Fuck. Work Woes.

[themostepotente]

Fuck, I do not even want to go in to work today. My nerves are just fucking shattered.

I work in a not-so-nice area of Detroit. Yesterday, we had a drive-by shooting right outside our doors. Some man was just driving his car and minding his own business when someone opened fire on him and shot him. A few times I'd heard. The police were outside and in our building all damn day.

The loud noise I heard during lunch was him slamming into a telephone pole. This? Disturbs me greatly. As it should. The world is not a safe place and it frightens me and makes me angry as all fuck.

I have a CCW license, and I am considering carrying a gun to work. I think this scares me even more than the actual shooting. That I would even have to consider this. I know nobody that carries a gun to work for safety reasons.

To make matters worse, our plumbing was all jacked up yesterday, too. The toilets were unflushable for most of the day. Half of me was crawling out of my skin wanting to go home while the other half of me was miserable with penis envy. Yeah, it's okay to laugh here :P

*sighs*

I need a sugar mama so I don't have to work, dammit. Any volunteers?

--P

Comments

[foxestacado.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I went to high school in a not so nice area, and after I graduated, I found out that about 30% of the students carried guns to class regularly. Not that we ever had a shooting. It was just that so many of the students were also gang members, they were doing it to protect themselves. That being said, I feel safer in that school than I do in some schools where there are fights every day. Our school did not have a single fight (the kind where 10+ people join in) in the 4 years I was there. I am much assured that something like Columbine would never happen where I was at. There are too many people with weapons ready to shoot back.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

*hugs back*

Where did you go to school, dear?

Also, I LOVED your Snarry Games art. I was so happy that you could participate ♥

[foxestacado.livejournal.com]

I went to Long Beach Polytechnic, which is an amazingly good school despite where it is located. It produced some fabulous talent, including Snoop Dogg and Cameron Diaz (but we hate her at our school), and where, in the early 1990s, there would be drive by shootings that occur ON the school campus (cars would race through the school, shooting at each other).

Edit: And thank you! It was fun to do, but towards the end, I was really stressed out by it. But the response to it has been amazing, and totally worth the effort :D It's not 100% done, actually. I will be editing it a bit before I post it at my LJ and DA, and ready it for printing.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

My ex went to Huntington Beach High and was good friends with Gwen Stephani. Alas, Michigan suburbia sucks for schmoozing with celebs :P

I recced your Snarry Games pic in case you missed that, too, btw. Just BEAUTIFUL. I think your Felix Felicis piece is my fave, though :-)

[foxestacado.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think I saw that! I'm sorry, it's a blur for me because Snarry Games happened right when I was busy doing other things, meeting deadlines, etc. So sometimes I was just skimming my flist as fast as possible. Sorry! I should have said something! But thanks for reccing!!

Wow, now, I knew Gwen Stefani was from the Long Beach area, and that the rest of her bandmates, at least maybe one of them went to Long Beach Poly or Lakewood. That, and the Black Eyed Peas have a Long beach or Lakewood connection. It's so cool that my area produced so much talent :D

Hee, thanks! I actually miscounted how many prints I have left of Felix Felicis, and there's actually two more prints. Now I feel bad for telling people that the one at Azkatraz was the last print! There's actually two more.