Way to Rub Salt in the Wound, Facebook

In Our Same Boat (with State)

Beyond the Cornfields
Brand-new State Department family in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Love their two little girls (she just recently had a baby while being posted in Dhaka), horticulture, traveling and adventure!
Email From The Embassy
State Department family formerly in Beijing, China, and recently posted to Amman, Jordan. A trailing spouse, she's also a writer, and frequently publishes articles with major news sources. A very experienced State family, this new post is something like overseas post number six or seven for them.
Just US
A beautiful family of seven - they have arrived at their new post: Jerusalem! They just finished off an unaccompanied tour to Iraq and are very much looking forward to sightseeing around the middle east.
Our Life
State Department family on their second post...Tijuana, Mexico. It's their first overseas assignment and they have two little boys. They love Tijuana so far and post pictures frequently! They also get to enjoy the best of both worlds for they can sneak over the border into San Diego when they want to!
The Dinoia Family
State Department family formerly in California, now in DC for a DC tour. Next, the husband will do a one year unaccompanied tour. A very experienced State family (formerly in Iceland and Caracas) with a blog that has been around quite a while and has great archives. Jen has a sweet heart and a lot to give!
The Perlman Update
State Department family formerly in Chennai, India, who then did a year-long unaccompanied tour in Iraq. They are now on a DC tour and after that will do another unaccompanied tour (Afghanistan). She totally tells it like it is and doesn't sugar-coat what life is really like. Witty, snarky, funny and down-to-earth. Look elsewhere if you want fake. Read if you want REAL.
Where in the World Am I?
State Department family formerly in Bujumbura, Burundi and now in Hyderabad, India. They just had their first baby this summer - a beautiful little girl- (there's a separate blog about this) and she also eats gluten-free (with a separate blog, also).

Can't Live Without (non-State)

Crass-Pollination: An ER blog
The best ER nurse blog EVER!
Doctor Grumpy in the House
The best doctor blog EVER!
In Which...
My IRL friend, a stay-at-home, homeschooling Mama of seven. Her darling daughters are, goshdarnit, probably too young to be hoped for as my future daughters-in-law.
The Crib Chick
My IRL friend, a stay-at-home, homeschooling Mama of five. Hopefully two (Any two! I'm not picky!) of which are my future daughters-in-law.
the underwear drawer
An anesthesiologist who is possibly the most talented & entertaining writer ever. I've read her blog ever since she started medical school. No, don't know her in real life. Wish I did.
The Bloggess
This blog is both hysterically funny and hilariously irreverent. I actually let my 17 year old son read it (who loves it as much as I do!), but wouldn't even CONSIDER letting my 12 year old son read it. Which is about all the description it needs!

04/14/2013

Way to Rub Salt in the Wound, Facebook

So I've whined before, at length, I'm sure, about how China blocks Facebook and so if you don't have a VPN you can't be on Facebook. And I've also whined and how China now is super awesome at immediately taking out VPN connections, and so when it comes to doing anything fun on the internet, I'm basically out of luck.

No Facebook, no Twitter, no blogs, no Pandora, no Netflix, no Hulu, no YouTube... no nothing.

You remember this, right?

Anyway, you would THINK Facebook would be sensitive to my plight. You would THINK Facebook would know that, if I'm absent this long from logging in, that I'm either DEAD or I'm LIVING IN CHINA.

It's not like I haven't told Facebook that I actually AM living in China. It's not like I haven't posted on status updates that I'm living in China, posted pictures from China, pinned locations in China, etc. And it's not like Facebook hasn't acknowledged that it knows I'm living in China, since it has long ago started giving me advertisements entirely in Mandarin Chinese.

But what does Facebook still do to me??!?! Facebook sends me "We see you haven't been on Facebook in a long time! Please come back!" emails that I find emotionally excruciating particularly painful. Facebook will even email me tiny little teaser snippets of everything fun I'm missing, as though it were my fault, as though I could just log in any time my little heart desired and see everything that's gone on in my absence.

Just a few minutes ago, Facebook sent me this in an email and I WANTED TO DIE:

Donna. Jen. Heather. Connie. Other friends. My favoritest people in THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD. And really? REALLY, FACEBOOK? Way to rub my face in my own misery. Way to remind me of all the fun I'm missing. I REALLY NEEDED THAT THIS MORNING, FACEBOOK.

So now I'm all

Never mind that I'm supposed to be studying. Never mind that the semester is coming to a close and I'm facing a ton of tests and finals week soon. Instead I'm sitting here, wallowing in misery, feeling horribly sorry for myself, and whining internally (and on my blog). SO PRODUCTIVE.

Meanwhile, I should be doing my Chemistry homework. Was a Chemistry major a long time ago (before I switched majors in my junior year to political science. Would you like fries with that? Can't even get an EFM job at the Consulate with a BS in Political Science. Fat lot of good THAT major did for me!), and so it's nice to get back into it.

Actually, I have to make fun of my Chemistry textbook for a second. Because, check it, y'all:

Since when do Chemistry textbooks get to act like they're really Biology textbooks? Back in my day, Chemistry textbooks actually had, I don't know, complicated, scary pictures of molecules on them or something. What is education these days COMING TO? Darn kids, get off my lawn!

And no, I'm almost all the way through the semester and the penguins haven't meen mentioned ONCE. DUH. BECAUSE IT'S CHEMISTRY, THAT'S WHY.

And speaking of getting almost all the way through the semester, unless I wanna see this happen to me:

I better go get my studying on.

Posted on 04/14/2013 at 07:52 PM in Back to School (for me), Chengdu, China, China in General, Complaining, Kill Me Now, Me, Science | Permalink

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Well, you obviously haven't missed much. Look closely: I'm the only one commenting on my own status updates. It's cool, though - I'm doing it in your voice. With CAPS and EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!! and everything! I'm pretending you're on Facebook with me. Got you covered, lady. But still - the interwebs are so much more fun with you there.

Posted by: Donna | 04/15/2013 at 03:43 AM