One of the worst days of my life

I'm not even joking.  I had more good moments on the day I found out an ex-boyfriend cheated on me.  I had more good moments on the day I was rushed off to hospital with an abcess in my throat.  I've had more good moments on the day I had two finals and a paper due!!

So I woke up at 6 am feeling like shit (this is actually happening really regularly, blah), and stayed in bed until 9 am in an attempt to fight it off.

Then I had to scramble, and had a discouraging assortment of things go wrong, not the least of which was pouring the water into my cup noodles before it was actually boiling so the noodles didn't get fully cooked and tasted pretty bad.

Biking to campus was worse than usual, I got to my crosswalk the SECOND my green light went yellow so I had to wait for another cycle.  At least no one tried to kill me at the four-way stop today.  I swear, TWICE when I've been going through that stop someone (usually on their phone) has started driving forward while I was RIGHT IN FRONT of their car.  And people keep trying to go illegally without stopping or waiting, or turn while I'm going straight and try to kill me that way.  And the wind was blowing directly in my face which makes it really hard to go at any decent speed.

Then I dumped my stuff in my office and went to the student clinic for my yearly checkup.  That was fine - the doc didn't find anything wrong with me (hooray!) although she wants me to start taking Allegra again and start a probiotic and see if that a) helps me get over this cruddy cold that won't leave my lungs and b) reduces the cramping and stomach pains I've had pretty much my entire life.  Which I'll do, for sure,  but bang goes more money down the drain!  My friends have recommended I try "yakult" which is some kind of probiotic yoghurt drink, and is apparently a very filling snack for midmorning/midafternoon, so I'll give that a shot.  The doc was pleased when I told her I've cut out all rice and bread, most potatoes, and have increased my veggie and milk intake, said it sounded very sustainable and sensible.  This yakult stuff may make it easier to get my dairy (soooo scared of osteoporosis) and stay under my calorie limit.

Got back to campus and started working - Thursday is 6 hours of working for my boss - and was chained to my computer til nearly 1 pm when I took a short lunch break.  Once lunch was over, I went to the library and scanned a bunch of archival documents for the Chinese junk models (a junk is a type of boat) I'm working on right now, which was tough since the machine kept splitting documents into two images and I had to keep deleting, rearranging, and rescanning.

I finally got back to the lab and went back to work on the junks - I have to unpack them, measure them, and record all their breaks and cracks and things, and store them on these shelves my boss put up in one of the sections of the lab.  I got nearly a dozen done over about three hours because I had to keep stopping what I was doing to look things up in the "catalog" it came with, and searching for damage is actually really, really time-consuming.  Then I had to rearrange a bunch of ships on the shelves because we're not allowed to put things on the top shelf because keeping things 18 inches below the ceiling is a fire hazard?  I never knew that.

I'm only scheduled to work til 5 on Thursdays but I stayed til 6 because I missed 2 1/2 hours last week and wanted to make it up today and tomorrow, and then my boss wanted me to show him some of my work for the scanned microfilms I was doing when I first worked for him so that it was nearly 6:30 by the time I got to leave.  Also, one of the horrible things about today is that as soon as the junks are done I have to get back to the microfilm scanning.  I love my boss - he's awesome - but I HATE scanning microfilm!!

I got home a little before 7 and made dinner - barbecue pork loin with veggies - and then kicked back with a beer.  My first drink since my sister's 21st birthday on the 1st!  It felt SO good to have a drink.  Dieting sucks. 

I got a LOT done today.  Like I said earlier, I should be high-fiving sharks because I got SO much done.  But I have so much left to do and have had such a horrible day, I feel awful and just want to curl up and do nothing forever.

But I can't do that.  So back to work for me.  Have a huge paper due Monday so I don't even get much of a break come the weekend. Whoopee.  I would hope it'll get better tomorrow, but considering that tomorrow is the Vicious Day of Causing Pain to Everyone Alive, I seriously doubt that.