I'm too nice

Well, maybe.

The Head Guy just stopped by. He wanted to know if I could make it until Wednesday (an extra day) as there's a family without airconditioning AT ALL that they are going to go and help tomorrow.

Well, crud. I probably should have said no - I am always, always the one who gives 'way for other people, but.....I don't know.

So I guess Tuesday I pack a lunch and stay over at school. If THEY have the air conditioning on. It was brutally hot in the lab where I taught today. The window unit on loan is fine but when it gets really hot and humid it has a hard time keeping up.

I wish karma were a thing, or the kind of fairy-tale situation where you do something good and you get repaid immediately for it. Because I'm hot and tired and headachey. But I hated to say no, and I trust the guy was telling the truth, knowing the business.

But, gah. Just another disappointment thrown on the pile. That's adulthood for you.


Somebody tell me I did the right thing, and that I didn't just let myself get taken advantage of. I mean, I know it's not a "we want to take a day off so we'll tell a lie" thing, but I hope it wasn't that the family in question made their situation sound much more dire to get jumped in the queue.

(I haven't paid them yet so I'm sure they're eager to get done with my job.)

But I really do wish in cases like this I'd have some indication that the "kind" choice was the right one, even if it seems to hurt me.

also: I freaking, freaking HATE humidity, We've had dewpoints close to 70 all week and I've been fairly miserable. And no, I'm not going to spring for a night in a motel, too expensive given everything else I will have to be paying for this summer. And anyway, what an effort to pack up what I'd need and haul it over there just for one night.