Grumpy Day

[hkellick]

OK, first off, I must say I like the idea of points for the day that ratlyn and phinnia use, so I expect I'll use it too today. Why not?

My grumpy day started at 1:30 this morning. I don't know WHY I woke up, but I woke up at 1:30 in the bloody morning with a terrible case of heart burn. (I'll get heart burn occasionally, but this was REALLY bad.)
Went downstairs in the too cold air eeking all the way, grabbed four tums, went back to bad and couldn't sleep. I dunno why but my stomach HURT. Like.. physical pain too. I'd turn over it and lie on it for a moment and it was a dull physical ache :o.
It's feeling more or less OK at the moment, but around dinner it started to ache again.
So I sat and read, but no sleep.
Then the cats came.
I love Smokey. She's my favorite cat. But when she sleeps on me, she sleeps on my chest. Usually that's not a HUGE problem (I either end up tossing her off as I turn over, or she gets bored and moves to my side or between my legs), but last night my stomach was sensitive, so we got in a fight of sorts. She kept hopping on my chest, not understanding why I kept taking her off and putting her to my side. Finally I sort of wrestled her to my side, started petting her and she settled in and went to sleep.
Not that *I* went to sleep...
So, I tried and tried and tried to sleep. Gave up around 3:00 and went downstairs to watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail with the Eric Idle/John Cleese/Graham Chapman voiceover. It was certainly amusing to listen to, but not putting me to sleep.
So I turned it off 2/3 of the way in, went upstairs and finally got to sleep about 4:00 or 4:30.
Only to wake up at 7:00.
So it was a LOVELY way to start my day :P

Went to groundwater class. Class was mostly boring. I like Igor. He's a great guy, but he goes off on these semi-connected tangents. Luckily, I had my batteries and my palm pilot :D Yay, Solitaire! :D
So, we get through groundwater, have a quick groundwater group meeting to discuss how things are coming along... I'm sure we'll get done in time.
So I go and check to see whether POM DID run yesterday (it takes a while) and I got some sort of Numerical Error. So I start it running AGAIN, then go have a quick word with Dr. Rabideau about concerns of the quality of the draft report due today.
The fact is... with apparent good reason.. I just don't trust other people well with getting things done in a group project. There are quite a few exceptions to this rule... pretty much anyone in grad school, and this guy in my design class named Jeff Carpenter and a COUPLE other undergrads.
My design class group has three undergrads and myself.. jeff Carpenter and two others.
Saturday night, the draft was sent to me unfinished. I worked for a few hours on it and sent it off to Heather.
She never got it until 5:30 on Monday. I'm not sure where it went, but she never got it and I had to resend it.
So, without having heard one way or another that the project was done, I got a little worried and mentioned this to Dr. Rabideau casually that another day to look it over and tighten the paper up would be good.
I'm SO GLAD I did! :P More on that to come.
Had lunch and went home to SLEEP!
I get home to a nasty surprise. The town of Amherst yelled at me once a few months back that our cans are too heavy with all the cat litter we have in it. I've told Josh a couple times that we needed to spread the letter among the cans, but he never listened. Last week they didn't take one can that WAS heavy. This week, they left two. The second one is STUPID. It wasn't that heavy and only had some cat litter in it. So now we have to empty it.
Josh needs to do something else with the litter. We'll try bagging it. See if that works.
I slept for about two hours, went to school, got a haircut and checked on POM.
I THINK it ran right, but I didn't get the output I expected to get. Nowhere am I seeing anything with velocity vectors. So I have to try and figure out where that went by classtime tommorow for my GIS project. Which is taking too long and I'm getting worried about.
Went to design class and found out.. the paper was never finished. By my guess, Heather hadn't done ANYTHING since I gave it to her Monday.
NNNNGNNNGNNGNGNG!!!
So we spent most of the class finishing that up while the other groups had nothing to do since they'd DONE their part.
Not only that, but at the end of class, I told them to sent the final draft to me to look over for continuity. We forgot some important things and I nearly screamed when I saw they put things back into the report that I took out since we never spoke about it anyplace but this one place in the report.
I feel like I'm being the nazi here. Do things my way. I'm the one that's right! etc. etc. etc, but I'm doing it because I genuinely care about work that has my name on it and if I'm not happy with the paper, then it needs to be changed!
I don't think I'm being unfair. Even if the grammar is lacking somewhat, i think the continuity and subjects of the report need to be... good, ya know?
Ah well.
So I came home to find out that Josh had called in to work together. He stayed home from school yesterday because he might have some sort of bug and stayed at home again today. When I talked to him before I went back to school at 2:15, he said he felt OK. So imagine my surprise that.. there he is, having called in to work.
Mom is really upset. She's afraid he'll get fired from his job. Or, if he doesn't, that he won't get the kind of hours he needs to get a car or insurance because he's always asking off for this or that (he has asked off alot, especially for the musical. It's his own choice, but the fact is he DOESN'T get the hours he wants and complains about it often.)
So a fight broke out.
Then I found out Josh hasn't gotten his ass on making sure he gets into college.
Most of y'all are college graduates or, at the very least, agree that there is alot of value in going to college. My mother believes strongly that if you don't graduate from college, you'll never get the kind of job you WANT to have (and I agree. I HATE working min wage jobs.), so she hits the ROOF!
I'm a little worried about it myself. He should have gotten some sort of acceptance letters by now...
God, I hope he doesn't screw this up because he won't get on top of it...
So, we have Subway for dinner, I come down, read through the finalized draft of the design paper, hit the roof and re-recorrect the paper, writing a quick letter on what I've done and WHY I recorrected some of the changes they added.
Luckily, this is only a draft and not the final project.
Luckily.
So, now I'm

And so begin the giving out of daily points.
Smokey: -25 points for not getting the blinking point that it HURTS to have you on my stomach so stop crawling on it! But I'll give +15 points for being cute and FINALLY coming to rest at my side.
Bandit: +25 points for being extremely cute and purry, cuddling at my feet.
Shawn, Shwet and Myself:+25 for the groundwater project moving along, despite the fact that Rich abandoned our group (not that he was much help anyways)
Heather -200 points for not doing anything on the paper, making a ruckus over the corrections I made and then "recorrecting" them yourself anyways!
Chris +50 points for working on the paper again, even though you did most of the work while Jeff and I took the EITs.
Josh -400 points: -100 for skipping work when you felt OK enough to go out and have dinner at Subways and go to the Pharmacy, -200 for not keeping up with the college thing and -100 for not listening to me when I said spread the cat litter around.
The Town of Amherst -100 points for just being jackasses. The second can was not that heavy. Get over yourselves. You're garbage men. Your job is to take out the garbage, not give us tude. I understand if the first can was too heavy, but the second one? nuh uh.

That's my post for today. I'm going to post now before kareila yells that this entry is too long again!
See y'all on the flip side.