Oddities

I'm at home sick today. For my birthday Saturday, I was puking my guts out by midnight and it hasn't really let up since then. I haven't eaten anything today, but I'm not taking my chances after all the blood that was coming up last night. Now, I wasn't vomiting blood, my throat was bleeding from throwing up so hard. It's not a new occurrence, it seems to bleed every time I throw up, depending on the violence of it. And it's been pretty violent, so I'm not going to tempt it another day and just stay away from food. The tea I drank last night didn't come up so I'm going to go with that.

I got another 'gift' for my birthday however that's just fucking odd. Apparently I have become the target of some strange letter writing Jehovah's Witnesses. I don't know how they got my address because I was sent a letter from a woman here in town through the U.S. Postal system to my house by this nut bag. It was handwritten so there was no Comic Sans to get my attention. I didn't take long however to realize that this was a fucking religious nut that was addressing me. And they say the art of letter writing has died. I'm not certain if I should be confused or creeped out that there are probably old women sitting around writing letters like this to complete strangers. Doesn't that seem unusual to you? Perhaps they're compelled by some feverish urge to do these things, mistakenly believing that non-believers like myself are going to be swayed by such odd letters. I used to write quite a few letters. None of them were unwelcome and to my friends. I would even spend some time making the plain envelopes interesting by adding some of my lame ass drawings to them. Oh well. I'm going to scan it sometime and cut out all the names, because they did have my name. Until then, I'll reproduce this oddity, unchanged in capitalization or spelling. The paragraphs are just as they were written in the letter as well. This is their own letter, minus my name, their address and somewhat sloppy but legible cursive handwriting.

Dear chaosagent,

My name is Minnie B-------, I am writing you because I am not able to visit you in person.

Many people are familiar with the Prayer that is called the "Lord's Prayer" or "Our Father". In that prayer we pray "Let Your Kingdom Come" Matthew 6:10.

Have you ever wondered what that Kingdom is that we pray for? How will it's coming sanctify God's name or make it holy? How is the coming of the Kingdom related to doing God's Will?

What is the Kingdom? It is a real goverment established by God - "Jehovah", with a King chosen by God. Who is the King of that Kingdom? Jesus Christ. Jesus as King is greater than all human rulers and is called "the King of those who rule as Kings and Lord of those who rule as Lords." 1 Timothy 6:15. He has "Power to do far more good than any human rule, even the heaven. Act 2:35. tells us where he will rule from? Well where is Jesus now? Jesus was put to death of torture stake and then he was resurrected. Shortly thereafter he ascended to heaven as said in Act 2:35.

Hence that is where God's Kingdom is in heaven. That is why the Bible calls it's a "heavenly Kingdom" 2 Timothy 4:18.

Although God's Kingdom is in heaven it will rule over earth. Revelation 11:15.

 But what is God's will for the earth?

 If you would like to further this discussion please feel free to call the above address.

 If you would like to visit the local Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses located at -------- Crazy Street, accross from Meijer's.

 Our Ministers are all voluateers. They do not get paid. There is no coelections taken up. All are welcomed.

 Sincerely, Minnie B------

Okay. It's like a pitch that they would use when they would go door to door. They don't tend to come to our door, at least when we're here, because most of them come around in the daytime when we are at work or sleeping. I don't think I've seen the Jehovah's Witnesses out in our area before. I've seen Mormons and others from local baptist churches. And most of the Jehovah's Witnesses that do go around trying to spread the word seem to be large women in late middle age. I've seen about a dozen different women come to my workplace to visit some of the residents. One of the women I took care of was a Jehovah's Witness, though she never spoke about it at all, thankfully. She had dementia.

I am curious how they got my name and address. I do not interact with these people when they come to work and I sure the hell don't go looking for them. There seems to be an upsurge in the pushing of tracts, and morons in general showing up around town and my job in particular. Someone left a large pile of Billy Graham tracts on the table where activity schedules and the like are put for the residents. I took them and trashed them, save one, that will go with my little pile of information from the nut bags. On the 5th some stopped by leaving a pamphlet for their "Bible Education Center" on my front door. I took pics of the thing and made fun of it on Twitter. I guess I need to scan and collect these into some posts. I'm sure they're amusing.

