Some days it doesn't pay to get out of bed

[cornerofmadness]

I get to work to find out most other professors took a day off except for me...since honestly I suck at taking off days. I never do. Don't call in sick unless I'm dying, don't use my personal days, nothing. It never even occured to me to take off.

Now I wish I had. I woke up in pain at 430AM, my hands balled into fists my knees drawn up. I must have been so tight that it hurt since that's what woke me up. I drifted in and out of sleep from then until the alarm. It rained (of course because I hauled water to the garden last night. if I hadn't, it wouldn't have rained) but only managed to make it muggier. I go to call in my prescription and find out the doctor forgot to refill it when I was there two weeks ago. Argh.

So I get to work and call the doctor's nurse to get the pills called in to CVS. I print out a rough of the exam. I go the lecture hall and it STINKS. It smells like a rat died in wall or something. The students are gagging. I had to leave the door open (because we have no windows in the room). it was ripe. Then I realized when I looked to see if the lectures were on my pen drive i had forgotten I had put the STUDENT version on there to print them on thursday. Sigh. Feeling like a moron back to the office I go and get those.

Then one of the other doc's pops in and says 'what stinks?' and 'did I know that the power had been off all weekend.' Sigh. I go back to the office after class to print out stuff for the last lecture and once again the printer isn't talking to my computer. Now it worked two hours ago. I call the tech guys and say didn't you fix this thursday. 'What? no we fixed the printer in your office.' Well guess what a) you were supposed to fix the connection between my office and the printre in secretary's office and b) my printer in my office STILL doesn't work either. So i do a test print so i can read the error message...and the damn thing started working again. Head desk.

In the mean time the head of teh dept. hunts me down to find out what stinks. She's a mathmatician and doesn't know the first thing about the lab. We grab the other doc who told me about the power problem. I find the problem in the field zoology lab. The fridge looks like a scene from Friday the 13th. Blood dripping down it. All the frozen dead animals had defrosted. We fled and called the professor who's fridge that is. I was not about to clean that. Also found that the power outtage deprogramed the automatic sprinklers in the greenhouse, poor plants.

I come home and call CVS to see if my pills are there. Nope. Call the doctor and the nurses says well it could take 48 hrs for the doctor to call (I know how this is, how busy you can get so I can't bitch I did the same to my patients) but taht would have been nice to know the FIRST time I called.

I go to Jackson anyhow since I want to get more manga and alcohol. I forgot it on friday and you can't buy it on Sunday here when i do my usual shopping. Is it too early to open the champagne and start the Bellini bar?

Comments

[makd.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear lord. [removes and cleans glasses; leaves room, returns five minutes later with 2 glasses of LI Iced tea.]

You've had a dreadful day. Have a virtual glass of LI-IT (I'll have the other one/), and we'll relax with a good movie....

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that sounds like a plan. Right now I'm going to whip up some lemon pasta and chill out and be thankful it wasn't MY lab's fridge that's filled with rotting animals

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

EWWWWWW to the rotted animals. EWWWW.

And of course you didn't take the day off. Neither did Atty. You type A's make me nuts.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Taking days off just make us anxious. How many days off did you see me take in three years?'

and the rotting animals were disgusting

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Which explains why you need me around. How many vacations did I make you take with me in three years? *laugh*