2 posts tagged “whining”
So, around the end of august, maybe two weeks ago, maybe a little longer, I fell asleep on the couch one night. I woke up, I was surprised and confused for a moment, then realized what had happened and got up to go to bed for real real.
I stood up, and was really stiff, so I stretched; at this time, I got a sharp intense pain in my right knee which was bad enough that it took my breath away and I was forced to sit down again. A few minutes later, it felt fine, and I didn't think too much of it.
From that time, however, if I'm on my feet for like, 20 minutes or so, my right thigh first goes numb, then 3-5 minutes thereafter begins to burn with the fire of a thousand suns. It's been getting worse, to the point where even lying in bed it will happen, and wake me up, and keep me from getting back to sleep. Sitting in a chair or whatnot will immediately make the sensation go away, which is fine during the day, but who wants to get up and go sit in a chair in the living room in the middle of the night when one's bed is so comfy. If you regularly read and don't skip past all my bitching, you'll know this though.
The past few nights were okay, as I'd found that the pain didn't come if I slept on my right side with a pillow between my knees, or on my back with a pillow under my right knee. Last night, though, the problem came back and none of my tried and true methods fixed it.
I woke up this morning, and there's a big fuckoff black and blue bruise on my right knee, and the knee throbs all the time. 
Guess I get to use my day off tomorrow to go to the hospital. 
Paired
with the stupid of my other leg (which I've been going to see someone
at the hospital weekly for), this is quite annoying. I hate hospitals,
and having to go as often as I have the past while is pretty not good.
Also, while each trip isn't so expensive (excluding my trip to
emergency in July), it adds up!
I go to class period 1, and though I know my leg is going to be killing me by the end of it, it's okay, I try not to let it affect my work too much, and if I'm being productive in class, I can work through the pain, no prob.
So I show up to class with Greasy-sensei. First she gives them time to write their bingo sheets. Then we play bingo in which I am not allowed to speak, but only to point at the word on the sheet so she can say it. Then she takes time to announce the new pairs for 2nd term, and to get them moved to their new seats. This should have taken 5-10 minutes.
It took 30. There was a 3-person group of girls. They were supposed to sit at the back. The teacher drew a seating plan on the board (a pair of boys sits here, a pair of girls sits here), and had the kids come up en masse and claim the spots they wanted. The 3-person group of girls didn't actually have a choice, yet they still chose a spot in the front where a 3-person group does not fit. The teacher's like "nono, you're supposed to be at the back!"
"But we want to be at the front!"
"But you can't be at the front... maybe you can be in the middle?"
"Yes okay, the middle works for us."
"Okay girls who claimed the seats in the middle, you'll sit at the front, and the 3-person group will sit in the middle."
"Iya da! murimurimuri!" (no way that's bad! it's terribly impossible and I can't do it noooooooooooooooooooooooo)
Now, at this point the teacher should have taken control and said "Tough shit, fuckface" and we could have moved on. She didn't. She indulged the girls in their drama for 30 minutes, during which time I stood at the front and my leg hurt worse and worse. I finally told her I was leaving because it was a fucking waste of my time and my leg hurt like hell. To this she responded "Okay kids, stay in your old pairs for today, and we'll move to new pairs next class when we're not wasting Jack's time!"
Okay, great but you should have done that 25 minutes ago. I was happy though, because finally we could get some teaching in, and I could do something.
Nope! The kids repeated new words after me, which took roughly 2 minutes. Then the kids read in pairs, and I was told to not walk around and listen because I would distract them. Then the teacher read the passage and the kids translated to Japanese, which took much longer than it should have. Then the teacher wrote some notes on the board in Japanese and told the kids to copy them down. Then she gave them another Japanese sentence to translate. Then class was over.
I hate it when retards waste my time, but I hate it even more when I'm in pain while they're doing it.
Today was a pretty big waste.
Earlier this week, someone on a Flickr group about my camera model said that he'd made a print of one of his photos, taken on best quality, at 18"x12", and it looked fantastic, which was a surprise to him. He'd found that he could make prints that big at Costco for $3, so he figured hey, why not.
I figured, hey, I should try that out, because being able to make prints that big would be awesome. I got together some photos on a memory card that I wanted to print... 18 that I wanted at small size, and then this one BIG one. I waffled between two photos for a while trying to decide which one I'd get jumbo sized, and finally decided on a leaf in the water pic. I kept the other one I'd been debating on the memcard for small-size printing, and headed to the photo place.
