"Stomach Drama Continues" written by Paul on estrip.org

Category: health

12/12/07 10:25 - ID#42488

Stomach Drama Continues

I am so tired of feeling sick to my stomach. I keeps me up all night. It hurts all day. It kind of even makes me nauseous. I went to the doctor, he asked where it hurt. I misrepresented because I was bloated and my whole stomach kind of hurt at the moment. Now that I didn't eat last night and am really skinny I can tell it hurts higher up. See my diagram below. The green area has a much sharper pain when I touch it. The red area kind of hurts when I am really full but I think it has more to do with whatever is up in area green.

So I call the doctor yesterday and got his helper because he was busy. I said, I don't want to just wait for Jan 9th to get a colonoscopy and asked if they could do any other tests bfore. I asked if it would be possible to get a blood test or stool test to see if something else is up. At least a freaking blood test. The last one I took was in like 2000. Anyways, so they say they could fit me in at 6am for colonoscopy. I declined first of all because I would have had to be ready at like 5am at Millard Fillmore suburban and second of all because I wasn't calling for a rush colonoscopy. I just think maybe they should check some other stuff first.

I am really so sick of the whole process. What does it take to find a doctor with a few minutes who thinks of a the whole picture? I would pay lots of money at this point. I think I am going to just take (e:jenks)'s advice and just go to the emergency room. I think I am going to go today after I finish with some important stuff for work. If I go there I will blog the whole experience.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: work

12/11/07 02:12 - 36ºF - ID#42474

harassment training

I can't believe I have to sit through another respect in the workplace training. I understand why they have to do this but I think I have sat through about 10 of these in my life.

The part that surprises me the most is that they have FAQ that says the first thing you should do when you receive an offensive email is "Delete the email and reply to the person that you don't enjoy getting this type of email."

That is so stupid. Promptly, delete all evidence :p

metalpeter writes at 07:46:57 12/11/07 - Comment #29163: First of all those trainings are often complete Bull shit. The reason being is that yes it is good to know what to do if someone says if you blow me I'll get you hired or to say if you don't have sex with me you won't get a raise. But after that it doesn't do much. There is a a difference between flirting and joking around and causing someone to be uncomfortable. The thing about it that most people talk more stuff then what the regulations say. The important thing to remember is it has to be unwanted. In other words the cute girl comes up and asks me so how is it hanging and spanks me than that is fine and I go "it isn't any more" then that is fine. But the girl I don't like goes "she touched you and said you are perfect but I wouldn't do you if you paid me" "So I say I wouldn't do you if you paid me either" and it is serious not joking around then that would be a problem. I understand that the people who give it don't want any grey area but the truth is there is a lot of grey area and that can be kinda fun, as long as that line doesn't get crossed but you also have to know where every ones line is. But they don't tell you that in that flawed training.

tinypliny writes at 06:06:51 12/11/07 - Comment #29149: Hmmm...I had an 8-hour long orientation session earlier this year, so I didn't have to re-take it this semester. But I did hear that they give out great lunches. Is that true? What did you get for lunch?

jason writes at 04:33:37 12/11/07 - Comment #29145: Oh man, Paul. I would hate that shit too.

drew writes at 03:48:00 12/11/07 - Comment #29141: I (the evil middle-class-educated-white-straight-Christian-male) gave a diversity training session for a camp I used to work for. I think they picked me because everyone else was afraid to do it. Amazingly, it went well.

scott writes at 02:43:23 12/11/07 - Comment #29140: I've never been trained to harass someone sexually. I always thought that was something a-holes did naturally.

janelle writes at 02:28:38 12/11/07 - Comment #29138: I had an in-house male sexual harrassment trainer for my training here. It was very even handed. Although, your comment reminds that in some city, I think Denver, a council man protested a diversity training video where the individual doing all the racist/sexist/sexually harrassing remarks was a white blue-collar man. I watched a clip on CNN. It was really bad and failed to acknowledge that people of all sorts of races, ethnicities, nationalities, genders, sexual orientation etc... can engage in racist/sexist/sexually harrassing behavior.

paul writes at 02:20:44 12/11/07 - Comment #29136: Sidenote: Has anyone ever had a male sexual harssment trainer? I have never had a non-african-american-woman sexual harassment trainer. Coincidence?

