Has anything of interest happened to you recently?

MulMizu - your situation sounds exactly like what had me sidelined for five weeks with no diagnosis. Start Googling specialists right away and get yourself to another doctor, babe, or you'll end up fucking up your knees worse. Seriously. If you'd like, I will help you look for someone, but I cannot sit by and let someone else go through the same bullshit I just did.

I'm not allowed to go to any other doctor because it's a work-related injury.

If I do, I compromise the treatment, which is just fancy-talk for "remember all that stuff we said we would pay for? JAY-KAY."

That's almost certainly bullshit. You should have the right to a second opinion. Talk to a lawyer.

Right.

Renewing my promise to help you look for another doctor, and also for another job.

Already got one, whoo! And he sent me this little thing in the mail saying that if I was in this exact situation to contact him. Which I am definitely going to do in the morning. Hopefully, he can do something quickly enough or say something quickly enough to make it so I'm not obligated to go in to work because jesus fuck i can't i can't do it anymore

it hurts so fucking much it's like if someone reached into your knee and just started squeezing i don't know what, but they are just squeezing really fucking hard and then they start gnawing on the bones and you are just like "why are you doing this to me i don't even know you"

Sympathy likes, wheeeee.

It is almost certainly the case that if your company is acting against standards/law/whatever in not permitting you to get a second opinion and you get fired because of it, they're liable for some hefty fines.

"Use our doctor for verification of your work-related injury" said every exploitative company ever.

I finally got a non-robot response to one of my job applications! After only three weeks of looking!

Compared to four months in Cali of nothing but auto-responses thanking me for my application or form letter rejections before talking to a real person about something prospective.

I am feeling positive about this. WHEEEEE!

So I stopped by Salarmy, my affectionate (?) name for Salvation Army, earlier today and found this:

Rot That...that surely is the visage of an eldritch abomination. Egads!

1) I am exactly the kind of person who would be stimulated and not horrified by that sort of thing, and it probably would have been in my hands and out the door in five minutes.
2) So jelly. I moved back into town after five years only to find that they've closed most of the Salvo stores in my area. They were usually the go-to place for awesome furniture.

I guess my only real thing of interest is getting a text out of the blue from my ex saying "come home". I've been blubbering like an idiot all day. Big large fun.

edit: That actually might not be a doll's head? Looks like it possibly may have been lovingly constructed out of wax. Otherwise ... well, it would probably be toxic when you tried to burn the candle, which may well have been its creator's evil intent anyway.

Quat finally cleared off the iPad 2 and now it is miiiiiinnnnnnne. Now I have to find an angle to hold it at so I can video chat without looking like I have multiple chins...

EVERYTHING HAS TO BE ABOUT SEX WITH YOU PEOPLE i took those pictures into the bathroom don't judge me

You found that and you didn't buy it? How is that even possible?

When you light the candle it wakes up.

And screams.

Forever.

Why should I have purchased my former abode? That would have given that foolish mortal a chance to reclaim this husk.
Flesh is quite a bit more comfortable than wax.

I am always awake...Dean.
Couldn't you tell by my face?
That isn't screaming. It's singing. ❤

Shit. You're Yoko Ono, aren't you?

Off to a four day funeral tomorrow. Bit apprehensive because, family.

Your funerals last four days? Does everyone spend three of them sitting in a lodge sweating and breathing funny smoke while some great-uncle of yours dances in a loincloth?

You people have the strangest notions sometimes, dear me~

Lots of people will come, for miles around is all. S'for my uncle by marriage.
And some other things but then I don't study the rules much, I'm just the labor force really.

Please tell me that means you'll be involved in something like this:

Yeah, my Southern Protestant family's funerals are kinda foreign to some folks, too, what with the frequently open casket and several days of visitation. My ex always thought it was a bit queer until I pointed out things like shiva, matzevah, yahrzeit, etc. that frequently drag out the bereavement in her New York Jew family. We just get all of ours done in one shot and use it as a poor replacement for a family reunion with people we pretend to care about.

I downloaded RO2. You don't understand how long I've been waiting for this baby to be in English. I remember playing the old RO2 (which I still kind of miss the look of; not really down for being this lanky, Korean-spouting chick) and being really disappointed when it was basically ended.

Unfortunately, it seems like all of the rest of the English-speaking world feels the exact same way. Every channel of every server is plugged with people, to the point where it's a miracle if you can even connect to the game to play! Which is sad, because it's like...why are you awake at 4AM playing an MMO? I've got an excuse; I never sleep.

why are they playing my game on my servers i want an entire channel just for me
/crosses arms
/pouts

Three cars just crashed into each other on the road in front of our house. They probably thought, why not drive fast on an icy road in a 40 km/h zone?

Edit: is it "on an icy road" or "on a icy road"? I'm never sure with this random language.

"An," because "icy" starts with a vowel.

"An icy road" is correct!

On an icy road. If the following word after the article ("a") begins with a vowel sound, replace "a" with "an".

Example: "A mistake" "An extremely bad mistake."
Example: "A minute" "An hour".

I'll see you in Stalingrad.

And the winner for "Most Awkward Pick-Up Line Of The Week" goes to...

Sure, but isn't that rule about the noun? Which in this case does not start with a vowel. You'd say "a road" not "an road". I'm not a scholar though.

It's about whichever word immediately follows, and it has to do with the sound the next syllable makes more than the letter, which is how you get "an hour" rather than "a hour."

It's the next word as it would be spoken, not necessarily the noun that the indefinite article modifies.

Nope. Can be followed by a noun, adjective, adverb, whatever. It's all in the adjacent vowel sound. You wouldn't say "an shiny apple".

edit: GROUP GRAMMAR BOMB

Past Participle! Gerund! Indefinite Article! By your powers combined - I AM CAPTAIN GRAMMAR!

Ok! Achievement unlocked: derailed an thread

Nah, language lessons are always fun! Je dôvod na obavy. Priateľ kapusty!

Ma bite me démange.

(I can swear in French all day, but I still can't conjugate half of my verbs. I blame living in Montreal.)

What did you enter as the original? 'Cause the translation says "There's a reason to worry. Friend of the cabbage!"