Masks and Verification SMS'
Sep. 7th, 2025 07:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
disappointed_lesbianAnother all-day shopping excursion. This missing busses by mere minutes shit is so upsetting.
Shopping on Sundays is the worst because the busses don't run as often. But I don't have much of a choice if my food stamps allotment falls on a Sunday and I have no tofu at home. Tofu is a stable. I'm afraid to try to go to bed without tofu because I don't sleep when I do.
I check out guys all the time now. It's an interesting new thing.
A few days ago, when I went to see the dietician on the wrong day, a guy wearing a medical mask got off the bus as I was waiting to get on. I didn't really look at him at first, I think maybe I just saw his legs as I was waiting and looking around, but I noticed that he was slim. I've come to notice lately that slim guys are the most attractive to me.
The guy seemed to be resting after disembarking. Since he was slim, I looked at him for a bit. Watched him hitch up his pants, noticed his interesting red and black socks. Looked him in the eye. Which I usually don't much like doing, but, as I think I mentioned back during the height of COVID, is much easier to do with people who are wearing masks. People's faces can be too busy and distracting, what with all the different facial features and facial expressions, but the masks hide half of that.
He had nice light blue eyes. I couldn't tell his age, which made him kind of intriguing. He looked back at me but didn't say anything, seemed to be breathing rather heavily. I lowered my eyes sooner than I wanted to so as not to give him the wrong idea. I always try to be discreet about checking people out, but he was facing me and there wasn't much distance between us so it was easy for him to notice me watching him. I was curious about what he was up to because he had camping equipment strapped onto his back and two boxes of what appeared to be wine. As far as I know, there are no campsites near that area. He picked up his wine and walked off as I was getting onto the bus.
Before I heard from the CWT program manager, I tried to log on to the VA medical system website to send a message to the patient advocate about not being able to reach her. The VA has new login security requirements that are a hassle to fulfill. The options were verifying my identity via mobile phone or entering my personal information and then verifying at a post office. But the system, a goddamned third-party verification system, which is terrible for security, apparently doesn't have a correct phone number on file for me and wouldn't let me update my phone number.
The help docs were useless, so I called the VA, the VA phone rep transferred me to the third-party company, I got the runaround in their automated phone system, then I had to call back, and finally I spoke to a human. Basically I'm unable to verify my identity at all with them; the rep suggested a second third-party verification provider that contracts with the VA. But first she asked whether I knew anyone who could accept the verification SMS. And that eventually made me think about asking my friend to accept a verification SMS from OkCupid so that I can get a goddamned date. I don't want to ask him; I don't even want to use OKC. But I really really don't want to be single anymore.
I've still got an hour before dinner, so I'll go look up some alternatives to OKC. I haven't had anything to eat besides three squares of chocolate since eleven-thirty AM (it's seven pm now), and I feel fine, just moderately hungry, even after all today'se exercise, walking to stores and hauling a couple of boxes of groceries around. This "fasting" has really worked a miracle for me. Maybe eating so often was the cause of the low blood sugar episodes I used to have. Maybe my body came to expect food more often somehow?
Shopping on Sundays is the worst because the busses don't run as often. But I don't have much of a choice if my food stamps allotment falls on a Sunday and I have no tofu at home. Tofu is a stable. I'm afraid to try to go to bed without tofu because I don't sleep when I do.
I check out guys all the time now. It's an interesting new thing.
A few days ago, when I went to see the dietician on the wrong day, a guy wearing a medical mask got off the bus as I was waiting to get on. I didn't really look at him at first, I think maybe I just saw his legs as I was waiting and looking around, but I noticed that he was slim. I've come to notice lately that slim guys are the most attractive to me.
The guy seemed to be resting after disembarking. Since he was slim, I looked at him for a bit. Watched him hitch up his pants, noticed his interesting red and black socks. Looked him in the eye. Which I usually don't much like doing, but, as I think I mentioned back during the height of COVID, is much easier to do with people who are wearing masks. People's faces can be too busy and distracting, what with all the different facial features and facial expressions, but the masks hide half of that.
He had nice light blue eyes. I couldn't tell his age, which made him kind of intriguing. He looked back at me but didn't say anything, seemed to be breathing rather heavily. I lowered my eyes sooner than I wanted to so as not to give him the wrong idea. I always try to be discreet about checking people out, but he was facing me and there wasn't much distance between us so it was easy for him to notice me watching him. I was curious about what he was up to because he had camping equipment strapped onto his back and two boxes of what appeared to be wine. As far as I know, there are no campsites near that area. He picked up his wine and walked off as I was getting onto the bus.
Before I heard from the CWT program manager, I tried to log on to the VA medical system website to send a message to the patient advocate about not being able to reach her. The VA has new login security requirements that are a hassle to fulfill. The options were verifying my identity via mobile phone or entering my personal information and then verifying at a post office. But the system, a goddamned third-party verification system, which is terrible for security, apparently doesn't have a correct phone number on file for me and wouldn't let me update my phone number.
The help docs were useless, so I called the VA, the VA phone rep transferred me to the third-party company, I got the runaround in their automated phone system, then I had to call back, and finally I spoke to a human. Basically I'm unable to verify my identity at all with them; the rep suggested a second third-party verification provider that contracts with the VA. But first she asked whether I knew anyone who could accept the verification SMS. And that eventually made me think about asking my friend to accept a verification SMS from OkCupid so that I can get a goddamned date. I don't want to ask him; I don't even want to use OKC. But I really really don't want to be single anymore.
I've still got an hour before dinner, so I'll go look up some alternatives to OKC. I haven't had anything to eat besides three squares of chocolate since eleven-thirty AM (it's seven pm now), and I feel fine, just moderately hungry, even after all today'se exercise, walking to stores and hauling a couple of boxes of groceries around. This "fasting" has really worked a miracle for me. Maybe eating so often was the cause of the low blood sugar episodes I used to have. Maybe my body came to expect food more often somehow?
