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Jul. 18, 2012  4:54 PM
 
So last week when I said I was supposed to have my surgery, something happened with our insurance, so today I'm having it.

I'm currently in the waiting room at Children's Hospital in DC, waiting for them to call me in, so I can get my almost-as-big-as-golf-balls tonsils out.
Jul. 18, 2012  6:59 PM
 
(Jul. 18, 2012  3:04 AM)Hacked Wrote: My cat Kitty. Is she cute?

No....................................... She's adorable!!! I wish I had a cat as cute as her! Haha, and the name is cute!!!
Jul. 18, 2012  10:15 PM
 
Thanks.
It's raining hard in nyc. it looks like a hurricane. My cat is really scared. she keeps running behind the couch. Do any of your animals do that too?
Jul. 18, 2012  10:52 PM
 
(Jul. 18, 2012  10:15 PM)Hacked Wrote: My cat is really scared. she keeps running behind the couch. Do any of your animals do that too?

I suppose it's natural instinct to be scared.
Jul. 18, 2012  10:56 PM
 
My old dog used to get really scared during storms. She would try and jump up on you're lap. She was a little big, so it didn't work out so well. XD My current dogs are usually pretty calm during storms.

Animals can sense the weather a lot better than humans, so it's natural for them to be scared by it. As the cat gts older, it might not get as scared.
Jul. 19, 2012  1:45 AM
 
Another cat pic (Click to View)
Her serious face.

Bey-Heart= The weird thing is that when my cat was smaller, she acted the same way as 5 years later. Oh, Kitty!

And she had 2 litters. One with 2 kittens, and the second one with [i]seven![/]
Jul. 19, 2012  2:21 AM
 
I want my first job to be a Loss Prevention officer. You dress in regular clothes, and you act like a normal person in a store looking out for teens that steal (gotta find out who took the Galaxy eyes from the only galaxy eyes tin left) and to apprehend them if they escape. I can run pretty fast for my weight too with an adreneline rush... People say its a fun job. Feel like batman this guy said on another forum.

EDIT: The salary is $10-$12-per HR at walmart!
Jul. 19, 2012  2:17 PM
 
@Hacked:
It looks like she's cracking her knuckles, haha! Smile
Jul. 19, 2012  2:35 PM
 
(Jul. 19, 2012  2:21 AM)Trainer Red Wrote: I want my first job to be a Loss Prevention officer. You dress in regular clothes, and you act like a normal person in a store looking out for teens that steal (gotta find out who took the Galaxy eyes from the only galaxy eyes tin left) and to apprehend them if they escape. I can run pretty fast for my weight too with an adreneline rush... People say its a fun job. Feel like batman this guy said on another forum.

EDIT: The salary is $10-$12-per HR at walmart!

That sounds like a pretty cool job.
Jul. 19, 2012  2:44 PM
 
(Jul. 19, 2012  2:21 AM)Trainer Red Wrote: I want my first job to be a Loss Prevention officer. You dress in regular clothes, and you act like a normal person in a store looking out for teens that steal (gotta find out who took the Galaxy eyes from the only galaxy eyes tin left) and to apprehend them if they escape. I can run pretty fast for my weight too with an adreneline rush... People say its a fun job. Feel like batman this guy said on another forum.

EDIT: The salary is $10-$12-per HR at walmart!

I hope you enjoy being
Fast man
who can run 50 miles per second
Joking
enjoy your job
It sounds pretty cool anyway
Jul. 19, 2012  4:04 PM
 
(Jul. 19, 2012  2:21 AM)Trainer Red Wrote: I want my first job to be a Loss Prevention officer. You dress in regular clothes, and you act like a normal person in a store looking out for teens that steal (gotta find out who took the Galaxy eyes from the only galaxy eyes tin left) and to apprehend them if they escape. I can run pretty fast for my weight too with an adreneline rush... People say its a fun job. Feel like batman this guy said on another forum.

EDIT: The salary is $10-$12-per HR at walmart!

