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kolSo today has been an exercise in frustration management, to mixed results.
The heat was really oppressive last night, and by 10:30 I'd had enough of being drenched & wide awake, so I hopped in the shower for some LUSH times. Which definitely stopped the frustration about not being asleep, but didn't do much to actually put me to sleep. XD I finally faded around 2, double checking that yes, both alarms were set, because I was suppose to be up at 4:20 for work.
However, although both alarms say they went off, there was no audio. Furthermore, work called when I was 10 minutes late, and there was no audio from that, either. I managed to wake myself up (miracles of miracles) and got to work only 45 minutes late, which although it did involve me starting the day off on the wrong foot, prompted me to be more confused than frustrated. My phone's ringer is apparently working only 30% of the time-- I got 3 phone calls at work and only 1 of them went through, even though I was standing in front of the phone for one of them and actually holding the phone for the other two. I'm not sure if this is a sign the phone is going or just a sign of my technological fail. When I got home and botted Shiny back up, I had a weird audio dialogue pop up, so I restarted and thus far everything seems to be okay.
Well, except for the internet being down all afternoon. XD I did not manage my frustration with THAT very well and ended up going on a sulking nap. In retrospect I could have just written out some log responses on paper and molded them to fit the actual logs once the internet went up, but in the moment, with the heat radiating stupid on me, all I could think was WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME INTERNET I JUST WANT TO BE PRODUCTIVE.
Right now I'm cooling off by the pool and I am happy to report that my frustration levels are next to zero. And, even better, I'm actually kind of cold, which is a blessing considering how sweaty I was at this point yesterday XD. So, A+ for managing the unintential sleeping in situation, but a definite C for the internet meltdown. I don't need the internet to be a productive, creative person :P.
The heat was really oppressive last night, and by 10:30 I'd had enough of being drenched & wide awake, so I hopped in the shower for some LUSH times. Which definitely stopped the frustration about not being asleep, but didn't do much to actually put me to sleep. XD I finally faded around 2, double checking that yes, both alarms were set, because I was suppose to be up at 4:20 for work.
However, although both alarms say they went off, there was no audio. Furthermore, work called when I was 10 minutes late, and there was no audio from that, either. I managed to wake myself up (miracles of miracles) and got to work only 45 minutes late, which although it did involve me starting the day off on the wrong foot, prompted me to be more confused than frustrated. My phone's ringer is apparently working only 30% of the time-- I got 3 phone calls at work and only 1 of them went through, even though I was standing in front of the phone for one of them and actually holding the phone for the other two. I'm not sure if this is a sign the phone is going or just a sign of my technological fail. When I got home and botted Shiny back up, I had a weird audio dialogue pop up, so I restarted and thus far everything seems to be okay.
Well, except for the internet being down all afternoon. XD I did not manage my frustration with THAT very well and ended up going on a sulking nap. In retrospect I could have just written out some log responses on paper and molded them to fit the actual logs once the internet went up, but in the moment, with the heat radiating stupid on me, all I could think was WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME INTERNET I JUST WANT TO BE PRODUCTIVE.
Right now I'm cooling off by the pool and I am happy to report that my frustration levels are next to zero. And, even better, I'm actually kind of cold, which is a blessing considering how sweaty I was at this point yesterday XD. So, A+ for managing the unintential sleeping in situation, but a definite C for the internet meltdown. I don't need the internet to be a productive, creative person :P.
