How is your day going so far? I only want to know if it’s been ESPECIALLY good or ESPECIALLY bad and I want to know why.
Hopefully there will be more good days than bad days happening out there.
As for my day? Well it’s just downright boring.
80% suck with an ongoing forecast of intermittent suck.
Well, I’ve been in the office for just under an hour. That’s not the ideal. And my daughter called a few minutes ago to tell me she’s sick - also not good.
Still, too early to make a definitive statement. Here’s hoping it’s just a quick, quiet day.
Everyday is a holiday in my world. It’s a holiday for life and I try to live it everyday. Time is all were given. It’s how you live it not how much you get of it. Did I say that? Must be sometimers cause I don’t do it all the time.
Well, I’ve been here for two hours, Mr2U (we share a ride) should be picking me up sometime near lunchtime (or had BETTER BE OR WE’RE GONNA TALK!) so I can go home, and I have nothing to really do today. Think I’m going to go downstairs and get something to eat, then come back and read Dilbert.
Yep, good day.
Well, I’m at that point in the semester when my brain and I have this conversation:
Brain: Why did you want to go to grad school? You had a good job. Really, you did.
Self: Yes, but we hated that job, remember. We’d done it for seven years and were tossing our cookies every morning before we went to the office. Heck, before we even ate any cookies to toss.
B: Yes, but you had money and none of this assignment stress.
S: Tossing the cookies, remember.
B: Yeah, but…Ok, then. I’ll accept that. But YOU’RE GONNA FAIL. You are never going to get both of these papers finished and then you’re going to fail and end up working at McDonald’s, eternally halfway through a Master’s degree. You’ll be able to tell your coworkers and customers all kinds of wonderful things about AACR2R after you say "Welcome to McDonalds, may I take your order?
S: Oh, shut up. If you’d quit stressing, you could get them done in no time. And one is finished, we just need to put the citations together, print it out and turn it it.
B: Oh…then why don’t we think about doing a thesis instead of taking the comprehensive exam?
S: Shut up for a while and let me write, ok?
A typical day that occurs a week before the semester ends. Not bad, really. Just noisy in my head. 
Not too bad till I made the mistake of opening my bank statement.
Gotta quit the gym . . . No new clothes, ever . . .Don’t know how I’m gonna pay for train tickets to visit my Mom . . . Dieting should be easier, what with not being able to afford food . . .
Funny you should ask, cause today was horrible. Well, at least it’s over in an hour.
At this point just about everything sucks. My wife’s health is continuing its downward spiral, and her attitude continually shuttles between “Dammit, I’m not helpless, let me do it myself” (which usually leads to her just making more work for me) to “Just leave me alone, I don’t need anything” (which means I have to make doubly sure that she eats and takes her medicine). Either way, I get frustrated because I have to keep checking up on her, which makes it hard for me to get anything done, and she gets annoyed because I’m “treating her like a child” whenever I ask her what she’s doing.
The bills are piling up, and I have to watch to make sure that things get paid on time so our credit doesn’t get screwed up. Over the weekend I found evidence that we’ve had termites for a while, so now I’ve got to call an exterminater to see what needs to be done (more expense, not just for the treatment but to replace the damaged flooring).
And just to further piss me off, yesterday afternoon they had a meeting to tell us that today at work we would be concentrating on clearing out our oldest work, so I spent a half hour reviewing everything under my jurisdiction and unarchiving computer records (an overnight process) so they’d be ready for today. Then this morning my supervisor comes over to say that they decided to redistribute the workload so instead of finishing up the work I’d already started I’ll be spending most of the day doing cases I’ve never seen before, while other people will be trying to complete cases I’d started.
I wish I were back in college.
Well, my day just got a million times better. I’ve finished not just one but both major papers. One has been submitted electronically, the other will be turned either tonight before class or tomorrow before that class (depending on whether the school offices are locked when I get there tonight).
Now just one three hour class to get through and my day will be fantastic!