Product Dis-Placement

Guh!

So I usually advertise some product I really enjoy. This also is supposed to happen on a specific day...is it Saturday? That would be awesome if it accidentally worked out. It's been so long since I posted anything I don't remember how I used to try to do things. But anyway - this entry won't be an attempt to get you TO purchase something. Instead it's a plea to NOT buy something. So it is definitely not sponsored by the company I'm about to discuss.

I have a friend who used to sell pet food. (immediate warning flags) You know any sales(wo)man, even if they 100% believe it, as my friend apparently did (does), has been fed a huge pile of BS to regurgitate back onto potential customers. And I have been thrown up on for years. Any time I complained about the cats - hairballs, shedding, stinky poo...anything - I was informed that if I used this miracle cat food all my problems would go away. Now, I gots the street smarts, so I wasn't going to fall for any of this nonsense. But I felt bad, because it was my friend, and she seemed to genuinely believe what she was telling me.

Cut to a week or so ago at PetSmart. I need to get in, get cat food, and get out. I still haven't learned to cope with the massive amounts of options they provide - Walmart had too many choices for me and there were like five. Now there are nearly five AISLES of cat food to stare at blankly before I grab my bags of either Purina or Iams (oh! Product Placement! Purina and Iams have never let me down). This time I happened to choose the aisle with my friend's brand of food on it to walk down first. It was more expensive than what I usually buy, but I figured I'd give it a try.

The first day I try to feed it to them, neither cat finishes their food. Now, Khat has always been a food lover. She starts nagging you for food five minutes after being fed. And Chairman Meow was a stray. He lives for food and causes more mischief in our house than even Splinter, trying to get into edible things. Now that it's been a week they both eat it, but their poop smells TERRIBLE, and they throw it back up all the time. Seriously - we have cleaned up at least five piles of cat vomit since they got on this food. The pile this morning still looked like the food - it hadn't even begun to digest.

I don't know what I'm going to do. This food was so expensive I can't afford to go out and buy two more bags of what I usually get, but I'm afraid they'll become ill if I keep feeding it to them. Sigh.

The bad, bad, icky food?

Nutro. I bought a bag of Senior and a bag Kitten. Both are fails.

TMI Baby Update

No babies this month!

Hope

My ability to clean the eye goop out of the corner of Splinter's eyes gives me hope that one day I will be able to change a diaper. Just...not today. Or any time this year. But one day.

Why?

Apparently the professors are talking about me. One of them asked MC (another graduate student) why I was getting my Master's degree. Now, it could have been an innocent question, and that's how MC took it - or at least that's how he is telling me to take it - but I feel like it's as if the professors are saying "What is she doing here?" and it's making me ask the same question.

I hate to sound like a broken record, but I don't like computer science. It was interesting the first 3 or 4 classes, then got tolerable, then got annoying, and now I just straight up dislike it. So why, why, why did I come back for another degree in it?!

Pa-tooey! I spit on you, computer science!

Hopefully this post won't cost me a job later on down the road, but if you can't be honest, what can you be?  My main life goal is to get a job that has nothing to do with any of this. Is that allowed?

I have to admit, I've been thinking a lot about *gasp* teaching. Don't tell my mother. I mean...what if I could get a job teaching at a community college? Something like the 1150 classes I've been teaching? Is that a possibility? Maybe?

I have got to get over this funk. It's like the dark side that comes after senior-itis. I'm not just over school, I'm over my chosen career path entirely.