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Jun. 13th, 2001 05:02 pmWritten at 1pm while consuming a gyros sandwich:
Breathe. I think I can breathe now.
Sort of.
I got jumped first thing this morning (and not in a happy sexy way) - 3 walkups, 3 phone messages and 2 emails in the first half hour, and things didn't exactly slow down after that. Not Happy. We've been scrambling to do our security upgrades for a month now - a month since I was hired, and today was the campus cutoff.
We missed some. (duh.) My count's reached a dozen, and those are just the ones I caught. And not counting the normal, everyday emergencies that pop up. The bad part - the part that's giving me stress-hiccups, is that R's on vacation today.
AAAAGGGGHHH!
Stress-hiccups are Bad. They don't stop easily, none of the traditional 'tricks' to stop them work, and they hurt. I have to wait them out or walk them off.
Ow.
Ok - happy thoughts time:
Walking to work Monday in the rain - soaked through at the shoulders and from thigh to knee where the coat dripped off onto my legs, but still warm from the walk and happy above it all. Seeing the blue heron again, tall and sleek in the rain, on his customary perch not far from the lily pad pond on the backside of the houseboats near the bridge.
Getting my bus pass and heading to the IMA for a membership and class times. (Let's see: aikido, archery and yoga?) and then buying fresh cherries from the grocery store at the UVillage. It's almost the season where I can buy pounds and pounds cheaply and consume them until I'm sick, but utterly happy. Cherries and grass and clouds scudding overhead.
A glimpse of Rainier from the Eastlake bridge, or one of the Olympics just under the cloud cover, beyond the Aurora Bridge.
Breathe. I think I can breathe now.
Sort of.
I got jumped first thing this morning (and not in a happy sexy way) - 3 walkups, 3 phone messages and 2 emails in the first half hour, and things didn't exactly slow down after that. Not Happy. We've been scrambling to do our security upgrades for a month now - a month since I was hired, and today was the campus cutoff.
We missed some. (duh.) My count's reached a dozen, and those are just the ones I caught. And not counting the normal, everyday emergencies that pop up. The bad part - the part that's giving me stress-hiccups, is that R's on vacation today.
AAAAGGGGHHH!
Stress-hiccups are Bad. They don't stop easily, none of the traditional 'tricks' to stop them work, and they hurt. I have to wait them out or walk them off.
Ow.
Ok - happy thoughts time:
Walking to work Monday in the rain - soaked through at the shoulders and from thigh to knee where the coat dripped off onto my legs, but still warm from the walk and happy above it all. Seeing the blue heron again, tall and sleek in the rain, on his customary perch not far from the lily pad pond on the backside of the houseboats near the bridge.
Getting my bus pass and heading to the IMA for a membership and class times. (Let's see: aikido, archery and yoga?) and then buying fresh cherries from the grocery store at the UVillage. It's almost the season where I can buy pounds and pounds cheaply and consume them until I'm sick, but utterly happy. Cherries and grass and clouds scudding overhead.
A glimpse of Rainier from the Eastlake bridge, or one of the Olympics just under the cloud cover, beyond the Aurora Bridge.
