Todayishness

Well, I was more right than I expected when I thought today wouldn't see me making many phone calls. Rushed out of the house right after my shower this morning and got to the clinic only slightly late for my appointment (thank you for the delays, Metro). Unfortunately, today was a bad one at their office, with several walk-in patients who really shouldn't have been there, so I didn't end up talking at the doctor until well after the appointed time. This was not a good communication day. While this doctor and I normally have a decent working relationship, we ended up talking at each other and past each other rather than to or with each other. I'm not sure whether it was because she was stressed out, because I was stressed out, or both. Come to think of it, the smart money would bet on "both." Very frustrating, in any event. Hopefully things'll go more smoothly at my next followup in a few weeks.

After that, I walked around in the block because I realized on my way to the bus stop that I had no idea how to get to the vampire's bloodsucker's office from there. So, after waiting quite some time for somebody at the doc's office to give me the address I should have gotten from them earlier, I decided that if I was going in for a non-fasting blood test this time I should really go in while not fasting. Grabbed a not-very-healthful sort of lunch, waited for my stomach to settle, hopped onto the next appropriate bus, hopped off, then wandered around the (unfamiliar) neighborhood a while because I really wasn't ready to sit in an uncomfortable chair just yet.

As it turns out, I shouldn't have worried about the chair so much as whether or not I was ready to stand for a long period of time. Quite the crowd at that office today, mostly consisting of small children. I can tell you right now that Jennifer Lopez is a screamer--by which I mean that a little girl by that name really did not want to get stuck with a needle today. Joked with the lobotomist phlebotomist about who was more ill-behaved, the children or their parents. Sadly, I did not get the Bugs Bunny bandages today, but merely a strip of tape to keep a cotton ball stuck to my arm. (J. Lo got some cartoon character or other, but she wouldn't let me get close enough to see.)

As I was waiting for a bus to take me home tonight, some guy came up and told me to "Smile! Just smile. After that, everything else is easy!" I have decided that line of thinking is cute only in someone under the age of 12. Anyone who has survived high school should know better. Maybe he was homeschooled.

Got home a little after the time when anyone I would've tried to call would have stopped answering the phones. At least there was a message on the machine relating to housing (along with messages saying "You won the car you signed up for! It's waiting here for you right now!"), so there's another hopeful sign.

Today's horoscope ends with the words, "Whatever you do, this should be a light, pleasant day." Man, I love astrology.

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