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06 November 2007
3 point status update. 1. I just added another gig of RAM to my computer. What a difference it makes.
2. My dinner is cooking and it smells good - chicken, garlic, home-grown basil, veggies. To follow, redcurrants, honey, yoghurt.
1. about to eat lunch. Fage yogurt, flaxseed and honey granola bar, apple. This has been my lunch for the past couple of months. I get into these patterns sometimes where there is only ONE POSSIBLE LUNCH I can stomach. For about a year it was avocado, feta, tomato on mixed greens and balsamic/oil. Every single day.
2. I'm bummed about how sometimes I can run 4 or 5 miles without stopping and still feel really good afterwards, then other times it nearly kills me to run 3. What the hell? I know it's just all about what I've been eating and how tired I am and listen to my body blah blah but I want to feel awesome all the time!
3. I don't have much to do at work this afternoon. Make para, do some injections, set up for an experiment tomorrow. Maybe I'll leave early.
1. I have cramps. Ow. They kept waking me up and then me getting up in turn woke up the dogs and then nobody - me or the dogs - could get back to sleep what with the clicking of the dog toenails on the floor and the checking of all the doors and the snuffling and so on.
2. I am getting a cold - I have a sore throat and the sniffles and I'm out of it. As long as it's gone by Friday night, I do not care, but it had BETTER be gone by Friday night because, shhh, don't let's jinx it but there is a boy I have not seen in a very long time coming to visit me for the weekend.
3. My boss is out again. She is never here. It is mostly good to have a slacker boss but this is getting a little ridiculous and stuff is not getting done and I guess I had better do it. Bah. Humbug. Bah humbug. She makes a shitload more money than I do; how come I have to do her job?
3a. Why do people reapply for jobs? We have a job open again and the same people I've rejected the last three times in this process (for very good reasons, like, they're crazy or they have to have their son send emails for them because they don't know how to use a computer or we actually called their references who haven't seen them since 1994 and these are all real, true examples) are reapplying yet again and calling me and saying stupid things like "I'm still interested! Call me!" when I have NEVER called them in the first place, simply sent them relatively polite "Thank you for applying but you are not wanted here" letters.
1. Lunch was mediocre curried-chicken-and-rice from the cafeteria, but the blackeyed peas on the side were decent.
2. I'm in a creative slump right now... both at work and in personal life. I'm hoping to shake it off very soon.
3. Bob, the still-sorta-new kitty, is a real character and is turning out to be a great addition to the family. Kayla is not convinced and they still have to be kept separated, but for right now everyone seems to be content.
1. Trying to get stuff done before my boss gets back from vacation and hoping she doesn't pop in today just for the hell of it. She's not supposed to come in until tomorrow, which would be nice, because by tomorrow I'll be on a plane to sunny Florida! Then I wouldn't have to see her for a whole other week.
2. Thinking about what to pack and getting my ducks in order before I leave for a week. Must go to post office, go shopping for chicken and fruit for the gliders, and... oh shit.
3. Realizing I still have yet to find someone to feed the gliders while I'm gone.
1. Second day of wind warning, which makes me think of people dress up their kids snowpants and kitebacks so they can float them around on string leashes. It actually means doors will not stay closed if you have anything open and cold brisk slaps in the face.
1. We find out this afternoon who our new boss will be. I am worried. We function very well as a team without a boss, and I'm worried this new person might cramp our style, or be a dictatorial asshole.
2. I've been fighting tears all day, sitting at work in front of the computer hoping no one will notice, worried about finances and how in the hell I will manage with a baby on the way and hating the various assholes who have garnished my wages. There seems to be no way out, and this scares me to death.
1. I ran out of Aciphex on Sunday and my stomach now feels like it is full of angry, poopy worms. I managed to eat a banana. I feel like shit. I don't see the new GI doc until next Wednesday. I'm not sure I can hold out that long.
2. I talked to my RN aunt and found out that getting an endoscopy+colonoscopy is probably going to run me, personally, in the range of $2K. I hate my insurance. I feel broke and miserable. And freaked out about various 'scopies in general. I don't want to lose consciousness. I don't want to have to do this.
3. I need to study for the GRE and get my references to write letters. I feel weird asking people to write awesome things about me.
