If it sucks, it must be Thursday.

[offbalance]

Happy Belated Birthday to kaytee4ever!! ::throws glitter and confetti::

Also, happy birthday to drrandom!!

This week is in the running for the shittiest ever. Work has been nuts. Other stuff has been sucking. And, to cap it off, this morning, I was woken up at just a sliver after 5 by a calf cramp of doom.

Now, I'm neither a stranger to cramps nor a baby when it comes to pain. But it's not exactly a massage when your ENTIRE calf muscle swells into a rock in a few seconds, pressing on the nerves and doing whatever else causes searing pain. And the damn thing wouldn't go away. It did eventually, or else I wouldn't be here at work. (Um, yaye?) But the muscles are still sore, and the stress of it all made me extra tired (I was tired to begin with from being up late talking to blergeatkitty on gmail chat, but no regrets there. At all.)

I shouldn't complain all that much - after all, Boss T did surprise me with a most splendiferous gift yesterday : WE'RE GETTING A TEMP. GLORY GLORY HALLELUJAH. There's a large backlog of filing and extremely dull admin crap to do, and he's getting a temp to do it. Oh happy day. :)

Other things of happiness:

1. I am reading at Barbes (376 9th Street at 6th Avenue in Brooklyn) this Sunday at 6pm. (Please note that Barbes is easily accessible by the F and R trains.)

2. In 16 days, I will be in Las Vegas. With zyll. Aw yeah.

3. That I have people in my life like quasisonic, Carly, vbpal, angelicillusion, blergeatkitty and squiddeh. All of my friends are exceptional and awesome, but they deserve particular shout-outs this week for going above and beyond and listening to more than their fair share of my griping without any complaint whatsoever. quasisonic was also amazingly helpful this morning as I was near-crosseyed with pain.

I suppose my birthday should be include in the happy thought list, but it's not really giving me a huge happy this year. I'm past the point of getting excited at the prospect of being another year older, and even though I get a holiday devoted to me out of the deal, I'm not really pleased about being that much closer to 30. I don't know - maybe 26 will be better than 25 was. One can only hope.

Comments

[feminist-poet.livejournal.com]

Hey, 30 isn't all bad, trust me. I am actually enjoying it!!

Oh my god, calf pain sounds awful. I am so glad it went away!

And yay for doing a reading! If only I could be there.

End of most disjointed comment ever. :)

[offbalance.livejournal.com]

Well, the calf pain has been coming and going. The muscle is pretty sore, though.

I wish you could be at the reading, too! That would be awesome. It would be even more awesome if I was 100% sure of what I was reading. I'm 80% sure, but I had a panicked moment of "Everything I've ever put on paper is utter crap" the other night, so I'm going to hunker down in the next couple of days.

(I don't know...I'm almost at where I thought I'd be at this age, minus one very big thing, and I wish that one thing didn't cancel out all of the other good things I have, but sometimes the one thing you don't have is more on your mind than what you do, as dumb as that sounds.)

[feminist-poet.livejournal.com]

It doesn't sound dumb at all. It really doesn't. I completely understand. I mean, I know that this probably won't make you feel any better, but I didn't find Dave until I was almost 29!!!! As much of a jerk face as he is being lately, I am glad I waited and left Dane and am with him. Yours is out there, I SWEAR. I know, you want to smack me for saying that but it is true!

Man, calf pain = sucktastic. This is not a good Thursday for anyone.

I would love to see you read. And everything you put to paper is not crap, although I suffer from that affliction myself!

[offbalance.livejournal.com]

Well, at least you understand about wanting to pull your hair out after awhile. *sigh*

I think all writers have the same affliction. I'm just reaaally nervous.

[feminist-poet.livejournal.com]

You will be GREAT! :)

[angelicillusion.livejournal.com]

i © you too dear :) I'm sorry you had pain this morning though. Muscle cramps tend to be a sign of dehydration so you better start drinking some Gatorade or something. & I will definately be there at your reading cause I wouldn't miss it for the world! :D Have a better day at work - you only have 5 hours left *throw confetti* You're at the home stretch! Yay!