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asimplechord ([personal profile] asimplechord) wrote2011-01-20 09:12 pm

How is it not Friday yet?

This week has sucked, work-wise. I've worked 11-12 hour days every day. No such thing as overtime.

As I disembarked from the train this morning I realized I didn't have my office or lab keys (b/c they are on a separate key ring from my car and house keys, and I didn't clip them to my carabiner this morning). Getting into the building isn't an issue; huge, connected labspaces mean getting into lab isn't a problem. Waiting for security to come let me into my office, and then figuring out how to secure everything so I could leave the office unlocked for back-and-forth traffic during the day? Pain in my ass.

I should've just turned around and gone home, because the day did not improve.

At ~6pm, my boss came in and told me that he hoped I was getting out of lab soon (Me, too!) and that I should take a day off when we get the last bit of data for the paper.

He doesn't know it yet, but I am taking next Friday and the following Monday off, whether or not the third replicates work. I HAVE A FLIGHT, A HOTEL, AND PLANS TO CLING TO J AND SEE [livejournal.com profile] harriet_vane, among other things.

Anyway, I was waaaaaay cranky. There were further contretemps with Post-Doc W. I think she has radar: she only asks me to help her at the EXACT moment that I can't stop what I'm doing without fucking up my own experiments, and she managed that three (yes, 3) times today.

I'm tired. Tired of work. Tired of winter, in that the days are so short. Tired of being inactive in fandom. But I don't have the energy to participate right now. I fell asleep watching the recorded episode of the other night's White Collar, and I watched last night's Criminal Minds mostly impatiently, hoping that it wasn't implying anything about Reid's behavior over the rest of the season.


The one happy place for the day?


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Fernando's match against Janko was pretty epic. I thought for sure he was going to choke. But apparently the fauxhawk has secret powers.

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Yeah, I bet you're SHOCKED to see a photo of Rafa here.

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He's concentrating really, really hard, okay? (I'm concentrating on his biceps, myself.)

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(I just like the way the ball rolls off his fingertips here. Last night the camera guy focused on him as he prepared to serve, and during a break in play they showed it in slow motion. I am easily entertained by such things.)

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I was all set to watch Nole's match when I got home tonight, but it was already over! No Nole-stretched-out-like-Gumby for me tonight! (Wine is making up for it.)





So, yeah. I hope your week has been far, far better. What's making you smile, lately?

[identity profile] kylieq.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
You going to Steel Train tomorrow night? Me and Catherine will be there. :)

[identity profile] asimplechord.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
YES. I need some joy (in the form of Jack et al.) in my life! See you there! :D

Are you going to the Gold Motel show next week, too?

[identity profile] harriet-vane.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Those are some good looking dudes.

OMG CAN'T WAIT.

[identity profile] asimplechord.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
They are! I am shallow, I enjoy the pretty that goes along with that skill. Now that Ana Ivanovic is out of the women's draw, I'm pretty much just hoping that Sam Stosur or Vera Zvonareva wins on that side. But seriously. Ana was so cute in her duds, no one else can quite compare:

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Girl's got some MUSCLE.



:D I am really REALLY excited. Even if I have to dig out my proper winter coat, which hasn't seen much use since I moved to the Lone Star state.

[identity profile] why-me-why-not.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
and I watched last night's Criminal Minds mostly impatiently, hoping that it wasn't implying anything about Reid's behavior over the rest of the season. OMG ME TOO!!

My today was better? Even though I'm sooooo tired now, but it's a good kind of tired and not the "omfg my job sucks and I want to sleep forever" kind of tired.

I wish this winter would hurry up and get over with. I'm over all my favorite people having such a rough time.

[identity profile] asimplechord.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Yay for your today! You're off tomorrow and Saturday, right? Got plans?

At least the medical tests didn't show he had a tumor, or something? :D? But I'm not looking forward to a spiral back into drug use or some such.

It's not even that it's THAT bad, b/c I know that my problems are mild, relatively speaking. I'm just cranky and tired.

(It is possible that last night I considered getting out a map of the US and finding a bunch of oddly named towns between Oceanside and Baltimore, so I could map out a roadtrip that Ray and Brad would take on their way to Nate's high society wedding. But then I fell asleep. :P)

[identity profile] why-me-why-not.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
I am! My dad and I got a huge portion of the basement storage area cleaned out today, so hopefully I can start getting crap moved from the main basement area to the storage areas. I have plans to hit Home Depot and Sam's Club with my baby brother tomorrow, then dinner tomorrow night with him & the kids & Mom & Harley & the baby, then going out for karaoke with work friends. Saturday we don't technically have plans, but there is a Winterfest thingy going on with free ice skating, so we may do that. But I also have SA Valentine's Day packages to get sent out Saturday morning, so I need to get those packed up tomorrow.

It just seemed so out-of-the-blue. I may have missed it but I don't remember Reid suffering debilitating headaches over the past few episodes. It was like it was just a plot device for this particular case? And I'm not sure how to react to his reaction at the end of the episode, where he was all "I know all the signs of mental illness even better than you do, and the headaches aren't psychosomatic."

Everyone is cranky and tired these days. Dammit.

(lol, I would totally help with that!)

[identity profile] why-me-why-not.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
Also, I have no idea how I ended up following this guy on Twitter, but I did enjoy this today.

[identity profile] asimplechord.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
I don't remember headaches in past episodes either, but I figured that maybe I missed something, since there haven't been new eps in a while.

:D I figured if I asked, you lend your assistance to that matter.

Bookmarked. Will read tomorrow. Or Saturday. D: So behind. My googlereader is so bad I just cleared most of the posts unread, and hope to start again fresh tomorrow.