4. (I'm bad at math.) I have not written anything for NaNoWriMo. I suck.
1. Wishing my PJs would arrive today, but it's not looking good. Tonight's plans to lay around in my new PJs totally hinge on the PJs arriving.
2. Feeling a little hungry, but not hungry enough to get up and get lunch. And of course, once I am hungry, I'll feel too weak and lazy to get up and get lunch.
3. Mmm, lip gloss.
1: back from a long, stressful day at work
2: now full of spicy parsnip soup and some bread
3: not looking forward to having to leave the house at 5.30am on Thursday
I bought a grey short-sleeved, mid-calf t-shirt nightgown from Lands End, and a matching robe! I had one of their nightgowns years ago, and they're soooo cozy.
Why do people reapply for jobs?
Because, eventually, they will luck onto a time when not many others apply and this makes their application relatively strong. Not saying it works, just saying.
1. On the train on my way to work - won't see home again for 16 hours, because it's overtime night.
2. Started a new job yesterday - must do well at it, so I can apply for it permanently in a month.
3. Mum is in the hospital again - she had a second mini-stroke yesterday morning after one a few days ago. Worried sick.
1. Congrats to dano and pups!
2. Hugs to dg and tr33!
3. Still sick. Having to care for small people when you are well and truly sick sucks. And I still have to go out and vote. Otherwise we're going to end up with one township supervisor who is planning on retiring and only running again so that his successor can be appointed rather than elected (?!) and another supervisor who is also the official auditor and is deeply insulted that anyone suggest there's a conflict of interest there.
1. Wore new shoes to gym today. They rocked.
2. Waiting for hubs to come pick me up to vote. New city council can't be worse than the old one.
3. Bunny slippers on my feet. Life is good.
I. I am going to be taking vacations every weekend for the next month:
A. Kung Fu workshop
B. Early Thanksgiving in Vermont
C. Actual Thanksgiving in Connecticut
D. Dad's redneck wedding in Arizona
2. The annual event that I plan for a living is in two weeks.
3. Fantasies of being trapped in an airport somewhere, lost in the woods, or put in the hospital due to kung fu-related injuries, causing me to miss the event and get a bunch of flowers from people instead, are keeping me from getting around to arguing with the caterers like I ought to.
1. The counter splashes will be installed tomorrow...this should have been done over a year ago.
2. I wound up sleeping most of the day, when I needed to do laundry.
3. Going to "A Bronx Tale" tonight.
1. Had crap day on the air at the radio station this morning. Couldn't remember what I played, announced the wrong song, and had several seconds of dead air. The good news? I have impeccable musical taste. The Byrds, Richard and Thomas Frost, Band of Horsies and Chris Smither.
2. Morning was met by pouring rain, three miles in which I travelled to get to said radio station, only to have 1. occur.
1. Went back to work today after taking Monday off cause my Gram died. Was actually good to be there and have something to take my mind off things.
2. My dad, whom I reconciled with after a few years of not speaking, is gonna try to help me out with my massive credit card debt, which is a Very Good Thing.
3. Hoping the boy will come over tonight, but he's busy with term papers, so he probably won't have time.
3.1. Going to try my best to study for the bar exam tonight. Man, it's gonna be hard working full time and still trying to pass the bar.
1. I feel like shit.
2. No, seriously. I haven't been able to do much but sleep for the past 3 days. If I had the energy I'd be panicking because there's a lot I need to be doing, like calling some job prospects, but I just don't have it in me. Just the thought of it makes me want to crawl back into bed. Managed to make myself some tea and come here, so I'm hoping that signals that this will end soon or at least lighten up enough that I can force myself to do something about it.
3. I hate depression. Or would, if I had the energy.
Hugs to those who're having a hard time, and congrats to those who are having things go well. (I'm lookin' at you, dano & mudpuppie!)
1. I have the blues. Not the bottleneck-guitar-on-the-front-porch-in-the-summertime blues, but the existential kind that make it seem like a good idea to crawl under the bed with a bottle of bourbon for a few days.
2. We are out of bourbon. (Unless the booze fairies came while I've been at work, in which case things are looking up.)
3. Fortunately, I've got a whole bunch of good music to listen to while I ride this out (not to mention an understanding partner and a faithful dog), so it ain't all bad.
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