Connections Puzzle #1184
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It feels like getting a secret fifth category.

You know what's an underrated ship? Rick Sanchez and Stanford Pines.

My family did this after hamstringing my ability to interact with the outside world by raising me fundie and teaching me ideologies that were incompatible with the outside world and that men would just like randomly attack me. Eventually I got a job with criminally insane men which bizarrely really leveled up my social skills then they put me through nursing school and now that I'm financially independent I don't speak to them. Consequently my recommendation is to do a horribly unpleasant job for a few years, get through a trade school if you can, and once you're financially independent cut contact. Best of luck!

And 10-20 years ago a licensed RN working for a university hospital would've been solid enough to afford an apartment in that city while the hospital paid for the bachelor's. That's... getting less doable. And I don't want them paying for the bachelor's in case the boss starts telling me I gotta do sketchy shit and I have to jump ship suddenly. Let's not even get into how a CNA is considered a "starter job" for a student of some higher paid healthcare position instead of it's own perfectly respectable career that's vital to the safe functioning of a decent hospital and as such has always deserved a wage that can feed kids.

In fact sex being used as the indicator is actually a clue to one of the largest contributors. There's a very wide reaching assumption that men should get most of their emotional support from their female partner. This is often very stressful to the female partner and is a fragile way to meet a basic need; if she gets sick or dies he's probably not far behind her. Men need to learn how to compliment and hug each other platonically. It's 2026 and it's for their own good ffs. I keep giving my male patients brochures for men's support groups and I really hope at least some of them are actually going.

Interestingly I have a fair amount of patients who cry more as they're coming out of their depression than when they were in the thick of it.

Today I'm 3.

Should've also had "I'm a teenage boy trying to impress his girlfriend in the passenger seat."

Yeah this one's vintage. There's a reason it still comes around. They don't make 'em like they used to.

Got some overtime by staying over onto dayshift this morning because the unit secretary wasn't there to take the patients down for procedures like usual (small hospital, no dedicated transport techs). Normally when she is there, PACU will call and be like "hey can you have the pt down by XX:XX" and she almost universally says "they'll be down at 7:30" and hangs up the phone without further comment. Beautiful bitch just causally tells the OR what's happening every morning she works. Court too for involuntary hold patients (psychiatry). We love her.

You know, most multicellular organisms don't have a vagina, but most of them DO have an anus. Something to think about.

Nah my cat is a dog. She just wants food and bellyrubs.