This is very good. He talks very slowly, which may be calming to you, but if you don't like seeing him get bitten my mosquitos, he's easily understandable @ 1.5 or 1.75 speed.

Six spouses died or nearly died, in my immediate circle.  And my husband is dx with heart failure. Talk about aches and pains of aging!

I left reviews for the attorney who handled my case today. I've gotten really good at writing reviews and feel good about it.  Supporting other gig workers, this is. And lawsuits are so fraught. 

My settlement was disappointing, but not because of anything they did or didn't do.

They said they wished they had more clients like me. I felt good about this too. I want to offer up as much grace as i can.

My husband really does not like this gal on TV. I can't figure out why. I do like her.

"I'd leave a party if she were there," he said. Wth.

Parking this long ass thing here because I don't want to make a thread but I need to barf this out. It's many random thoughts. This is also some deep and possibly identifying lore, so I guess if you figure out who I am, have some pity on dumb old me! I interviewed for what I thought was my (short-term) dream job on Monday afternoon. I wanted this so bad, but now I feel like I might puss out. 

My current job is "fine." I'm a keyholder at a drugstore. Easy walk to work, better than minimum pay, it's a good line on a resume, and it's not terribly taxing when I'm in classes. This was my safety net when a scorned perv was burning my life down, and part of me is clinging to that old comfort.

Things have gotten worse here since then. There's a severe and worsening rodent infestation and no one above me is doing anything. My supervisor told us to take fake IDs to sell more booze. He lies to my face about pay and policies, e.g. that the pharmacy transfer I wanted wouldn't pay more - I'd get a full dollar raise. He also lashed out and threatened a coworker because someone complained to corporate about them. Makes me wonder what will happen when I get on this guy's bad side. Meanwhile, when women staff complain about the guy he chewed out, he waves us off. Also, I'm crushing on a coworker, and I don't want the crazies to see my Achilles' heel if he loves me, and I don't want to be stuck here if he shoots me down.

I originally wanted to switch to pharmacy and start training as a tech, except that this company has famously worked pharmacy staff to death. So I applied somewhere else up the street. Then a patient came into my current work on Sunday afternoon. She said a tech at the place I'd be interviewing the next day, was beefing with her and wouldn't transfer and fill her script, despite it being easy, allowed for the med, and the only way the poor girl could use her insurance. The rest of the staff supposedly cowered when this staff member said that. I mostly believe the pt, partly because she was weepy and willing to pay us out of pocket, and partly because I've met who she's talking about and that woman is a bear. She's given me shit for asking me for a discount card because I'm poor. The vibe was not all good and now I see why.

I told a few friends at work who I think can keep quiet that I'm looking around. Before this girl came and complained about the new place, I was really excited but something felt a little "off." Now I have a genuinely bad gut feeling about the place I interviewed for. This doesn't feel like a "phantom fear," this feels like "turn back or die." But if I turn back, I could be trapping myself in a potentially worsening situation. Maybe it's just a case of the devil you know. Maybe I just need to wait for the real right thing.

The general consensus among my friends is, leave where I am now anyway. I guess I'll see what happens when the guy calls me, he may decline, or put me in a different shift / branch. That'd be fantastic. Either way I'm going to rest my mind and clean my house now.

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