good news / bad news

[mellowtigger]

It's not Moody Monday yet, but I don't care.

Click to read the good/bad news, such as it is...

• Bad news: I haven't been paying bills recently, and they've backed up.
• Good news: After work today, I looked through a stack of medical letters and paid the only 1 that was actually a bill. Yay!
• Good news: It's the middle of the busiest work time of the year. I survived the weekend daytime shifts.
• Bad news: I bought a bottle of whisky last week, intending it to be available for Monday, the busiest day of the year at work. Instead, I cracked it open after work on Saturday, going to bed around 8:30pm while it was still light outside.
• Good news: Sunday was slightly better, thanks simply to having more people available on the schedule to share the workload. No need for whisky tonight.
• Good/bad news: I heard informally that someone else was hired for that lead tech support position that I interviewed for. I didn't have time to search for any official announcement, because it was too busy at work because we're understaffed with empty positions on the weekend.
• Bad news: During my lunch hour today, somebody was stabbed about a block away from me. Maybe in the eye, judging from the Citizen app summary of it. The app said it was exactly 1010 feet away, which is about 308 meters, an oddly specific number.
• Good news: I confirmed while the many sirens were scrambling to the scene that fire trucks will indeed still go down my block, despite the new roundabout and 2 speed bumps on my block.
• Bad news: Somebody was shot last night after 3am (I was asleep thanks to whisky) about 8 blocks northwest of me, as the crow flies.
• Bad news: Somebody was shot yesterday at the gas station across the intersection from the Cub grocery where I shopped on Friday.
• Good news: The warzone really has been much quieter than usual this year, overall. Maybe it's just my nice new windows that insulate me from the noisy trauma outside now, but it has seemed quieter to me.

So... I just have to survive tomorrow, the busiest work day of the year, then I'm good for another year.

Comments

[upwithmittens]

I hope your busiest day went well!

[mellowtigger]

I survived both the first day and the second day, yay!

First day was everything I expected. Afterward, I drank a glass or two of half whisky and half grapefruit juice, with a few cubes of ice. I have no idea if that's a "real drink" or not. I like all of those things independently, so of course I like them together too. I drank it while watching "Love, Victor" on Disney+. It's an effective combination for getting me out of my previous head space and making my body calm down again.

Second day was significantly lower workload (but still much higher than usual), but more difficult issues. Good news, they're automatically rerouting student death notices, so we don't have to see them any more. I only had a few in the past 2 years, but now we get to notify our supervisors if we happen to receive one, to make sure they get routed without our attention. I'm guessing other people were more distressed by them than I was, having experienced that stress a long time ago when I worked at the Texas Worker's Compensation Commission (which no longer exists as an agency). I did the same routine today with the drink and television, until I had to stop watching the show when the social drama got to be too much. I do actually like this sequel better than "Love, Simon", which was the movie inspiration behind this sort-of-sequel, set at the original high school with new characters after Simon graduated.

It's still an effective combination. I'm not even stressing over the mass shooting in south Minneapolis today. Yay?

One more day, Wednesday, and then I get my "weekend". I'm looking forward to it.

[mellowtigger]

Aaaaand... a worse mass shooting today.

With a few single murders in between, just for spice.

Some days, news does not make for a good work distraction.