I do not know about where you live, but here, I am quite certain you need a proper training in security in order to be able to do that job. You cannot just improvise yourself as a loss prevention officer ...
Jul. 19, 2012  4:57 PM
 
Doesn't sound like something a teenager could do. Also, the pay is only good for a teenager...
Jul. 19, 2012  5:07 PM
 
(Jul. 19, 2012  4:57 PM)Bey-Heart Wrote: Doesn't sound like something a teenager could do. Also, the pay is only good for a teenager...

You're a little young to go looking down your nose at any salary. $12/hr is around two grand a month(assuming a 40hr week), which, depending on where you live, is a very livable salary for anyone not being extravagant.

Wait until you're in your mid-20s and making almost half of what he just described because no one cares about your college degree or all the jobs relating to it are taken. Most especially if you're pursuing a career in any "artistic" field, get ready to make $8.50/hr as a career maximum.


(Jul. 19, 2012  4:04 PM)Kai-V Wrote:
(Jul. 19, 2012  2:21 AM)Trainer Red Wrote: I want my first job to be a Loss Prevention officer. You dress in regular clothes, and you act like a normal person in a store looking out for teens that steal (gotta find out who took the Galaxy eyes from the only galaxy eyes tin left) and to apprehend them if they escape. I can run pretty fast for my weight too with an adreneline rush... People say its a fun job. Feel like batman this guy said on another forum.

EDIT: The salary is $10-$12-per HR at walmart!

I do not know about where you live, but here, I am quite certain you need a proper training in security in order to be able to do that job. You cannot just improvise yourself as a loss prevention officer ...

A lot of security guard/"mall cop"/anti-theft goon positions at big box stores and such here only require an orientation, or on-the-job training. They usually have some physique requirement, though.
Jul. 19, 2012  5:56 PM
 
It's a liveable salary, but it's still not much. You'd be struggling depending on your housing. And I plan to be a teacher, so I'm covered. If not, my back up is a music therapist. So even if there are no teaching positions, I'm still covered. Wink
Jul. 19, 2012  6:08 PM
 
(Jul. 19, 2012  5:56 PM)Bey-Heart Wrote: It's a liveable salary, but it's still not much.

Fun fact: this is how the vast majority of people live at the very best.

It's a cold, harsh world out there broski
Jul. 19, 2012  6:37 PM
 
(Jul. 19, 2012  5:56 PM)Bey-Heart Wrote: It's a liveable salary, but it's still not much. You'd be struggling depending on your housing. And I plan to be a teacher, so I'm covered. If not, my back up is a music therapist. So even if there are no teaching positions, I'm still covered. Wink

I'm not questioning it but how do you know what a liveable salary is? You're 15. Also what the hell is a music therapist?
Jul. 19, 2012  6:51 PM
 
It's a fanciful job in which the 'music therapist' uses music to improve a patient's health or heal their ailments... or something. I would seriously not advise thinking of an occupation like this as a back-up plan beyheart lol
Jul. 19, 2012  6:53 PM
 
Music therapy is a yuppee sect of Psychology that basically deals in using music to help people with things. It's generally considered more laughable than regular psychiatric practices(which are already still kind of a red button issue for most of the country), and while having a practice as one isn't in and of itself difficult, actually getting any business at all is.

Bey-Heart, teaching salaries themselves aren't fantastic(though noticably higher than $12/hr in your state, with the average annual income being around 50k/yr and 38k to start), and teaching positions are not always abundant. It'd be considerably better for you not to be cocky about being "covered", because you're not, but most especially, looking down your nose at anyone's salary makes you out to be hideously misguided about the world around you.

Live in the world before talking about it.
Jul. 19, 2012  7:05 PM
 
My family struggles a little bit, so it's only natural for me to only look at the better paying jobs.

None of you understand what a musical therapist is. At all. When people have strokes, or break their hand or so on, they normally go to an occupational therapist. If they're a musician or play any sort of instrument, it's especially helpful for them to go to a musical therapist. It's just a person who helps them get back to how they were, it has nothing to do with psychology.

EDIT: Okay, strokes are a bad example. Strokes like mine. But it's just any injury that messes up their arm, hand, wrist, etc. Like... If they were playing with a knife.
Jul. 19, 2012  7:08 PM
 
(Jul. 19, 2012  7:05 PM)Bey-Heart Wrote: My family struggles a little bit, so it's only natural for me to only look at the better paying jobs.

