I woke up full of snot.
This was not unexpected, since I could tell by yesterday afternoon that I was getting sick. But still. I am displeased, and Dayquil has done little to quell the snot and stuffiness.
I got up and took a shower, hoping to clear my head and sinuses. Got dressed, put on my happy orange leg warmers. Listened to my voicemail, which contained a confusing, somewhat frantic message from the bookstore about the safe. (I left a note last night that we couldn't find the cash register key, which was not an emergency and has nothing to do with the safe.) OK, I will deal with that when I go down there to get my morning coffee.
As I'm heading to the front door, I notice that my necklace seems to be falling off. Reach up to fix the clasp, and... it's broken, and the beads are spilling all over the floor, into my shirt, down into my underwear. As this is happening, there's a noisy scrabbling sound of someone trying to unlock the front door. I'm cursing, trying to manage my rebellious jewelry and wondering who the hell is trying to get into the apartment. Finally, the landlord busts in.
"The water bill was too high last month! What have you been doing? Is something leaking?"
The toilet has been running lately, yes. "You need to call me about this stuff immediately!" Through gritted teeth, I say that someone has come to try to fix it at least three times without success. And also, the first time someone came to try to "fix" it, it was not in fact broken. Until he tried to "fix" it. But yes, sir, next time I will call.
He blusters some more, and I ignore him, and head out the door to get my coffee before I rip someone's head off.
Through my Dayquil haze, I straighten out the confusion at work and get my damn coffee. And check the schedule and see that I have been scheduled to work during the week I am in California. So I will have to straighten that out too. But not today.
I go and buy tissues and soup, come home and drink my coffee. So I got that going for me. I also still have tiny beads in my underwear, and I am curious and a little concerned as to where they have migrated.
I think it is time to extract them and then go back to bed. *Sniffle*snort*COUGH*
Posted by thevieve at October 6, 2006 11:25 AM