My college has gone on strike. It’s a long story, the short version is that we’ve been trying to work with the admin for three years, we’ve had no raises, the college wants ownership of intellectual property (I’ve created everything in my class except the power point slides and the exam and they all suck, so the college can have those) and a few other things that we, as faculty,aren’t willing to give up. We’ve tried negotiating and they won’t budge so it’s come to this. I expect to hear very shortly whether or not we’re actually doing this. Yes, it will screw up things for the students and I hate that part, but it’s just not sustainable the way things are going.
On top of that is the election. I’m so disgusted with the politics that I don’t even care if I win or lose or this point, I just want it over and done with. I was a poll watcher for a few hours today. The opposition was friendlier than the people on our side. One young black girl who was “helping us” is apparently a died in the wool Democrat and tried to start an argument with me4 times. After she told me how awful Republicans are, and I responded with “you guys celebrated Charlie Kirk being assassinated, don’t tell me about awful,” she responded that he said horrible things about people like her. I asked if she had watched more than a 15 second clip and she put her hand up, yelled NO and backed away. The next time she started, I said that she had shown that she wasn’t willing to listen and only wanted to browbeat me and I wasn’t going to do that. Did that stop her? Of course not. The final time, I said, “I have too much going on in my life right now for this nonsense, this is not what I came here for, I’ve told you to stop, I’m not going to argue with you.” She said she wasn’t arguing, it was a conversation. A conversation I just said I was done with so GO THE FUCK AWAY. ( I didn’t say that last part out loud.) I told the rest of the group that I was done, and left. The polls close at 8, I don’t know when we’ll get results. I can’t wait to be done with these people!
My nephew is staying with us, he left his batshit crazy soon to be ex wife because of the batshit crazy stuff and came here from Maine. I’ve been really happy to have him, honestly. In spite of the stress and bullshit caused by the soon to be ex, aka “Bitchcakes,” having him here has been a blessing. It’s been a long time since we spent time together, his mom was my best friend and I still miss her every day – she passed 33 years ago – so talking and laughing and yes, crying a bit, has been wonderful. We’ve been doing tourist type stuff, too. I’ve long wanted to do a tour of Gettysburg but some things are just not fun alone. We did the auto tour from the National Park Service last week and it was great. Highly recommend! We also did a fast trip to Maine and back – in 4 days, from Southern PA to Northern Maine, 700 miles- to attend a court hearing, which he won.
He’ll be here awhile, because, as the title says, he’s also waiting. Waiting on a date for the divorce hearing, waiting on paperwork so he can get medical leave, waiting to head South to be with his sister who is also going through a divorce, I know he’s bored, and so is the Bear, and I can’t convince either of them to learn to knit or sew or do diamond art.
I’m back in physical therapy. I’ve had trigger point injections in my upper back, another round of shots in my spine and possibly more shots in the piraformis muscles.
Apparently mine are quite tight, so there are trigger point injections for those spots too. I have PT tomorrow and will be discussing it with my therapist.
I’ve been cooking and baking like crazy. I have two guys here who love Boston Cream Pie but a whole one is a bit too much for just two people. Well. I discovered these cute little four inch cake pans on Amazon. I can make mini cakes! I’m so easy to please. 🙂
So now we wait for the election results, and the strike results, and the rest of the world to get it together so the nephew can make plans. I need a shot of brandy and a shower, Bear has made soup for supper and all I have to do is wash the dishes later
Suziecreamcheese Sings the Blues 
Sorry about the school admin being a pain in the Bu**. I had a job at a bank and I wanted to cry everyday when I woke up because I had to go to work there (there was a person there that loved to harass me and told the boss lies about me, was very unpleasant), was so glad when I got to retire on SS. I’ve had jobs I loved, but that wasn’t it :P. I hope you all get things worked out so you can go back to doing what you enjoy.
Sorry for the upheaval that your nephew is going through, divorces can be very ugly.
The far left doesn’t know how to discuss anything. It’s always an argument and they just end up mad because you are not allowed to have an opinion that is different than theirs, because like all good narcissistic people they are always right so there can’t be any other opinions. I’m fine with we can agree to disagree, but they can’t accept that.
There is a channel on YouTube called WeShape, it is a physical therapist that shows special exercises and he has one for exercises to strengthen the piriformus muscle. It’s an interesting channel :).
I found a channel on YouTube for making small servings of desserts, and I’m going to have to buy a tin to for making 4 baked donuts because the recipe was for apple cider donuts!
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I’m going to look for that YouTube channel, thank you! And now I have to look for a 4 donut maker thing. Wait – I think I have one!
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Well, at least the soup sounds nice! 😂
Have fun visiting with your nephew. I’m sure he will feel much better once all of this is behind him. In a way, getting a new start is kind of exciting. I hope great things are coming his way!
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of college professors going on strike. Hopefully the school will care more about people than the government does. 🙄
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The soup was delicious. I’m going to be sad when my nephew leaves but it’s a new chapter for him and it’s been wonderful having him here – made great memories and revisited old ones. There may be some movement with the strike, too. Fingers crossed
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And we’re still waiting on election results!!!
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Is it the hanging chads? I bet it’s the hanging chads. 😂
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Damn those chads!!!!!!
Nope, I lost. I’ll write more about it later
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Wait, how could you lose? You ran as a Democrat. Democrats always win.
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I know!! Must have been rigged!
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Those darned Republicans. Always stealing elections….
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I know!!! So rude!
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Bitchcakes….lol.
Just seeing the the word “sciatica” had me cringing. A couple years back I had a wicked dose of that stuff but fortunately a knee pillow while sleeping and2x/day stretching sessions provided a lot of relief. I don’t give a flying hairy rat’s patoot about politics anymore but could thoroughly sympathize with your polling experience.
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It’s a combination of degenerative disc disease, sciatic, gluteal tendonitis (a sore ass) and general muscle and bone issues. I helped a large gentleman into the voting place and back out, he was leaning heavily on me, and my ribs have been paying the price. But it was worth it, he’s a nice guy who’s had a rough go but would lay down his life for his friends. (He was a bad ass member of the Pagans back in the day)
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Just wanted to let you now that I moved Reiko’s blog back over to WordPress. Here it is: https://reikos-journey.blog/
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