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?
This is my first Thursday Thirteen, and I’m doing an easy list to ease into it. So here is the list of 13 books I read recently, starting from the most recent:
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- Howards End by E. M. Forster
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- The Ambler Warning by Robert Ludlum
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
I’m a living, breathing, warm-blooded (there are people who disagree on this point), thinking person. Nevertheless, Miss Attitude called me an “it” and tagged me, so I have to do the Five Things post. I’m not that interesting and I lead a quite boring life, not to mention that I’m trying not to include the ones I did on plurk some time ago. So I had to think long and hard just to come up with the five. But here they are.
Step #1 – Link to the person who tagged you. See above.
Step #2 – Write Five Fun/Interesting Facts about yourself. This gives fellow bloggers (and your readership) a chance to actually get to know you better.
- I’m a misanthrope. I generally do not like people and I do not like partying. I’d rather be left alone. It doesn’t mean I hate everybody. I keep a small number of intimate friends to whom I’m fiercely loyal. But as it is, I have also been disappointed by a few former friends who took my friendship for granted who have been cut off from my life.
- I had LASIK surgery done 7 years ago. Before the surgery, both my eyes were -4.5 or something ridiculous like that. I had worn glasses since I was 8 (give or take a year) and wore contacts for years which made my eyes dry beyond measure – the surgeon did a test, and my tear ducts were not producing any moisture for the duration of the test.
- I have misshapen ears. They do not look like ears of most people and therefore, I cannot find any bluetooth devices or earphones that fit my ears. Everything I’ve tried just fall off or wiggle their way out of my ear in a few seconds and I’ve tried many.
- I once fainted and fell onto the Long Island Railroad track in 1988 (or 1989). Not only my body managed not to touch the third rail, but also the express train that was supposed to zip past the station was delayed as well, and I was helped back to the platform by strangers. On account of me, the express train stopped at the station to the delight of all who were waiting for the train.
- I don’t know how to make an omelette. I’ve tried many times, but the eggs always end up getting scrambled.
Step #3 – Tag 6 other bloggers to do the same.
I hope you guys haven’t done this yet.
This week has been absolutely exhausting, and this is my excuse for not updating the blog and not keeping up with reading others’ blogs these days.
I got Foster back on Sunday and since I do not trust my dogs to behave and not get into fights when I cannot supervise directly (as opposed to when I’m not at home) at this point, I’m all over the place once I get home. I keep Georgia and Foster together when I’m in the same room or take them outside. Foster has never showed any aggression or irritation towards Georgia, but I’m still too shaken by my experience from last month, I don’t leave them together if I can’t be there with them. I do not trust Brandy and Brooklyn at all with Foster or Georgia, and so I’m pretty busy trying to spend time with everyone of them, and take them outside separately.
This Monday, I started commuting to the new location to which IT division moved. I’m still working 10am – 6pm instead of noon – 8pm as I blogged before because my boss told me to come in at 10am and see how it goes. The first day, there were several empty spots as I predicted because consultants were too scared to take their cars, and therefore, a lot of them opted to take the shuttle bus. The second day, there were 3 spots left. The third day, I took the very last spot, the furthest corner of the parking lot from the building – I knew then that I would have trouble the next day. The word is getting out that there are still parking spots at 10am! So come yesterday, 20 minutes BEFORE 10am, I couldn’t find a consultant spot. I called my coworker to relay the situation, and I was going to just idle engine and sit there, reading the book I have been carrying with me for just that. But while I was on the phone, the security guard hired by the company to enforce the atrocious parking rules walked over and told me to park in one of those numerous empty employee spots. I guess he didn’t get the memo, but hey, I have his blessing to park in the employee spot if there is no empty consultant spot left from now on. So life goes on until the word gets out to more consultants causing the employees to start complaining about lack of parking spots.
All in all, I have been sleeping even worse than before because I’ve been worried about the fucking parking spot every single day. Hopefully I get some more rest next week.
Everybody on plurk is doing this meme and I decided I’m a lemming.
1. What do you add to your coffee?
Half & Half and brown sugar
2. What are you reading now?
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
3. Do you own a gun?
Yes, I have a nail gun.
4. Are you registered to vote?
No.
5. What do you think of Hot Dogs?
I don’t find dogs hot, bur rather cute and adorable and such.
6. Do you get nervous before doctor appointments?
Hell yeah. That’s why I don’t make appointments for checkups.
7. Favorite Christmas Song?
O Holy Night
8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning?
Coffee
9. Can you do push ups?
Not even one.
10. What was the name of your first boyfriend?
I don’t remember.
11. What’s your favorite piece of jewelry?
I don’t have a favorite. I just wear some studs so that the ear piercings don’t close.
12. Favorite Hobby?
Sleeping
13. Do you work with people who idolize you?
No, I work with people who are scared of me.
14. Do you have ADD?
Only when I have to concentrate.
15. What’s one trait that you hate about yourself?
These days? Just about everything.
16. What’s your middle name?
I don’t have one.
17. Name three things you brought yesterday?
Nonfat plain yogurt, apples, granola bars
18. Name three thoughts you had just now.
Thoughts? What did I buy yesterday? I should make up a middle name.
19. Name 3 beverages you regularly drink.
Water, coffee, diet coke
20. Current worry right now?
It’s a whole another blog entry and a half by itself.
21. Favorite place to be?
Home
22. How did you bring in the New Year?
With my friends, eating, drinking and watching 1930’s silent porn online
23. Where would you like to go?
I’d rather stay home.
24. What color shirt do you have on?
Navy blue
25. Can you whistle?
I can blow a whistle
Serious Stuff. Seriously
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