Streams of Consciousness & Thoughts~~~

[GaryA]

I think I tried to be saying "nothing compares, nothing compares with you" and just feeling a tiny bit jealous of all the tea, cupcakes, cakes, pies and what have you that these women are trying to serve to you. If a Lynx gets hungry and finds himself in company with a gracious turkey, I think we all know how that story will end. Just like the pancake and the pig.

I'm not sure the same animal stories are told on both sides of the pond...



You may have to tell us those stories you are referring to. ( Or, I would have to look them up on the internet...? )

 

[Fenner]

Thanks for the kind responses and prayers. I really appreciate it.

I'm exhausted mentally and physically. Just thinking to much and I took my kid's swimming today. Swimming is such an awesome work out.

 

[seoulsearch]

Because you are a naughty monkey. No tea and cookies for you. Prune juice and meatloaf.

I'm not psychic... But I'm sensing a beat-down in Singles.

And, I happen to actually like one out of two of those two things, so there!! Nyah nyah nyah on you!!

Many thanks to Lady Magenta for saving my bacon and giving me numerous other scrumptious-looking options. <3

Well. I join your club. If I may. Despite the naughty list. I think not a single person here can compete with the charm of a Lynx or a gracious turkey.

Fortunately for you, Toi, Lynx IS a gracious turkey.

Why choose when you can have both in one package?!

 

[Yahweh_is_gracious]

I'm not psychic... But I'm sensing a beat-down in Singles.

And, I happen to actually like one out of two of those two things, so there!! Nyah nyah nyah on you!!

Many thanks to Lady Magenta for saving my bacon and giving me numerous other scrumptious-looking options. <3




Fortunately for you, Toi, Lynx IS a gracious turkey.

Why choose when you can have both in one package?!

I knew you liked meatloaf! You were just messing with me! Brat.

 

[tourist]

Please stop asking me what I'm going to do with my PhD.

1. You don't really care. We both know it. Stop pretending. It insults my very high intelligence.

2. In reality, my PhD is just the most recent of a long list of accomplishments in my life. I have a 3" thick, 3-ring binder bursting at the seams of crap I've done. I keep them merely to symbolize "yep, did it". From my Presidential Academic Fitness Award in 1987, up through my Certificates of Commendation from the United States Marine Corps, through m academic degrees and my certification as an Oblate of Saint Benedict...they are just "things I've done".

3. I'm under no obligation to do anything with any of it. It has no effect on what you call a life. It's just something I've done to keep me distracted from my existence of lifting my Dad on and off the toilet multiple times a day, fetching his medications, and generally being a butler...none of which I wanted...and all of which were thrust upon me without any asking. I resent my life, and the pursuit of a PhD is just a way to occupy my time.

4. A PhD is meaningless. It has no meaning whatsoever. It signifies nothing. I'm just as big an idiot now as I was before I started the process, but now I know how to conceptualize a research project and BS the result to make it sound as though I know what I am talking about. I don't. It's all fake.

So, quit blowing smoke up my butt. You don't really care, and I know it. I don't care and I never will. Once I am graduated with another fancy piece of paper to put in my binder, I'll find something to do...something easy since I am lazy as crap...and something where I can do the bare minimum to get by. If that offends you, deal with it. Get off my back.

I'll say one thing about you and that is that you're certainly not lazy. I'm quite impressed with the accomplishments in your binder. A PhD may be meaningless to you but being the caretaker for your dad certainly has meaning although it may be frustrating at times. The way that you take care of your dad is similar to what I had to do for years for my second wife who has since died. It's extremely hard to be the sole caretaker and at times it can suck the life out of you. I have an understanding on this type of situation and possibly can understand a certain measure of the type of pain and suffering that you are personally going through.

 

[seoulsearch]

I knew you liked meatloaf! You were just messing with me! Brat.

OH, IT'S ON NOW!!!

Such vile allegations must. be. stopped.

Is that a bell I hear???!!

DING!!!

 

[Lynx]

How sad is it when you can't get a job at Wal-Mart?

I was thinking how much Wal-Mart electronics departments need a nerd, and I have afternoons and evenings free, so... I tried an online application. At the end of the questionnaire part it notified me that I had "completed but not passed" the evaluation.

Great. Even Wal-Mart won't hire me. I mean no great loss, it was going to be a second job anyway, but... that's just sad.

I need a slice of chocolate pie. Back in a bit.

 

[Solemateleft]

I worry about the future of our younger generations... I'm concerned that the excessive exposure to social media, and other forms of societal access (vulgar hip-hop lyrics, promiscuous movies, videos, youtube, sex & violence in games, strip-clubs, bachelor/bachelorette parties)... With excessive access and acceptance - our society is slowly erasing appropriate social boundaries... I fear our younger generation(s) with be ill equipped to be able to draw Red-Lines for themselves, to fully comprehend what is right from wrong when it comes to setting acceptable boundaries to ensure that healthy relationships can persevere...
I fear the future for healthy relationships will be at risk for future generations as a result..

 

[Ugly]

How sad is it when you can't get a job at Wal-Mart?

