Monday, bloody Monday

So today has royally sucked.

Yesterday was lovely, I relaxed, had a great meal, talked the family...at 8 pm I decided the weekend was officially over and started working on my homework.  Now I have been working on this assignment since last Monday, and the damn thing was still not done.  I managed to figure out most of it, and then the problem was, every time I tried to zoom in to see enough detail to mark the exact center of the parks, ArcMap would crash and shut down.

Finally, at one o clock in the morning I said screw it, did it at a coarse scale, finished the assignment and turned it in at two am.  I'm not sure what she'll think about the scale, but I can't do the assignment if ArcMap won't stay open.  And I included all the shenanigans ArcMap pulled in my writeup, so it's not like I'm trying to hide it or anything.

I got up this morning, once again not feeling well, but I manged to pull myself together enough to be showered, fed, and out the door to go grocery shopping at 11 am.  Sam's Club was unusually empty (very pleasant) but so many people got in my way I was inches away from throwing my five pound sack of potatoes at some of them.  Also, there were only three registers open, so I was standing in line, frustrated and bored, but then my luck changed a little and a woman opened a new register and motioned to me to be the first in line.  So that was nice.

I got to Ralph's and man I must've had a sign pinned on my back saying, "Annoy Me" because about seven million people got in my way, or stood stock still in the middle of the aisles (with their carts at right angles), etc etc...it was awful.  Fortunately, they're doing this new crazy "cost cutter" thing so I got everything I needed at just a little over my target cost of $21.  But considering I had to buy trash bags and a new lightbulb, $26 isn't bad at all for a week's groceries.

The lightbulb was fun - last night I was sitting at my computer, struggling mightily with my GIS homework, and suddenly I was plunged into complete darkness.  Turns out, a year and a half of being the primary light in my apartment was too much for the lamp by my desk and the bulb gave out.  So I swapped bulbs with my bedside lamp, continued on with my evening, and now I have the new one which I still have to put in. 

I finally got home, unpacked my groceries, trotted the bags back to my car, and turned on the Benfica game, only to find out we were down 1-0 to Sporting.  Lame.  So I go and do my laundry, come back, eat lunch, do all my dishes, and still we haven't scored (although Artur made some AMAZING saves, I tell you what).  I went downstairs to put my clothes in the tumble dryers and something had happened in the washing machine I'd put my blue and green clothes in, because they were in the exact same bundle I'd shoved them into the machine as, and the top was a little wet, the bottom soaking wet, and the middle dry as a bone.  The wettest (and presumably, cleanest) pieces were my towel and four pairs of jeans/capris, so I tumbled those along with the contents of the other washer, which had worked properly, and took the rest of my blue/green clothes upstairs and hand-washed the lot and hung them in my closet. 

Let me tell you, I HATE doing hand-washing.  And I had to clean out my sink first, which I like even less, and I had to clean it again when I thoughtlessly did my undies first instead of my shirts.  Anyway, everything is washed again (and I'm glad I did, because you will not believe how filthy that water was after washing my shirts) and hung up in my closet with my fan aimed directly at them.

Right before my dryer timer went off, Benfica lost to Sporting (SUPER lame!  And apparently their one goal was questionable?  I missed it, so I don't know.), so I'm really glad at least my tumble-dried clothes were reasonably dry.  The towel was a bit damp so it's hanging off my shower rod, and my  jeans are hanging off my closet doors, just to make sure they're really dry.  The rest of it is on my bed because I don't feel like doing it exactly this second.

Then I took out the trash and now I'm sitting here, updating my blog, delaying the inevitable sorting and putting away of my "dry" clothes, and all the other crap I have to do before I go to class. 

They say a woman's work is never done...and I say that sucks!!