My Week, Welcome To It!

[suenicorn]

So, I tried posting earlier today and it was blank when I returned to the page. You need a title to keep a draft going. Try number 2! 

The week began fine, with my friend and I going to the Dior exhibition at the gallery. Because it was such a nice day, my friend suggested buying from one of the food stalls outside the gallery and finding somewhere to eat. By then I was already feeling a bit strange, but I agreed and bought a plate of something and a drink, which I never got to enjoy, because I tripped and dropped the lot. The seagulls got my lunch. 

 

But I wasn't hungry by then anyway. That has continued this week. I have just eaten properly from last night.

 

Monday I went to see the doctor about something and he suggested as I was there I might as well have my planned blood test a few days early. Big mistake. The nurse had bad memories of trying to get blood out of me and implied it was all my fault she had to use a children's needle. I have narrow veins and everyone has to poke and prod to find one, has had since my blood donating days. But that wasn't the weirdest part of it. After she had warned me not to move as she might prick herself - something she said was common, but had NEVER happened to her - my arm moved and she pricked herself. Nobody has ever had this with me before and a friend with a nurse for a mother told me that if it had happened, she was not following procedure. Anyway, I apologised, but wasn't expecting her fury. She all but implied I must have AIDS or some such deadly ailment, ordered me to leave without trying again on the other arm, wept that it had never happened to her, that she could lose her job, her LIFE, would need months of tests, wept in advance for her orphaned children, then ran out in tears before returning in a calmer mood, putting on a bandaid and trying again with the other arm(the vein collapsed, so I have to go again, hopefully when someone else is on shift. But it was like a scene out of an over the top movie. Maybe it will make a scene in a novel...

 

 

I've been trying to pack up my library and keep teaching, without help. My library tech has been very sick for weeks and has not been replaced. There was a deadline for books we were donating and hundreds to be taken off the system. There are still a couple of thousand to pack for storage while the new school is built, stuff to throw away... By Thursday, I was in tears(though nothing like the nurse!). The welfare teacher told me I should stop stressing and just do my best, then came to help when she was free. So did my friend the art teacher. The three of us got the deadline stuff done in two days. I would NEVER  have done it alone. I must make sure of a special thank you gift for them both. 

 

Yesterday the week started improving a bit, with a visit from an older couple who had come to pick up a couple of hundred books I'd put aside for them. They have a charity that can use them. The husband went to see the Principal about something while the wife, a lady called Cheryl, put into the back seat of her tiny car not only the books I had given them but three jumbo sized packing boxes of others that had been put aside for someone else(well, she was there and they weren't). I think the car should have been called TARDIS. 

 

While doing the moving and piling, she chattered away about her connections with Sea Shepherd, songs she had written and performed with her band on YouTube and her career as a film and TV extra... What a character! 

 

The week definitely ended better than it began.

 

 

Comments

[watervole]

the safest way to keep a draft going is to close the tab. Sounds counter-intuitive, but otherwise it hits problems when you start up your computer.

I lost a lot of drafts that I'd intended to pick up the next day.

Eventually I realised that when you load the page, it asks "Do you wish to restore your draft" and if you don't reply, it kills the draft... If you have closed the tab, then you don't miss the chance to restore, while you're reading your email, etc on another tab.

[suenicorn]

Yes, it did have the option of restoring the draft, but it was still blank when I did that. Weird!