First, the knitprogress:

I've got up through the sleeve increases on the Dolman Updated sweater done. I also added a couple of rows to the Kat shawl border.

And now, the anger:

I had 46 messages in my personal inbox this morning. 33 of them were spam. (I use a webmail program and haven't figured out how/if it's possible to set up a spam filter. SUPPOSEDLY the ISP filter spam, so either they're claiming they do and they aren't, or I'd really be afraid to see my inbox if they didn't). I hate spammers. I hate spam. I can't believe anyone thinks this is a good advertising technique - it pisses off 99.9% of the people who receive it. I wish that remaining .1% wouldn't buy stuff through spam, maybe then it would go away.

second, one of my coauthors sent back a paper claiming I had made none of the recommended changes. (snip).

It turns out I made a bad mistake on the paper. A stupid mistake, which anyone who knows me well knowns means that I have taken on too many things and am stressed out. Instead of just e-mailing me back "you made a mistake" I basically got a virtual slap for it. So that hurts. Really hurts. Like crying hurts.

I don't feel well this morning. We took one of our program reviewers out to dinner and not only was every last thing on the menu fried, but it was at an establishment that was proudly "all smoking". So now I am sick from secondhand smoke, and my hair stinks because I got home too late and had to be here too early this morning to take the hour it takes to wash my hair and blow it dry.

I feel like I've been kicked in the stomach. And this afternoon, I had the ordeal of going in to get a cavity fixed. And I have another one (stupid hormones - I also had a bad mess of cavities around puberty and I think I'm approaching perimenopause (scary thought that) so my teeth are going bad again) that I have to have done in a month.

I just want to go home and crawl under the bed, but I can't.