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I found a little problem with how the Main ME page sorts recently commented on entries, and now I get to modify the code of two or three dozen pages! Hooray!

I know, I know. I’m awake now. I could be cleaning the kitchen, doing the dishes, taking out the trash, doing my laundry… Instead I’m working on things on my computer that need updating. I’m posting to my blog. I’m tracking what I eat in another blog. I’m balancing my checkbook in Quicken. I’m drawing a new comic strip. I’m listening to the CDs I got from Burn, Baby Burn.

Actually, I’m going to bed soon. I need to be able to wake up in the morning. Makes it a lot easier to get to work on time, I find. Maybe I’ll post about my feelings tomorrow.

Just before Zoe arrived on Sunday, I cleaned the dishes & the counter so that we would have space to work. By the end of the adventure, just about every dish I own had been used, and many of the bowls used and washed several times. More garbage was generated in one afternoon than my household normally produces in a week, and I did not have the opportunity to do my laundry because I was busy making specialty foods. As always on Sunday nights, I was awake late watching TV (though not as late as normal due to a well-timed re-run), and have consequently found myself napping in the afternoons when I get home from work. I’ve fallen behind. My kitchen is an awful mess, I’m running out of clean clothes, and when I get home from work I’m too tired to address these issues.

I had some other things come up recently that stood in my way of getting Modern Evil finished and online by my own deadline. Today I spent the whole day working on catching up on that, and at least the site is there. There are some problems with the layout from where I’m sitting because of the unpredictable ways IE5/Mac interprets float, but other than that, everything came together in s reasonable way. A few more days late than I had hoped, but still usable.

I feel like I’m typing this so I don’t have to type about the real issues. So I don’ have to face my real feelings. I feel like I won’t be as likely to type anything on Modern Evil or FYTH in May because I’ll want to focus all my words into getting the novel done. What ever happened to my post on that? Huh. I guess I’ll have to take a look for that around here somewhere. I know I started something.

This morning when I woke up, I don’t remember having a headache. Still, I seem to have more of the same headache from last night, now that I’m back at work. I’d like to belive it’s a problem with the glare from the awful, awful lights here. Other people have complained about getting headaches from the lights here, so at least I wouldn’t be imagining it if I thought that was it. I hope it isn’t just stress. If I’m getting so stressed out just by coming to work that I have painful headaches, I’m pretty bad off.

I have a headache again this afternoon. Nothing serious. A far cry from a migraine. Maybe from not enough sleep. Maybe from not enough water or too much salt or … I don’t know what. Probably a combination of not enough sleep and some emotional distress and some old fashioned stress. I don’t know how that self-evaluation I turned in is going to go over. I’m afrain to go back and re-read what I put down, for fear that it was just as bad or worse than what I started with. Because I know I recognized even in an incensed state that what I was putting down the first time was too much.

My headache started before I left work. I guess I was trying to help some difficult customers and humor Sara (even though for reasons I do not wish to discuss right now, I did not want to chat with her today) and ignore a cake that just wouldn’t stop staring at me and… I started to get a painful headache. It had pierced on and off all afternoon, occassionally waking me while I tried to sleep from about 5-6:30 this afternoon. (Of course, interrupted sleep is something I’m pretty used to. I’m pretty sure I have mild sleep apnea. Hooray!)

I’m going to brush my teeth and go to bed now, but I took a couple of these and a few of those about half an hour ago so I could (hopefully) get to sleep now. The headache is nearly numbed. Good night.