None of you understand what a musical therapist is. At all. When people have strokes, or break their hand or so on, they normally go to an occupational therapist. If they're a musician or play any sort of instrument, it's especially helpful for them to go to a musical therapist. It's just a person who helps them get back to how they were, it has nothing to do with psychology.

As someone from a struggling family, you should know better than to look down on any job.

Actually, you don't understand what a music therapist is. The term music therapist refers to precisely what I just described; if you want to be an occupational physical therapist that specializes in musician rehabilitation, that is entirely different from what you said.
Jul. 19, 2012  7:20 PM
 
(Jul. 19, 2012  7:08 PM)Hazel Wrote:
(Jul. 19, 2012  7:05 PM)Bey-Heart Wrote: My family struggles a little bit, so it's only natural for me to only look at the better paying jobs.

None of you understand what a musical therapist is. At all. When people have strokes, or break their hand or so on, they normally go to an occupational therapist. If they're a musician or play any sort of instrument, it's especially helpful for them to go to a musical therapist. It's just a person who helps them get back to how they were, it has nothing to do with psychology.

Actually, you don't understand what a music therapist is. The term music therapist refers to precisely what I just described; if you want to be an occupational physical therapist that specializes in musician rehabilitation, that is entirely different from what you said.

May I point out that a profession as obscure as this will be nearly impossible to get hired for, if a position exists at all? I doubt employers will be falling head over heels for people specializing in musician repair.
Jul. 19, 2012  7:24 PM
 
Given that most regular music instructors are the ones that end up doing that, and not a real specialist, it's an accurate indication to make.

The job does actually exist, but it's really not something you're going to make a living in.
Jul. 21, 2012  4:22 AM
 
Quote: ORIGINAL: LeontempestXIII

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/20/wit...ing-scene/

This is just one link of many. My condolences to the people of Denver, Colorado

Quote: ORIGINAL: Kai-V

I thought everybody knew, and I was surprised that nobody had posted about it yet ... However, I would prefer if this was discussed in the Random Thoughts topic.

Not to be rude, but may I ask why such a serious event be discussed solely through random thoughts? This is an event that has forever changed the lives of several families, and is now considered one of the most deadly random shootings in the U.S. since the Virginia tech incident...

When I found out this morning, I contacted my close friends in Denver immediately. I am happy to say that they were not there that night, and that they and no one they know was hurt.

Once again, to the families of those now lost, you have my sincere support and sympathy. I am truly sorry.
Jul. 21, 2012  4:55 AM
 
Considering that nobody had even mentioned it all day here, and that, in a few months, it would be awkward to see anybody bring the topic back, those are conditions that indicate that it might be better to dedicate posts here in the Random Thoughts thread's timeline. I honestly hope you do not see this moderation action as one that lowers the sensibility and seriousness of the tragedy, and hopefully we can stop talking about this and concentrate on the actual events that happened ...
Jul. 21, 2012  5:39 AM
 
I see what you mean, and I understand. And do not worry, I am not quick to judge. At no point did I think you were being insensitive. I knew there was a reason, I just didn't understand, and I wanted a clear explanation. Now that that situation is all settled, we can refocus on discussing the actual events of the tragedy, as you said. As well as other less depressing random thoughts while we are at it

So for those of you still out of the loop/don't know, the man who shot all of these people is believed to have a very unstable mind, as he claimed he was the joker, and even wore makeup to look like him. Furthermore, after his arrest, he told police that his house was layered with bombs and explosives. Indeed, his hoe was in fact booby trapped to some degree, which the police were able to intercept and neutralize before anyone was heard. Apparently, before the incident, the "joker" made his home very noisy (raised TV and radio volume to max before he left for the movies) and wanted someone to file a noise complaint, to which cops would have entered the house and set off the traps, killing them. Thankfully, such an event did not occur. This man appeared to be in a very calm state of mind after capture by local authorities, as he had taken a severe amount of medications (I believe they were anti-depressants known as Vicodin?)

Let me know if all that information is correct; I don't want to be spreading any false info
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