ARGH!

Thanks for your thoughts on class, all.  It really is a weird thing to contemplate, eh?

What a bad couple of days I’ve had. Holy cow.  For one, the rain continues and I am so not fucking kidding.  The headlines today were "Past the Saturation Point," and they weren’t kidding.  My car needs spark plug wires, which doesn’t affect much UNLESS IT’S RAINING, ahem, so I’ve had to take Dave’s the last few days and he’s had to bum rides.  Yesterday, I got an email from Dave asking me to pick up beer, because of all the doors at the station garage, the one that the last vehicle available was behind refused to open, and he spent 10 minutes trying. Which meant that he was soaked, and never got lunch.  Hence, the beer request.

I got the beer, after splashing through town (several areas flooded yesterday) to Rite-Aid, because I am also looking for a certain brand of shampoo and so far Target, CVS, Brooks, and now Rite-Aid don’t have it.  On my way from Rite-Aid to the lab for another beta (to check that my HCG is dropping appropriately) the six pack tipped over.  Not only did it tip OVER, but three bottles slid under the passenger seat, so i couldn’t fix it at a stoplight.  At that point, I decided ‘fuck it,’ and just drove home instead.  Our backyard (that has YET to be MOWED THIS YEAR, on account of the rain) was a lake of standing water.  Past the saturation point, indeed.  When Dave got home, he wet-vac’ed up 10 gallons of water from the basement.

Today was our class canoe trip on the Penobscot.  It DID stop raining, just as the bus arrived at the Salmon Club, but it stayed gray and cool all day.  (Honestly, for paddling I prefer that — no bugs, paddling keeps you warm, no glare, etc)  We paddled down to the Wastewater Treatment Center (aka: Poop Plant) for a tour and free pizza.  Nothing like wastewater to gross out a bunch of middle school kids.  (Interestingly, and related to class, some of the kids were asking the guy leading us around why he’d want to work with POOP, and his answer was "I make 70,000 dollars a year taking care of the environment, that’s why."  Never thought of it that way, did you?  I know I didn’t.)  We then paddled from the PP to a marina, and bussed back home, a little late, but we had one of the buses that takes kids home so we held up kids (and teachers) from getting off to their long weekend. Whatev.

I came home, exhausted from paddling and the weather and the week and I got online and talked to jeanne for awhile, marveling over the digs upgrade, when I decided I was just TOO TIRED and needed a nap.  I was SO tired thought, that I had a monumental lapse in judgment and let go of my iBook before it was securely on the table, and well, it had an 18 inch drop to the hardwoods, and landed on it’s spine. And then. Promptly. refused. TO START.

That was it.  I bellowed a loud "FUUUUUUCCCKKK!!!!" and went to my bed and cried.  My car won’t start, my iBook won’t start, and I havent had sex in fucking MONTHS because the bleeding hasn’t stopped.  It stops for a day, and I’m waiting for 2 dry days in a row before I get it on, to make sure there is no infection, etc, and I’ve had several singular dry days, but today, it was back. AND AND AND. I had no backup of my iBook files. I know. ME.  But this iBook has just a CDR drive, and it’s one of the reasons I am excited for my new iBook, just simply to have a CDRW drive.  But don’t get me wrong, I HAVE a fabulous CDRW (52x!) drive … that I’ve used maybe twice because it’s external and I hate wires.  I know I used it once for burning a disc for a wedding I shot, and the second time was to burn my portfolio discs in December 2003. So, yeah. I suck.

When I woke up, though, Dave was looming over me and said "I fixed it. So you’re okay." THANK GOD.  I have no idea what he fixed, or how, but it started, and everything is just peachy now.  And tomorrow I will be burning so many CDs it’s not funny.  I spent tonight purging and such, and the most important stuff is my photos, so I’ll burn those first, and then my portfolio, and my writing, and then all the miscellany. But still. What a fucking scare. MAKE BACKUPS!

And tomorrow dave is replacing the spark plug wires (I originally typoed that as ‘worries,’ hmmmm) so I’ll have my car back.  And the sun is tentatively slated to return on TUESDAY. I am so not kidding.

Next week is the 8th grade rafting trip, and I had not planned to raft because I was supposed to be all pregnant and shit, but now that I’m not, I’m going to do the trip again with the kids instead of wimping around on ropes. Yay!  I hope that the weather improves enough for the Th/Fri trip to be a fun one.

One thought on “ARGH!

  1. I hear you on the shampoo thing…I’m looking for Te Tao. CVS in MA had it, but I can’t find it anywhere out here!

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