I'm afraid this is not going to be a good day:
1. I didn't sleep hardly at all last night. It was a combination of worrying about the drain problem (plumber is SUPPOSED to come tomorrow, but we are getting yet another freeze tonight, which probably means another round of people with frozen pipes, which might mean I get shuffled to the bottom of the priority list YET AGAIN.) I also didn't sleep because of one of the things that your mom or the nurse teaching health class never warns you about when they give you the Your Changing Body talk - that there just WILL be some months when you suffer a night where you Do. Not. Sleep. No matter how much you want to. Your stupid brain will not shut off.
I have at a minimum 13 hours - probably more like 14 - to go before I can try to sleep again.
2. My computer is having big tsuris. Firefox locked and crashed three separate times (so I could not upload grades). I had to open Internet Explorer just to use THIS. And PowerPoint is locking up so I cannot print.
Not coincidentally, I think, the campus installed new campus-wide antivirus software (a brand I've never heard of before) this weekend.
3. It is raining like stink, once again. It is supposed to freeze this afternoon. If it gets cold enough for the water that is coating the road surfaces to freeze, I may be sleeping on my office floor tonight and eating "dinner" out of the vending machine (I hope I have enough $1 bills; it stopped taking change).
The freeze also will likely lead to another round of frozen pipes for some folks, and another time the plumber cannot come out and fix the slow drain.
4. I have an evening meeting tonight which I doubt I could beg off. (I am supposed to be a hostess. At least I baked the cake necessary yesterday.) I perhaps could take the cake and fixings down there and leave it with a note explaining that I didn't sleep last night, and I really need to try going to bed at 6 pm in hopes of making up sleep. I don't know.
5. I still can't print. Teaching is going to be a nightmare today. I'm just glad it's still far away from evaluations; this day will go down as one of my worse days this year I bet.
I wish I could have just stayed in bed. My head hurts; I fear this is going to be a particularly awful day.
2 comments:
I have the occasional sleepless night...when I do, the thought that I will probably sleep great the following night keeps me going. Plus I'm always thankful on those days that I don't fly planes for a living, or some other job where a sleepless night could be a disaster...
I sometimes have sleepless nights. Sometimes turning the radio on will help me get to sleep. (That's why I could never get up to a clock radio alarm.) Years ago I read that if you have a night when you can't sleep, you should just lie still in bed and your body will get the rest it needs even if you aren't sleeping. I'm not totally convinced that is true but I try that as well as praising God through the alphabet, praying for friends, etc. But some nights there just is no sleep.
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