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Words: 88
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: friends

12/10/07 09:17 - 30ºF - ID#42464

Baby Fern

Everyone keeps asking (e:enknot) for pics of baby Fern but he keeps forgetting to post new ones - so today I got some at lunch. She is so cute!!

Here she is with (e:enknot)

And here she is with Jon who also is an (e:peep) but hasn't written in his journal yet.

(e:enknot) got the corned beef focaccia at Spot that I was talking about the other day.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: celebrities

12/10/07 10:06 - 31ºF - ID#42455

This one is for e:brit - Anderson Cooper

I know you love him.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: sleep

12/09/07 04:32 - 28ºF - ID#42448

The Visco 9"

Times have changed. The saleswoman didn't even bat an eyelash that three adult males were shopping for a king size mattress together. The other couple in the store were clearly lesbians and the same thing. I was thinking that maybe the mattress industry has always had the secret in side scoop into people lives and so nothing is new. It is kind of hard to pretend you aren't sleeping together when you are testing out a bed together.

We ended up going with some king size, visco memory form get up for ~$2000 with everything including tax, damn tax is expensive. It is called the Sealy Posturepedic TrueForm Visco 9"

I wish I had something to do with the Visco 9" in the title, but I don't - lol.

It seems like it has the potential to make sleeping nicer or worse. I really can't tell. Luckily, t gives us a 90 day return policy for trade in if we hate it. I think we will like it. They deliver it tomorrow and it better change my life considering it costs as much as a car I would have bought 5 years ago.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: food

12/09/07 10:04 - 28ºF - ID#42445

Free Rice for Poor People

I don't understand how this can possibly be real but I saw it on omg blog and then decied it was worth posting here. freerice.com

gives free rice to the United Nations feed the hungry campaign or something liek that if you win the word games on the site. I guess the advertisers donate grains of rice based on the number of correct vocabulry questions you answer.

I also foudn this video on

omg blog - I guess it isn't just limited to that one beauty queen, it hit Kelly Pickler too

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: buffalo

12/08/07 11:19 - 26ºF - ID#42443

The Trip To The Botanical Gardens

I love the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens

They are warm. I have decided to become a member so that I have a reason to keep returning to the warmth.

I took a bunch of pictures of the plants. I really love my Nokia s7c camera. It is so compact and takes such nice pictures.

Tis little pink flower was so hello kitty.

This orange puff was so cute.

Inside this large plants was this tiny microcosm with a mini flower in it.

This pine is so nervous looking.

So was this plant.

I kicked (e:flacidness)'s butt in checkers.

This cactus looked so mean.

This leaf is so giant

The banana plant was flowering.

These cacti look like penises.

The main chamber in the front room is so high and makes a giant echo chamber.

Buffalo State was having an exhibit today with student ceramics. This one was labeled Two Faced Bitch.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: buffalo

12/08/07 11:07 - 26ºF - ID#42442

A Trip Downtown

I hate the new indian territory in the middle of the city. Does anyone else think that is ridiculous?

They made the Casino look so awesome, lol. I hate them. I would say I hope it burns down but considering it looks 100% ribbed steel I doubt anything would happen.

We went to go eat at the city grill on Franklin but it was closed for a private party ;(

On the way back to the car I noticed these doors to the YMCA were covered in a disgusting amount of pigeon shit. I guess they never use them.

This one is for (e:hodown). It is a spot focaccia.

Can anything be more buffalo than a corned beef foccia. They have them at spot. Sounds like it should be served at McGuidos over by HSBC arena. That place, however, closed down.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: linwood

12/07/07 03:35 - 31ºF - ID#42425

Reverse Osmosis Water

We finally bit the bullet and decided to install a reverse osmosis water system in our house for drinking water in the kitchen. It involved a couple hours of plumbing but the water tastes really good and it comes out way faster than the hook to the tap system we had before.

This is what happens to pipes that make me angry. I guess I do have an anger management issue. This led to us buying a new normal faucet as well. I like the new one way better than the old one anyways.

Here is the tank that goes under the sink.

Here is the filtration unit before

and after hookup

And the final happy tap with no faucets. $159 for the system, $100 for the new faucet, hour hours of plumbing later.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: body

12/07/07 12:08 - 25ºF - ID#42420

Put a what in your butt?

In order to find out what is going on with my intestinal pains they are going to give me a colonoscopy in January. Sounds scary but the idea is that it rules out anything horrible. Luckily I get knocked out for this.