I’m back in the office today, and I just seem to be in the foulest mood ..
When I’m traveling I usuall check my e-mail, responding to stuff that’s either urgent or easy, and leaving aside the messages that I don’t want to deal with at the time … and then, of course, comes the day when I get back to the office and have a zillion voice mails (all from the same person who knew perfectly well that I was out of the office) and the piles of junk mail and the messages that I didn’t want to deal with while I was on the road. That was today, and there are a couple of blood-pressure raising doozies. Add into this the manuscript that I’m editing that’s so badly written and an office manager who expects me to set everything aside when she waltzes into the office so that we can talk about what to do with a pile of old maps (seriously – no one has looked at them for the past year, so the urgency is a little puzzling), and I suddenly realize why I’ve been in a foul mood all morning.
Ugh.
Ray was sweet last night and took me out to dinner because I wasn’t in the mood to cook (I believe my exact words were “What are we doing for dinner, ‘cuz I’m not making it?”) We went to a local Indian restaurant where the food is terrific but the service is atrocious — the waiter actually walked away from the table while we were in mid-order, and it took so long to get the check that we paid in cash because we could only imagine how long it would take to run a credit card and get the slip back … I mean, because it’s more financially responsible. Yeah, that’s it.
Then I woke up this morning and noticed in the bathroom that my cheekbones aren’t as visible as they were before the holidays, so I guess that means it’s diet time. It shouldn’t be that hard, since all of the holiday candy is now out of the house (because we ate it). I suppose I’m off to a good start – in the crunch to get through things this morning, I forgot to have breakfast. I discovered this when I went to retrieve my lunch and discovered the unopened packet of oatmeal and thought … “Oh, yeah … ”
I’ve had Imogen Heap running through my head all morning – she was something of a fixture on the drive home yesterday. I just downloaded a live LP she did from iTunes — same songs, different instrumentation. Will it help with the songs running through my head? Probably not, but it makes me happier.
Anyway. Hopefully your Thursday is going well. It’s almost Friday, and a three day weekend at that. Whew!
