Apollymi

whoops

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 02:35:07 GMT

Okay, y'all, I suck. Work has been eating me alive. I hate the first week of classes, especially now that I'm the only person left in the department. I'm drowning, and I'm pretty sure no one really cares...

... especially because it looks like someone forgot to tick a box and renew my "Apollymi does every for the Askew School" bonus. So yeah, I'm a bit... tetchy, and if it stays gone, I'm quite tempted to only do my actual job.

(I said that to two people, and I swear to you: I watched both of them lose two shades.

So... we'll see if I can keep up posting most days.

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Called it

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 08:27:55 GMT

Got in to work today. When I left off yesterday, I had about 30 emails (38 according to the outlook counter when I walked in this morning.) By the time the day ended, I had received 86 new emails. I really, really fucking hate the first week of semester. And this year, for whatever dumbass reason, FSU had staff start back on the same day that classes start back, so we are trying to do all the administrative tasks on top of all the student requests for enrollment -- which closes Thursday.

I had two professors that ended up getting a bulleted list of why they need to tell me stuff instead of expecting me to read their minds. I really don't like sending bulleted lists, but I also have no problem doing it... and copying Keon on it.

I also had my first grant writing class. Seems like it'll be interesting.

So yeah, fucking first week of new semester.

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Failing HARRDDD

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 03:03:10 GMT

Yeah, this is going to be a year of me failing hard at remembering to hit post on these entries.

I have a lot of worry about going back to work tomorrow. It's going to be so insane. I did check my messages earlier tonight, and there's about 30-something. I dread to think how many I'm going to get by the end of the day tomorrow.

It's just going to be absolute hell. I hate the first week of semester.

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Y'all....

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 00:30:22 GMT

I'm seriously apparently going to be so bad at this. Guess who forgot again,

I still need to go back and write my New Years Resolutions. I seriously keep putting it off because I (1) just can't remember what I used to do and (2) am not sure what is appropriate for the shit show approaching.

I do think I need to focus on getting more applications out there. I need to save money. We're making some hella plans.

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So....

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 22:28:41 GMT

So let's see, continuing with the fun medical mishaps.

Most of the other medical mishaps do tend to revolve around other people. The coworker has had so many medical mishaps of her own that she is now on half-time FMLA, leaving me pretty much the only full-time worker. We've cycled through admin staff pretty damn quickly in the last few years, so we'll see how long the current one lasts... the one who has the same name as me. That's not going to be confusing at all.

However, I'm running ragged. My position is supposed to be split in half at some point soon, but I don't know when that will be happening. Frankly, it can't be soon enough. I'm drowning.

ETA: Apparently, I'm also going to sleep with the laptop in my lap without hitting post. This is an old, bad habit. I'll have to get this one sort back out.

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January 2

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 07:04:41 GMT

Hey, Day 2 back on the daily blogging.

I'm honestly sitting here watching TheClick, pretty by myself now, since katsuko has dropped off. Honestly, mostly, I'm just trying to do pain management.

At some point between 2020 and 2021, I ended up with a small tear in my left shoulder. It only got worse during 2022 through 2023 and 2024, and so I got my primary doctor to refer me to first a physical therapist then an orthopedic doctor. That went... poorly.

( A tale of shoulder woes )

And then last October happened. Y'all, during our anniversary trip back to Atlanta, we were staying on the north side of the city -- in the actual city of Alpharetta -- and got hit by a fucking deer. It totalled the car I've only had since June 2021. So yeah, fuck deer. It meant we had to deal with Progressive to get paid out for the remaining value of the car, get a new car dealt with, try to start getting it settled how we want it...

And to top it all off, the wreck further tore my shoulder. Yep, small tear in my rotator cuff is now a medium-ish one, enough that I was sent back to my orthopedic surgeon. I saw his APRN on the 26th, and we're going to get a surgery scheduled once the APRN and surgeon have looked over my CT scan and all. So... wheeeee!

And that's sort of where everything is at going into 2025, health-wise. Tomorrow? Something else.

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Guess who's back

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 20:21:55 GMT

I'm going to try to do a post a day again for 2025.

I'm not sure what I'm going to going to talk about for a year -- probably work, homework, and classwork at this time point, honestly -- but I'm gonna give it a go.

