• Me: *has last name Weiler (WHY-ler)*
• English Prof: I keep wanting to call you Wieland.
• Astronomy Prof: I keep wanting to call you Veiler.
• Writing Prof: I keep wanting to call you Jenny.

3:30pm

• Mom: *knocks on door* Just making sure you're awake.
• Me: yeah, I'm alive.

So my astronomy lab professor has old vet syndrome and likes to just ramble on and on and make random comparisons to the army that no one gets.

But last night he couldn’t get the computer to stop refreshing a program, so when the window popped up it would chime, but he just decided to ignore it and carry on lecturambling.

Well eventually he gave up and went over to the computer and said louder than he should have, “shut up, you damn communist!”

And in that moment I realized I too have old vet syndrome.

M24 rifle questions for Gunblr

He gun-toting side of tumblr, got some questions for you for a short story. I know very little about weaponry outside of basic gun safety, so bear with me.

I’m proofreading a pretty lousy short story for my fiction writing class and it ends with a PTSD addled vet (surprise!) shooting his four friends dead during an episode. And if it couldn’t get more tropey trite, he’s an ex-sniper. Character Jimmy carries around an m24 (that’s the only info on the rifle I get from the story, it’s called an m24) in his truck like a security blanket (it’s literally only covered by a blanket), whips it out and shoots his four friends dead from an undesignated distance, but contextually about a front yard’s distance away.

Here’s what I want to know: is this even possible? Can an “m24” shoot four people at such close range dead before they even can process it, would a “sniper” even do that?

From my understanding, rifles get less accurate at short distances, and logically I would think that for close range encounters, a “sniper” would carry a less wieldy gun. Wouldn’t their training have them react differently to getting stuck in what they think is a firefight? But am I completely wrong? I tried looking it up online and couldn’t find anything conclusive or helpful.

Any thoughts or tips to give this writer would be great, thanks!

I feel like some strange combination of those street corner preachers screaming, “THE END IS NIGH, REPENT YOUR SINS” and the grizzled war vet heading for their third tour of duty, but I have literally spent the past three days at Target trying to convince our Team Leads that we are not ready for Black Friday.

We literally have ONE PERSON scheduled from 12:15 to 3:30pm on Friday.  She’s ALONE at Starbucks for over three hours.  We have another girl alone from 12:30 to 2am during the BOGO free holiday drink special.  Half of our trained staff isn’t even working in Starbucks, they’re cashiering.  For the entirety of Friday we’ll never have more than two people in Starbucks when in past years we’ve had at least three people.

I went to HR and asked about that because it just didn’t seem right and she just coolly told me that this has been approved by our LOD and DM so there’s nothing we can do about it.  Okay, so do they WANT the highest selling location to be run by one person for over three hours on Black Friday?  We literally had more coverage yesterday, a normal Friday, than we will on Black Friday.  Something is messed up there and I don’t feel as if I can trust our Team Lead to make it right.  We’ve had this schedule for a week now and she didn’t notice these huge problems that I found after ONE CHECK of the schedule.  It honestly feels like sabotage at this point.

So my parents put my old BMW on Craigslist…

… and within the hour my dad got a text saying:

“I just need a working car I’ll trade you a .40 handgun for it.”

Gotta love living in the DC area.

Artist Problem

Me: *just finished shower, not dressed yet*
Parent: *knocks on door*
Me: *throws robe on, answers door*
Parent: …. were you drawing yourself?

I know everyone rags on the “70-year-old professor with tenure” archetype, but I’ve honestly always had the best experience with those profs.  Their syllabus and classes are simple and direct, you know what to expect, and they’ve always been the most forgiving with me when I come talk to them about late assignments because I work or commute.  Also, if they’ve been teaching for over forty years then heck, they must REALLY LOVE what they’re teaching!

I mean they really only ask two things of you, respect them and do the readings.

The latest Gravity Falls episode’s references to 80s metal album covers, fantasy movie music, and prepper culture spoke directly to my heart.

Yesterday I got a tuition refund check of over $1000 as well as $60 in withheld wages from my old job at my first uni.  I haven’t worked there in four years.

I did not reblog a single one of those annoying money cat/grandma/kid/fish stick posts that endlessly cross my dash.

Sometimes good things just happen randomly.