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One of those days...
8 May 2006 11:54Aah, so today is going to be one of those days when, not only does everything imaginable go wrong, everything imaginable finds new, original and creative ways to go about going wrong...
Bleh.
Bleh.
8 May 2006
Update on last post!
Well, first, I sorted out my blood sugar level. 9 times out of 10, when I'm feeling sick and suicidally miserable, it's because I haven't eaten for an annoying amount of time and my brain is trying to burn ketone bodies. One large glass of extremely sugar Kool Aid later, I was a bit better and was doing less lying on my bed staring at the ceiling in an annoying, self-pitying manner.
Then I watched a few clips of Lord of the Dance, including the one I like of the girl in the very short, low-cut red dress dancing in a deliberately seductive manner. This helped more.
I went to my presentation rehearsal. And...once I sorted out the technical faults, it went perfectly!! He said if I did that on Wednesday1, I'd get full marks. So yay! I even watched it played back to me and only cringed a tiny bit! Hee.
I also asked about the main source of this morning's misery (problems involving backups proving not to be backups, vanishing essays and argh doom) and it looks like there is a simple solution to that to, that doesn't involve me being ritually sacrificed to the God of Ineptitude.
Thus, all is much better now!
Hmm, and chocolate tastes so much better when the world is not about to end! (I also bought Hock, as this week seems to call for reward-based coping2.)
1Oops! Back in OCTOBER we were told that presentations were on the 9th May, i.e. tomorrow. This change was a last minute thing, it seems - but at least it didn't end up on Thursday, as that would have been BAD.
2My standard coping mechanism for things that make me shudder and curl up just to think about them - reward every tiny little achievement with a disproportionate amount of treats. It works, as there is always a big good thing to look forward to after each small bad thing.
Well, first, I sorted out my blood sugar level. 9 times out of 10, when I'm feeling sick and suicidally miserable, it's because I haven't eaten for an annoying amount of time and my brain is trying to burn ketone bodies. One large glass of extremely sugar Kool Aid later, I was a bit better and was doing less lying on my bed staring at the ceiling in an annoying, self-pitying manner.
Then I watched a few clips of Lord of the Dance, including the one I like of the girl in the very short, low-cut red dress dancing in a deliberately seductive manner. This helped more.
I went to my presentation rehearsal. And...once I sorted out the technical faults, it went perfectly!! He said if I did that on Wednesday1, I'd get full marks. So yay! I even watched it played back to me and only cringed a tiny bit! Hee.
I also asked about the main source of this morning's misery (problems involving backups proving not to be backups, vanishing essays and argh doom) and it looks like there is a simple solution to that to, that doesn't involve me being ritually sacrificed to the God of Ineptitude.
Thus, all is much better now!
Hmm, and chocolate tastes so much better when the world is not about to end! (I also bought Hock, as this week seems to call for reward-based coping2.)
1Oops! Back in OCTOBER we were told that presentations were on the 9th May, i.e. tomorrow. This change was a last minute thing, it seems - but at least it didn't end up on Thursday, as that would have been BAD.
2My standard coping mechanism for things that make me shudder and curl up just to think about them - reward every tiny little achievement with a disproportionate amount of treats. It works, as there is always a big good thing to look forward to after each small bad thing.
