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capnzebbieI have to post something so I don't see "Christopher Reeve" as the subject line every time I come to my LJ to check my friends list. It makes me sad.
So! I made it through my first week of full-time work since the surgery. I'm exhausted, but that's mostly because my little bout of insomnia lasted the whole week (they don't usually last that long), and I had to jump start my car with a battery charger every day because while I was laid up my car didn't get driven and the battery was ruined. (Was that a run-on sentence? This has been a run-on week.) I had to get up two hours early on Friday to get a new battery installed and this was after Thursday, which was the day from hell. Thursday I was thinking, "Where the hell is my horoscope when I need to be warned that I'm going to have a bad day?"
Nothing worked on Thursday. I was trying to record phone calls for evaluations and I didn't manage to get one phone call recorded. Every time, the person I was trying to record was on break or at lunch or in a meeting or making outbound calls (I have to assess inbound calls) or just didn't get any calls or whatever. My office email wasn't working. Even the copy machine was fucking with me. I asked it to give me twenty collated and stapled copies of a little four page document. It did the twenty, and then started all over again. I think the button got stuck. Then it ran out of paper in the middle of the second (unwanted) set. I had to make more copies of one page, recollate it and staple everything myself, and I wound up with about fifty copies. And I had to fill up the paper trays in the copy machine. That's like two stacks of paper, each of which is three feet tall. Then I had to get the security guard to help me start my car when I got off work, because the battery was dead again. *sigh*
But Friday was better after the unfortunate early awakening and today was busy, but fine. And I'm done for a couple of days.
I'm finally going to get to watch my tape of this week's Smallville. I'll probably do that tomorrow. Next week I should be able to watch it on the very day that it airs, since I'll be working an early shift. Yay!
So! I made it through my first week of full-time work since the surgery. I'm exhausted, but that's mostly because my little bout of insomnia lasted the whole week (they don't usually last that long), and I had to jump start my car with a battery charger every day because while I was laid up my car didn't get driven and the battery was ruined. (Was that a run-on sentence? This has been a run-on week.) I had to get up two hours early on Friday to get a new battery installed and this was after Thursday, which was the day from hell. Thursday I was thinking, "Where the hell is my horoscope when I need to be warned that I'm going to have a bad day?"
Nothing worked on Thursday. I was trying to record phone calls for evaluations and I didn't manage to get one phone call recorded. Every time, the person I was trying to record was on break or at lunch or in a meeting or making outbound calls (I have to assess inbound calls) or just didn't get any calls or whatever. My office email wasn't working. Even the copy machine was fucking with me. I asked it to give me twenty collated and stapled copies of a little four page document. It did the twenty, and then started all over again. I think the button got stuck. Then it ran out of paper in the middle of the second (unwanted) set. I had to make more copies of one page, recollate it and staple everything myself, and I wound up with about fifty copies. And I had to fill up the paper trays in the copy machine. That's like two stacks of paper, each of which is three feet tall. Then I had to get the security guard to help me start my car when I got off work, because the battery was dead again. *sigh*
But Friday was better after the unfortunate early awakening and today was busy, but fine. And I'm done for a couple of days.
I'm finally going to get to watch my tape of this week's Smallville. I'll probably do that tomorrow. Next week I should be able to watch it on the very day that it airs, since I'll be working an early shift. Yay!
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Date: 2004-10-18 07:05 am (UTC)Life is still kind of a struggle on all fronts, but getting better. I'm being very aggressive about MAKING it better. The kitties are great! They are of course climbing all over the counters and making trouble. :)
I have not been able to write. That's the worst part of life right now. Worse than being broke. When I'm writing, I'm happy. Period. So I've been miserable. Can barely eke out a page of fic a week. And no real life writing at all. :(
I miss my posts, too!!
Hopefully, we'll both start feeling less overwhelmed soon.
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Date: 2004-10-18 12:20 pm (UTC)I'm glad things are getting better. :) And yes, sometimes you have to grab life and shake it to make it better!
I know just how you feel with not being able to write. I used to write all the time, since I was a kid, but I haven't been able to write since I kind of crashed and burned in grad school. :( I got this LJ partly in an effort to see if I could manage to start putting pen to paper (virtually speaking) again. It seems to be helping some. Just, you know, writing anything is pretty amazing right now, even if it's just a comment on a tv show or a whine about work. And you do so much more than that, with your fanfic and your RL writing. :) So hang in there, sweetie, and it'll get better! *hugs*