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I was bad last night and didn't post. However, I have a good excuse. Well, a few actually. First, I was deep in excessive misery of the monthly variety. I don't think there was a way I wasn't feeling like total and complete ass.
Then as I went into the bathroom, I flipped on the light, took two steps into the room, and froze in horror at the GIGANTIC--I'm talking about 3 inches long!--cockroach facing me down. Now, I know I don't need to review my soul-shivelling bug phobia and the utter unholy abomination that is the cockroach. It took me at least 20 minutes and a LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG cleaner handle, spray bottle of bleach cleaner, and hardcover book combo to flush it out, hold it at bay, and finally kill it. Bagging it was another trauma, because even dead, the things give me the holy horrors. This is one of the reasons I never wanted to live in the South.
After all that, I totally did a clean of the bathroom, put Draino down all the drains in the apartment lest it emerged from one of them, got down with a flashlight to check under furniture to make certain it was alone. By the end of all that I was sweated, shaking, and weepy. I'm sure the hormones didn't help a lot with that.
So, yeah. After that, I showered and collapsed into bed with the pup and my Nook. Nerves were soothed from letting the fan by the bed blow across me while reading. I slept better than expected, but not soundly. *sigh*
However, today was a very productive day at work. If 100% is completely caught up, I've been running at about 45% for awhile now, and that makes me totally batshit crazy. Today, I think I might have inched up to about 70%. Not great, but better. If I can have two more days like this one, I should be in the low 90's by week end, and that's about where I like to be. Because 100% is never, ever attainable.
One thing that did make me feel good yesterday is that I got an "DOT edu" email back again. I was talking to my alma mater's alumni office about getting alumn access to online research databases, and in the process, I got activated on the alumn portal and now have a "DOT edu" account. It's a little thing, but it made me happy. It felt like a tie to home.
Then as I went into the bathroom, I flipped on the light, took two steps into the room, and froze in horror at the GIGANTIC--I'm talking about 3 inches long!--cockroach facing me down. Now, I know I don't need to review my soul-shivelling bug phobia and the utter unholy abomination that is the cockroach. It took me at least 20 minutes and a LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG cleaner handle, spray bottle of bleach cleaner, and hardcover book combo to flush it out, hold it at bay, and finally kill it. Bagging it was another trauma, because even dead, the things give me the holy horrors. This is one of the reasons I never wanted to live in the South.
After all that, I totally did a clean of the bathroom, put Draino down all the drains in the apartment lest it emerged from one of them, got down with a flashlight to check under furniture to make certain it was alone. By the end of all that I was sweated, shaking, and weepy. I'm sure the hormones didn't help a lot with that.
So, yeah. After that, I showered and collapsed into bed with the pup and my Nook. Nerves were soothed from letting the fan by the bed blow across me while reading. I slept better than expected, but not soundly. *sigh*
However, today was a very productive day at work. If 100% is completely caught up, I've been running at about 45% for awhile now, and that makes me totally batshit crazy. Today, I think I might have inched up to about 70%. Not great, but better. If I can have two more days like this one, I should be in the low 90's by week end, and that's about where I like to be. Because 100% is never, ever attainable.
One thing that did make me feel good yesterday is that I got an "DOT edu" email back again. I was talking to my alma mater's alumni office about getting alumn access to online research databases, and in the process, I got activated on the alumn portal and now have a "DOT edu" account. It's a little thing, but it made me happy. It felt like a tie to home.