Saturday, September 21, 2002
For those who've been wondering, I started an entry on Friday night, so here's what I was writing when my computer decided to quit on me.
Friday
I haven't written in ten days. I'm fully aware of this and do not apologize for this either. I just simply have not had time to sit down here and write like I might have normally. When I've been home, I've been exhausted to the point of falling asleep the moment I sit down at times. Otherwise, I'm at school or at work.
Note to self: remind Nate that scheduling me four days in a row is not recommended during the middle of the week. I haven't been as tired as I was last night when I got home from work in a long, long time. In fact, I can't remember the last time I was that tired. I really can't. I just tried and it didn't work.
So what has caused me to not write exactly? Well, I do work five days a week still. Generally, if I work the weekend, I do not get a day off of anything at all. That wasn't the case this week, but it wasn't like I was home much at all on Sunday. In fact, I was with Corrine on Sunday so that was pretty much how my day was occupied.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday I had both school and work. Work's been intensely busy lately and school hasn't exactly been a walk in the park. What I mean by that is there has been a ton of work in all my classes, either involving homework or tests. By the time I get home from work at around 10:30, I'm flat-out exhausted and refuse to do anything but sit on my bed and hope that I don't pass out before taking a shower. Four times I've been in bed by 12:30am. That doesn't normally happen with me.
Thursday was extra insane because I had a make-up chemistry test that was preceded by a long lab session, although the lab was fun. Then I came home, laid down in my bed, and fell asleep for three hours before getting up and going to work. Work wasn't easy as we were short on help (just what's the deal with only two techs instead of three on our order day?!), which quickly made things very aggravating. I think Regina, Jean, and myself all had serious headaches going by the end of the night. I got out later than I normally would on top of it all because of how busy we were all night.
That was last night. I was in bed by midnight and out by 12:30, which is probably why today, I haven't been as tired. I woke up late again, but it wasn't as late as I had been waking up. To make my point, I normally have just enough time to eat breakfast, do my hair, and brush my teeth. Today, I had just enough extra time where I could also get a quick shave in as well. I got to class just as it was starting, which has been my normal trend, not my arriving 20 minutes late like I was earlier in the week.
Today, I still didn't do anything, but this was by design. I did take the dogs back to the house (update on that shortly) and did my laundry, but that was the extent of my day. I didn't go anywhere outside of our house, didn't talk to anyone (everyone else seems to have this thing called a life) at all, and just had a nice easy day. The only adventure came when it started to downpour in the middle of my mom and me doing our laundry. Running through a downpour is fun, but not when you're carrying a basket of clean, once-dry, clothes like my mom was doing.
Otherwise, tonight, I sat on my butt and watched sports. Then I went and got the dogs, took some more pictures of the hideous spiders that are patrolling the building (I swear, there's at least 30 of them now), and will be taking a shower shortly before I go off to bed.
Despite everything being so hectic, it hasn't been bad. School isn't wearing on me like it used to. I know this is a surprise to hear, but I actually enjoy my classes and find what we do to be very interesting, well, outside of the poetry torture in english, but even that's been tolerable. I like my labs and I have very good professors in all my classes.
I'm enjoying this more than I ever have in my life. I think I'm just about completely over my whole annoyance with people phase that took up much of my life and made high school such a bitch.
It also doesn't hurt that I'm doing fairly well. My bout with the flu hurt my grades a bit, but to get a 91.5% on a biology lab quiz when everyone else got rather low scores (and I missed 3 labs!), well, I was surprised by that. But I guess it's because I'm not bored to death with school right now. I don't sit in my classes and wonder just if it's time to go. More often than not, I've actually lost track of time and realized it's time to go only when the professor says so.
It's just weird for me, but I think a lot of it's because of my personality change. I don't dread being around people and don't hate going into the school because of that fact. The biggest thing was being around all those people and now it doesn't bother me, I actually look forward to it.
That was pretty much the point where I said the hell with the computer, shut it off, and went to bed. Today was pretty hectic at work. We had a floater pharmacist, I had a waiting bin inventory to do, and it was just mad busy all night. I couldn't understand where all the people were coming from after 9pm and the pharmacist and myself just did enough to keep up.
I don't like working Saturday nights for that reason though, especially with floaters. That's the thing that pisses me off about Keith though. Today was the second day he took off this week on top of the three he was already scheduled, so he worked all of two days this week. This from a guy who said there would be no floaters in our store anymore.
Now I have to try and get up early in the morning and hope that I can manage to survive the morning. I hate working until midnight then turning around and opening the next morning. I'm tired, I don't feel all that great (it's been a very long week), but we'll see what happens.
In the meantime, I'm going to pretend that I'm sleeping and hope the dogs don't get all crazy on me.
A new feature to the entries in this site will be a feature where I post either a stupid comment or stupid question that was presented to me over the course of the day I'm writing for. I may choose to also include those from days when I didn't write, but that's dependent on me actually remembering those things.
In any case...
Stupid question of the day
"Do you have a $20?" - Man behind the counter here at the Residence Inn after I had walked up with a $20 clearly visible in my hand and asked for two rolls of quarters. "Duh" wasn't a good enough word for him.
Yeah, this is lackluster, but what do you want? I have to be up in like four hours.
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