbing goo stuff on my gums, and I swallowed it and my throat got all numb and it was hard to swallow. That was fun

That's the best part. Throw on some ratty old clothes and hang around in public places and be super social, it's too fun!

I have no dentist horror stories! As a matter of fact, one time, I had Cavities, and I was super sensitive, so my dentist popped me with the shots 4 times. Then when I STILL felt it, he got out the sandblaster instead of the drill and used that! He was awsome like that!

I have some pretty bad ones.

Like the time I was being led down a hall by the hygenist who was going to clean my teeth and he walked right into a wall. Man, I have never had so many bleeding spots on my gum like that day since.

The Japanese advisior not replying to my email (That I sent Wednesday) and me having a meeting with my major advisior tomorrow at 1pm (the Japanese guy's office hours are at Monday and Wednesday: 245-345pm...I have a class at 300-350)....

Also that I have little friends...and the 'friends' that I do have supposedly I barely hang out with... *sigh* the only real friend that I did hang out with in highschool are back in my hometown (two hours away from my college)...

I had that problem too, the only person I ever hung out with from college was a girl I saw for a few weeks, and my high school friends were hours away. Why do you think I managed to get titan being as lazy as I am?

It's becoming that way for me.

I have a couple friends, who live with me or I see every few days in passing. The rest live 7 to 9 hours away.

Its shocking to see how frequent players of a text based RPG don't seem to very good at the whole 'healthy social life' thing

That's not true! I have a very healthy social life!

On the contrary, I've seen quite the opposite from a number of IRE players.