Waking Up in Light.
Jun. 3rd, 2009 11:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupI just slept for 12 hours. I could, perhaps, have rolled over and gotten some more sleep, but that would have been inviting a migraine, so I did the prudent thing and got up. I had been awake for the previous 24 hours and had only had 6 hours of sleep the night before, but I'm still surprised I slept that long and solidly considering how much coffee I had in me when I went to bed. Usually that leads to short and broken sleep, but I guess I was tireder than the caffeine could interfere with.
In any case, I awoke to a better day (evening?) as the dishwasher, which has been broken for weeks was repaired under warranty while I slept. In addition, the work I stayed up all night to finish is 99.44% done. It would have been completely finished but the client called at the last minute to delay picking it up by a day, so we collapsed rather than do the last little part. I'll probably finish my part of it during the night, but that is such a tiny amount compared to what I've already done on it that I don't anticipate it taking very long (famous last words, I know). EDIT: And now I've finished that last bit too. Yay me!
So, for the last month or so Linda and I have been simultaneously dealing with health issues in my family, health issues in her family, Linda having huge backlogs of work that needed to be done before we could get paid for it (which I've helped out with, wherever a non-bookkeeper can), a broken mail/web server, a corrupted hard drive containing my most precious backups, a non-functioning TV system in the bedroom, an internet connection that resets every few minutes and a monitor on my desktop machine that is giving signs of imminent failure and making it very hard to work on at times.
All of these are small enough problems that I could have easily (for some value of 'easy') dealt with them one by one. All at once it has been a huge burden. Adding all of these to the fact that this happened while Anticipation was looking for me to do some work for them and while I was writing up the GM notes for the latest game that I've running (which is supposed to lower my stress levels) and my stress has been through the roof. Its been so bad that I nearly had a breakdown when I had to deal with our friend Terry's moving crisis in addition to everything else.
Anyway, at this point I am thinking that the worst is over and that I will now start to see my problems get resolved faster than they occur. That would be good. I had planned to start spamming the world with resumes at the beginning of May, before all of this hit. Its been a full-time job (plus lots of overtime) to deal with all of this so I haven't even begun to properly look for work or track down the leads which I've been given.
Maybe soon I'll be able to start that. I could use a job that actually pays.
In any case, I awoke to a better day (evening?) as the dishwasher, which has been broken for weeks was repaired under warranty while I slept. In addition, the work I stayed up all night to finish is 99.44% done. It would have been completely finished but the client called at the last minute to delay picking it up by a day, so we collapsed rather than do the last little part. I'll probably finish my part of it during the night, but that is such a tiny amount compared to what I've already done on it that I don't anticipate it taking very long (famous last words, I know). EDIT: And now I've finished that last bit too. Yay me!
So, for the last month or so Linda and I have been simultaneously dealing with health issues in my family, health issues in her family, Linda having huge backlogs of work that needed to be done before we could get paid for it (which I've helped out with, wherever a non-bookkeeper can), a broken mail/web server, a corrupted hard drive containing my most precious backups, a non-functioning TV system in the bedroom, an internet connection that resets every few minutes and a monitor on my desktop machine that is giving signs of imminent failure and making it very hard to work on at times.
All of these are small enough problems that I could have easily (for some value of 'easy') dealt with them one by one. All at once it has been a huge burden. Adding all of these to the fact that this happened while Anticipation was looking for me to do some work for them and while I was writing up the GM notes for the latest game that I've running (which is supposed to lower my stress levels) and my stress has been through the roof. Its been so bad that I nearly had a breakdown when I had to deal with our friend Terry's moving crisis in addition to everything else.
Anyway, at this point I am thinking that the worst is over and that I will now start to see my problems get resolved faster than they occur. That would be good. I had planned to start spamming the world with resumes at the beginning of May, before all of this hit. Its been a full-time job (plus lots of overtime) to deal with all of this so I haven't even begun to properly look for work or track down the leads which I've been given.
Maybe soon I'll be able to start that. I could use a job that actually pays.
