I’m doing great today. Saturday was awesome. I realized that I love this city and the people who live here.
Sunday sucked ass. I had laundry troubles, I got stood up on a date, a bird pooped on me, and the zipper on my favorite jacket broke. But it’s all fixed now. My laundry is dry and folded, my date managed to see a doctor, the bird poop is cleaned up, and I know where I can get my zipper fixed. I found some dumbass’s lost ATM card and returned it to his bank. (Not sure, but I think he live in Autolycus’s building.) So I did a good deed.
Today is a new day. The sun is out, my situation is full of hope, and I’m feeling fantastic.
I’m doing OK, thanks for asking. I’m at work, where I am, as usual, bored out of my damned skull. Today is a big day because my wife should get the results from the Really Big Test she took last week which will chart the course of the next several years of her career. So, it figures to be either a really good day, or a catastrophically bad day.
Doing OK, a little sleepy. Had to get up early to take Mr. Sigma to the rental car place for his business trip (he’ll be back Wednesday night) and then come in to work. It’ll be a long day, but at least the sun is shining now. Thanks for asking.
Today is shaping up to be pretty good. I had a fantastic weekend (I had three dates in two days, which is a new record for me :)) and I slept really well last night. Generally on Sunday nights I toss and turn and wake up several times during the night but last night was pretty good, sleep-wise.
It’s a Board Exam - to become a Board Certified Reproductive Endocrinologist (physician specializing in infertility). She passes – Woo-hoo! Celebrate! She fails – she has to spend the few years preparing to take it again.
I did a vendor event on Saturday for the first time in several months, then spent Sunday dragging my ass around and trying to re-motivate and get some work done. I got a few things accomplished, but not nearly as much as I’d have liked to. Today I have to go to my day job and that makes me want to shoot myself in the head.
Comme ci, comme ça - I’m OK. My career is taking a change, I may be going off on my own in private business and to be honest it scares the hell out of me. It’s an up and coming field and anything up and coming has it’s drawbacks. By in large I’m doing well. My health is good, my marriage is great, my wife is wonderful and I feel pretty ok.
Thanks for asking!
I expect this day to turn out well. It’s just going to be me and my kids at the house tonight, which is a very rare event. We’re going to eat stuff we like that nobody else does (Morningstar “chicken”, creamed spinach, and Kraft macaroni & cheese, should you wonder) and I’m going to force the kids to watch The Shawshank Redemption with me. Then I may go to bed early, or I may read with the TV off. Heaven!
tdn, I’m glad to hear you’re doing well. You deserve it, baby.
Sunday’s date was a basketful of stoopid, but Saturday’s was wonderful. I hope to spend a lot more time with her. Even if I don’t, the time we spent was fantastic.
My husband is currently flying back from Chicago, where he spent the last week working at KBIS. (He met Ty Pennington!)
It’s a nice day, if a tad cold.
The dogs didn’t destroy anything last night, and the puppy hasn’t made an overnight pee mess in three days now. In fact, other than the disembowled (Beanie Baby) dragon three nights ago and the pillow that was eaten two nights ago, the dogs have been suspiciously well behaved this week.
I’ve had mono for the last several weeks, but I don’t feel sick today.
I farmed a lot of rep in WoW this weekend, and I’m half way through level 62. I’m in Zangermarsh, which I’m really enjoying; I’ve loved ALL of the marsh zones.
**Cons: **
I have an appointment at 6:30 tonight, so I won’t get to see my husband until after 7:30 tonight.
Dear Spring: Warm up already! I was so cold last night that I got up to check that all of the windows were closed.
I’ve had mono for the last several weeks, and I’m feeling exhausted as usual today.
Between my major depression this winter, my father’s death in February, and the mono, I’ve been really out of it and are literally a month overdue on a project that should have only taken a few weeks. I really need to finish it today but I’m feeling very unfocused.
We have no meals in the house, and more importantly, nothing to drink other than filtered water. (I hate the taste of water.) So I’ll need to hit the store tonight before going home.
I’m alright. Quite tired, as I’ve been having a lot of trouble sleeping for the past several weeks, and it’s really beginning to take its toll! I had a Calculus exam today, and it was a lot harder than the midterm and I felt I ran out of time, so I may or may not have done well. I just really don’t know how to feel about it.
I need to study for another exam tomorrow morning; computers. I hate that course, but thanks to the help from my fantastic husband I have perfect assignments plus the bonus marks, so even if all I do is pass the final (50%) I will still get a 70% in the course. And there is practically a guaranteed curve on it, so I’m not too worried, but I still need to get going on some of the material. I’m just procrastinating (though in my defense, I’ve only taken an hour of “break”!)
I think I’ll be feeling much more cheerful tomorrow around noon, when I’ll have a whole week to study for my last 2 finals, which are both for courses that I like.
And we will be having home-made (well, our own toppings!) pizza tonight, which is always yummy, and I’m looking forward to it!
I was down all weekend, but I feel loads better today. I’m still a little depressed 'cause I’m almost through with UCLA - how did these two years go by so quickly? And how the hell did I get here? I’m still not sure.
I’m actually doing pretty well. This morning kind of sucked, because my regular coworker, whom I got along with pretty well, got sick, and it looked like I was going to be paired with this total jerk-off at noon. I mean, we fucking hate each other, and I was looking forward to five hours of hell. At the very last minute, another kid walked through the door and announced that she was the replacement for the replacement, and this kid and I really get along. So the rest of the day was awesome. It was the special kind of awesome that happens when you expect suckage and are pleasantly surprised. You know how sunlight is a little brighter than usual right after a thunderstorm? It was sort of like that.
Generally, things are OK. I hate my job, but it’s not like I’m sitting around doing nothing. I’m looking forward to this cool summer course, and I’m actually making plans to go back to school next year to get my second masters, so it’s not like I’m going to be stuck here for the rest of whenever. I’m studying on my own, too, which is always fun. Life has been quite a bit more fun since I came out of the geek closet all those years ago.
And tdn, I’m glad you like it here. I like the Boston vibe too, and I love the people, especially my patrons. Yes, the weather was awesome today, and I got off work just in time to enjoy the best part of it. Sadly, however, we are planning to move as soon as possible, and while we haven’t entirely narrowed our choices down, we’d like a place where winter doesn’t last until April.
Partially due to my predecessor’s lack of foresight, Big Customer’s data feed to my company’s EDI systems shat the bed today and their users circumvented our help desk and contacted me directly, meaning I had to come down on some of my folks not for screwing up the root issue, but for being so unhelpful in the past that the users felt it necessary to complain directly to management.
On the up side, I smoothed things over rather adroitly with Big Customer’s management, including mention of an impending initiative I’ve developed that should resolve the issue, so it’s a win for me, personally, though probably (on another down side) not for the company as a whole.
On another down side, I put in 11 straight hours in the office today, when I intended to put in 6.5.
On another upside, I’m now at home drinking beer.
On another down side, I’m still thinking about work, and the postmortem I have do with my people in the morning.
I ended up having to facilitate an Operational Readiness meeting because my boss was working with the SA team to determine why we were having Exchange issues.
Today is my first day of vacation from classes, and I finally got some time to clean up and watch DVDs, so I’m fantastic–and tomorrow is looking even better.
