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Fair warning now, the bulk of this is probably going to be me getting frustrated with how the weekend went. I'll hide that part under a cut so it doesn't take up too much room on your f-list.
Starting with the good. After 3 disaster classes in a row, my latest riding class wasn't too bad. We had a massive thunderstorm hit fifteen minutes before we went to the ring, and one of my classmates' horses was shaking so bad, he was terrified. We ended up only riding for about half an hour, and the instructor had me work on my own the whole time. It felt frustrating because she was working with the other two and ignoring me, but I guess that is a good thing? I'm trying to see it as she figured I knew what I was doing enough that I wasn't a concern. I worked on leg strengthening, so I guess it was productive. Irish was very well behaved, if somewhat slow moving. I am supposed to be jumping him in our lesson tomorrow.
So, a few years back, I picked up a Windows 8 laptop, back when Win8 had just started rolling out on new laptops. It was a decent mid-range touchscreen, that could run about half of my Steam library decently well. A couple of years back, a small child relative stepped on it and it cracked the screen right down the middle. It still looks fine (when you ignore the crack), but the touchscreen function is massively inaccurate and covered in dead spots, so I just keep the feature disabled. When Win8.1 rolled out, my laptop lost almost all usefulness. Somehow, in the update, it could no longer display to a second screen, the bluetooth function stopped working entirely, and the sound... The sound was completely lost. It couldn't even find its own speakers, when they had worked just fine right before the update. Apparently, all of these were common bugs for people who did the update. Supposedly, downloading the drivers fixed it for some people, but I was not one of those people. At the time, I had my desktop accessible and could use it for most things. When I moved up North for school, I couldn't exactly bring my desktop, so instead I got a nice little Win10 (that fried itself after a few months... that's a story for another time. I am living with a Chromebook for now). When I was home over break, I dug out my external hard drive and brought it, and my Win8.1, back with me. On Sunday, I finally got around to pulling everything off of the laptop, and reset the whole thing. Like magic, everything is back to functioning just fine. The web browser runs a bit slow, for some reason, but everything else works the same as it did when I got it out of the box. I forgot how nice the sound is, and I missed having the bigger, clearer screen. I'm happy to have it back.
The weekend got away from me, as I was busy dealing with adult children the entire time. Campus has been all abuzz the last couple of weeks with housing selection. People have been looking for groups, tallying points, and getting their paperwork sent in. Now, this one guy in our group, we shall call him Blondie, made this plan without really asking anyone first, that four of them would be living together. One of the four was Dragon Age Girl, who does not like the other girl that he put in the group. She didn't really bother to speak up when he first pitched this idea. So the night before applications were allowed to be turned in, the other guy in the group was getting the paperwork together so they could have it in right away, and he asked her for her information. She responded with, "So, I might be living with [other person] instead." Apparently, she and this other person had been talking about it for over a week. Way to keep everyone in the loop, DAG. So now their group had to scramble and find a replacement. They managed to find one after a week, and I figured they had their papers in and were ready, since I didn't hear anything else.
Skip forward to Thursday, we all get to dinner, and Blondie approaches DAG in front of everyone and asks "How much do you love me?" I hate it when he says that because it ALWAYS means that he wants something. Turns out, the second girl in his group, the one DAG didn't want to live with, the one who always pulls this crap, hadn't bothered to pay off her tuition for this semester yet, so she had a hold on her account and could not sign up for classes. You can't apply for housing if you aren't registered for classes. Blondie had this plan where DAG and the girl would swap groups, so DAG would go in with Blondie's group, and the irresponsible one would go in with DAG's group. Then, after the two-week room freeze at the start of the semester, they would swap back to the groups they wanted to be in. The whole plan was overly complicated and honestly stupid. That girl never pays her bills on time and this should have been epected and taken into account. At the end of EVERY semester she always freaks out and says she might not be back because she owes too much, Honeslty, if I were the school, after the second late payment I would have to reconsider her admission. So anyway, DAG was not ok with this plan at all and told Blondie no. So he threw a temper tantrum.
