Sweet Catastrophe

Why, why, why can’t people on this campus seem to remember to keep right?! It’s just common courtesy people! If you keep right, you won’t run into folks!

Where were you in, oh I dunno– ALL of elementary school? I’m gonna start moving peoples’ apples and putting them in corners for almost running me over. I’m glad you’re in a hurry to get to your next class, but so are the rest of us! Running head-on into me is only going to slow you down– I promise!

Today, someone almost killed me by trying to speed past everyone coming down the stairs. Hey jackass, guess what everyone else on the staircase was walking to the right– because there were other people coming UP the stairs on the other side! Of course he wasn’t even looking where he was going and all but slammed into me after I stopped to wait for him to move over! The school’s gonna have to look into key man insurance to cover themselves when a professor gets knocked backwards down those stairs. We’ve got some pretty rough staircases around campus.

Please, please stay the eff to the right or at least watch where you’re going!

So Ken (Ryan’s boss in Jacksonville) called this weekend to tell him he’s closing the shop. Thursday is their last show.I have mixed feelings on the whole situation. I’m disappointed for Ryan because he’s put a lot into the job and it was something he enjoyed doing, but at the same time I’m relieved.It was a job that just wasn’t good for Ryan. It was what he wanted to do, but in that situation, Ken expected a lot more out of him than what he was paying for. Ryan was regularly put in situations where he’d be jumping through hoops you’d really only expect the owner to be jumping through, and he did it without question.He keeps getting himself in these situations, working with people who help him out and form this connection with him to where he feels like he owes them something because they ‘look out’ for him. He’s gotta get away from that and this is a big step in the right direction. He’s still at his computer job where the same type of thing is going on, but at least there’s no traveling and he seems more aware of the reality of it right now. He really does have an obligation to stick around a bit longer, but I’m holding out hope that things will look up.He’s got to look for more steady work now. I’ll be honest, I’m a little more pessimistic in that area. He’s had something close to his dream job and I don’t know how he’ll go back to anything less, and there aren’t really any prospects for gigs like the one he had. He tends to surprise me though, so we’ll see.

“The book these came from said some of the paint jobs cost $15,000 and had to be repeated every 3 months as the cat’s hair grows out. Must be nice to have $60,000 a year just to keep your cat painted!!”

Yeah that’s right– they paid to airbrush their poor cats! I want to track down the book and see the rest of these. Some of these are pretty, but some are just pretty ugly!

I don’t so much mind that they do this, except for the ones who’ve painted their faces as well. That can’t have been a good experience for the poor kitty!

Edit: Apparently they’re just photoshopped images. Thank goodness. Still intriguing!

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Work actually went fairly quickly on Sunday. Generally it drags by since we aren’t very busy until lunch on Sunday. Unfortunately it sped by because we were actually pretty swamped on my end and only one person showed up for work. I came so close to getting out on time (a Sunday rarity) but on my way to my locker a guy stopped me and we actually spent 20 minutes looking for the same box cutter he bought last time. I still don’t know what was supposed to be the big deal there.

I don’t know what it is about Sundays. I only get up maybe an hour earlier than I do the rest of the week, but I can’t keep my eyes open! I had no choice but to take a nap when I made it home. Josh and I played Lego Star Wars for something like three hours and he, Jessica, and I ordered Chinese.

Pretty relaxed, and I still ended up in bed around midnight.

I can’t imagine a Sunday without a nap anymore.

Jeeze last night sucked! I went to bed pretty early, feeling like absolute mess. I had a tension head, my face was all swollen and itchy (bad allergies) and my anxiety was really high for some reason.

I still didn’t get to sleep for quite a while. I woke up in the middle of the night literally choking on stomach acid. It was pretty much horrible. Imagine choking on something that tastes like concentrated pizza grease and burns/dries your throat to the point that you can’t swallow—yeah, hard to recover from. I need to get back to my healthy cooking and lay off the soft drinks again. They’re killing me.

I was rewarded for all my strife though. I had an awesomely sexy (PG-13) dream about John Krasinski. At one point, there were TWO of him! We were detectives working together undercover and he was all shy and endearing….and enjoyed sneakily nibbling on my ear. I LOVE that I have such imaginative and vivid dreams!! I hope to repeat or continue that dream tonight…

When I left for work, I had one assignment to finish tonight. By the time I left work, I had three. How in the hell did my workload triple in 6 hours?!

We didn’t have ACED on Tuesday, so even though I knew part of our assignment was due on Thursday, I assumed it was due by the end of the class as per usual. After all, it’s lab work and we weren’t in lab on Tuesday… Wrong. It’s due at the start of class. Oops. That one is my bad, I should’ve read more carefully and not assumed.

