Oh, get your mind out of the gutter. I'm talking about happy endings to bad days. I started my day today feeling pretty damned good. I am officially back at the weight I thought had become a pipe dream...my Personal Best Since High School weight, which I haven't seen for about 2 years now. Which is quite fortuitous, as it's only a week until the wedding I was trying to look good for - YAY!! However, my day started to take a serious turn for the worse, as I took the bus out to FedEx to pick up the bridesmaid dress for said wedding and pay the import duties that FedEx was going to want from me before they would let me have said dress - BOO!! Then, back on the bus, with a stop at the mall on the way to work to have the dress altered because, contrary to what dress manufacturers seem to think, we ladies do not need a foot of extra fabric at the bottom of our skirts and THIS lady does not need the world to be checking out our lingerie above the neckline of our tasteful and appropriate bridesmaid dress. When this particular tailor shop was recommended to me, I was not aware that they were going to be sewing the hemline with THREAD MADE FROM THE FUR OF ENDANGERED MARMOTS, WHICH THEY MUST BE DOING FOR THE PRICE I PAID (are there any endangered marmots? There had better be...) All told, I dropped $100 before lunch on alterations and import duties - BOO!! Not fun. Now, I may have a better salary now than I had as a grad student, but I'm not making as much as a typical postdoc because my boss doesn't have a lot of grant money to cover me at the moment. It's enough to live on, but with my financial messiness back home in those expensive American dollars, I'm still living on a tight budget. Toronto is expensive. Even without marmot alterations. So the whole way to work, I'm thinking about what little treats I had my hopes up for this month (YAY!) that I'm now going to forgo (BOO!), and that's just freaking depressing as all get-out. So I finally get to work, at about 11:30 (because, of course, the mall doesn't open until 10 anyway), and the setup that I need to work on is occupied - BOO! When you're already in a foul-ass mood, little things like that just seriously tork you off even more. I go outside to fill up my water bottle, and run into the VGLM - YAY!! This is the first bright spot in my day since I got off of the scale - I vent my frustrations to the VGLM for a while, ask him to tell me something happy, only to find out that most of the things going on in his life aren't exactly going swimmingly, so at least we commisserate a bit. Hey, bonding is bonding, and I'll take bondage...er, bondING with the VGLM any way I can get it. Seriously, SO dreamy. And hey, at least I was looking relatively skinny and cute today - YAY!! And I come back into the lab, and the guy using the setup is finishing up, so I'll get to use it - YAY!! Except when I try to, one of the weak spots in the ground wire breaks entirely - BOO!! So now I'm trying to figure out what I can do with the rest of my completely ineffectual, unproductive day that might be somewhat effectual or productive, and a labmate (and my Male Canadian Alter Ego) calls from Chemistry. I happen to mention said wiring problem, and he offers to help - YAY!!! Except, being my MCAE, he insists on giving me a hard time the entire time - BOO!! - which normally I take pretty well but today am absolutely not in the mood for. So after he sauters my wire (which sounds dirty but I assure you is not), he makes me go back over to Chemistry with him for donuts (YAY) that I can't eat (BOO!!!) because of that whole trying-to-be-skinny thing. Finally, I come back over to my lab at about 5:30 and START working on my devices to see if they actually work the way they're supposed to, after spending a whole week trying to make them...
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And with that, I shall end this rambling and not terribly interesting post. If you've made it this far, gentle reader, then you must really love me.
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