16 oz. of water at a time...
Jan. 30th, 2019 03:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
demakatWe got optional PTO or UTO to take the day off without risking racking up attendance points because it was literally -20 out, with a windchill of at least -45. The answer is painful, it feels painful. There's weirdness around the whole points thing that I don't understand and I don't really love my designated HR person. I just get the feeling that anything I say is just me not having read the rules and she knows all the rules so listen here child. I don't even want to go near the potential of that happening. I got told that they waived the point's I'd gotten from clocking in late from lunch and tried to take that as well as I could. I thought it was weird when they paid for your lunch, and it is, it also means that you need to take exactly a half hour because otherwise you're late and that'll be 1/10th to a 1/4 of a point out of 10 for a rolling year. Where are the points listed? No idea. Probably you have to ask the HR person. hah ahaha hahaha whatever ~
Clearly I'm still working through this.
Been sick since sunday and it's been a wild fucking ride. I don't know if its because I haven't been sick in so long, or if I'm doing all the things to take the express train through this sickness. I have gone from throat tickle >chest cold?..! > Head cold? > head cold with excessive sneezing > to sort of runny nose??? I've been keeping majorly on top of my hydration. Gotta pee? cool why don't you drink some water first. Refill the bottle while you're near a sink! Lemons? yes! more tea! So either keeping hydrated is helping or this cold is just very dry? I don't really get nose bleeds, but that was sort of happening. So I'm either majorly dying inside or hydrating is keeping me from being overwhelmed with boogers. I need to be mostly better by friday though because I'm going to visit friends in Austin.
I don't know how to feel about going to see people in austin. I think I'm afraid I'll fall in love with a place I've decided to hate from a distance. Though it's easy to not love it when I remember summers there get terrible and I'd rather turn on a space heater and shuffle around in a sleeping bag than deal with being too gross and hot. I'm also going back into a group of people I basically never interacted with much outside of work. And into, what feels for me, new friendship. I'm very uncomfortable with people who like me even when I'm being a giant complainy dramatic weirdo. I don't know what they like, so I can't ...perform basically. Going into this trip I have no idea what my role is. I won't have anyone to help, I'm just going to visit with friends. I feel like a cross between a cool travel bro and a young toad witch shaped like a potato.
cool tech-toad witch, with a healthy helping of potato.
I would draw that, but most of my burst of energy got taken up writing all this, and it feels like a sneeze is stuck in my face.
I tweeted earlier about how it's great when you need chapstick and turn around to find it right there. Then I moved that chapstick with me to another part of my room and now...it's not here when I need it. I have not yet reached chapstick saturation. one or two more sets of the two-packs should do it.
... I have to remember to take the knives out of my backpack to go on a plane.
Clearly I'm still working through this.
Been sick since sunday and it's been a wild fucking ride. I don't know if its because I haven't been sick in so long, or if I'm doing all the things to take the express train through this sickness. I have gone from throat tickle >chest cold?..! > Head cold? > head cold with excessive sneezing > to sort of runny nose??? I've been keeping majorly on top of my hydration. Gotta pee? cool why don't you drink some water first. Refill the bottle while you're near a sink! Lemons? yes! more tea! So either keeping hydrated is helping or this cold is just very dry? I don't really get nose bleeds, but that was sort of happening. So I'm either majorly dying inside or hydrating is keeping me from being overwhelmed with boogers. I need to be mostly better by friday though because I'm going to visit friends in Austin.
I don't know how to feel about going to see people in austin. I think I'm afraid I'll fall in love with a place I've decided to hate from a distance. Though it's easy to not love it when I remember summers there get terrible and I'd rather turn on a space heater and shuffle around in a sleeping bag than deal with being too gross and hot. I'm also going back into a group of people I basically never interacted with much outside of work. And into, what feels for me, new friendship. I'm very uncomfortable with people who like me even when I'm being a giant complainy dramatic weirdo. I don't know what they like, so I can't ...perform basically. Going into this trip I have no idea what my role is. I won't have anyone to help, I'm just going to visit with friends. I feel like a cross between a cool travel bro and a young toad witch shaped like a potato.
cool tech-toad witch, with a healthy helping of potato.
I would draw that, but most of my burst of energy got taken up writing all this, and it feels like a sneeze is stuck in my face.
I tweeted earlier about how it's great when you need chapstick and turn around to find it right there. Then I moved that chapstick with me to another part of my room and now...it's not here when I need it. I have not yet reached chapstick saturation. one or two more sets of the two-packs should do it.
... I have to remember to take the knives out of my backpack to go on a plane.
