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Not very pleasant

By blog on Jul. 9, 2009.

In the past few weeks, I have not been myself. I have been positively unpleasant, at times. It’s because of the huge amount of work due at the moment, and whilst I have been preparing for it for a while now, there’s no escaping those last minute hitches. So yes, I have been grumpy, I have been surly, I have been tired, and I have been exhausted. All in all, not very pleasant.

Things just bother me a heck of a lot more when I am in this stage of exhaustion. For instance, earlier, I went to make some toast. I just wanted some Vegemite toast (yeah, I like that stuff ) and a cup of orange juice. Fine, let’s go for it! But as I was cooking my toast, which I cook under a grill because it is a wide bread that doesn’t fit in a toaster, I smell burning. I whip the toast out, and it is barely cooked at all, not even slightly golden. I put the toast back in there and back to the burning smell. It was really horrible. I think something must have fallen on top of the grill plate, but all I know for certain is that is a very bad smell. And bad smells make me, the surly person, feel even more surly.

I think what it comes down to, is feeling like the smallest desires are being pushed against. You can’t sit down without remembering you have to grab something from the next room. Or you can’t go to bed because you just remembered some silly piece of last minute work you were stuck with that has to be done first thing in the morning. It seems like the simplest of things, even a nice snack, are constantly being thwarted.

For days I have been wanting to get onto LOTRO and go round all the Summer Festival activities, I always really enjoy those, but I haven’t had the chance because of this huge workload. But I have consoled myself with the knowledge that in a few days things will return to normal, and I can have some time to relax.