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Getting my ass kicked by the weather...
Oct. 26th, 2006 10:16 amAnother day, another headache. Blarg. I'm tired, achey, and very irritable. Definitely back in "beaten with a baseball bat" season; we've been getting rain, snow, and remarkably amounts of hail in the past week, and the fibro's reacting as usual.
Patient-instructing craziness this week, trying to get various stragglers from different programs through. Last night I had two separate sessions instead of one normal 2-person session: a second year and a fourth year, both med students. Tonight I've got a specially scheduled resident and then a regular session with nursing students. Tomorrow I've got a special session with a nursing student who couldn't be scheduled any other time (we normally don't teach on Fridays). Not escorting this weekend, though, so at least I get to sleep in on Saturday. That'll be wonderful.
Work has been substantially calmer than any of us expected. We're still sort of waiting for the other shoe to drop, because it's so weird, but we may just really luck out this year. If so, that's a very good sign, because next year should have less complexities than this year, and so may flow quite well indeed.
Liv's been staying with me the past few days, but I'm kind of frustrated; I'd like to hang out with her, but our schedules are so contrary that I'm invariably asleep by the time she gets home, and she's gone before I get home. I think the extent of our communication has been me sleepily mumbling a bit at her the other night when she came in.
Still hassling with the depression, but it's really only noticeable when I'm by myself and undistracted, so it hasn't been too life-eating.
Recently finished Mapping the world of Harry Potter : science fiction and fantasy writers explore the bestselling fantasy series of all time and Boarding the Enterprise: Transporters, Tribbles and the Vulcan Death Grip in Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek (like all the SmartPop books, fun in you're into the subject matter). The Sinner's Guide to the Evangelical Right was amusing, but a bit longer than warranted; it felt like a 150 page book artificially turned into 220, and it repeated itself a bit as a result.
Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show was interesting, but like several of the political books I've read recently, felt very much like it was written more for a mainstream liberal audience than far-left woowoo progressives like me. I'm currently reading the new Lackey Valdemar anthology, Crossroads, and I'm not deeply impressed yet. It's one of my favorite worlds for escapism, and I'll forgive a lot (even Lackey pulling a shameless MarySue in her own books, as the Herald Myste), but if you're going to give your husband the first story in a collection, don't make it look like blatant favoritism by letting him get away with the most ridiculous cheat I've read in quite a while. You get to write a prologue if you're recapping a previous story, or if you're explaining some distant past history. You don't get to do it because you don't feel like bothering to work the exposition of immediately previous new events into your actual story. Lazy. Lazy, lazy, lazy. Hopefully the other stories will be an improvement.
Other than that, it's been a slightly odd week. A baffling and completely out-of-the-blue letter from an ex asking if I still felt the same way about a love letter I wrote almost a decade ago, a weird attempted scam/robbery at the clinic while I was escorting on Saturday that left me with the satisfaction that Dude wasn't going to have that $50 to spend, but the frustration that neither was I (we each ended up with 1/2 of each of the bills, and mine are "police evidence", so I can't even check to see if I can exchange the ones that are more than 50% of the bill at a bank). On the positive side, I found a friend of mine on LJ via one of the more bizarre "small world" links in a while (Cleveland->Portland->Seattle->Cleveland->Miles!), and we'll hopefully be hanging out sometime in the next couple of weeks. And I think I finally figured out what's up with Harry's whining when he doesn't need to go out -- it seems directly related to Leroy having something he wants. Still haven't figured out how to make him stop it (it's quite obnoxious), but at least figuring out the cause is progress. Also, I've been watching a lot of My Name is Earl; just finished up the first season DVDs. Oh, I do love that show. The commentary and special features were interesting; I had no idea that Earl was roughly based on Greg Garcia's stepfather.
Still working on my LibraryThing. I've gotten through the R's of Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror. I keep meaning to tidy up entries during quiet moments here, but the past several days I've had the window open on my screen all day, and haven't even gotten to it until less than 1/2 hour before I head out. I keep getting distracted by all the news/opinion/etc articles coming through my various mailboxes, with it being election season. I'm a sucker for emailed headlines, so I get mailings from NY Times, Alternet, Ms, MotherJones, Truthout, as well as piles of other more general listserv stuff and political/activist emails. Right now it's predictably crazy in terms of volume. It's ridiculously easy to lose an entire day just going through my primary hotmail account. In terms of LJ, I'm keeping up with my basic filters, although not commenting a whole lot. Because this enrollment period's going better than expected the phones are going pretty constantly, but not such high volume that it's stressing me overmuch, so I'm still managing the multitasking I do most of the time. At least when I'm not totally braindead and babbling away endlessly in random posts like this. And I think I'm done now. Or I should be. I started this entry more than three hours ago. Oy.