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Guess who??

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 22:12:24 GMT

I'm going to try to start making at least weekly posts again, though I guess we'll see how long that lasts. Right now, with how busy things are, I'm hopeful that once a week with be doable.

Let's see, since the last entry...

Copperfield is still his crazy little self. Samara is remains sassy. Luci is still her hot-and-cold alternating love-then-avoidant kitty self.

Because I'm out of my mind, I started in on my Specialist of Digital Information degree. If I'm figuring correctly -- and I think I am -- I should finish in December 2025. When I do, I'll have a MSI/MLIS, a Specialist of Digital Information, a graduate certificate of Library User Services, and a graduate certificate in Information Architecture, all between 2020 and then. If I took more classes at a time, I could probably finish sooner, but I'm trying not to overload myself -- and I don't want to have to pay taxes on my classes again, which I have to once my university scholarship hits a certain amount ($5,250 to be exact), so I'm not taking classes in summer... but I'm also trying not to overwhelm myself where I can.

Somewhere around August, I managed to do... something to my arm that has just left it so sore. I've been in physical therapy since November for it. I've seen my PT person at least 6 times since then, and all I've become is more sore. I've seen no improvement in my left arm. Hell, I'd say I can use it even less. So I'm going to be try a new PT person as soon as I get a call from them.

But have I written anything? Haha, that'd be too much like good. Nope, haven't written a word.

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nye

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 11:13:50 GMT

katsuko and I had a fairly relaxing New Years Eve here at home. We did decide to drive to Dorothy Oven Park to (at last) go see the free holiday light show before they take it down for the season. My favorite remains either the Christmas Dragon or the Christmas Gator. That's sort of how I roll.

Anyway, yeah, the fireworks are going crazy, so we're staying up till they quiet down so the cats can pretend to be comforted.

And that's the end of 2022.

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today

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 10:05:43 GMT

I don't think next year's resolutions will include posting something every day. I might try to post some thing once a week or once a month, but this every day thing is kind of killing me.

Anyway, Mum came today. We had lunch at Tijuana Flats, since she fell in love with it in Daytona Beach and it's one of the easiest places for me to eat gluten-free here in town. After that, we walked around Maclay Gardens a bit, went to REI and tried to shoes, grabbed some ice cream at Lofty Pursuits, and then came back to the house for her to drop me off.

As always, a whirlwind visit, but a nice one.

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a little nicer

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 10:01:48 GMT

Some more improvement to the weather. Of course, it's supposed to rain Friday night or Saturday morning, so who knows what will come with that. But that's not right now. Right now, Mum's coming tomorrow around 10:00-ish.

So that's the plan.

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another quiet day

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 09:49:48 GMT

The weather is finally starting to warm up a bit. That's good because Mum and I were going back and forth on when either I'm going up to visit with her or she's coming down to visit with me right up until 11:00 this morning.

If I went up, it was going to be today and meet her in Valdosta to see Hayden re-swear in with the Air Force ROTC. But apparently, he stayed up too late with all his little friends, they're very tired, and so it's going to be a very quick Valdosta trip, not even including a meal.

So we're doing our get together on Friday. Plan? Plan.

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another quiet day

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 09:45:54 GMT

So, we did the "going to watch paint dry" thing today. All I can say is, damn, the painter is fast.

katsuko and I got there at about 8:05. They had already painted all of the walls and three of the door frames. The door frames, incidentally, were the main reason I was there to help out: it would be easier for them to paint those if the doors were open.

Either way, I ended up stay there until around 2:30 or 3:00. They'll be back tomorrow, but they worked late today so that no one from FSU has to come babysit them again tomorrow.

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another quiet day

Tue, 27 Dec 2022 13:34:11 GMT

We had a nice, fairly quiet day. We still need to get the exercise bike put together, though it's going to break Samara's heart if we get rid of her box. We might have to leave the box in the dining room for a few days even after it's put together.

Today was a quiet, at home day. Tomorrow I have to go babysit the office. That's going to be fun. But I'm sure I'll fine something to do to keep things occupied, I'm sure.

