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Just two more nights of work and then I am *done* for this year. Ok, my next shift after is New Years Day, but that is beside the point.

I've been grumping about my senior vet being a moron for the last couple of days. Well, more than I usually do. She doesn't seem to be able to wrap her head around the concept that even though we only work out of ours, nights, weekends and bank holidays, the rota still has to be drawn up fairly. Having children does *not* give you special powers of not having to work this or that day. If you ask nicely, some people might be willing to switch shifts with you so you can have the days off, but none of us get to say we're simply not working any given day. Everyone draws the short stick occasionally, that's the way it is. If you don't like it, you work in day practice where you get bank holidays off. Grrr. Argh.
This in addition to the thousand other small things that make me want to smash her head against a wall in the hopes it might rattle something in her brain and start her *thinking*.
At least I like her well enough as a person. But oh hell, how I wish to work with someone who actually uses their brain occasionally.

I think I might need to invest in a free standing punching bag at some point. Too much grumbling about people being stupid makes me punch walls and that leaves dents. Not good for my security deposit.

I opened this window because I wanted to talk about Little Hissy, the cat that I've been given to look after (much to Tiny's confusion) but talk about being angry and wanting to punch things will have to do for now.
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I so hope this election is over soon. Because if I have to see those posters proclaiming "Werte brauchen Gott" (Moral values need god) for much longer, I'm going to rant someones ear off. Probably J.'s, because she is most often unlucky enough to be my audience.

A bit of background on these posters: )

Now back to my original rant.

I've been an atheist for my whole life. Even in Kindergarten the idea of a god, a higher being or some kind of cosmic balance just didn't make sense to me at all. (There's also a fair bit of what [livejournal.com profile] nostalgia_lj perfectly phrases here as "I do not believe in any gods, but the argument that such a thing could exist is not enough to make me want to worship it because I don't recognise something like that as having any jurisdiction over my moral beliefs." to my atheism, but that's not the point.)
Despite being an atheist I have moral values. Granted, I can trace most of them back to my one governing rule "Don't fuck up other people's lives, it leads to too much work". But I know others who have a much more sophisticated system of justifications.

It *is* possible to have values without believing in a god. Personally, I think if you have to buy into a whole system of believes to understand the moral values, they can't be very good, but then, I'm a huge fan of keeping things simple.

I guess what it all boils down to is that I really, really dislike those posters and wanted to make that known to people who will probably never even see them.

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ETA, because I've not posted a meme in so long, and it ate LJ:
See? I'm not a nice person! Even online quizzes agree. )
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It's funny, how one little mail can take me from happy and relaxed to wanting to kill someone in a few seconds.

Why do some people think, it's fine to speak of a group of people as this people in a way that sounds as if they're some lowly lifeform just because they got some critic from this group?
Did I somehow turn from a normal student into a punching bag when I decided to help with the bureocratic things, no one really wants to do?
Did I loose my right to be treated in a civil manner?
Did I miss some paper about how I had to stop thinking on my own and start to just nod and smile?

Ok, I'm overreacting, but *takes deep breath*
This is just stupid, why am I even reacting to it?

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Bah, somtimes I have to wonder about people.

How old are we? )

Just had to rant a litte bit - and I'm really having fun getting to know how lj works ;)

On other news I've just spent over 100 Euro for one little book.
Why am I always to late too get one of the libary books?

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