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Mar. 12th, 2002 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quislibetMinor annoyances today: cruel fate denied me fresh hot pastry -- still in the oven at the bakery, and I had to run to catch my bus. But of course the bus never bothered to show up (confirmed by another guy who had been waiting for 10 minutes before I got there), and I had twenty minutes to kill until the next one, lamenting Pastries Lost all the while (but still expecting the original bus to show up late at any moment). THEN I arrived at work to find in reply to a "so what's up with our order from November?" inquiry to the British Library (for an image reproduction) a fax to the effect that "we have no record of any such order," despite the fact that SOMEONE there received it back in November and kindly answered some questions I had at the time. AND the boss is pressing me to figure out how we can handle Greek and Arabic letters in electronic versions of submissions to our journal in a way that will unfailingly work across gulfs of software and hardware.
Oh, and our photocopier isn't working. And I have to spend a good afternoon or two in the library reading some dissertation on a microfilm reader before it needs to be returned through interlibrary loan. And I worry how I'm going to finish my prospectus this semester, as I desperately need to. And money is tight but we're going to Europe anyway. And I need new glasses and a dental appointment. And for some reason I've been especially Clumsy x2 lately, cutting myself with knives (non-consensually) and dropping dishes with results inconveniently catastrophic to the dish in question and so on and so forth.
But despite these things I'm in a decent-ish mood. Not only could life be much, much worse than missed pastries and buses, but also I'm just generally feeling all right. So there.
Oh, and our photocopier isn't working. And I have to spend a good afternoon or two in the library reading some dissertation on a microfilm reader before it needs to be returned through interlibrary loan. And I worry how I'm going to finish my prospectus this semester, as I desperately need to. And money is tight but we're going to Europe anyway. And I need new glasses and a dental appointment. And for some reason I've been especially Clumsy x2 lately, cutting myself with knives (non-consensually) and dropping dishes with results inconveniently catastrophic to the dish in question and so on and so forth.
But despite these things I'm in a decent-ish mood. Not only could life be much, much worse than missed pastries and buses, but also I'm just generally feeling all right. So there.
