This computer is about to drive me over the edge. I’m not sure what the hell the problem is, and the help desk is being a bit less than “helpful” every time I report it, but I’m now officially striking and I refuse to do any editing for the rest of today. I’m trying to edit a ridiculously long document in Adept, comprised of all tables of course, and every time I try to make a change my screen decides to scroll up or down for about fifty pages before stopping, leaving me to page through the entire thing to find my place (with various sounds of frustration and vulgarities muttered under my breath). I find my place, and the screen will violently scroll again in the opposite direction. Not to mention the fact that our keying vendor absolutely refuses to key these documents correctly, leaving me so much work that it’s no wonder I haven’t decided to key all of these pages myself.

*Sigh*

I was so utterly determined to be in a good mood today, but The Powers That Be are just utterly screwing with me and it is absolutely impossible not to be a complete crank. Last night, for example, I was utterly exhausted for no good reason at all. I decided to watch a movie (Garden State, which was excellent) and I accidentally fell asleep at about seven. I woke up at 11:30, knowing I was screwed, and was awake for most of the night. Every time I was about to drop off SOMEONE felt the need to start scratching behind their ears, crawl over me to get a drink of water, or clean various parts of their body. Damn dogs. So of course I fell asleep in the wee hours of dawn, trying not to think of the ridiculously long day I had ahead of me Then my alarm failed to go off, causing me to oversleep.

Then my doors were frozen shut again this morning. I pounded with all the strength I could muster, amazed at the pain inflicted by pounding skin and bone against frozen steel, and had a minor panic attack before finally getting the door open. I made it to my gas station for coffee (I’ve been trying to save money by not visiting Starbucks every morning) and got berated again by the cashier for forgetting my Coffee Club card for her to punch and will earn me a free coffee (I lose them like crazy…and don’t know why she worries about it…but she feels the need to lecture me every time I lose my card, causing me to stress every morning when I can’t find it, knowing that an eye-rolling and a “Here we go again” is coming my way).

So I made it to work, realize that I forgot my id card to get into the building, and had to beg my way inside. I managed to negotiate a deal with my boss to let me leave early today and come in tomorrow morning to make up missed time (ridiculous that I have to get off of work early from one job just to go to another). I pulled out my checkbook so I could write a few checks and pay my long overdue utility bills when I realized that I must have left said bills on top of my car when I was trying to get the door unstuck. So there’s that. By the time I finally managed to sit down and get some work done (I put some Benny Goodman on my headphones to encourage good humor), my computer starts acting up.

This is not my day.

Hopefully the rest of the weekend will not follow suit. Tomorrow I will be going to out to a club in Lakewood to hear a band and to celebrate my friend Jess’s birthday. Sometime this weekend I’ll be getting measured for a bridesmaid dress (which I will *try* to do without complaining), and the rest of the weekend I plan to drink wine and clean my house, which is bordering on really gross at this point.

But right now, I fully intend to read my new AP and forage for food. I’m sure some cosmic event will come along to muck it all up, so wish me luck.