Tags: thesis, stress, spider, job, headache, technological ineptitude
Date: 09 October 2009 20:26:00
Good: my thesis extension was granted, with no conditions. Hooray!
Bad: after yesterday's close encounter of the 8-legged kind (discussed at great length on my facebook profile - basically I got up, was having a wee, turned my head and saw an ENORMOUS spider in the sink), today there was one (similar size) in my office. That's never happened before. I was just about to leave to go home anyway, and it scuttled across the floor, so I have left it there and will have to brace myself to dare to open the door on Monday morning (where no doubt it will have either extensively reproduced and there'll be a million of them in there, or it will have covered everything in a webby cocoon. Or with any luck will have found its way into somebody else's office). The reason I was about to leave, earlier than usual, was another evil headache. I'm getting fed up of this now. I'm seriously thinking about buying an eye patch, as it's nearly always (like, 95% of the time) on the same side of my head, just over and all round my left eye) and if I close the eye it's so much more bearable, but keeping one eye open and one eye closed takes surprisingly large amounts of concentration, I've discovered. And then my friend sent me a photo by text, and it has completely buggered up my phone, so I now can't send or receive texts or access my inbox, as it keeps going straight to the MMS template box instead expecting me to send pictures, AND I keep getting messages saying the memory is full, even though I've deleted tons of things as it's far too complicated anyway and I just want another crappy Nokia half-brick as they do all I want and more and I know where I am with them. Needless to say I had a little cry at the bus-stop, it all just got a bit much :(
But - we have a shipmeet tomorrow (four of us have had birthdays ending in -0 this year, making a total of 150, so we are celebrating our 150th which has a nice pleasing ring to it - we won't discuss who is the most ancient of this select band) (*weep*) so it will be fab to see people again. And hopefully the horse pills will have knocked the headache on the head (pun unintended) by then.
HD starts his new temp job on Monday. So is leaving here on Sunday, and we'll be weekends-only for a while. Having very mixed feelings about that - happy he'll have work, happy he'll have money, happy he won't have to deal with the Jobseekers' Allowance lot for a while. Unhappy he'll be a 5 hour drive away and only here for a couple of days a week, mildly unhappy that I'll have to do a lot more cooking (!), unhappy that I'll have to deal with any other 8 legged intruders by myself, but mostly unhappy that he'll not be here. Sigh - just desperately wanting a decent employer (anywhere) to notice just what an asset he'd be and give him a full-time permanent job so we can settle at last (and I can have a good excuse to not be a health visitor for any longer than I have to - not that I am any closer to knowing when I start, never mind when I can stop!).