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... SPAM CALLS 20 TIMES A DAY ARE BACK
boy did I miss not being able to rely on my phone for important calls unless I save the phone numbers beforehand
because random call centers wont leave me aloooooooooooooone and they clog up my voice mail with silent messages

.-.

I think this is a really normal thing in northern CO? I wonder if its just a normal thing in general in the US these days.
Its madness though, I have to always have my phone on silent cause it sets off so often lol

@snakeweaver:
Yes, laughter is the best medicine. It gets me through life for sure

AS SOON AS I POSTED THIS the dean lady emailed out a clarification for all students about the graduation part.
Which is kinda what I assumed, I didn't think she was being malicious, just lacking info to make it make sense >>
All the same, its delayed, the only thing I can do "on time" is graduation walk. Which is the one thing I care nothing about XD I just want my certifs. I can't take the MBLEx (test to get my license) without them.

College administrations says I wont have a delayed graduation, I just stay and finish my practicum hours if I don't complete them all cause covid set us behind.
The next day she emails all students that graduations WILL be delayed if all 186 hours aren't done by the graduation date.
I need 88 hours.
So, time to start rolling my sleeves up.
Out of hundreds of people I offer free massages to (literally, I asked my whole job staff), about 7 of them accept, and 4 of them flake out or ghost me when I ask when they want to come in for.

I managed to get two massages in for staff members of the college, including the admin/dean lady. After this I learn that I wasn't allowed to be doing bodywork right now because they laid off mentors (and fired one), so they're now trying to hire more mentors to fill in time slots. In the past, we used to be fine to do bodywork as long as at least the dean lady was there and knew of it. Now they want strictly just mentors (probably for legal reasons, cause they're actually licensed for the trade. the dean isn't)

I had to cancel my last massage client cause she was a student and I now knew I wasn't allowed.

Then dean lady sends one of her friends to contact me for massage work (she asked me first, I approved of this). This friend 1. calls me by the wrong name (dean gave them the wrong name!), 2. assumes I already have a schedule with them on a specific day, 3. doesn't tell me who dafuq they are or what this "appointment" is so I'm looking at this text message from a random number like... ?????????
The second part still confuses me so much like, how do you assume you already have an appoinement when you never spoke to someone yet?

I had to "cancel" this appointment that I never scheduled in the first place, cause I wasn't allowed to massage that week.

I was confused about the restrictions for students doing bodywork, so I asked the dean lady about it in email. She responds, "you must have gotten confused by the information" --blablabla-- "YOU CAN COME IN ANY TIME" said there were no restrictions.

Exasperated, but I was relieved.

I message the 3 people who were still interested in bodywork from me. One sets a schedule with me for an afternoon. One didn't respond. The third one wanted to schedule in the evening, when I knew the school would be getting locked up for the night (even though there would be mentors around, they would be in a class)
So common sense tells me I should ask said mentor first.

Mentor says we cant do bodywork this week.

I screech at my monitor and then more calmly forward the email that the dean lady sent to me that suggested I can proceed. I asked about it, and told her I was frustrated by the contradictions I keep getting lately.
She agrees with the frustration, cause the mentors are dealing with it too. But in the end, I have to cancel schedules with people AGAIN. I lose ANOTHER week of bodywork, that makes 3 weeks of lost time (the first week was due to people flaking out) where I only managed to get in 2/88 hours.

I STILL NEED 86 HOURS BEFORE SEPTEMBER 19
its more than it sounds.

The only thing that could save me is getting into the school's clinic. But I had a postponed Swedish massage final, so I can't get in until I do that.
But my instructor wont LET ME TAKE MY FINAL. His reasoning is good, he wants students to do bodywork first to refresh their memory after our downtime. I told him I already did bodywork and I'm ready, but he just like "OH COOL, THAT'S GOOD!" *walks away*
........ BISH COME BACK HERE.



So yeah
I'm impatient af rn. I hate it when my life is in someone else's hands. Delayed graduation affects a lot of stuff in my life >A<
Even moreso if it pushes into snowy months when I wont be able to drive.

