grrrrr: personal rants
well i had one personal rant, warning all people in charlottesville not to be behind a certain blue jetta in a drive-thru line, VA license plates KBE 8931, b/c it was the most frustrating experience of my entire life. well, maybe not. but i was debating getting something, was driving by, saw that there was only one person pulling in in front of me and no line, so why not? how long could that take? well, when the person PARKS in the drive-thru lane, close enough to the ordering machine that you can't pull around her, but not close enough to actually order, and then proceeds to spend about, and i am not making this up, 5 minutes, talking on the phone and changing her order with whatever group of people she has on the phone, and then telling the window person to wait while she THINKS ABOUT THAT ORDER OF CHICKEN MCNUGGETS and so on and so on and so on, well you can see that it might take a while. anyways, blue jetta KBE 8931 sucks.
second rant is about the guy who was leading our trial ad college group for the last two days. so, he has said some kinda ridiculous things over the last couple of days, many of which we were willing to let slide. hell, i was willing to just forgive him for being a bit old when he made 30 minutes of remarks on the topic of people that are not white men which pretty much gave away the fact that he was an old white man who really thought that those who weren't old white men weren't really quite as good as him. oh, and it's great that women have made it into the workplace! i mean, i hope that 25% of you make it back there after you leave to have your babies. i'm not sure we even need 25% of you back, but we'll let you all go have your babies.
but all of that aside, the one case we are dealing with this week is a question of a man who was diagnosed as "severely clinically depressed" by his family phsyician. and the instructor starts talking about how everyone has been depressed. "you're depressed when you don't get a job or when you don't do well on a test or when you get in a fight with your friend," he says. that doesn't mean you kill yourself.
NO! YOU ARE UPSET WHEN THOSE THINGS HAPPENED! YOU DO NOT HAVE A VERY SEVERE MEDICAL CONDITION THAT SHOULD BE TREATED! TOTALLY DIFFERENT!
so i try to make this point and say something about the incidence of suicide among those who are clinically depressed. i don't know the stats, but i do know that they are staggering for manic depression, and i just can't believe that they aren't at least a blip on the radar for severe clinical depression.
to which he replies that (1) less than 1% of depressed people commit suicide and that (2) just about no one kills themselves.
well, i am pretty f'in sure that this is wrong. but i don't have my computer. i can't get real facts. so i just sit there thinking there is no way in hell this can be right. so i have just looked up real facts.
turns out more than 15% of people who are clinically depressed kill themselves and it is the 8th leading cause of death in the united states, accounting for 1 in 100 deaths. and there are even further statistics, relevant to our case, that make exactly the point i was trying to make!
GRRRRR!!! i am just very frustrated b/c this guy said any number of things over the last couple of days which were kind of ridiculous opinions, but this was a preposterously created fact with clearly no basis in reality and i am just frustrated that he is now gone back to new jersey and i have no way (short of being petty enough to email him) to yell out with all the frustration i was feeling earlier and tell him that he is ignorant and wrong!!!!
anyways, i'm sorry that this is a downer of a post and that i am trying to sell you on how often people commit suicide, but he was one of those very frustrating people for me and grrrr!
anyways. i hope everyone is having a good day! also, i am pretty excited about the fact that it is being cold lately! yay for that!
second rant is about the guy who was leading our trial ad college group for the last two days. so, he has said some kinda ridiculous things over the last couple of days, many of which we were willing to let slide. hell, i was willing to just forgive him for being a bit old when he made 30 minutes of remarks on the topic of people that are not white men which pretty much gave away the fact that he was an old white man who really thought that those who weren't old white men weren't really quite as good as him. oh, and it's great that women have made it into the workplace! i mean, i hope that 25% of you make it back there after you leave to have your babies. i'm not sure we even need 25% of you back, but we'll let you all go have your babies.
but all of that aside, the one case we are dealing with this week is a question of a man who was diagnosed as "severely clinically depressed" by his family phsyician. and the instructor starts talking about how everyone has been depressed. "you're depressed when you don't get a job or when you don't do well on a test or when you get in a fight with your friend," he says. that doesn't mean you kill yourself.
NO! YOU ARE UPSET WHEN THOSE THINGS HAPPENED! YOU DO NOT HAVE A VERY SEVERE MEDICAL CONDITION THAT SHOULD BE TREATED! TOTALLY DIFFERENT!
so i try to make this point and say something about the incidence of suicide among those who are clinically depressed. i don't know the stats, but i do know that they are staggering for manic depression, and i just can't believe that they aren't at least a blip on the radar for severe clinical depression.
to which he replies that (1) less than 1% of depressed people commit suicide and that (2) just about no one kills themselves.
well, i am pretty f'in sure that this is wrong. but i don't have my computer. i can't get real facts. so i just sit there thinking there is no way in hell this can be right. so i have just looked up real facts.
turns out more than 15% of people who are clinically depressed kill themselves and it is the 8th leading cause of death in the united states, accounting for 1 in 100 deaths. and there are even further statistics, relevant to our case, that make exactly the point i was trying to make!
GRRRRR!!! i am just very frustrated b/c this guy said any number of things over the last couple of days which were kind of ridiculous opinions, but this was a preposterously created fact with clearly no basis in reality and i am just frustrated that he is now gone back to new jersey and i have no way (short of being petty enough to email him) to yell out with all the frustration i was feeling earlier and tell him that he is ignorant and wrong!!!!
anyways, i'm sorry that this is a downer of a post and that i am trying to sell you on how often people commit suicide, but he was one of those very frustrating people for me and grrrr!
anyways. i hope everyone is having a good day! also, i am pretty excited about the fact that it is being cold lately! yay for that!
posted by laura at 1:20 AM
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PlateWire.
I was very excited to see snow in the Grand Canyon. Of course I have horrible pictures from it, because I wouldn't let Aaron have my camera because there are pictures of me in my wedding dress on it (held hostage until I actually get my download cord which is in Charlottesville), and Aaron can't see those. And all I wanted to take pictures of were funny road signs but we were going to fast for that.
But anyhoo, I hate people with no drive thru ettiquette!!!! Like the woman at the taco bell who blocked me in after she had gotten her order and proceeded to eat the whole thing in the drive thru lane even though there was a stack of people behind her just trying to leave!!!! And we were all honking!! But she just sat there eating. And then she threw her trash out the window in the ultimate of crappy behavior.
But I digress
Also, sucks about your group leader. He sounds like an idiot.
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