Today has SUCKED.
I was good and went upstairs last night at 11:20 pm, and was showered and in bed by 11:50 pm (a minor miracle, let me assure you), and I slept pretty well, all things considered, but I still had to get up at 6 am (alarm rang right in the middle of a GORGEOUS dream that I have written down and will eventually turn into a murder mystery) and drag myself into clothes and then downstairs and get myself fed and out the door by 7. I somehow managed to get out by 6:50 (still not sure how I managed that) and the first bus of the day came by at 7:10 and I got to my building by 7:24 for my 8 am class. Oh well. Better than being late!
I got into class early (it's a lab and you pretty much just work at your own pace) expecting to get in, get done, and get out so I could go doze on a nice shady bench, but the assignment didn't post until 8:00 exactly, grr, and THEN the system was running so slowly and screwing up so hard I had to restart once and close all my programs and start over multiple times. I finished an assignment that would normally take me 25-30 minutes tops in AN HOUR AND A HALF.
I did sit on a bench for ten minutes getting my filtered Vitamin D for the day. But then I went to lecture and virtuously took paper notes again in an attempt to stop myself from getting distracted by Facebook in class...lecture was boring, and I was so zonked by the end of it I didn't stop in the lobby and check my email like I'd intended to see if there was a training meeting notification.
Took the bus home, had a gorgeous homemade ham and Swiss sandwich, and then conked out for two and a half hours. Got downstairs, checked my email and found out I'd missed the departure luncheon for my favorite prof, which was held at lunch today. I am SO angry! Partially at myself for not checking my email after 6 am or before 3 pm, but mostly at them for choosing a luncheon on such a STUPID day. I know I'm not the only one who had a ridiculous, exhausting weekend after a ridiculous, exhausting week. Why not have it on Friday?? Or even Wednesday??
That wasn't the last bomb my email held for me - my job has finally chosen a day for training, and of course they chose the least convenient time for me, late Tuesday evening. Then I check my next email and the scholarship group I'm a part of has suddenly changed their minds and we're not meeting on Fridays now, but Tuesday afternoons. I emailed them explaining the training situation, but I don't know what's going to happen. I'm really cross about all of this because I look like a major flake and that is SO not the damn case!!
Finally, after applying for a much wanted assistantship nearly two weeks ago, I sent a polite follow-up on Sunday after I didn't hear anything back before then, and today I get her reply, saying oh I can still apply, she's interviewing this week! I nearly cried from vexation, but attached all the appropriate paperwork again and politely asked her to let me know if she needed anything further.
I was so mad I went to Stein Mart and found two very appropriate and grown-up business casual tops, in leaf green and dark blue, and a nice blue shirt for class, all for $18, and picked up an application too. I really don't want retail, as I need to be able to travel as necessary for my degree work, but it's beginning to be a case of beggars not being choosers!
So now I need to get all my research homework done, and then as much of my presentation for Wednesday as possible because now unless I drag my laptop and a mass of heavy library books to campus with me, I won't have any time at all on Tuesday afternoon to work on it as I planned!
And I expected such a simple, quiet week, where I could edit my pictures from this weekend's concert and post them and have a lovely time sleeping and eating like a normal human. Ha! Famous last words.
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