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23 September 2010
Got a bad feeling about today. Ever have one of those days where you can just tell it ain't gonna be a good one?
Oh yes. Typically when I haven't slept well, and then get in to work to find a catastrophe waiting for me that is going to be very tough to deal with, and at the same time I have a bunch of other commitments that day that I can't back out of. That's when I know that day is going to absolutely suck.
I had one of those, of epic proportions, a few years ago, but I'm thankful that I haven't really had that sort of perfect storm of suckitude since then.
I woke up feeling that way today, but with the support of gomichild and the implementation of the new-to-me concept of pomodoro, I've cleaned most of the kitchen and made a healthy breakfast.
As often as not, though, I don't turn it around and end up just feeling crappy all day. I hope this sticks today.
yeah, i know definitely when to stay in bed sometimes. having had an alignment of the universe after feeling it come on, i decided that life was too short and you know, went back to bed.
my poor husband is having this day. the poor guy lost his wedding ring sometime between communiting on the train and walkign to work. it wasn't anything too fancy and we can easily replace (thank god) but he's devistated and feeling doomed. i told him it's all ok, as long as we don't lose each other, a ring can be replaced, right?
those days just suck. thank god i packed a cupcake.
I prepare for the worst with cautious optimism. I find nothing good comes from having grand expectations of things. I hope to be pleasantly surprised and view the world with an empty slate to let it hit me in the face with whatever is loaded in the pie pan.
Possibly dumping doesn't feel good but it doesn't sound catastrophic i suppose. It clears up space for better people.
Jinx. I was thinking about this post when the day started to go more wrong than any day in the last six or seven months. Severely suck for about an hour and then it turned around. The nice thing about work sucking is the day ends at 5. Tomorrow morning I get to put out three or four fires that all got started today within fifteen minutes of each other. But that's what the job consists of: steady grind with brief episodes of intense suck.
I had a bad feeling about today, because I knew I had to have a 'difficult conversation' with the manager of one of my teams. It went about as well as I expected, in other words, not very.
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