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A night of uninterrupted sleep. That's all I ask.

Night before last, I was awoken at three in the morning by a howling thunderstorm, which...I don't have issues with storms, in fact I like rain and I like thunder and lightning and I kind of even like power outages, because it's like camping. At the same time, however, this storm was way more intense than I've usually encountered, which could possibly be due in part to me living on the top floor of a building for the first time.

Anyway, the thunder and lightning didn't freak me out but I had some kind of brief psychotic break about the safety and integrity of my home, so at three am I got up and checked all my windows and doors, including the INTERIOR DOOR, and then contemplated some kind of insulation for my A/C window unit so that the rain wouldn't somehow rebound into my room from the outside, and then worried that I should put up some kind of barrier that would prevent my electrocution should lightning strike it. In the sober light of day this is all CRAZY SHIT, and I know that, and yet it seemed logical at the time.

Last night, I was woken at one am by pounding on the door. It turned out to be Crazy Awesome Irish Super, who informed me a) a pipe from my water supply had broken and was pouring water into the flat below me, b) he was fixing it but I might not have water in the morning, and c) nice pyjamas. This is the guy who once brought me cookies at the same time as informing me my rent was late, so I took the whole pyjamas thing in stride.

So I was up for about an hour worrying that my downstairs neighbours would hate me, that I wouldn't have water this morning (I did), and that the water damage was going to cause my floor to collapse (it didn't). Again, I know that none of this is rational. And yet.

So tonight what I would like is to go to bed at, say, ten pm and sleep straight through till, say, five am, without interruption. I don't know what I've done to piss off water lately but I'm very sorry for whatever it was.

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Hey, you know what's awesome? Pseudephedrine.

I have a reasonably high tolerance for OTC medication, but the Aleve-D I took this morning to try and kill the headache is working really well. Between the mild sleep-dep and the strong drugs I'm not going to get anything done today, but I wouldn't have got anything done anyway if I were in pain all day.

BossBoss sent out an email this morning to my colleagues, his boss, and the sister department we work with a lot, which said in part

I’m cutting out of here on vacation. I think I’ve covered most issues that may come up in my absence. If you should have any question pertaining to [our department] ask Sam first. He's my human knowledge base and keeps the book of "how to", and he knows all the management protocols. If he can't answer your question he knows who can or how to get in touch with me.

1. That is a really nice thing for him to say about me in front of his boss.
2. I am all-knowing! The power, oh, the power.

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The LJ "writer's block" prompt for today is "If you had the opportunity to know everything about the person you love, would you take it?"

My answer is potentially complex, but I realised that the response of 99% of the characters I write would be, "Who says I don't already?"

Amusing, and just slightly worrying...

I wrote the above and then decided to hold off on posting, and I put on an audiobook to listen to and lay down (my major mistake) and unintentionally fell asleep. When I woke, the first thing I saw was the computer's clock, reading 7:50, and I thought I'd slept through the night and missed my alarm and was about to be late for work. I was actually in the shower, rinsing shampoo out of my hair, before I realised the clock might have read 7:50 PM, not AM.

So I got out of the shower and checked the clock and sure enough, it's still Thursday. But my panic was such that I have to keep checking it's Thursday, and looking outside to make sure the sun's in the west, as I drift through a universe in which time suddenly has no meaning.

This very clearly has not been my week.