This is why we can't have nice things

While at work this past weekend, I had the distinct displeasure of reading a blog post put up by a person who decided that Japanese culture and anime in general is sexist because the shows they were watching had the female characters doing nothing in their words. I hate when people cry sexism over the stupidest shit. And yes, I think the shit is stupid. I think people that cry sexism over every little thing are fucking morons. They are the ones that cry wolf about every little thing and when something indeed is wrong, it's ignored because it's viewed as bullshit whining. That kind of shit is why we can't have nice things. I personally don't care if others agree about my opinion on this or not, because this is just my opinion. I am of the opinion that bawwwing everytime you don't get your way means you're a fucking pansy that needs to grow up and live in the real world. You need to take responsibility for your actions and not blame everything on someone else. And if you're going to watch a shit show like Naruto, you get what you deserve.

And yes, the first bout of bawwwing was over Naruto. A show aimed at 10 to 18 year old MALES. The show focused on the MALE characters. I don't know about you, but my brothers would not have watched a 24 minute commercial for the toys if it was about fucking Barbie. Most cartoons aimed at that particular demographic are just that, a long commercial to get toys sold. And if you wanted to see a female oriented show, why the fuck are you watching shonen shit anyway? What does Wikipedia say about shonen manga?

The term shōnen, shonen, or shounen manga (少年漫画, shōnen manga) refers to manga marketed to a male audience roughly between the ages of 10 and 18. The Kanji characters (少年) literally mean "few" and "year", respectively, where the characters (漫画) generally mean "comic". The complete phrase literally means "young person's comic." Examples include Dragon Ball, Naruto, Bleach, Hunter X Hunter, One Piece, Saint Seiya, Fairy Tail, YuYu Hakusho, Detective Conan, Yu-Gi-Oh and Fullmetal Alchemist.

Huh. Wow. Well what about the female characters doing "absolutely nothing"?

Shōnen (少年) manga (漫画) is typically characterized by high-action, often humorous plots featuring male protagonists. The camaraderie between boys or men on sports teams, fighting squads and the like is often emphasized. Attractive female characters with exaggerated features are also common (see fan service), but are not a requirement; Dragon Ball, for example, has only a few such characters. The art style of shōnen is generally less flowery than that of shōjo manga, although this varies greatly from artist to artist, and some artists draw both shōnen and shōjo manga.

So you're going to complain about anime aimed at males, dealing with action stories about said male characters and whine that it's sexist? Fuck you.  You need to start watching shoujo anime and shut up. Seriously. I wouldn't complain that Barbie discriminated against males because the males seriously do nothing. That would be fucking stupid. And you're going to complain about another culture based on the viewing of 13 episodes of Naruto. REALLY? What the fuck is wrong with you.

Now I don't watch Naruto because, lol ninjas in fluorescent orange hurr durr! It's not the type of show I'm into. Obviously they need to find a new show to watch as well. I'd suggest something like Sailor Moon or some other Mary Sue shit to watch. I'm not into that shit either, but I'm not going to bash you if you enjoy shows like that. 

To be fair, it wasn't a single show that they based this cry to the waaaahmbulance to. It was two. The second show was The Legend of the Galactic Heroes. Now that pissed me off. I quite enjoy LoGH quite a bit, and don't seem to mind a bit that the female characters are minor to the story itself and seem kind of derpy at times. It's a space opera. It's science fiction. It's about FUCKING WAR, not pretty dresses and kissing princes and fucking bullshit like that. Why are you watching a show like this? WHY? You obviously have no interest in such things except to bawwww! about them at the drop of a hat because the gurls are not evenly represented. 

Oh, sorry, I guess I missed the part where men are crying about Days of Our Lives not being manly enough. Or As the World Turns having too few explosions and gun battles. Personally, I may tune in if there were massive space fleet battles during General Hospital. Probably not though because I can't fucking stand soap operas. You don't see men bitching about it though. They watch something else. You don't like Naruto, that's fair, I don't either. You don't like LoGH? That's fine too. Don't fucking play the sexism card however. Both of those shows are aimed at males. Watch something else you whiner.

How the fuck do people like this even get jobs?

