Grrrr Mondays

cu97tiger · October 2013

Here's how my Monday started:

DH had his alarm on this morning but left it downstairs. Since he didn't have to get up and I did, I had to get up and run downstairs to turn it off.

I woke up with sniffles, thanks to our a/c being on even though the low last night was 55.

I sat my ass on the couch for an hour and 15 minutes this morning, rather than getting out the door for my run.

It's 8:28 and I'm already annoyed at some of my CW. Don't ask me to have something completed by 'sometime next week' and then send me an email at 4:30p Friday asking for it to be done first thing Monday morning.

What's got you all hot and bothered this morning?

labro · October 2013

1. BF has the day off so I took the dog out one last time before leaving for work to spare him (thought it would be nice to let him sleep in for a change). Dog wouldn't focus on doing her business so as a result I got stuck behind the multiple school buses I usually try to avoid. Getting stuck in unnecessary traffic always sets me off.

2. I got poison ivy or oak or sumac last week and it's driving me insane. My arms look terrible. I got stuff for them...some sort of clear calomine lotion...and it helps...but my arms are just disgusting. I wish it was colder so I could bear wearing long sleeves and keep them covered up. It's also on my side now and I have a spot on my thigh that's driving me nuts.

3. I didn't get any of the things done that I wanted to do this weekend. My house is a wreck and I'd really like it if it would just clean itself.

[Deleted User] · October 2013

1. Traffic was terrible again today and it took me 2 hours to get to work. Luckily, my coffee was going off at the correct hour this morning so I at least had that during my commute unlike last week.

2. I get to work and I was supposed to have an email from one of my clients this morning but I have nothing so I will probably lose my deal because of their laziness.

3. I had a huge fiasco with my 2nd dress fitting this weekend and I have to go back again today to try it on. I don't feel very skinny today so I'm not looking forward to putting on my wedding dress at this moment.

lennonkdc · October 2013

1. Today is, in theory, my bosses first day back in the office after a leave of absence since mid June. I've spent the last 4 months on my own, running the firm. My boss has called me once to check in and I've been beyond annoyed with him more times than I can count. I was terrified when he left that I wouldn't be able to handle the caseload of 2 attorneys and handle the day to day stuff. But I did (go me) and I know that he's going to mess my whole system up...

2. Everybody keeps asking me when I'm going wedding dress shopping, but I'm just not feeling it right now. Not sure why...sometimes I think I'm missing the 'bride' gene.

3. I just don't like Monday's...

IMathlete · October 2013

1) I had a nightmare last night, so when I woke up at 4:30 to get up to do my workout I felt completely exhausted and skipped it.
2) I couldn't fall back asleep after the nightmare, so I still feel exhausted.
3) BF always sends me a text when he gets to work, but he didn't this morning, and that always makes me feel...off.
4) It's pouring outside; I'm hungry; and I am supposed to be cleaning up my eating this week. Blah.

Blackbird230 · October 2013

New boss is an idiot. She completely changed one of my stories during edits and I was actually really proud of the original story. She changed a bunch of straight up number facts which were wrong. Along with that I had an email over the weekend about my editors being upset over another story. So now I've got a bunch of clean up today and just really frustrated for a Monday morning.

labro · October 2013

@Kait That's so irritating! If she didn't understand your wording or was confused she should have asked you for clarification or approval rather than just overwriting your stuff. There's no excuse for changing your numbers though. She needs to come up with an explanation as to why...does she have a more accurate source of information? What's her reasoning for the decision?

One time I changed a specific word in an article I was editing for our college newspaper and didn't go to the person first to ask them to reclarify (they were using a word from an obscure boardgame and most people would not have understood his reference). He was upset at my decision and I regret ever making the change now. It was wrong of me to basically steal his words.

Hummingbird125 · October 2013

Okay, I have no reason to hate on Mondays since I'm not even working, but here is a funny thing that happened last night that I just need to share with someone.

First, back story: BF has two new female coworkers. One of them is about 23-24 I think, and according to BF, she is a mess. She shows up late almost every day, takes breaks every hour, etc. She asked him to switch shifts with him this weekend but when he logged onto the site to see if she was working on Saturday morning, nothing had been done. She finally responded to all of his texts and told him that her alarm didn't go off. Then she begged him not to tell their boss and sent him about 10 apology texts without one response back from him.

So, last night at about 9:30pm he got a text. I was near his phone so I looked and saw it was from her, so I told him I was going to read it (he was a few feet away and told me I could read it). Here are the texts as they came in, a minute or two apart each:

1) What are you song?