When Blondie throws a tantrum, he gets petty. Like, stupidly, childishly petty. He gave her the silent treatment for the rest of dinner, and when I went back to his apartment to hang out with his roommate, he went on a rant about how she has now "screwed them over twice" (I'll grant she handled the first time badly, but this time was not her fault in any way), and she was dead to him and not allowed in their apartment ever again and he was never going to speak to her again. Keep in mind, this guy is my age. He's going on 25, but he acts like a thirteen year old girl. The next day (Friday), I ran into DAG at lunch and asked if she had heard his new rules about her, and she said no, so I told her to take it with a grain of salt, but this is what he said and she should give him some space for the weekend to let him get over himself and not keep the drama going. Over the rest of the weekend, I wondered how much worse it would have een if she had heard it from someone other than me. Well, she lost it. Started bawling at lunch. I got her to calm down enough to message an RA friend of ours to set up a metting later. DAG was supposed to have a riding lesson and wasn't stable enough to drive to it, so I took her, sacrificing time to work on my thesis, and she ended up taking her good sweet time all day, trying to order me around at the barn and everything. I mean, if you ask nicely, I'm happy to help, but don't go bossing me around; I can get in my car and leave you here.
We got back to campus and met with the RA to talk about it. I practically bit a hole in my tongue to not verbally smack this girl. DAG was trying to vent, and this girl was cutting her off to talk about how she was suffering from such bad depression that she had contemplated suicide three days before. Like, I'm sorry you're going through such a tough time, but you're an RA and currently supposed to be acting in an RA capacity. There are hotlines to call. Please call them, and remain professional when you are supposed to be acting in a professional capacity. We left and DAG really didn't feel any better. Can't say I blame her, nothing was accomplished and the RA barely gave DAG a chance to speak.
The next day (Saturday), I spent most of the day with Blondie and his roommate. I am good friends with his roommate and we barely get to hang out just the two of us. Blondie wasn't part of the plan, he just invited himself, like usual. We avoided the discussion for most of the day, then went to dinner. DAG was there and Blondie just had to pick the able next to her to sit at, so she messaged me on Google a little later that evening saying she was so upset and that we all follow him and he uses and manipulates us all, blah blah blah. Oh boy did I let her have it. Who spent all of Friday with her? Me. Who went with her to talk to the RA? Oh hey, I did. Who drove her to the barn for her riding lesson because she was too upset to drive herself? OH RIGHT, that was ME, too! Of course, Blondie is incredibly nosey and kept bothering me about what I was typing, and ended up getting ahold of my laptop and reading the messages. He kept trying to message her to be petty and annoy her and make her feel even worse. I admit, I'm tired. I'm too old for this childish shit. I have no paience left for any of this, especially when he is starting most of it. So I flipped on him. I tore him a new one. I had this 6'3" guy shrinking and shying away because I was so fucking sick of his treating her like shit. He went after her because he is frustrated and mad at himself and the irresponsible girl for screwing him over. He doesn't care about anyone else. He knows DAG won't stand up for herself. She has no self confidence and won't speak up. I consider her a friend, regardless, and I don't take well to people treating others like shit. I ripped him a new one, and he kept his mouth closed on the subject for the rest of the night. I needed a break from the whole mess, so I kept to myself all day Sunday. I'm sure Blondie already forgot about our talk, but if I find out he says anything ese on the subject to perpetuate this drama, he and I are going to have a much more intimidating and memorable discussion.
Anyway, that was the drama of the weekend. More than enough drama for me for a year.
Gaming: I have slowly been working on my Age of Triumphs record book in Destiny. I really just want to hit Rank 7 soon so I can order my t-shirt from the Bungie site! I have also been looking into preordering Destiny 2. I was going to order it digitally, but I would have to remove Destiny in order to make enough space. Plus, if I want the special version its' one hundred freaking dollars!!! The difference is all digital! Now, if they sent me an art book in the mail, I'd say yes, sign me up. But they don't, so I figure I will get a physical copy. I keep forgetting I have a preorder on one of the Destiny expansions at GameStop, so I think I will move it over as a preorder for Destiny 2.
TV Shows: I got a few more episodes into Voltron legendary Defender, and am really enjoying it. I also started rewatching Archer and am already on Season 3. This show makes me laugh, which I needed after everything this weekend. There is an app to go with the new season that just started last week, and I asked my mother to record it so I can catch up when I am back in town. I'm really interested to see how they use the augmented reality app and tie it into the show.