Patient-instructing craziness this week, trying to get various stragglers from different programs through. Last night I had two separate sessions instead of one normal 2-person session: a second year and a fourth year, both med students. Tonight I've got a specially scheduled resident and then a regular session with nursing students. Tomorrow I've got a special session with a nursing student who couldn't be scheduled any other time (we normally don't teach on Fridays). Not escorting this weekend, though, so at least I get to sleep in on Saturday. That'll be wonderful.
Work has been substantially calmer than any of us expected. We're still sort of waiting for the other shoe to drop, because it's so weird, but we may just really luck out this year. If so, that's a very good sign, because next year should have less complexities than this year, and so may flow quite well indeed.
Liv's been staying with me the past few days, but I'm kind of frustrated; I'd like to hang out with her, but our schedules are so contrary that I'm invariably asleep by the time she gets home, and she's gone before I get home. I think the extent of our communication has been me sleepily mumbling a bit at her the other night when she came in.
Still hassling with the depression, but it's really only noticeable when I'm by myself and undistracted, so it hasn't been too life-eating.
Recently finished Mapping the world of Harry Potter : science fiction and fantasy writers explore the bestselling fantasy series of all time and Boarding the Enterprise: Transporters, Tribbles and the Vulcan Death Grip in Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek (like all the SmartPop books, fun in you're into the subject matter). The Sinner's Guide to the Evangelical Right was amusing, but a bit longer than warranted; it felt like a 150 page book artificially turned into 220, and it repeated itself a bit as a result.
Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show was interesting, but like several of the political books I've read recently, felt very much like it was written more for a mainstream liberal audience than far-left woowoo progressives like me. I'm currently reading the new Lackey Valdemar anthology, Crossroads, and I'm not deeply impressed yet. It's one of my favorite worlds for escapism, and I'll forgive a lot (even Lackey pulling a shameless MarySue in her own books, as the Herald Myste), but if you're going to give your husband the first story in a collection, don't make it look like blatant favoritism by letting him get away with the most ridiculous cheat I've read in quite a while. You get to write a prologue if you're recapping a previous story, or if you're explaining some distant past history. You don't get to do it because you don't feel like bothering to work the exposition of immediately previous new events into your actual story. Lazy. Lazy, lazy, lazy. Hopefully the other stories will be an improvement.
Other than that, it's been a slightly odd week. A baffling and completely out-of-the-blue letter from an ex asking if I still felt the same way about a love letter I wrote almost a decade ago, a weird attempted scam/robbery at the clinic while I was escorting on Saturday that left me with the satisfaction that Dude wasn't going to have that $50 to spend, but the frustration that neither was I (we each ended up with 1/2 of each of the bills, and mine are "police evidence", so I can't even check to see if I can exchange the ones that are more than 50% of the bill at a bank). On the positive side, I found a friend of mine on LJ via one of the more bizarre "small world" links in a while (Cleveland->Portland->Seattle->Cleveland->Miles!), and we'll hopefully be hanging out sometime in the next couple of weeks. And I think I finally figured out what's up with Harry's whining when he doesn't need to go out -- it seems directly related to Leroy having something he wants. Still haven't figured out how to make him stop it (it's quite obnoxious), but at least figuring out the cause is progress. Also, I've been watching a lot of My Name is Earl; just finished up the first season DVDs. Oh, I do love that show. The commentary and special features were interesting; I had no idea that Earl was roughly based on Greg Garcia's stepfather.
Still working on my LibraryThing. I've gotten through the R's of Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror. I keep meaning to tidy up entries during quiet moments here, but the past several days I've had the window open on my screen all day, and haven't even gotten to it until less than 1/2 hour before I head out. I keep getting distracted by all the news/opinion/etc articles coming through my various mailboxes, with it being election season. I'm a sucker for emailed headlines, so I get mailings from NY Times, Alternet, Ms, MotherJones, Truthout, as well as piles of other more general listserv stuff and political/activist emails. Right now it's predictably crazy in terms of volume. It's ridiculously easy to lose an entire day just going through my primary hotmail account. In terms of LJ, I'm keeping up with my basic filters, although not commenting a whole lot. Because this enrollment period's going better than expected the phones are going pretty constantly, but not such high volume that it's stressing me overmuch, so I'm still managing the multitasking I do most of the time. At least when I'm not totally braindead and babbling away endlessly in random posts like this. And I think I'm done now. Or I should be. I started this entry more than three hours ago. Oy.
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