I should have stayed in bed today.
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Everything today has gone wrong.
I didn’t get to bed until far later than I wanted to, so I was exhausted when I woke up; I kept snoozing the alarm, and finally jumped out of bed 15 minutes before I had to leave.
I ran out to the car, jumped in it, and drove like crazy to get onto the expressway. Of course, since I was late, I didn’t bother doing my normal morning routine of listening to the traffic report. From where I got on the expressway to about 5 miles up the road, no traffic whatsoever, and it was so great. I thought to myself “Oh, sweet, I’ll get to work on time, no problem.”
Just as I passed an off ramp, the traffic report came on, and suddenly I came to a dead stop. Turns out a horrible accident happened at around 3:30 AM, and it was still being cleared even at 8:00 AM. The driver of the truck died, unfortunately, which makes this whole rant seem not so bad. But still, I’ll continue with it.
It took me 90 minutes to move the 1 1/2 miles up the road to the next offramp so I could take backroads. Of course, the backroads weren’t much better at all. So, by the time I made it to work, it was half past 10. Yep, 2 1/2 hours to get to work. I got to work too late for morning breakfast and the break carts, so nothing to eat either. No cereal, bagels, muffins, donuts, pancakes, nothing. I’m starving at this point.
Server problems all morning, fantastic. Not a good way to start.
By the time lunch rolled around, I felt sick from not eating. I wanted a salad, so I got one from the cafeteria, but all the lettuce was going bad, and it made me feel even sicker. Plus someone had rudely used the scoop for the peanuts to grab ground up bacon; I sprinkled peanuts on my salad, only to wind up having a piece of bacon in my mouth. The second it hit my taste buds, I almost threw up.
I felt sick all afternoon, and I didn’t get nearly enough done either. I also wanted to leave at 6 and go to the driving range to blow off some steam, but there were more server problems, so I wound up staying until 7, and then it was too late to go to the range.
I arrived home safely after a relatively easy ride. The cable modem had apparently been going up and down all day, and it still won’t stay connected. My rental movies showed up in the mail today, except that the DVD had a huge scratch running straight across it, and wouldn’t play in any of my 4 DVD players. It also nearly got stuck in my laptop. Great.
I figured instead I’ll relax with food and my new Chris Rock DVD. The food winds up making me feel even sicker than I did earlier, and the Chris Rock DVD won’t play in the DVD player in my living room; the other 3, no problem. Of course, I want to watch it in my living room though. Fantastic!
Last but not least, the cat went nuts tonight and clawed at me, so now I’m bleeding. That’s it, I’ve had enough. I’m going to bed right now, and when I wake up, this awful day will be over. Good night.
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P.S. Yes, I know a lot of people in the world had worse days than me, I just needed to vent.