Confessions of a One-Track Mind

This has been a weird week, and yeah, I know it's not over yet.

Spent a day at J's dog-sitting---she was over in Orlando and the neighbor who usual acts as doggie-butler has her own drama going on and was unavailable. I got to sleep in a/c, which was sweet. Came out to a dead battery and had to wait for J's return and a jump-start---my own fault: The door didn't latch properly, the light stayed on, which wasn't noticable when I got there in broad daylight.

My lights got turned off for non-payment. I have the money, but because I've been nervous about how fast it's shrinking, I delayed paying, which led to me sitting in the heat for several hours after I made the payment, which cost me an additional service charge. *facepalm* Yes, I know it was stupid of me, please let's not rub my nose in it.

I heard about Ray Bradbury's death and was startled, as I *thought* he'd already passed. I may have confused him with Kurt Vonnegut, both of whom I considered somewhat subversive in high school. IDK. Anyway, good-bye, Mr. Bradbury. You were a great American writer.

Speaking of writing, I'm really pissed with ff.net, which is on my last frackin nerve. It doesn't want to load---it takes multiple attempts every time. I hate their new log-in. I hate that they no longer give you the option to block ads. And I'm livid about their "reiteration" of their ratings policy. I'm about ready to jump ship for AO3, which annoys me mightily; I've been over their for about eight years now. I have a shitload of stuff posted there, including some major multi-chapter works, which it'll be a four-star pain-in-the-ass to crosspost, because AO3 does NOT make it easy. Grrrr.

My sleep schedule is back to being buggered up; I'm never quite sure of what day it is unless I check my phone. I hate it, but sleeping during the day is more bearable than being awake for it. Lots of cold showers either way.

Watched Rosalind Russell in "Sister Kenny" the other day. I figured Roz as a nun dealing with an epidemic would be a triple-play as far as my kinks go...alas, no nuns, but it was still okay. Saw "Walking Tall" (the Rock remake), which I'd seen when it was in the theater...prime case of "I didn't know he/she was in that!"...in this case, the love interest was Aisha in Dark Angel and Emily in Jericho. One of the minor villains was also in Dark Angel (Joshua), and the factor that sucked me in as I was flipping channels, Neal McDonough as the uber-villain. Justified just won't be the same without him next season!

Apologies to jdsgirlbev and gwyilliondream, both of whom had birthdays earlier this week. Hope they were awesome like you!

Hope it gets better from here on out. I cracked my neck a little while ago...sounded like my head was about to fall off, which wouldn't surprise me.

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Got up and washed my hair. Found out that ff.net is having a problem with their hit counters. Stuff I posted last night had zero hits, but one was reviewed and the other was favorited, so someone is out there. Am relieved that What Not to Wear is on today; TLC has been screwing around with their programming the last couple of weeks and showing all kinds of weird-ass stuff at noon.

Am so not in the mood for work, but I PMS'ed on Tuesday (which means not getting paid for New Year's Day, mea culpa, mea own damn culpa), so I've got to drag myself down their today, cramps or no cramps.

*glares at inbox* Apparently *someone's* ears were burning over at ff.net. This morning, I opened up my inbox, and there it all was. The notices, anyway. The silence is deafening. Not reviewing, okay, I understand that. It usually runs about 1 review per 100 hits...but it's not even getting hits worth mentioning. To date, I've posted four of the eight chapters, and I'm not putting up any more until I get some kind of response. (I may take it down completely---it's that bad.)

I'm concerned by the conflicts going on in Estonia---I have a friend there---and I hope it's resolved soon. It does trivialize my minor woes! (For those of you who are wondering what the heck Estonia is, get a map of Europe, find Finland, and hang a right.) Blessed be, kukkurkurat.

In the cosmic scheme of things, if someone is going to knock on your door and awaken you two hours before you need to get up, it is *good* if that someone owes you money and thrusts it into your hot little hand.

I then went back to bed (a bit of a struggle) and had some crack-riddled dreams I can't quite recall (except they were freaking weird---Abe Lincoln and a groundhog weird).

I had a $1700 day at work, thanks to two FAT orders from Posh Brits. (I love this new system. I haven't had more than 2-3 Fit-Nazi calls all week. *sobs with joy* On the other hand, I want to find the gormless individual who writes ad copy for Pelts Leathermore and beat them to death with a thesaurus. They sent out an e-mail advertising a "Sneak Peak" at our revised clearance items. What, customers have to stealthily scale a mountain to get them? Fuckwits!

Has anyone else been having trouble with ff.net this week? I've posted several things and not gotten ANY notifications, and yet I've gotten other notifications, so WTF? The only thing I can think of is that they were rated 'M'. And at some point, they took down the help desk contact info, so there's no way to ASK.

Rather annoying!