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Jun. 30th, 2012 02:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreThings:
- So, I forgot I had to work today. I only work every fourth Saturday, which usually works out to one Saturday a month and I had already worked one in June. However, this year, June has five Saturdays. Fortunately, some time ago, I set up an email reminder for the Saturdays that I work so I was informed when I read my email this morning that today was a workday. Also fortunately, we don't open till 1 on Saturdays, so I didn't have to be here till 12 and so was in no danger of being late.
- On a related note, do you ever get irritated at people because they compliment you for stuff that you only manage to do because your brain doesn't work properly? For instance, I am chronically, compulsively punctual. I am never, ever late. This is not because I have magical punctuality powers - it is because I have anxiety and the thought of walking in to something late and having everyone look at me makes me want to curl up into a tiny little ball and cry. So, yes, that means I'm never late. It also means that I spend a lot of my time waiting for things to start, that I get irrationally upset if my routines get knocked off course, that the cushion of time that I leave between needing to leave home and needing to be somewhere is steadily creeping longer and longer (it takes about 15 minutes to get to work - I leave about 40 minutes before my shift starts), that there's a lot of stress in my life related to being on time. I like being punctual but I don't want to do a lot of this stuff. I would like to be able to be punctual like normal people. So, y'know, I know that people who admire that trait and say so mean well but some days, it really sounds like "I'm so glad your brain hates you!"
- Brighter note! I get to take my morning shift off on Monday (due to some kind of holiday-plus-staff-meeting-flex-time thing), which means that I don't have to be at work till 2. So that's nice.
- Oh my god, people! The correct answer to "It looks like you have a lost item on your record" is still not "Oh, that's not lost - that's under my bed!" It's been overdue for four weeks! Bring it back!
- So, I got The Wicker Tree from Netflix and it's been sitting on my floor for about a week. Has anyone seen this? Is it any good at all? I think I will try to watch it tonight and see how things go.
- So, I forgot I had to work today. I only work every fourth Saturday, which usually works out to one Saturday a month and I had already worked one in June. However, this year, June has five Saturdays. Fortunately, some time ago, I set up an email reminder for the Saturdays that I work so I was informed when I read my email this morning that today was a workday. Also fortunately, we don't open till 1 on Saturdays, so I didn't have to be here till 12 and so was in no danger of being late.
- On a related note, do you ever get irritated at people because they compliment you for stuff that you only manage to do because your brain doesn't work properly? For instance, I am chronically, compulsively punctual. I am never, ever late. This is not because I have magical punctuality powers - it is because I have anxiety and the thought of walking in to something late and having everyone look at me makes me want to curl up into a tiny little ball and cry. So, yes, that means I'm never late. It also means that I spend a lot of my time waiting for things to start, that I get irrationally upset if my routines get knocked off course, that the cushion of time that I leave between needing to leave home and needing to be somewhere is steadily creeping longer and longer (it takes about 15 minutes to get to work - I leave about 40 minutes before my shift starts), that there's a lot of stress in my life related to being on time. I like being punctual but I don't want to do a lot of this stuff. I would like to be able to be punctual like normal people. So, y'know, I know that people who admire that trait and say so mean well but some days, it really sounds like "I'm so glad your brain hates you!"
- Brighter note! I get to take my morning shift off on Monday (due to some kind of holiday-plus-staff-meeting-flex-time thing), which means that I don't have to be at work till 2. So that's nice.
- Oh my god, people! The correct answer to "It looks like you have a lost item on your record" is still not "Oh, that's not lost - that's under my bed!" It's been overdue for four weeks! Bring it back!
- So, I got The Wicker Tree from Netflix and it's been sitting on my floor for about a week. Has anyone seen this? Is it any good at all? I think I will try to watch it tonight and see how things go.
