My Terrible, Horrible, No-Good Day

The title of this post is for the benefit of squishymeister, who introduced me to the concept of “no-good” days.

Today was actually more of an absurd, “what will happen next?” kind of day, although that might be the sleep deprivation talking.

It began late last night, when I arrived back in my apt from a wedding on the West Coast. There‘d been a massive water leak down one wall while I was gone. Also, my A/C was broken and the temperature inside the apt was 84 degrees.

No biggie. I left a message for the repair people, then retreated to a happy Canadian place in which I could repress all knowledge of Fahrenheit. (I later found out that a leak upstairs had shorted out the a/c and set it to "heat" rather than cool, so my apt was, and still is, hotter than the outdoors.)

Before going to bed, I remembered that I’d promised to attend a student presentation this week. Checking my email, I discovered that a) the presentation was tomorrow and b) it was scheduled as the first presentation of the morning. To make it, I’d have to get up at what my West-Coast body still believed was 4:30 am. Dedicated teacher that I am, I decided to do it.

So today I trundled down to the conference site, only to realize once I’d arrived that the email had stated the wrong day. The conference is actually tomorrow.

A bunch of other small things went wrong, leading to much head-shaking and muttering. I picked up some groceries to restock my empty fridge, and headed home.

…and ran smack into the middle of a Serious Thunderstorm. 60 mph winds, apparently, though my car was sheltered from the worst of them.

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Beat that, homies.