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Feb. 4th, 2004 08:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
angelophileSo, deadline week is well over now and I probably have recovered enough energy to be almost sentient now. Been a quiet few days that involved lots and lots of sleep. For example, I've had the last 2 days off. Yesterday I slept til 1 in the afternoon. Today I was up at 8, but napped this afternoon for about 4 hours. I'm beyond the point of being surprised now at how much deadline takes out of me. This month was especially bad.
Can't cope with another month quite like that. Need to sort something out for this month so I'm spared that level of strain.
So, what have I been up to over the past few days? Well, Saturday should have been a day of rest. Weirdly I woke up after about 6 hours sleep and had to immediately go down town to run some chores for my dad. Came back to find work had rung and there was a problem with one of the pdf files that I'd supplied to the printers. Unfortunately after a couple of hours fiddling here getting my boss to email me bits and so on so I could recreate the page I gave up and had to go into work. Took me about 5 minutes to redo the page after an hour's drive. Once that was sorted I said what the hell and drove to my local comic shop to pick up this week's comics. Then to Toys R Us where I picked up one of the reissue Starscreams. Woot!
Anyway, so not a total loss.
Sunday was a lazy day. Slept most of the day. Had to go into work on Monday, but basically sat their the whole day doing nothing. My boss had said since I'd worked so much the previous week to go out for a meal at the expense of the company (which was nice, but not -that- generous as he gave a limit on cost. Considering how much extra money I made him this month by doing and setting the extra pages, 50 quid doesn't really equate to the thousands I earned the company).
Anyway, took my sister and her new husband out to a Thai restaurant near them. Excptionally good, had pork and prawn toast, followed by fillet steak strips fried at the table in Thai spices and chilli, with vegetables in oyster sauce and egg fried rice. Then back to my sister's to watch the Hulk on DVD (which none of us had seen) and Ben & Jerry's Cookie Dough ice cream. Mmmmmm.
Was a nice evening anyway.
Had the last two days off work. Mainly just pottered around the house doing stuff and sleeping. Not really got the energy to do anything. I've got a photomanip to finish for the next Heromorph contest but keep putting it off. Had a rehersal for my play last night and have another tomorrow. Seems to be okay but I really need to learn my lines and quick.
Went to the docs this morning for a check up. My lung capacity isn't what it should be, so he's insisting I use the steroid inhaler for my asthma more regularly which I'm not entirely happy about. We talked about my anti-depressants and have lowered the dosage again. Need to sort out work so I can cope with less stress. If that doesn't happen then it's time to search for a new job I guess, which I don't want to do because I -do- enjoy the work and the company most of the time. It is a good company to work for. just wish deadline wasn't so painful.
Anyway, wish me luck with the meds.
Can't cope with another month quite like that. Need to sort something out for this month so I'm spared that level of strain.
So, what have I been up to over the past few days? Well, Saturday should have been a day of rest. Weirdly I woke up after about 6 hours sleep and had to immediately go down town to run some chores for my dad. Came back to find work had rung and there was a problem with one of the pdf files that I'd supplied to the printers. Unfortunately after a couple of hours fiddling here getting my boss to email me bits and so on so I could recreate the page I gave up and had to go into work. Took me about 5 minutes to redo the page after an hour's drive. Once that was sorted I said what the hell and drove to my local comic shop to pick up this week's comics. Then to Toys R Us where I picked up one of the reissue Starscreams. Woot!
Anyway, so not a total loss.
Sunday was a lazy day. Slept most of the day. Had to go into work on Monday, but basically sat their the whole day doing nothing. My boss had said since I'd worked so much the previous week to go out for a meal at the expense of the company (which was nice, but not -that- generous as he gave a limit on cost. Considering how much extra money I made him this month by doing and setting the extra pages, 50 quid doesn't really equate to the thousands I earned the company).
Anyway, took my sister and her new husband out to a Thai restaurant near them. Excptionally good, had pork and prawn toast, followed by fillet steak strips fried at the table in Thai spices and chilli, with vegetables in oyster sauce and egg fried rice. Then back to my sister's to watch the Hulk on DVD (which none of us had seen) and Ben & Jerry's Cookie Dough ice cream. Mmmmmm.
Was a nice evening anyway.
Had the last two days off work. Mainly just pottered around the house doing stuff and sleeping. Not really got the energy to do anything. I've got a photomanip to finish for the next Heromorph contest but keep putting it off. Had a rehersal for my play last night and have another tomorrow. Seems to be okay but I really need to learn my lines and quick.
Went to the docs this morning for a check up. My lung capacity isn't what it should be, so he's insisting I use the steroid inhaler for my asthma more regularly which I'm not entirely happy about. We talked about my anti-depressants and have lowered the dosage again. Need to sort out work so I can cope with less stress. If that doesn't happen then it's time to search for a new job I guess, which I don't want to do because I -do- enjoy the work and the company most of the time. It is a good company to work for. just wish deadline wasn't so painful.
Anyway, wish me luck with the meds.
