Superpower Suckage

I wrote this at work today, but I still can't get the email posting to work, so am pasting now...(it's cheery).

Wow, today sucks.  It's just one of those days where I really didn’t want to be here – I mean here as in this world, not just at work or whatever.  I don’t even know what caused it, but the day went from bad to worse.  I was bitchy to everyone all day, and really touchy, and it just seemed like people were going out of their way to be difficult or unhelpful.  Plus, I got yelled at by this idiot guy who came into the office.  He was just turning in a form, and it’s not even my job to take that, but the TSS people were all busy, so I went up there to get it and he unleashed on me.  He was bitching about the increased security and how he had to wait in line for over an hour just to turn in this form.  I politely told him that he could have mailed it – he pointed out that there is a mail strike on.  I said we were accepting things up to a week late because of the strike; he started railing about how incompetent and rude the security people were.  I said that security was important now and that we weren’t in charge of them, etc etc.  You get the picture right?  I mean I can’t help that our office is in the Embassy.  I also can’t help that we actually are a target.  Thus there will be security and there will be lines.  Live with it!  Or take your chance and mail something in.  Or (shock!) don’t wait until a week before the deadline, which btw, is already an extended deadline of six months after they were first due just because you live overseas.  The end of it all was me asking if he would like to talk to my boss and him saying he didn’t have time because he had already wasted so much time waiting in line, and that he was going to tell (actual quote) “my father’s friend who is a senator” about all the issues he had with us.  Riiiiight.

But that was really just one small incident.  Most of the me being mad at the world wasn’t for any particular reason, just that I was out of sorts.  I’m really getting tired of this job though.  I went for the interview for that private firm job and today I got an email from him asking if I wanted it.  Of course now I don’t know if I want it or if I want to wait and try for the other one in the Embassy.  And what if I turn this one down and don’t get the other?  Then I’ll be stuck here.  I really hate these type of decisions – I don’t even know if this is what I want to be doing, let alone which of these jobs I am most interested in.  HATE.  And he wants to know soon, so I don’t really know how to put him off for long.  But the other one isn’t even listed yet.  They got tentative permission from the US, but we all know how long it take the government to move on those type of things.

Yeah, today sucks.  *is annoyed*

Sick!

I'm not having the best of weeks.  (The Piz hate icon two days in a row?  That's bad.)  Anyhow, today would have been fine, except that I woke up around 3AM last night with a raging headache and a sore throat.  This morning I felt like absolute crap, and it only got worse during the day.  Also, I threw up at work.  I can't even believe that!  It makes me feel like I'm 10 and in the nurse's office at school.  The worst thing was that I couldn't even really go home because we were crazy busy.  The deadline is Monday, plus we've got the stupid postal strike putting the country on stand-by, and so the office was crammed with people trying to turn things in on person.  I had to go through everything, process all the cheques and send it all off to the States.  And Monday is only destined to be worse.  I did get to leave an hour early, so that was something, but I barely made it through the day.  I think it might explain my crappy mood yesterday though, because I would guess it was kind of starting in my system.  I suppose it was inevitable, since both my flatmates have been sick in the past two weeks.  I was really hoping to avoid it though.

Oh, and the most ridiculous thing?  Today the clinic was doing free flu shots for all employees.  However, they wouldn't give me one because I'm sick.  Seems ironic somehow.  At least they are coming back at the end of next week so I can get one then, but it was still annoying.

So I'm home and in bed.  The plan is to get a few things done for the virtual season, maybe watch an episode of Everwood, and then go to sleep.  I went by Boots and got some medicine, so hopefully that will knock me out.  I'm supposed to meet Lis tomorrow to go to a cross-stich fair at Ali Pali, but I don't know if that is going to happen or not.  We'll see how I feel in the morning.

Blech.

(P.S. Hee!  There's a mood category for sick!)

Friday Five

Because I'm bored...

1. What's your favorite cereal?
   Grape Nuts.  I hate soggy cereal, so they are perfect for me.  They are hard to get over here though, since they are American.
   


2. What is too gross to eat in the morning?
   I can't really eat anything at all until I've been up for at least an hour.  If I eat before then I get queasy.
   


3. What time do you go to bed?
   I suck at going to bed on time.  I try for 1AM, but it's often 2, 3 or even 4.  (Hmmm, I wonder why I'm sick?)  I'm not helped by the fact that most people I know online are in a different timezone.  Also, my recent addiction to the HMM is messing with my sleep schedule in a big way.
   


4. Where do you put your keys?
   They always stay in my handbag, otherwise I get locked out.
   


5. What vegetables do you love?
   I love broccoli, and spinach, and tomatoes.  Oh, and when I'm in the States - fried okra!