2002-04-29 - 1:24 p.m.
I think I am suffering from allergies today… and last night as well. My nose is stuffed up. I hate it when I can’t breathe through my nose… nose spray works, but it is terribly addictive. Prescription steroid-type nose spray works, but it takes a few days to start working and you have to use it every day. Why can’t I just breathe easy?
One interesting thing occurred today. I got an email from my new boss at work – there was a management structure change and my old boss got rotated into a different position. He asked me if I would be willing to change my days off. Well, considering that right now I have the fantastic days of Wednesday and Thursday off, I was only too happy to change them to Sunday and Monday. My new schedule starts on May 13th. It will be nice to have Sundays and Mondays off for a change. I can finally enjoy staying up late on Saturday night since I can sleep in late on Sunday. Also, it gives me a day off to enjoy with Ivy since she has weekends off.
Getting paid tomorrow, finally. It seems like it has been forever since my last paycheck. The bill collectors are starting to get annoying. To make a really long story short, things should be better now… We owed something like $3000 to our old apartment complex which we finally finished paying, we owed back money to several credit card companies, owed money to AT&T, and lastly, we owed a ton of money in medical bills. Everything is starting to get paid off, I finally see a light at the end of the tunnel. Student loans I get this year should help offset everything else. Yes, it’s paying debt with debt – but student loan debt has a lower interest rate. Much lower!
Financially we really were scraping the bottom of the barrel. I went to get lunch today, I had six dollars and some change left in my checking account. I normally never let that happen, but I figured it was fine since payday is tomorrow. Well, we ordered our food and went to pick it up – I tried to put six bucks on my card and it declined. I had to borrow lunch money from coworkers… sigh. I ended up eating an ‘All American’ grinder from Uncle Sam’s Sub Shop. They claim it has six different types of meat. I say it has the power to cause six different types of indigestion. (Actually, I feel pretty good for eating so much meat all at once. Normally my diet is mostly vegetarian.)
Drained three cans of Sparks last night. Remembered the interesting things about alcohol and sex. Namely, when I drink I can perform just fine – I just can’t climax. At all. Period. Fine for her, but it sucks for me.
What other interesting events are developing. Our country is going through an interesting period of time right now. I am worried that our administration is a group of old-guard republican warmongers. I am worried that they are NOT going to act in the best interests of the American public. I am also worried that nobody realizes how pathetic human rights have become in this country… and how much worse they might get now that everyone is paranoid about terrorism and security and they’ve thrown privacy out the window. I hope that the nightmare Orwell presented in 1984 never comes to fruition, but I don’t think we’ve ever been so close as right now. Do we really want to give up everything in exchange for total safety in a police state? Some sheep seem to want to.
Allergies… schedule changes… financial worries… alcoholic effects on body physiology… war. My mind works in odd ways, jumps from one subject to the next and juggles all of its concerns and worries at once. I don’t feel any anxiety from it, things just move very fast. Ivy laughs at me when she drinks a lot of caffeine, sometimes. She’ll start to bounce around the house in a fit of energy while talking fast – and suddenly stop to look at me and go, “Wow, Kurth. This must be what it’s like to be you.”
Only a couple hours left, then I can go home and unclog my nose. Tomorrow is my last day of work for the week, then I get to take a couple days off to relax. Ahhh… relaxation.