Here is to a drama-free week for everyone!
Starting with the good. After 3 disaster classes in a row, my latest riding class wasn't too bad. We had a massive thunderstorm hit fifteen minutes before we went to the ring, and one of my classmates' horses was shaking so bad, he was terrified. We ended up only riding for about half an hour, and the instructor had me work on my own the whole time. It felt frustrating because she was working with the other two and ignoring me, but I guess that is a good thing? I'm trying to see it as she figured I knew what I was doing enough that I wasn't a concern. I worked on leg strengthening, so I guess it was productive. Irish was very well behaved, if somewhat slow moving. I am supposed to be jumping him in our lesson tomorrow.
So, a few years back, I picked up a Windows 8 laptop, back when Win8 had just started rolling out on new laptops. It was a decent mid-range touchscreen, that could run about half of my Steam library decently well. A couple of years back, a small child relative stepped on it and it cracked the screen right down the middle. It still looks fine (when you ignore the crack), but the touchscreen function is massively inaccurate and covered in dead spots, so I just keep the feature disabled. When Win8.1 rolled out, my laptop lost almost all usefulness. Somehow, in the update, it could no longer display to a second screen, the bluetooth function stopped working entirely, and the sound... The sound was completely lost. It couldn't even find its own speakers, when they had worked just fine right before the update. Apparently, all of these were common bugs for people who did the update. Supposedly, downloading the drivers fixed it for some people, but I was not one of those people. At the time, I had my desktop accessible and could use it for most things. When I moved up North for school, I couldn't exactly bring my desktop, so instead I got a nice little Win10 (that fried itself after a few months... that's a story for another time. I am living with a Chromebook for now). When I was home over break, I dug out my external hard drive and brought it, and my Win8.1, back with me. On Sunday, I finally got around to pulling everything off of the laptop, and reset the whole thing. Like magic, everything is back to functioning just fine. The web browser runs a bit slow, for some reason, but everything else works the same as it did when I got it out of the box. I forgot how nice the sound is, and I missed having the bigger, clearer screen. I'm happy to have it back.
The weekend got away from me, as I was busy dealing with adult children the entire time. Campus has been all abuzz the last couple of weeks with housing selection. People have been looking for groups, tallying points, and getting their paperwork sent in. Now, this one guy in our group, we shall call him Blondie, made this plan without really asking anyone first, that four of them would be living together. One of the four was Dragon Age Girl, who does not like the other girl that he put in the group. She didn't really bother to speak up when he first pitched this idea. So the night before applications were allowed to be turned in, the other guy in the group was getting the paperwork together so they could have it in right away, and he asked her for her information. She responded with, "So, I might be living with [other person] instead." Apparently, she and this other person had been talking about it for over a week. Way to keep everyone in the loop, DAG. So now their group had to scramble and find a replacement. They managed to find one after a week, and I figured they had their papers in and were ready, since I didn't hear anything else.
Skip forward to Thursday, we all get to dinner, and Blondie approaches DAG in front of everyone and asks "How much do you love me?" I hate it when he says that because it ALWAYS means that he wants something. Turns out, the second girl in his group, the one DAG didn't want to live with, the one who always pulls this crap, hadn't bothered to pay off her tuition for this semester yet, so she had a hold on her account and could not sign up for classes. You can't apply for housing if you aren't registered for classes. Blondie had this plan where DAG and the girl would swap groups, so DAG would go in with Blondie's group, and the irresponsible one would go in with DAG's group. Then, after the two-week room freeze at the start of the semester, they would swap back to the groups they wanted to be in. The whole plan was overly complicated and honestly stupid. That girl never pays her bills on time and this should have been epected and taken into account. At the end of EVERY semester she always freaks out and says she might not be back because she owes too much, Honeslty, if I were the school, after the second late payment I would have to reconsider her admission. So anyway, DAG was not ok with this plan at all and told Blondie no. So he threw a temper tantrum.