Got there, used their machine, did my thing, chose my pictures and sizes, went up to pay. They accepted the 18 small ones but told me that I'd gone about it wrong to print the giant one. In the past, whenever I've wanted to print a non-standard sized image, I'd just order it seperately, in whatever size, and then ask them to amend the size on the order when I took it to the counter. That's the way, but not for giant Digital Crystal Prints, apparently. They sent me back to the other computer I had to order from, and did my thing. I looked at the image sizes, which of course were in metric. I did a quick conversion in my head, and decided that the biggest size was closest to 18x12. Chose the option to have a lab tech look at my pic and fiddle with it to make it print nicer (it doesn't cost any more, so why not), and went up to order.
So, the big print will take a week to be prepared (probably longer than normal because I chose the lab tech option, but even if I had chosen to print as-is, it still would have been 4-5 days to be prepared), and cost me $30. I decided that I wouldn't be doing it again unless it was as gifts, or some sap wanted to buy a picture I'd taken, which is unlikely. At this point, there's still about 20 minutes before my small prints will be ready, so I bugger off for a bit.
I had to pick up drinks, so I stopped at the newly opened Lawson Station in town (that's a convenience store) to do so. I wanted to check the place out, see if I knew anyone who worked there, see if they had a better selection of instant soup, and so on. Bought my drinks, and a soup, and checked out. The woman then railroaded me into filling out a form (which she re-filled out because my handwriting is atrocious lately) to get a Lawson Point Card. I figured that was fine. Then, as my free gift for signing up, I received chicken karaage. :/ Way to help me out on the diet, lady. I figure it's alright though, since it's only one day. Took this picture of a congratulatory bouquet that was outside the store just as I left.
My other thing I wanted to do while I was out today was pick up a new pen and a small moleskine-like book that I could carry in my pocket. I find myself having ideas lately for stuff to write about, stuff to do, etc etc., but forgetting before I can write it down. I looked when I was at the convenience store, and they had some bright green ones, plastic cover, elastic band to keep it shut, a place for a pen, but only like, 20 pages. I figured I'd leave it, and try to find one elsewhere. If I could find something SO CLOSE to what I want at a convenience store, surely I could find exactly what I wanted at a stationery store, or the stationery section at a department store. No prob!
Prob! I went to the stationery store I often go to for school related stuff, and uhhh nothing. They had stuff that was retardedly small and in the form of a notepad instead of a booklet (and also looked like it had been sitting on the shelf since 1968), but nothing with a band to keep it shut, etc. I stopped at Apita and looked, and they had BIG books with bands, but the pages were all like... half filled with fields to fill in about your school trip. -_- They had books that were the perfect size, but lacked a band. I asked if they had wide elastic bands in the department, because that wouldn't be bad, if the band was seperate. No, they didn't have any elastic bands at all, let alone wide ones. Thanks. So I didn't get anything like that today...
I stopped back at the photo place to pick up my small photos. I noticed two things: (1) they were brighter than I expected, but not so bad -- just let me know that I hadn't calibrated my video right after updating drivers last week and (2) the picture of leaves that I had planned to get printed big size was here, in my clutch of small pics... which meant that somewhere between home and the store, I'd gotten confused and had the wrong photo (the one at left) printed large... it's not a PROBLEM, because either of them work for the purpose, I guess... While I was in there, I copied down the sizes of the large prints they did so I could do some proper conversions at home for when I inevitably wrote about it...
The biggest size, that I'd figured was close to 12x18 was 457mmx560mm. Google tells me that's closer to 18x22inches, which is HELLA BIGGER than I'd wanted. -_- The next size down was 356x432, which Google says is about 14x17, which would have been closer. So not only did I get the wrong picture printed big, I got it printed at the wrong size. On the upside, if it turns out looking good, then I'll know that the highest quality prints I can get from my camera are printable at any size up to 18x22, which is good to know. If it doesn't look good, it just means I'll have to do another test some day with the smaller size.
And... that's it. Still can't check to see if I got tickets to the V6 concerts I wanted to go to... umm... no plans for the weekend at all... umm... (shrug) I guess that's it.
Ohh no wait, I have entertaining merchandise to show you!
I also found this: Jack Bauer's manpurse from season 5 of 24. You know you want it. I laughed and laughed for no good reason.