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a holiday

Tue, 27 Dec 2022 07:43:08 GMT

We gave the kitties their present today: a whole bag of cat toys (and catnip) spread between them. It's been pretty comical watching Little Man with the nip, the little that Luci let him have. Mostly, he's been enjoying the jingle balls that came in the pack.

Samara even actually got to play with some of the toys -- and did -- which was even more amazing. She's not the most fun-loving baby, that one. So that was nice.

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Christmas eve

Sun, 25 Dec 2022 12:32:53 GMT

We left the house exactly long enough to grab food. I looked at the some of the places where I could try to pick up some of the other last minute things I want and how the lines were, and so nothing else happened.

Because I suck.

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Cold

Sun, 25 Dec 2022 12:26:43 GMT

That cold front finally hit us like a freight train today. We didn't venture outside at all.

I meant to, though. I was going to go to Tractor Supply and... somewhere for a cooler and hay for the outside stray.

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Another fairly quiet day

Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:18:14 GMT

I'm living for these fairly quiet days. (I don't think the kitty babies are: their meals have not been anywhere close to on time. Whoops. We need to work on that.)

That said, I could sleep for a week myself.

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Nice quiet day

Fri, 23 Dec 2022 01:06:55 GMT

We've had a nice quiet day today. I mean, the most we did was go get cat food from Petco and... yeah, that's about it.

I could live with more days like this.

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Freedom

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 18:55:08 GMT

Freedom! At least for a little while, to January 3rd. It'll be damned nice to have some time away from work. I'm really looking forward to that... except where I have to go back on campus next Tuesday to babysit the painters.

But still...

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Monday countdown

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 09:21:39 GMT

So it begins: the countdown is on to the winter break.

I intended to spend the entire day working on travel. Instead, we had academic probations and academic dismissals come in today, and those were a lot of emails that had to be answered pretty much immediately because those were a lot of students freaking the hell out. (All of you knew what your grades were. You knew what was required to stay in the program. Why is it a shock?)

Still, I at least got Tian's done. Why do the professors' travel have to be 10x harder than the students' travel? I can knock out three or four students travel reports in an hour. It might take me 2 or 3 hours on one professor because they have all these little idiosyncrasies: this comes from this account, this is paid by this grant, etc.

Anyway, going to try to finish everything up tomorrow and deal with the painters that didn't come today.

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Where did my weekend go?

Mon, 19 Dec 2022 09:52:32 GMT

Okay, rhetorical question: it went to sleep and YouTube videos. As always, I didn't get anything done that I meant to do. No shock there.

Anyone done the cat exercise wheel thing? I keep thinking that might help run off some of Baby's energy... or let Luci and Samara run off some weight. I don't know: I keep seeing people on YouTube with them and keep wondering.

Back to work for two days next week. I've got a lot to do in those two days, so it's time to buckle down and get as much done as I can... while also needing to deal with the painters that will be starting tomorrow.

I think one of my holiday projects is going to be working on my desktop, trying to get it back up to speed. The more I've had to use it for work, the slower it's gotten, and I do not approve. The laptop is slower too, but I'm going to work on that along.

So... yeah.

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Saturday? I think?

Mon, 19 Dec 2022 08:41:06 GMT

Honestly, I'm so confused what day it is. The kitties have been having their little tiffs, so I've been sleeping downstairs with them, which does not lend well towards coherency.

To any effect, I feel vaguely accomplished with myself for buying up some of the things I've been needing to buy in the personal care section at Target... but in such a way that I got a series of $10 coupons... and well... now I have a total of $65 worth of Target coupons saved up. I'm sure we'll need them at some point.

And yeah...

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Finally!

Mon, 19 Dec 2022 08:05:15 GMT

I swear, Friday takes longer and longer to get here every week, and I spend more and more time trying to get through more and more stuff.

I finished Gare Bear's big project, even if I half-assed it a bit towards the end. I even made it through a few travel documents that I've been letting sit for a bit (because I've been drowning in everything else).

So I guess it was a fairly productive Friday.

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Drowning

Mon, 19 Dec 2022 07:25:23 GMT

I'm going to absolutely strangle Gare Bear if he doesn't stop piling on more and more work on top of what he's already given me and expecting me to get all of it done at the same time. I have a project due tomorrow that I need to be finishing up, not dealing with the twelve (on average) emails a day I get from him.

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