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Okay, I surrender. Life has officially kicked my ass, culminating in a spectacular, week-long coup de gras involving crazy cat Julia, Liz’s Powerbook, and my now thoroughly bandaged right arm.

In general, I’ve been feeling pretty crappy, too crappy to even whine about things on LiveJournal. Work has been extraordinarily stressful–it’s been “crunch time” since early March, and I’ve lost count of the nights, weekends, and extra hours I’ve put in. To make things even better, I’ve had an especially difficult cycle of depression, much, much worse than the occasional gloomy day or down week that I get every six months or so. Nosiree, I’ve been having a soul-crushing feeling of complete emptiness, which, let me tell you, is a huge productivity boost. Liz has been a saint in putting up with me, but I’ve finally gotten it through my head that a patient wife alone won’t fix my issues, so I think it’s time for me to find some form of professional help to get my metaphorical shit together. Of course, that means I have to figure out when I will be able to do that, but at least it’s a start.

Back to this week… Last Friday I started getting a sore throat. It was worse on Saturday, but I still went into the office for our scheduled “I need you to come in this weekend, mm’kay” day. I spent most of Sunday in bed, my head spinning and full of goo, so that I could be rested enough to go to work on Monday… where my Monday to-do’s kept getting interrupted by more pressing matters. I was still feeling dead enough Monday night that I decided to ditch Clepy and come home to rest more; and it’s a good thing I did, because I was able to be home to play every home owner’s favorite game, “Why Is My Kitchen Ceiling Dripping?” I managed to find and shut off the source of the leak, but now we’ve got more unexpected action items on the “fix the stupid house” list. On Tuesday my cold started to shift out of my head and into my chest, and my still-unfulfilled Monday tasks lost out to again more immediate issues. When I woke up on Wednesday morning, I was coughing in great, uncontrollable fits, and I’d managed to wrench my neck and upper back such that normal motion wasn’t going to happen. Still, I had spillover work from Tuesday’s schedule-derailments, which I then spent most of the day fighting with from home. Yesterday I felt decent enough to go to work, where unplanned spillover from Tuesday and Wednesday’s unplanned work occupied most of the day.

Today, I am mostly recovered from the cold, though still a bit phlegmy, but my neck and back are worse than ever. Liz procured heat wraps and I downed a bunch of Advil; the plan was that I’d spend the day sprawled on my back on the couch, working from home with her laptop. It was a great plan until the cats decided that it was Thunderdome time, and Julia came rocketing onto me at top speed, leaving my arm torn and bleeding and exploding keys off of Liz’s Powerbook.

Liz got me bandaged up, and I managed to get everything reattached except for the “J” key, whose little grabby teeth had been snapped off by the force of the feline impact. She’s off to the Apple Store to see if they stock spare J’s at the Genius Bar, and I’m here waving the white flag at life.

You hear me life? You can let up now. Uncle. UNCLE!!!

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