As for my management class– he made no mention of an assignment. There was nothing listed when I checked on Tuesday. I got a text tonight saying that at 9p.m. last night he posted an assignment to be due by 9 a.m. tomorrow. Ugh. His assignments are always such a pain.

I’m waiting for a message that I’ve gotta go buy the moon before tomorrow morning too!

Oh and could someone please go pick up some groceries for me. I sooo forgot to go tonight!

This anxiety thing is starting to piss me off. I’m anxious as hell right now. What set it off? Heh you’ll love this. I’m anxious about not eating enough today. I’ve had like half a serving of these little pizza slice things today and I’m not hungry anymore, nor do I feel like eating. I go to work at 4 so I’m not there long enough to have a lunch break, so I know I’ll be uncomfortably hungry by the time I leave. Why did that spark anxiety? Why did I ever even develop this mess? I’m all clammy and twitchy. I wonder if there’s anything I can take otc to help out until I can see someone about it. Ugh.

Jeeze! Have you ever had one of those days when all you could do was sleep?

I hit the textbooks hard last night for a production test today and an in-class exercise today and did I go to class? No. I made it out of bed on time but I just couldn’t get going! By the time I got dressed and everything I already knew I was gonna be late but that would’ve been okay. What did I do? I crawled back into bed.

I slept some more and got back up for lunch. I had lunch on the couch, watching television. Take a guess what I did after lunch….I went back to freakin sleep and slept through my last class! It’s not a terribly huge deal. I’m gonna take a blow to my grade for sure, but not one I can’t pull up easily enough, but it still sucks. I have no wiggle room now.

I’ve been to sleep two more times since then! Each time I slept today was well over an hour! I got probably almost 8 hours last night. I don’t know what’s up! And honestly, I’m sure I could go to sleep now but I’m in the middle of doing some stuff to my computer so I’m occupied.

I think part of it was really just boredom. I’m used to multitasking. I’m hardly ever just sitting and watching something, ya know? Ryan had my computer at the shop today– the motherboard in my computer right now isn’t actually mine, it’s sort of just a loaner until they get in the connectors they need for mine, but this one has already been assigned a home and they needed to check some things out to make sure it’s compatible with everything it’s gonna be connected to.

I might take a sleeping pill tonight just to make sure I don’t just wake up in a few hours. I don’t want today to totally throw me off.

My appetite is completely off lately! Not every day, but most days I’m eating very little throughout the day, but then after midnight I’m suddenly starving. It’s like something flipped and my eating schedule is backwards, sort of like people getting their days and nights backwards when it comes to sleeping– seems my appetite has done that.

I’m not really complaining, I mean I’m eating less, which is something I wanted to do anyway.

I had started taking a supplement, ya know, and I really liked it, but around that time my anxiety started getting worse so to be on the safe side, I put the pills on hold to be sure they weren’t contributing. I’m now positive they had nothing to do with it as I’m still having the same issues with the anxiety, but I still haven’t started back on them. I’m really sure they’re the best diet pill for me, I’ve just got sort of a mental block about it right now since I’ve always had such a negative experience with supplements. Even though I know they weren’t affecting me in that way, I’m just skiddish about doing anything that could even have the slightest effect on my anxiety, ya know?

Anyway, maybe just having my appetite so backwards right now will continue to solidify the diet changes I was working on– ya know, eating for sustenance, not just as something to do.

Oy! Hopefully, I’m done with computer problems for the year! My poor baby has been having startup troubles and flashing the BSOD for a little while and it finally kicked it. I had been assuming it was due to a problem with one of the new hard drives. Well, one of my hard drives did have a bad segment, which is fixed now, but my motherboard was fried. Apparently it’s a common eMachine problem, so it was nothing I did.

Luck was on my side though, turns out, based on the registry times, I had some nasty adware, a virus, and a friggin key logger activate right before my motherboard crashed! It seems to have been latent, possibly even something stuck from that virus I had last time. Who knows? Either way, I now basically have a brand new computer. I’m not even in my old case anymore. I’m in an awesome silver and blue Alienware case! I’ve got new ram, the new hard drives, new everything! The only thing I have left from my old computer is my original 200GB drive. I’m still drooling over my new custom computer. I’m happy to know I’ll never have a factory-built piece of crap again.

I need to help Earl out with his advertising here in town for Datacorp. I mean, he doesn’t run things like a snooty store–you walk in and there are just computer parts all over the place, but he treats you right and gives you a good deal and he eats and breathes fixing your computer. I’m gonna set him up with some business cards and stuff, and probably see if I can convince him to do some t shirts as well. I’ll wear ‘em around campus and everywhere else.

Anyway, I’m back. All that’s left is to get Mediacom to fix our damn connection and I’m good to go—yeah that’s right, they still haven’t come. And yes, I’m angry.