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[cosmolinguist]

I said a couple weeks ago that I'd have an "informal chat" about a voluntary position that actually pays money, but I didn't follow up to say that it wasn't actually that day at all, I'd misread the date (in an email I read while I was in a meeting, to be fair to me) and it was actually scheduled for today.

Something else I mention in that linked entry was that I wasn't working that next Friday morning but that I would be after that. This means that I'd been silly to say "yeah, that Friday morning works for me!" But the meeting was at 9, I start work at 10, the walk takes half an hour, surely I could expect an "informal chat" interview to be done by 9:30. This just meant I had to get up early enough to get showered and dressed, have breakfast, make lunch, give Gary breakfast and meds, and do everything else before 9 so I'd be ready to leave the house right after my meeting.

The plan went well (and the meeting went well! I was successful so now I'm officially in Transport for Greater Manchester's disability consultant group) except that I didn't have time to walk Gary. I thought I could sneak away and someone else could walk him at lunchtime, but then he looked so excited when he saw me with my coat on that I couldn't let him down. I figured I had time for one of his five-minute walks which is about all he's been interested in most of the time lately. So of course today was a meandering, slow walk that eventually I had to drag him home from and I was 20 minutes late for work.

I was a little worried about how full-on a day it'd be, one thing after the other with no break, since I had so little sleep. My usual sleep-maintenance insomnia was joined last night by the regular kind of insomnia so I was awake until somewhere around two and yet woke up at 6:30 and couldn't get back to sleep.

Work went okay but I've done nothing at all since, except put some laundry away and make fajitas for dinner.

Comments

[sfred]

<3

I'm glad the meeting went well.

[cosmolinguist]

Me too! I'd put so much work into it by this point (realizing the application deadline was sooner than I thought, finishing it at a rather fraught time for me, then hearing the deadline was extended and worrying that meant I didn't have enough competition yet, not being able to think of anything to add to my application and worrying about that, having six weeks to forget everything in it, then having this meeting later than I'd originally expected...) that I'd have been unreasonably cross if it hadn't worked out. :)

[jesse_the_k]

Holy hell insomnia is terrible.

(I'm amazed you can accomplish so much on so little sleep.)

(Saying no to a needy dog is impossible.)

[cosmolinguist]

I am a chronic insomniac, used to going on about five hours of sleep for days at a time. It was certainly easier to manage before I completely lost my ability to nap in the last couple of months, but I'm still able to get by, more or less. :)

[otter]

I'm impressed that you were able to put laundry away and make dinner after all that.

Congrats on getting the new gig

[cosmolinguist]

I considered not making dinner, tbh, but I really wanted fajitas. :) I'd planned to make them yesterday and then didn't, so I really wanted to now.

The laundry had already gone ignored long enough. :) I don't have enough clothes to be happy leaving it for too long.

[otter]

Neither of those justifications you give is usually enough to get me to do them after a long enough day. Well done.

[silveradept]

Good that everything turned out all right in the end.

[momentsmusicaux]

Congratulations!

[mrs_leroy_brown]

Hooray for you and echo the mad props for doing so whilst battling the constant tyranny of not enough sleep.