It's Sunday!
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I broke a tooth on Monday. It wasn't on the raw carrots which are my habitual snack. I was eating a peanut butter sandwich for lunch and all of a sudden there was a crunch that shouldn't have been there.
My dental office managed to fit me in for an emergency repair on Tuesday - my previous dentist just retired, I wonder if I'm going to be assigned to the one who saw me on Tuesday. I got to work to find that my boss had been telling everybody that I was going to be out all day.
There was also an email about needing to get some grant material to UCLA for a resubmission that my boss is involved in that they want to get submitted on August 15. Three weeks is the lead time we need for this, not three days (the email said they needed it by Friday). It seems the guy at UCLA had only just found out about this, too. As it turns out, the previous submission is pretty much identical to what they needed, and we were able to get them the tentative numbers and updated boilerplate by mid-day on Friday. The paperwork is also being circulated and might be signed off next week - but only because what is required is so simple.
Wednesday I spent feeling like I had just been hit by a truck. I also finished listening to Thud! as I had the audiobook out from the library and was just about functional enough to pay attention. I started putting together the poster templates for the next professional conference - I don't have to be able to think to do that.
Thursday was a slightly more coherent repeat of Wednesday until 2:00 PM. Then I went along for the inspection of the current storage room and the space we got back when Telecomm was done putting in their new closet. We have to give the current storage space back by the end of this month, and I will have to organize all of it next week.
I have already described much of Friday. Except for one of the current volunteers is a doctor from Pakistan who is trying for residencies and was not entirely happy with the letter from my boss. I managed to prevent myself from screaming at the man - I'd already put more in the letter than my boss had actually said in the dictation. However, I did add some few sentences more to the letter, and my boss approved it. We haven't actually known the man very long, and while he certainly deserves a residency as much as any other candidate, I wasn't happy about having to expand on the nice things I'd already said.
For the rest, catfood on Saturday and a quiet party Sunday, and with any luck next week will be better.