Urgh. I can't stand the smell of cigarette smoke ( Read more... )

Amusement: Most of my friends who actually call me ( which isn't many, and I don't complain -- I honestly am not much of a phone person ) seem to know what appears to be a semi-standard 9/9 or 10/10 rule: Calls are appropriate between 10AM and 10PM for more night-owly people, between 9AM and 9PM for more morning-y people ( Read more... )

My accomplishment of the day : learning how to read/write braille. Don't laugh -- it's one of those things I always thought would be useful to know ( Read more... )

Well, I'm not getting worse ( Read more... )

urgh ( Read more... )

The good news is that my right thumb hurts badly enough to ignore the pain in my left thumb.

The bad news is that OW, that really fucking hurts.

Left thumb, the first knuckle got whacked with a buckler. Not that big a deal -- it happens, whatever, my left hand gets whacked on a semi-regular basis. I don't tend to guard it as well ; I'm more ( Read more... )

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 Urgh.

I'm just... exhausted. Ready to take a week off, but I'm not and I can't. Haven't had a free moment all month. Technically my own fault.

First there was Coronation, which really, you come home from events and just crash. Next weekend was the birthday party of one of my boys ( one of the boys I babysit often enough that I've practically ( Read more... )

  Yesterday, three staff members were out. One sick, one sent-to-doctor, one 'can't get a ride' ( really? Can't get a ride? really? )

This is bad, and annoying, because I only have about 14 staff members to begin with. I've got four-ish subs I can occasionally call on, but they have varying hours of availability. One of them already works at 4:30 ( Read more... )

   Phew! I'm glad that's over with ( Read more... )