One day to go!
Sep. 8th, 2012 10:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lighterthanairLast day of work before my weekend! And also a day in which I get an extra $0.25 an hour, as weekend pay. My workplace has a lot of problems, but they're surprisingly generous when it comes to bonuses just for working what you're already scheduled to work. (Of course, that might be the client more than the contracting company, I'm not really sure.) But regardless, I'm determined to stay as positive as I can today, knowing that I just have to get through this one shift before I can have a rest.
And I didn't have any nightmares last night! This may not sound like much to celebrate, but since I've had nightmares 3 nights out of the past 8, I'm considering it a good thing. I usually don't have so many nightmares unless I'm very stressed out, and while there has been some badness in my life lately, I don't know that it's enough to stress me out that much. But I'm having nightmares enough that I'm tempted to actually start keeping a dream journal again, so that I can keep things clear enough to try and work my way through them.
Luckily, my therapy sessions begin again this coming Monday evening, so I can talk with my psychiatrist about this. Among other things. Like finding a good support group for Tourette's sufferers, because my tics are getting really bad again. When I'm not out in public, it's not so bad, because even if I make weird noises, nobody's around to hear them. And if my hands start to spasm like crazy, I can just take a break from what I'm doing until it stops, and I really can't do that when I'm in the middle of a call at work.
Last night, I finished reading Gwenda Bond's Blackwood. It wasn't bad. Certainly an interesting topic for a YA novel (the disappearance of the originl Virginia colony), and I enjoyed the story, but it wasn't the greatest thing I've ever read. Sometimes the writing style ensures that the reader feels very distant from the action. And characters very often take leaps of logic that turn out to be utterly right, based on nothing but a feeling, and of course two people always come to the same conclusions with very little prompting from the other. There's also the sense that often comes along with YA adventures, that the only consequences are emotional ones. A character breaks the law, gets into many dangerous situations, and is wanted by the FBI, but in the end goes free because the feds just don't know how to write up the report because of paranormal weirdness. No consequences, and almost-classic "happily ever after" ending. But still, a decent read.
As soon as I'd finished that, though, I started reading Octavia Butler's Wild Seed. I'm not very far into it, but it seems interesting so far, even if there's a lot of third-person omniscient exposition going on. It's an interesting set-up with some fascinating characters, and I want to read more.
You know, I think I'll be a little bit bad today and buy breakfast. Tim Horton's makes delicious ranch chicken mini sandwiches that I'm addicted to, and an extra large tea never goes amiss with me. And since chicken seems very appealing to me right now, I'll use some of the leftover chicken I have here to make a couple of sandwiches to take with me for supper, too.
Hope work isn't too busy today. It's always nice when things are a little bit slow before a weekend. But I doubt it. Our genius of a site manager went and created about half of the shifts with a combination of Saturday, Sunday, or Monday off, which now makes those the busiest days for calls. I myself have two of those days off (I got lucky on the shift bid), but I still have to deal with one of them, which is a pain. But again, positive attitude, it's only one day, and then I have a couple of days off, so I'll trudge through and will try and make it as easy on myself as I can!
And I didn't have any nightmares last night! This may not sound like much to celebrate, but since I've had nightmares 3 nights out of the past 8, I'm considering it a good thing. I usually don't have so many nightmares unless I'm very stressed out, and while there has been some badness in my life lately, I don't know that it's enough to stress me out that much. But I'm having nightmares enough that I'm tempted to actually start keeping a dream journal again, so that I can keep things clear enough to try and work my way through them.
Luckily, my therapy sessions begin again this coming Monday evening, so I can talk with my psychiatrist about this. Among other things. Like finding a good support group for Tourette's sufferers, because my tics are getting really bad again. When I'm not out in public, it's not so bad, because even if I make weird noises, nobody's around to hear them. And if my hands start to spasm like crazy, I can just take a break from what I'm doing until it stops, and I really can't do that when I'm in the middle of a call at work.
Last night, I finished reading Gwenda Bond's Blackwood. It wasn't bad. Certainly an interesting topic for a YA novel (the disappearance of the originl Virginia colony), and I enjoyed the story, but it wasn't the greatest thing I've ever read. Sometimes the writing style ensures that the reader feels very distant from the action. And characters very often take leaps of logic that turn out to be utterly right, based on nothing but a feeling, and of course two people always come to the same conclusions with very little prompting from the other. There's also the sense that often comes along with YA adventures, that the only consequences are emotional ones. A character breaks the law, gets into many dangerous situations, and is wanted by the FBI, but in the end goes free because the feds just don't know how to write up the report because of paranormal weirdness. No consequences, and almost-classic "happily ever after" ending. But still, a decent read.
As soon as I'd finished that, though, I started reading Octavia Butler's Wild Seed. I'm not very far into it, but it seems interesting so far, even if there's a lot of third-person omniscient exposition going on. It's an interesting set-up with some fascinating characters, and I want to read more.
You know, I think I'll be a little bit bad today and buy breakfast. Tim Horton's makes delicious ranch chicken mini sandwiches that I'm addicted to, and an extra large tea never goes amiss with me. And since chicken seems very appealing to me right now, I'll use some of the leftover chicken I have here to make a couple of sandwiches to take with me for supper, too.
Hope work isn't too busy today. It's always nice when things are a little bit slow before a weekend. But I doubt it. Our genius of a site manager went and created about half of the shifts with a combination of Saturday, Sunday, or Monday off, which now makes those the busiest days for calls. I myself have two of those days off (I got lucky on the shift bid), but I still have to deal with one of them, which is a pain. But again, positive attitude, it's only one day, and then I have a couple of days off, so I'll trudge through and will try and make it as easy on myself as I can!