When Blondie throws a tantrum, he gets petty. Like, stupidly, childishly petty. He gave her the silent treatment for the rest of dinner, and when I went back to his apartment to hang out with his roommate, he went on a rant about how she has now "screwed them over twice" (I'll grant she handled the first time badly, but this time was not her fault in any way), and she was dead to him and not allowed in their apartment ever again and he was never going to speak to her again. Keep in mind, this guy is my age. He's going on 25, but he acts like a thirteen year old girl. The next day (Friday), I ran into DAG at lunch and asked if she had heard his new rules about her, and she said no, so I told her to take it with a grain of salt, but this is what he said and she should give him some space for the weekend to let him get over himself and not keep the drama going. Over the rest of the weekend, I wondered how much worse it would have een if she had heard it from someone other than me. Well, she lost it. Started bawling at lunch. I got her to calm down enough to message an RA friend of ours to set up a metting later. DAG was supposed to have a riding lesson and wasn't stable enough to drive to it, so I took her, sacrificing time to work on my thesis, and she ended up taking her good sweet time all day, trying to order me around at the barn and everything. I mean, if you ask nicely, I'm happy to help, but don't go bossing me around; I can get in my car and leave you here.
We got back to campus and met with the RA to talk about it. I practically bit a hole in my tongue to not verbally smack this girl. DAG was trying to vent, and this girl was cutting her off to talk about how she was suffering from such bad depression that she had contemplated suicide three days before. Like, I'm sorry you're going through such a tough time, but you're an RA and currently supposed to be acting in an RA capacity. There are hotlines to call. Please call them, and remain professional when you are supposed to be acting in a professional capacity. We left and DAG really didn't feel any better. Can't say I blame her, nothing was accomplished and the RA barely gave DAG a chance to speak.
The next day (Saturday), I spent most of the day with Blondie and his roommate. I am good friends with his roommate and we barely get to hang out just the two of us. Blondie wasn't part of the plan, he just invited himself, like usual. We avoided the discussion for most of the day, then went to dinner. DAG was there and Blondie just had to pick the able next to her to sit at, so she messaged me on Google a little later that evening saying she was so upset and that we all follow him and he uses and manipulates us all, blah blah blah. Oh boy did I let her have it. Who spent all of Friday with her? Me. Who went with her to talk to the RA? Oh hey, I did. Who drove her to the barn for her riding lesson because she was too upset to drive herself? OH RIGHT, that was ME, too! Of course, Blondie is incredibly nosey and kept bothering me about what I was typing, and ended up getting ahold of my laptop and reading the messages. He kept trying to message her to be petty and annoy her and make her feel even worse. I admit, I'm tired. I'm too old for this childish shit. I have no paience left for any of this, especially when he is starting most of it. So I flipped on him. I tore him a new one. I had this 6'3" guy shrinking and shying away because I was so fucking sick of his treating her like shit. He went after her because he is frustrated and mad at himself and the irresponsible girl for screwing him over. He doesn't care about anyone else. He knows DAG won't stand up for herself. She has no self confidence and won't speak up. I consider her a friend, regardless, and I don't take well to people treating others like shit. I ripped him a new one, and he kept his mouth closed on the subject for the rest of the night. I needed a break from the whole mess, so I kept to myself all day Sunday. I'm sure Blondie already forgot about our talk, but if I find out he says anything ese on the subject to perpetuate this drama, he and I are going to have a much more intimidating and memorable discussion.
Anyway, that was the drama of the weekend. More than enough drama for me for a year.
Gaming: I have slowly been working on my Age of Triumphs record book in Destiny. I really just want to hit Rank 7 soon so I can order my t-shirt from the Bungie site! I have also been looking into preordering Destiny 2. I was going to order it digitally, but I would have to remove Destiny in order to make enough space. Plus, if I want the special version its' one hundred freaking dollars!!! The difference is all digital! Now, if they sent me an art book in the mail, I'd say yes, sign me up. But they don't, so I figure I will get a physical copy. I keep forgetting I have a preorder on one of the Destiny expansions at GameStop, so I think I will move it over as a preorder for Destiny 2.
TV Shows: I got a few more episodes into Voltron legendary Defender, and am really enjoying it. I also started rewatching Archer and am already on Season 3. This show makes me laugh, which I needed after everything this weekend. There is an app to go with the new season that just started last week, and I asked my mother to record it so I can catch up when I am back in town. I'm really interested to see how they use the augmented reality app and tie it into the show.
Here is to a drama-free week for everyone!
