all work and no play

Worked 13.75 hours, yesterday.  Just relaxed by reading a few LJs.  Am trying to decide whether to go walk the Cove or just vegetate, drink tea and eat.  Um.  Come to think of it, I'm starving.  I had a half and english muffin with PB & J around 1930hrs last night.  Oh, that was 12 hours ago.  I guess I'm going to eat. 

I was asked, yesterday, if I'd mind being deployed to help out the relief efforts in New Orleans, and I got really excited and said I'd love to go.  Then I got home and talked with eor about it, and suddenly remembered that the gov't fucks up everything.  Several people said to me, when I was thinking about it at work, that I would certainly not be sent anywhere near the combat zone that was the city, since I don't have any military background, I'm not an EMT, I have never done any sort of crowd control.  Still, knowing how the gov't works, that is probably exactly where they'd send me.  I'd last 47 seconds. 

On the one hand, it's an experience I've never had before.  Afterward it may be an experience I never want to repeat, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't go.  I'd really like to be part of helping, first hand.

On the other hand, I could be killed, or who knows what.  And do no good at all. 

And in completely unrelated news - the new version of Semagic I installed does post html behind a cut without screwing it all up (as the old version was wont to do), but it has this really annoying habit of jumping the text I'm currently composing on up and down.  Very distracting. 

accomplishments

(must remind myself that I have some)

*Cleaned the rice cooker and made fresh rice. (just so you know, eor)
*Added to the grocery list.
*Donated to the Red Cross
*Made out the rent check (um, yeah, this should have been done a week ago.  But it's done, now.)

And to balance that out, my wastes of time (although I'm sure it's debatable that some things can go on either list)
*Read about Wookie language on Wikipedia.
*Read about how porphyria is NOT vampirism.

Yet to be done...
*Deliver the rent check
*Take out garbage
*Clean out fridge (um, it should happen before taking out the garbage, but it's not going to, because the garbage stinks and the fridge doesn't stink as much.  So that's actually not happening today.)

Right after my last post I went and ate the other half of the english muffin, left over from last night, with more pb&j, and leftover tea from yesterday, just so I would have enough energy to wash the rice cooker, and then began a sort of slow feeding frenzy.  I started the rice cooking, and, while it cooked, tried to mau on some cheese, only to discover it was getting moldy (what's with me and the moldy, lately?), so I trimmed off the mold and ate more, with a boiled egg and some carrots, only to get awfully nauseous.  Luckily the rice finished cooking, soon, and some plain white basmati set me straight.  Oddly, just as I finished eating the first (of two) bowls of rice, I happened across inscrutable's post about how much he loves rice. :)

But I only managed to eat that one egg (just barely), didn't finish the carrots.  I hope I'm not coming down with that stomach bug that has been going through my co-workers.  I don't get those things, though.  Or, maybe I do, it's just that I get them to such a lesser extent that I don't notice.  That bout of nausea might have been my equivalent of everyone else puking their guts out all night. 

Off to shower and maybe walk down and deliver the rent - hopefully some fresh air will help perk me up. 

Tomorrow I'm working 7.5 hours on what would normally be my day off.  And then there's the party in the evening.  Somewhere in there I have to fit in doing the laundry, and if I'm really lucky, cleaning out the car - that'll be Sunday, I guess. 

So, wise friends list:  What do I do?  Should I trust my benevolent government and allow myself to be deployed to wherever they send me?  Or should I withdraw from the deployment volunteer list?