2) doing*

3) I'm tired but would live to cuddle

4) omg what

5) I'm dating a guy named [bf's name] and got you mixed up. omg im so sorry

6) th istheemo st imbarings thing I ever done

7) im so so so so so so sorry

8) omg

9) that was an accacdent so sorry

10) Im so sorry

He never responded to any of these texts last night, but she's supposed to be at the office around 10 this morning, and I cannot wait to hear what happens. I told him that at the very least, he should let her know that his GF happened to read the texts first, just to embarrass her even more.... lol

Blackbird230 · October 2013

@Imhollister I have to wait until she comes in for the day to talk about it. So at the moment I don't quite know. I just know I'm mad.

buddysmom80 · October 2013

This is a Monday back after a long weekend away. I woke up at 4am for no apparent reason.

The positive end to this day is that my boss is on vacation. I'm in her office and it's freezing though.

I'll also have a three-day weekend coming up too since BF's mom is having surgery and will be recouping at our house for the weekend and half of next week. This is going to be a test of patience for me, but I'm a pretty good caretaker when people are sick or hurt.

bethsmiles · October 2013

I'm missing my run this morning too. My thesis adviser can only meet with me at 10 which is usually when I get my run in before I have to teach. I would've gone earlier but I was up really late last night working on a paper that's due Tuesday. For some reason I have major writer's block when it comes to this paper.

I already have an e-mail from a student asking me if they can give their speech another day because they are "sick". Someone I'm skeptical of the fact that my students only get sick when we are doing speeches. I'm really sick of their attitudes this semester.

motoLyn · October 2013

What has me bothered is that you're sniffling! That's bad and I don't like it! Sniffles leave poor Tiger alone. Other than that the only gripe I have for a Monday morning is that the bagel shop I went to didn't have bagel chips like they used to. I wanted a bag and some cream cheese to bring to work and share with CW for my birthday day.

psychbabe314 · October 2013

I was fine when I woke up, but I had to get up extra earlier to make it to my short shift (5:45 am- 10:30am). I got to work and was standing at the door at 5:40 waiting for them to unlock the doors. They did not let us in until 5:55, which meant that I was technically late and I have to get it corrected in the system. By the time my short shift was done with, after upset customers, yelling customers, spilling a quart of paint, nicking my thumb while opening a box, and getting yelled at for not completely the opening checklist, I was ready to leave. I walked out to my car, sat down, and cried for about a couple minutes.

I am having a, I hate my job, kind of day... I just want to go to bed at this point, or go snuggle with BF and watch a movie :-( Not going to happen until tonight though, if at all...

CLoGreenEyes · October 2013

@psychbabe314,

I'm sorry your morning was the suck. What an awful start to the workweek - hope it gets better from here!

@hummingbird125, wowwwwww. That girl is a hot mess. Thanks for the entertaining story!

This Monday morning...

I couldn't sleep last night for the life of me, and instead of getting up early this morning and getting a good start to this week's studying, I started hitting snooze at 5:30 and didn't stop until 7. So much for productivity.
The reason I couldn't sleep is because of a developing issue between me and BF. I don't want to get into too much detail at the moment, but it's something that either we will reach a compromise on relatively quickly, or it could turn into a huge, "Can we even be together with this difference?" kinds of problems. =/ So needless to say, I'm rather concerned about that, and I need to just chill out because I won't even see him to bring it up until tomorrow night.
We have no breakfast food in the house. I ate golden butter cake with chocolate frosting this morning. As a result, my mind was not properly fueled at all for my three-hour lecture this morning. Methinks I need to get some cereal and milk in here ASAP.
It's raining, so I just want to go back to sleep yet again, and we're under a tornado watch until 5 pm here. Probably nothing much will come of it, but that always makes me nervous.

I think that's enough melancholy from me for one morning.

KeptInStitches · October 2013

Disclaimer: I know none of this is a big deal in the big scheme of the universe.

Today:

1.) I didn't sleep last night, not unusual, I've been rather insomniac lately. This morning was particularly cruel, however.

2.) I woke up with a really bad migraine. Even now I feel ... head-swimmy. Pain's gone, sensitivity to light and sound are gone, but it feels just like it did when I had a concussion years ago.

3.) I didn't get anything done this morning because everything I tried was one step forward, two steps back.

4.) I spilled my milk at the dining center today, all over my jeans and the floor.

5.) The dining center was out of monster cookies. (Of course it was.)

6.) I spilled my food on my shirt today. For those of us keeping score, I spilled on my whole outfit today in the space of 30 minutes.

7.) The elevator door hit me when it was closing as I was walking in.

8.) While BF and I were driving across town so I could change clothes, he hit a sugar beet with his car and now we get to worry about whether we damaged the underside or anything critical there. For reference, last time we hit a sugar-beet sized hard object, it was a chunk of ice that took out his gas tank. I wish I was making that up.

9.) I messed up my shoulder this weekend and can't turn my own wrenches, which makes me a really nonfunctional engineer today.

phira · October 2013

Fucking hate Mondays.

1) Have a ZIT brewing on my mastoid process--whatever that bony bump is behind my ear. It's tiny, but very, very painful, to the point where I couldn't sleep last night. I couldn't take Tylenol because I had a couple of drinks earlier in the evening, and I'm already taking a med that's tough on my liver. Icing it just made it hurt more. UGH.