I wouldn't say that what I do for a living is terribly skill intensive. There is a lot of physical work and it does take an ounce of intelligence and the ability to not lose your cool in an emergency. When the director isn't here, I or my counterparts on the other shifts, be it night or day are in charge of the entire building. We are responsible for making sure that those who live here are safe in the case of an emergency and seem to have the role of a catch-all for other mundane parts of this job. I work 12 hour shifts. There is someone there 24 hours a day, seven days a week doing the same job. It's not particularly easy to fill in when others get ill. There are only 4 people in that particular role. Two of us in the daytime and two at night. It's much harder to fill in for the night shift because not that many people can stay up all night and function normally. I have the gift for negligible amounts of sleep, so it's not all the surprising that I am able to fill in for any shift because I've worked both of them. I have the most seniority however and can pick my shift.

One of my co-workers, who works the night shift on the days I am off is ill. Now I'm not even going to get into that because if he stubs his toe it's the biggest event EVAR! Needless to say, he's one of the biggest drama queens I have even had the pleasure to meet. He's fine if EVERYONE IS LOOKING AT HIM AND GIVING HIM PRAISE. And he's fine if he's not obsessing over some stupid bullshit. I, being the kind and generous soul that I am, offered to work his shift because it's far easier to replace someone in the daytime because there are other people here and if you're going to work the night shift, you had better be able to stay awake and do your work.

I can, but it appears that not everyone who works the night shift here is able to understand that when you are at work you are not paid to nap. Especially if you are supposed to be watching Alzheimer's patients. If you don't understand Alzheimer's, do you really think that you should be working with them? The one thing about this is, while the Alzheimer's unit is a secure floor, the people I work for don't run the floor. My boss is not the one who hires and fires the staff that work up there. She is not their boss. The entire floor is run by an agency. There is very little I can do when their boss won't do what she should to correct any errors her employees make. If there's one thing I've learned from working here, it's that Alzheimer's is a very bad disease. I wouldn't wish it upon anyone, ever. It robs a person of many things, including their dignity at times. Unfortunately, this young lady apparently has never had to deal with someone who is a Sundowner. Sundowners have no concept of time and as with dementia, the person can be insistent, confused and downright mean at times. I've seen people afflicted by this quite a bit. It can be dealt with. And if you're working with Alzheimer's and dementia, you have to be patient. That person may ask you the same thing a million times. You cannot be angry with that person because they don't do it to be aggravating. They don't remember. Short term memory is affected with Alzheimer's and dementia.

Now when most people come to work, they don't bring their very young children with them unless they work in a daycare and their child is enrolled there. The staff on this floor do this often. Also, not an hour after this young lady came on, she was down, scared shitless by some rain. I had to walk through the floor to reassure her that there were no fucking boogeymen up there. She also has never worked an overnight shift. I have. I know that you are here for a reason when you work overnights. You don't get paid to sneak off into an empty room and take a nap. You don't get paid for leaving the keys to the secure unit lying out in the open for the residents to pick up. And yes, that is what happened. Had I not been down in the lobby, one of the residents would have walked right out of the front door, in a rainstorm at 3 in the morning. I have patience and I know how to control my temper. I was close to asking this girl why the fuck she was here after I actually FOUND her. She expected me to deal with this resident. She expected me to do her job while I have my own to deal with.

I am very close to calling her boss right now and waking her up and asking her where the fuck she finds these people that she hires and if they are actually trained to be able to take care of the residents that are up there. The fact that she brings a child to her job while she's supposed to be taking care of the people that are up there tells me that she really doesn't care all that much. The fact that the only thing I've seen her do is sit on her ass and watch TV tells me that she doesn't do that much at all. If a resident doesn't sleep because his body is telling him he's supposed to be up, don't expect me to stay up and do your job. You are supposed to take care of those residents, not hide in a fucking empty room to sleep. If you can't do the job, why the fuck are you here? No really, why the fuck did you take the job if you aren't competent or capable of making rounds and dealing with the residents on a one to one basis to deal with their needs. If you can't do that, why the fuck are you here? That's your job!

I guess it goes to show that any fucking moron can get work, even in a bad economy like this. I fucking can't believe people like that are left to take care of those who are the least able to speak up. I suppose I should start smoking again so I don't have to worry about things like that in my old age.