I’ve been sleeping a lot for the last few days. The amount of sleep I’m able to squeeze in astonishes even me. Having dogs prevents me from sleeping 3 or 4 days and nights straight waking up just to drink water or take a leak, as I once did long time ago. But I have been able to wake up, take the dogs out, eat something, go back to bed, and repeat a couple of times. I used to have the problem of not being able to sleep at night if I took a nap during the day, even a very short one. Now I seem to have conquered that problem because I lay my well-rested self down, and I can fall asleep… well, nowadays anyway.
I hope the sleepfest is warding off the exhaustion I’ve been suffering from so that I can start the week anew all refreshed. Well, gotta go now to take a nap.
I thought there would be more than enough “Thirteen things I’m thankful for” Thursday Thirteen posts this week in blogosphere, so I’ve decided on a grumpier kind. This is the list of thirteen things I did yesterday that I really, truly, most definitely did NOT want to do, but for the good of everybody involved (or not) I decided I’d better do.
- I woked up in the morning. Well, if you’ve known me either IRL or virtually for a couple of weeks, you would know I hate mornings because the “waking up” aspect of it. So this is no small matter in that once I wake up in the morning, I consider I’m about half way through the day, except that I’m pessimistic in nature, I rather bemoan the fact that I have the entire half left in the day.
- I drove 50 minutes. I hate driving. I hate traffic. I hate idiot drivers. I hate slow drivers. Of course the destination being work doesn’t help the matter.
- I drove another 50 minutes. This time, heading home, so it is a little better than the aforementioned driving, but it doesn’t make me hate driving, traffic, idiot and slow drivers any less.
- I worked. Yeah, well, need I elaborate?
- I arrived at work early. I hate getting to work even a minute earlier than I need to because I don’t get paid for that amount of time while I have to stay at work at least 8 hours.
- I agreed to work for an hour from home on Thanksgiving although I’m not on call. I really couldn’t care less about scratch tapes running out or backup tapes not being sent out during the long Thanksgiving weekend, especially since the two employees in our team don’t even bat an eye even when they are on call. I agreed so that the only conscientious coworker, another consultant I might add, would do it both Thursday and Friday for an hour each if I didn’t agree. Behold my angelic countenance! >>>
- I bought my lunch at the cafeteria in the building. The first time I bought something from the cafeteria 3 weeks ago, I swore that I would never eat their food again because I got to spend $7 for lunch which didn’t make a dent in my mid-day hunger after finishing it. Of course I eat like a pig, but do they really expect me to be remotely satiated with a table spoon of tuna salad on a wrap? But having to start the work day at noon limited my options.
- I said hi to the coworker whom I despise, who in turn despises me. We have to work together and he had to assign SAN disks on the server I’m working on. So I had to be agreeable a smidgen.
- I said bye to the coworker whom I despise, who in turn despises me. He was on his way to the data center to run the cable. I was supposed to open a ticket for him to go into the data center, and I didn’t. So I decided to be a little more agreeable.
- I even wished the coworker, whom I despise, who in turn despises me, a happy Thanksgiving. I know, I know. But before you hastily decide I’m not such a bitch, let me give you the reason and protect my reputation as a bitch. He was going to the data center to run the new cable and hook them up without a ticket. He could easily pull another cable and cause an outage and be blameless because I didn’t create a ticket. I was walking on thin ice. OK?
- I said hi to the coworker who sits on my left, whom I despise with burning passion. I’m sure this guy despises me as well since my feelings toward him is well known around the office. But he’s too scared to show his real feelings and I think he keeps saying hi to me just to annoy me knowing that I don’t like saying hi to him.
- I said bye to the coworker who sits on my left, whom I despise with burning passion. I’m telling you, this guy is doing this to annoy the crap out of me!!!
- I resisted the urge to tell my boss and give him proof that the coworker – who sits on my left, whom I despise with burning passion – is not only an incompetent pretentious idiot, but also a liar. It was not easy. Not. At. All. But I did resist it. Because of him, the problem that could have been fixed on the server (which crashed after a power problem) in 30 minutes took 11 hours of restoring and recovering – the liability he denied and blamed the IBM support, but that’s why he’s stupid. Doesn’t he know we can prove he lied? In any case, I didn’t get him fired this time. Where is my reward?
The economy is on free fall and most of us are clutching our wallets a little tighter and count the change a little more carefully and think twice or thrice before making a purchase these days. And now the holidays are coming and the money doesn’t stretch as it used to. Some very nice bloggers on plurk want to help two peope who are struggling to buy their loved ones presents by holding a contest across their blogs. I was supposed to participate, but having lived the last week in a big hazy blur, I didn’t remember to check my private plurks and I missed the final call.
To enter, go to each of the following blogs between November 23rd through November 26th and comment on that day’s post, one comment per day per blog. If you have a blog, do what I’m doing and blog about the contest to get the word out. They will announce the winners on the black Friday. For more information, go to each of these blogs below. Good luck!
It seems as though I utter the words “I’m so exhausted” every minute these days. I’m suffering from exhaustion, and my body shows a number of symptoms that I’m well acquainted with and that I associate with exhaustion. The problem is that most of these symptoms seem unknown to my friends and coworkers as resulting from exhaustion, and they either look at me strange or laugh at my face calling me a freak.
I would like to know if any of you heard of or suffer from the same symptoms.
- Nose bleed. I’d be sitting at my desk and working, and suddenly blood drops out of one of the nostrils. Or I feel my nose is runny. I grab a tissue and wipe my nose and it turns out it’s blood. It rarely happens though.
- Painful nostril. One of the nostrils get red and hard and painful.
- Tongue needles. That’s the term directly translated from Korean and I don’t know what they are called in English. Some teeny little protrusions on tongue that feel like needles poking on the tongue. At least I know some people (Koreans) suffer from it.
- Pain on the side of the tongue. It feels like a small part of the tongue has become stiff and it hurts.
- Cracks at the corner of the lips where upper lip meets lower lip. I would first get some suspicious redness around the corner and the next day, the corner would look like it’s cut slightly to make the mouth bigger or something. It hurts like a son of a bitch.
- Slight numbness of the face. The face doesn’t feel a little strange, until I touch my face (I do that a lot since it feels strange) at which point my face feels numb.
So? Anyone? Anyone?
Serious Stuff. Seriously
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