i stayed up until midnight working on my assignment then got up at six this morning and worked on it some more. i’ve just now finished the final commenting, bug reporting and printing. i will not even think about it again until i hand it in tonight.
the other morning while getting ready for work, i heard on the radio that a woman who worked in a care facility was terminated for putting an elderly resident, secured into a geriatric chair, into a closet overnight. she has recently had that termination overturned and is now serving a several month suspension without pay instead. i very nearly became physically ill at the thought. it took a lot of self control for me not to completely rage and lose it at the mere thought of someone doing that to another person. i just kept going back to what that poor resident must have been thinking and feeling as they were shut up in a closet for the night. even now, i can feel the fury rising inside me.
i just don’t understand what it is about people that makes them think it’s okay to abuse or mis-treat seniors in this manner. why aren’t we more compassionate with the people who can do the least for themselves? i need to find out if there are any seniors advocacy groups in the area i can get involved in or, at the very least, financially support. maybe i’ll try to find time to go volunteer at a care facility again. i did a little bit of that in highschool and i did enjoy myself quite a bit.
lately, i’ve been experiencing quite a bit of road rage. i’m swearing and yelling at other drivers a lot more than i normally do. i caught myself doing it yesterday on the way home. i don’t know if this is a continuing trend, but i hope not. i don’t particularily like being an asshole driver. i’ve prided myself on being pretty level-headed behind the wheel. maybe when i’m not stressing about other things i’ll calm down in my car.
I know exactly how you feel. My mom has multiple sclerosis. If you’re not familiar with MS, it’s a degenerative disease. She’s got it pretty severe. Ten years ago, we used to go on bike rides. Now she can’t walk real well without a cane, and even then, it’s pretty limited. She’ll need care at some point, probably a lot sooner than most people with parents my age. It saddens me to think of her ever being treated like that. My sister used to work in a care facility in a real small town. Some of the things that went down there are just unspeakable. I can’t imagine my mother, or anyone, ever being mistreated. I hope when the time comes, I’m able to afford in home care or a residential setting for her.
hmm.. a little road-snap-and-lose it is ok imho. ESPECIALLY in Vancouver. nice city and all, but per capita.. a real bad percentage of dumbass behind the wheel. I think I went on a bit of a rant about that a while back after a bad run into the city. so go ahead. yell through the windshield. it’s calming (I do it all the time ;). and it’s acceptable if its not YOU who just did something dumbass. I shouldn’t condone sinking to the level of the anus who just cut you off. pls dont drive like an ass to spite soccer moms and minivan dads. if you’re not part of the solution, you’re simply part of the problem. but feel free to rebuke at will through the glass. ‘course.. who am I to say what ya can and can’t do. oh wait, yeah. the guy who gets paid to push 80 thousand lbs of rollin death through the same traffic that drives you batshit in a little car, only all day, not just an hour a day, and 70 feet long. y’kno what? screw ’em. I can’t get any payback in my vehicle. if I do, I’ll kill someone and go away for a little while. involuntary vacation. so go get some for me. the next time you see some dipshit asian kid in his neon green race-stickered accura with a rear chrome spoiler big enough to operate as a rudder on a 747 come road-racin up behind ya, cut his ass off and jam on the brakes for me. I would, but I cant jig lanes fast enough to get ’em. of all the bad driving in this town, doin somethin stupid every now and then is one thing, but to intentionally tear up the surface streets like your enzio bodini in an F-1 is something worthy of being lynched. every time its the same breed of offenders that are killing someone at LEAST once a month in this town in their little road races. I’m not a racist bigot but it’s these damn asian kids who’ve seen movies like the Fast and the Furious one time too many. same cars and everything. the fact they race in the city is doubly infuriating. we got enough twisty mountain roads where they can wind those pos 4 bangers up and kill themselves and themselves only. leave our sidewalk public out of your amature races. these kids don’t even have the skills to drive at the speed limit, much less put the hammer down. grr…
wow, fizz… tell us how you really feel! ;)
I’ve been having walkers rage lately. No, really. The other night, it’s snowing, there’s a 2-3 inch deep layer of slush in the parking lot of a store I’m walking through, and this guy comes walking by me, literally pushes me to the side slightly to get by faster where I’d have been hit by a car had one been coming, and just keeps going.
So, I’m walking behind him in my big clunky boots and suddenly, instead of lifting me feet to walk, I shuffled them along. Spraying the back of his pants with each step with a small layer of slush. He had no clue. Until, no doubt, he sat down later. ;)
I mean, it wasn’t a GOOD thing to do, but it felt good, and it didn’t do permanent damage, or hurt anyone physically…. and did I mention it felt GOOD? ;-)