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Today is full of suck and lose.
Again, I seem to have been on the recieving end of a highly unfortunate conjunction of circumstances.
I'm currently staying down the coast. There's good reason for this; a 170km round-trip commute does bad things to me, so I've got a room down here I overnight in when I'm at the office.
That's kinda sucky in and of itself, but that's not the major suck here.
This room comes supplied with furniture and linen. When I departed two weeks ago, I left the door unlocked, as the room was full of the scent of a gardenia flower (which, as it turns out, I'm allergic to) and I wanted to clear the air a bit. I left nothing in there that wasn't supplied except a water bottle and a box of tissues. Nothing valuable. Also, the windows don't open. This is annoyance the first.
I get in on Tuesday, and my pillow and blanket are missing. No big deal, really, as I BYO pillow anyhow, and it's summer, won't need a blanket. Not mine anyway. Annoying, because I then don't have anything to hug (I would have brought something had I known). I have no idea how long it's been missing, and I don't want it back without a laundering reciept - I have no idea who has been using either item, and don't care to cuddle up to such a thing that's been used by strangers anyway. This is annoyance the second.
So Tuesday night was (relatively) fine, and I was dealing well.
Last night, I drift off to sleep, with the aircon on 'fan', to give me a bit of ventilation. I wake up, around 11pm, freezing my bits off, as the aircon (as I discover when I stagger downstairs to figure out wtf is going on) is set to a balmy 19C. I reset it rather higher (24C) and go back to my room. I am rather sensitive to cold. Fortunately, I had a dry towel, a rug, and a jumper I could variously use for insulation, so I wrapped myself up and went to sleep. This is annoyance the third.
At this point, I am grouchy, but dealing.
I wake up, feeling sweaty, after dawn. I noticed that the aircon is no longer doing its thing. Being in the not-quite-functional state that I am, I throw off the rug and towel, but forget about the jumper. I wake up at 6am hot, in a hot, stuffy room. Annoyance the fourth.
Now, I'm really quite irritated by the whole deal.
Hopefully, the windows are getting fixed today, which means that most of the above annoyances will no longer apply. I don't think any one person was out to get me ... I think it was a combination of reasonably random, nonmalicious actions, on the part of a variety of individuals with no communication between them.
But I'm still rather down about the whole deal. *sigh*
Things are looking up, though - tomorrow is my sixth wedding anniversary. And I get hugs tonight.
Again, I seem to have been on the recieving end of a highly unfortunate conjunction of circumstances.
I'm currently staying down the coast. There's good reason for this; a 170km round-trip commute does bad things to me, so I've got a room down here I overnight in when I'm at the office.
That's kinda sucky in and of itself, but that's not the major suck here.
This room comes supplied with furniture and linen. When I departed two weeks ago, I left the door unlocked, as the room was full of the scent of a gardenia flower (which, as it turns out, I'm allergic to) and I wanted to clear the air a bit. I left nothing in there that wasn't supplied except a water bottle and a box of tissues. Nothing valuable. Also, the windows don't open. This is annoyance the first.
I get in on Tuesday, and my pillow and blanket are missing. No big deal, really, as I BYO pillow anyhow, and it's summer, won't need a blanket. Not mine anyway. Annoying, because I then don't have anything to hug (I would have brought something had I known). I have no idea how long it's been missing, and I don't want it back without a laundering reciept - I have no idea who has been using either item, and don't care to cuddle up to such a thing that's been used by strangers anyway. This is annoyance the second.
So Tuesday night was (relatively) fine, and I was dealing well.
Last night, I drift off to sleep, with the aircon on 'fan', to give me a bit of ventilation. I wake up, around 11pm, freezing my bits off, as the aircon (as I discover when I stagger downstairs to figure out wtf is going on) is set to a balmy 19C. I reset it rather higher (24C) and go back to my room. I am rather sensitive to cold. Fortunately, I had a dry towel, a rug, and a jumper I could variously use for insulation, so I wrapped myself up and went to sleep. This is annoyance the third.
At this point, I am grouchy, but dealing.
I wake up, feeling sweaty, after dawn. I noticed that the aircon is no longer doing its thing. Being in the not-quite-functional state that I am, I throw off the rug and towel, but forget about the jumper. I wake up at 6am hot, in a hot, stuffy room. Annoyance the fourth.
Now, I'm really quite irritated by the whole deal.
Hopefully, the windows are getting fixed today, which means that most of the above annoyances will no longer apply. I don't think any one person was out to get me ... I think it was a combination of reasonably random, nonmalicious actions, on the part of a variety of individuals with no communication between them.
But I'm still rather down about the whole deal. *sigh*
Things are looking up, though - tomorrow is my sixth wedding anniversary. And I get hugs tonight.