@kitalpha hart:
late response but I'm not sure yet! It'd be nice to take this up and turn it into a real comic or something
But I need to open up more free time for myself before I take a project like that on. maybe after I finish with my classes in a couple months c: that'll be like 20 hours of additional free time every week lol

@totalanimefan:
It was exactly the recipe of my favorite ramen!! Its not a common flavor around here (or in general idk?? I didn't find it anywhere in LA either) so I was pretty excited <3 They got a happy lil review from me lol


I want more already ;;

@lilykin:
I'm convinced that toddlers have more reasoning than adults do lol
I actually had a thought while at work yesterday where I noticed how adults tend to force children to ask politely for things. Like if they hold up an item for me to scan and the mother will be like "USE YOUR WORDS WHAT DO YOU SAY?"

but then I compared it to the adults and... in an 8 hour shift, not a SINGLE adult used their words but every child, except for one that was grumpy, said please and thank you :vanora_xd: I wish I didn't notice cause it was starting to annoy me so much. adults will just literally shove items in my face without as much of a "here". They don't say anything, they just look at me expectantly. Sometimes they wont even look at me and its kinda weird when I notice that this is normal

Yayy icecream! I got mochi ice cream! lol

@totalanimefan:
Well it can have a blast visiting my animal crossing camp and playing puzzle games! XD
but yeah ill look into that just to be safe. I have my bank app but they also have like, incredibly tight security so might be fine anyway

@totalanimefan:
Yeah its aight, I'm not sharing anything on it anyway. I don't put my face on the internet outside of fb XD
even fb doesn't have my true name either so im not worried

@koneko:
Ohh, this is good to know, thanks for the tip!

... I wonder if it would be terrible if I shove garlic in my ear
I'm jkkkk
I haven't been able to hear very well for 3 days now and I can't see anyone about it xd
But it definitely feels like something in there is just swollen. Prooobably cause wearing a mask every day causes me to constantly breathe into my ears.

Sometimes I have moments where it clears up a little, then its like yea nope I'm not done yet bish

@timeandtimor:
Yeah usually my store is fairly tame compared to anywhere else I've worked. But this weekend was a special case lol
I've noticed that my coworkers have been tripping up (on very minor things) more than usual too so I think the stress is overloading them.

I think the items have gotten really creative lately <3 I mean, they were before too, but I've been pretty excited for them now!

@totalanimefan:
Most of the time it doesn't get to me. Today was just something else lol

In lighter news, I installed tiktok for the first time cause I was fidgety. I thought it was just an app for people to try hard at comedy, but there are so many wholesome af clips on there its actually kinda nice to end the day with! I'm surprised

@koneko:
Ohh what kind of plant? It is a worthy highlight imo!

I think I've only mouthed off in public once, but thats cause a waitor was being abusive to my date cause he was a transphobic asshat >>
otherwise yea, when it comes to employees, I usually try to be extra friendly because I know they're often given a slave treatment.

@timeandtimor:
Yeah I checked on a friend of mine in a neighboring town and its the same there lately. Tensions are real high, but some people are acting straight evil.
Really had to tuck myself in my bed and throw down a bunch of marshmallows and cbd to shake it off after I came home :vanora_sweat:

Welcome back though! This place is my little safe haven on the internet lol always super pleasant

@totalanimefan:
or follow instructions and put it in food instead of taking it straight :vanora_xd:

@koneko:
I can't remember if it did LOL
I think it helped though. But yeah next time I'll just cook it in a dish lmao

lmaoo omg that would kill me. If I remember right, it kind of burns when you bite into it?

Good idea ;v;
I am, once again, trying to shake an infection. This one being in my ear tho. I'm half deaf rn cause of it

at least my coworkers were getting a good laugh out of it. i had to buy gum cause the flavor was lingering and coating my throat xd

@totalanimefan:
see, I've only had the tablets before this time. so i thought i knew the flavor. but it was so bad and so potent i died lmao

@koneko:
oh i had to eat garlic once! i had a terrible infection in my mouth and chewing on garlic is a great way to handle that naturally lol
but i would take tiny nibbles at a time. my coworkers watched me in horror (weird things like this always happens when I'm at work lol)
it wasn't great. i ate one slice, can't imagine eating more than that!

im feeling a bit better though. three zinc really messed with my stomach for most the day lol