2) Got to work, had to remind the prof teaching the class I'm TFing that she STILL hadn't sent me the answer key for her half of the exam.

3) Rushed to read a paper and write up an opinion before I had to run to class.

4) Autoclaving stuff for the first time--terrified I'm going to come back to the lab and it'll all be broken or something because I did it wrong.

5) I came in all ready to pick colonies ... and my coworker goes, "Oh, do you have any sterile wax or grease to glue the transfection cylinders down?" No. I don't. Because she didn't TELL ME I needed any when I asked her 2 weeks ago how to pick colonies. We found some grease, but I didn't have time to autoclave it. She offered to do it for me--I really hope she did.

6) A BILLION students complaining about their grades. Fuck everything.

Today sucks. I'm debating skipping the gym and getting freshly baked cookies on my way home instead.

Shiroyasha · October 2013

1.) I woke up and I'm still sick.

2.) Knowing I'm sick and in pain, BF asked me to change the cat's litter box. I understand it needs to be changed, but for heaven's sake I'm not the only person in the house. I also get that yes, the cat was my idea and mine alone, so I'll suck that up. But I always clean the dog's crap up out of the backyard (and the kitchen too) I'm the only one who does it. The dog was a mutual agreement, so I think he should have to do some of the dirty work.

3.) I want to be hungry but I still have practically no appetite. I want food and I want to be able to enjoy food.

[Deleted User] · October 2013

1) Our secretary LOVES to interrupt our work by coming in with her cup of coffee and tell you every detail of her evening/weekend. I'm in crisis mode because the online program I run is down, now is not the time to plop your ass down in my office to tell me about Amish country.

2) The online program I run is down, and my programmer is taking his sweet time today, thus is why I'm on TK now.

Hope everyone's Mondays get better! Half way finished!

bethsmiles · October 2013

@Phira - I hate my students this semester. They half-ass everything and then complain about their shitty grades. And I have now gotten 3 e-mail from students saying they can't give their speech today because they are sick...funny how no one is sick when we aren't giving speeches. Argh! I'm not in the mood for this shit today!

Blackbird230 · October 2013

Monday surprisingly took a better turn. Had a meeting with the new boss and maybe worked through some stuff. Went out on assignment for two hours out in the rain but with horses so it was ok.

Hope the rest of you ladies' days take a better turn!

minskat30 · October 2013

@amapola14 - I'm sorry to hear that. I've got my fingers crossed for you.

Sounds like everyone is having a rough Monday. I'll join the camp with a headache from hell. I was also terrible with my diet yesterday and feel bloated. Back on the wagon today.

Hummingbird125 · October 2013

on the bright side, only a couple more hours until most of you are done working, then you can break out the wine and KUI ;-)

Shiroyasha · October 2013

Oh a cocktail sounds so good. But I've still got most of the day ahead of me till it's appropriate to drink.

KeptInStitches · October 2013

@TwoDimes, ask your dentist to check for TMJ and maybe look into having a bite splint made for sleeping/stress. Before mine, I couldn't eat oatmeal because opening my jaw hurt too bad; now I can, for the most part, with care and reason, eat what I want. I mean, huge piles of raw baby carrots are off the table, you count your grapes to make sure you have an even number, and you do learn to distribute your food when you chew to both sides of your mouth, but it's worth it to be pain-free.

phira · October 2013

@bethsmiles Yeah, we had a HORRIBLE series of colds go around, so I wasn't surprised when a lot of students missed discussion. But so many of them emailed me ("I can't make it, I'm so sick, what do I do to make up discussion?") and then never followed up when I said, "I hope you feel better! Keep me posted so when you're better, we can figure out what to do."

I was talking to my future sister-in-law about students on Saturday. She's a lecturer right now, and she's noticed a trend with her students that I've been seeing with mine, and it gets worse every year. Basically, they're great at memorizing and regurgitating information, but they struggle incredibly when they're challenged to actually think about the material.

Just as an example, we had asked a question on the exam asking how it is that primers are able to determine the amplified region in a PCR. Maybe about half of the students didn't seem to realize that the question was about PCR (a lab technique) and not actual DNA synthesis that occurs naturally. And the vast majority of students just wrote down HOW PCR works.

The point of the question? We wanted them to demonstrate that they understood that DNA can't be synthesized de novo--it has to have an existing end of a strand to start with. But maybe 5 out of 120 students wrote that. UGH UGH UGH.

ETA: WELP definitely working till 7pm or so now. And I'm supposed to give lab meeting tomorrow, which I didn't realize until today. So no gym tonight.

CLoGreenEyes · October 2013

Thanks @twodimes and @minskat30! Hopefully it will work out OK once we get a chance to discuss. Just goes to show, even after five years, you can't always predict the new challenges that will present themselves in a relationship as you grow up. *Sigh*

Hope y'all can join me soon!

psychbabe314 · October 2013

@amapola14 thanks!

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