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It's not as cold today as it has been, which is nice. There have been problems with the heat in the apartment again lately. The landlady's furnace isn't working as well as it used to, or as well as it ought to in a Canadian winter, and the pipes are lukewarm at best. The apartment has been able 10 degrees colder than it ought to be, and that's when there are thermal certains in the windows and the space heater has been on it. It hasn't been pleasant. It got a bit better yesterday, though, and today isn't as cold outside as the past couple of days, which is also helping.

Books I ordered from Amazon arrived yesterday. I now have the fourth book of the Collegium Chronicles, and a paperback copy of Throne of the Crescent Moon, which I've been dying to read for months. A desk callendar from the JNTO also arrived. Perks of working in the travel industry and getting trained on destination knowledge; the JNTO gives some really sweet benefits, not the least of which is a desk calendar which can be turned into a set of postcards after the month has passed. Hopefully the magazine subscription from my mother will get here soon, and that finger claw that my dad ordered for me. I'm looking forward to those!

I've got a load of laundry washing, and if I don't forget, I'll start making the pea-and-ham soup before I go to work.

Not looking forward to work today. I'm supposed to meet with the site manager about potentially resuming my regular hours. I have no idea if my doctor actually did what he was supposed to and sent off the correct forms after I had to call his receptionist and harass her to put the damn forms on his desk like she should have done weeks ago, but even if he hasn't, I think I may still have some leverage over work. I've missed only one day in the past 3 weeks, and that was a bad storm day in which it was less that I didn't want to go to work and more that I couldn't. That has nothing to do with me being sick. So there's no reason why I shouldn't resume regular hours. And there's also no reason why I shouldn't get the shift I was entitled to through the last shift bid, either, because that new shift cycle hasn't started yet. They'll probably try to fight me on that one, but I bid, and if they didn't record my bid or gave the shift I would have gotten to somebody else in a pre-emptive way, then I can definitely cry discrimination. And I will. I'm going through enough stress with my health, and I don't need additional stress because work can't figure out how to treat me like a human being worthy of the same stuff that every other employee gets.

I won't be asking for something that I shouldn't get. I'll be asking for something that I should get, in accordance with their own rules and policies.

Sadly, though, I really do expect to have to fight for it, and I'm not eager to do so.

Happy thoughts. Really, happy thoughts. It's hard to focus on positive things, though, when I know a struggle's ahead. But I try.

I'm in a crafting mood again lately, but I don't know what to make. Mostly, I want to sew something. I think I might put together a couple of little pouches and mini-pillows, and then when I take down the tree I'll strip the branches of needles and use the pouches to hold them. Then I can get the scent of evergreen around the apartment even when there isn't a tree standing in the living room! Plus it'll give me a way to use up a lot of scrap fabric. Maybe I'll have time to sew a couple before I have to go to work. That should get me in the right frame of mind to handle a confrontation, too!

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