I was thinking how much Wal-Mart electronics departments need a nerd, and I have afternoons and evenings free, so... I tried an online application. At the end of the questionnaire part it notified me that I had "completed but not passed" the evaluation.

Great. Even Wal-Mart won't hire me. I mean no great loss, it was going to be a second job anyway, but... that's just sad.

I need a slice of chocolate pie. Back in a bit.

Actually the tests they administer are hard to pass for many. Those most likely to pass them, ironically, are dishonest people who research how to pass or find the correct answers.
Meanwhile honest, experienced, hard workers fail over and over. Not just at Wal-Mart. Most retail jobs.
Ice worked at two separate Wal-Mart's. It's the devils armpit. They simply do not care about their employees. Employees are viewed as expendable. High turn around rates are common, even expected, in most of their stores.

 

[Yahweh_is_gracious]

OH, IT'S ON NOW!!!

Such vile allegations must. be. stopped.

Is that a bell I hear???!!

DING!!!

Ding? Did you hit your head?

 

[Lynx]

Actually the tests they administer are hard to pass for many. Those most likely to pass them, ironically, are dishonest people who research how to pass or find the correct answers.
Meanwhile honest, experienced, hard workers fail over and over. Not just at Wal-Mart. Most retail jobs.
Ice worked at two separate Wal-Mart's. It's the devils armpit. They simply do not care about their employees. Employees are viewed as expendable. High turn around rates are common, even expected, in most of their stores.

Considering the kind of coworkers I would be working with are the kind of people you described as being likely to pass... maybe I dodged a bullet?

Time will tell. But the slice of chocolate cream pie was good.

 

[tourist]

Considering the kind of coworkers I would be working with are the kind of people you described as being likely to pass... maybe I dodged a bullet?

Time will tell. But the slice of chocolate cream pie was good.

Having been employed at Walmart on two separate occasions I would say that most of the workers are honest and decent. The evaluation can be tricky. Don't try to answer the questions with the answers that you believe are the right ones, just be honest and be yourself. An evaluation that is answered what seems to be perfectly correct as far as character and qualifications will always get rejected. I'm not saying this is what happen to you. I would try again when the system allows you too. Chocolate cream pie sounds good but banana cream pie sounds better.

 

[seoulsearch]

Ding? Did you hit your head?

I wear a head band for that, Smarty Pants.

 

[Lynx]

Having been employed at Walmart on two separate occasions I would say that most of the workers are honest and decent. The evaluation can be tricky. Don't try to answer the questions with the answers that you believe are the right ones, just be honest and be yourself. An evaluation that is answered what seems to be perfectly correct as far as character and qualifications will always get rejected. I'm not saying this is what happen to you. I would try again when the system allows you too. Chocolate cream pie sounds good but banana cream pie sounds better.

HA! I told the absolute truth on every question, and they automatically reject an application that is too perfect, so I'm literally TOO GOOD TO WORK THERE!

To a certain friend: Turns out you were more right than you know. I AM too good to work there.

I'm not going to lie and say I have a bad work ethic, or that I would argue with a manager about how to solve a problem, just to get hired. I'll just move on.

 

[Lynx]

Great. Not only am I not fit to be a Wal-Mart employee, a friend... well, somebody I THOUGHT was a friend... just told me I'm distressing too.

Today just ain't my day...

 

[Fenner]

My Son was talking to me while I was reading something, I looked up and he has an Iron Man Mask on. It actually made me jump a little. Earlier today I walked by his bedroom and the door was shut. He cracked it open and played a spooky sound on his keyboard and scared me, he's good.

 

[Zi]

In my industrial psychology course a few years ago we learned about those tests. I wanted to test my knowledge. I applied somewhere and was hired because of my high test score. The manager interviewing me told me so.

Having been employed at Walmart on two separate occasions I would say that most of the workers are honest and decent. The evaluation can be tricky. Don't try to answer the questions with the answers that you believe are the right ones, just be honest and be yourself. An evaluation that is answered what seems to be perfectly correct as far as character and qualifications will always get rejected. I'm not saying this is what happen to you. I would try again when the system allows you too. Chocolate cream pie sounds good but banana cream pie sounds better.

fascinating course, but oh so boring at the same time.

 

[Ugly]

Considering the kind of coworkers I would be working with are the kind of people you described as being likely to pass... maybe I dodged a bullet?

Time will tell. But the slice of chocolate cream pie was good.

Keep in mind. That's also how management got hired. ( ;

 

[Conversationand]

My Son was talking to me while I was reading something, I looked up and he has an Iron Man Mask on. It actually made me jump a little. Earlier today I walked by his bedroom and the door was shut. He cracked it open and played a spooky sound on his keyboard and scared me, he's good.

I used to work for an optometrist back in the day. Nike had put out these sport contacts, both hi vis shooter yellow contacts and some "sunglasses" style contacts. Well we were discontinuing them or something so I got a pair of each. The sunglasses style worked exactly like that and they were one single black color, meaning when you put them on your eyes looked freakish. I walked up to my mom with my head down and didn't look at her until the last second when I was close to her. It scared her pretty good, but I immediately explained.

 

[MollyConnor]

“Ask for God’s help ten times a day. Be weak in his presence so that you can be strong in the presence of men.” - John Piper