I’m having to fast for a blood draw this morning. My body does not like fasting. And because of covid, I have to drive myself. Wish me luck on not dying.
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600+ attendees to the mandatory Agency meeting today. Started with Webinar, nobody could get in. Moved to Skype, not sure why they thought that would work. Moved to Zoom, capped out at 200 and folks who phoned in to listen could only hear horrendous tri-tone beeping and echoing voices. Moved to internal conference line, crashed the system. And goddamn everyone kept replying all to the 600+ participant emails.
You work for a state government agency. You should know better than to reply all.
ETA: 25 minutes in, meeting canceled. Still getting reply all responses.
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Should we start a Dumpster Fire Complaints thread?
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Is anyone replying “please don’t reply all” yet??
We had a few of those at the Big Tech Company when someone forgot to use bcc. A couple of times no one could do work for a whole day!
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It was a dumpster fire, wasn’t it? 
I did, yes! Still had a few more after that (including two that said “oops I accidentally replied all, I’ll stop now” that was still a reply all) and one of my higher-ups sent me an email thanking me 
…but it shouldn’t have to be said.
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Haha the first one is ok. But then *people should stop" 
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I’m just so tired of worrying that one of these lawsuits is going to succeed and Trump will end up still being president. I haven’t been following the news that closely so I thought the lawsuits were all done and overturned and this morning I see there’s still one in front of SCOTUS.
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My tenant is freaking out because student aid hasn’t paid them for the fall semester yet. It turns out that the student loan people flagged the files of all trans students for review.
Tenant will see if threatening a human rights complaint will speed things up. This is some class A bullshit.
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I’d be freaking out too. Wtf. Government or private student loans?
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I did not die! Or faint.
Interestingly: I found I had a much harder time intuitively keeping my speed consistent than normally. I had to liberally use cruise control, otherwise I was unconsciously varying my speed by like 10mph! So bizarre. I slept well and felt (normal parent levels of) alert, only variable was not having ate and no caffeine.
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Government. We have a conservative government that keeps doing these tiny human rights abuses against trans people. Just small stuff like this that adds up to a pattern.
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I can’t believe that’s happening in Canada! It should be better than the U.S. 
Can they call the local news? Hopefully shining some light on what’s happening (I’m sure a story like this will go from local to national fast) will fix it fast.
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That is a likely next step.
Also I’m going to call and pretend that I would evict over the holidays during a pandemic. Karen the shit out of them.
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I don’t know if they would care about a trans student being evicted. But they should be shamed loudly.
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I don’t know that my call will help, but people hate defending their actions to a respectable sounding white lady. It’s worked in other situations.
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Ah. As expected from a fasted morning. My blood sugar stability is all screwed up today. I keep getting shaky without warning, cold sweats, dropping things, brain fog, headache, so on. Even having recently eaten. THIS is why I always have lots of fat and protein within an hour of waking. I haaaaate this feeling.
TV though, I found what smooths out my BS stability years ago, and normally it’s not even a consideration for me.
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I’m really horrified this is happening but I’m glad they have you for a landlord and not another landlord.
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I was reassured by something my attorney wrote and then realized I didn’t know what “forthwith” meant, and had to go look it up. No wonder I usually lose at Scrabble. What an unnecessary word. EXTREMELY TINY complaint.
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What the fuck? That’s awful.
Umm, the entire left front quadrant of the inside of my car, including my clothes all the way to the underwear, is covered with Sprite. Apparently I am going home.
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