Not a good start to the day

My mother has officially forbidden me to ever shave my head again, although she admits it suits me.

I lost my bus pas sometime last night. No idea when or where, but I am peeved. Luckily it's not as huge a loss because I'll be out of town for all of next week, and I'll have several days off work when I get back, so it won't cost me a fortune in bus tickets. Also: receipts for the win! I can now claim bus tickets on my taxes, which is all to the good.

Unfortunately, it also meant that I was 10 minutes late to work. I'm very fortunate that they're lenient about that here. It also helps that I'm almost always invariably early to work, due to the wonky bus schedule near my home. It builds up in my favour: fifteen minutes early almost every day totally outweighs the occasional lapse.

Half the computer system is down at work. Boo. On the plus side, the internet still works, so yay!

Also, getting up this morning was just brutal. I have no idea why it was so hard to drag my unwilling self out of bed, but damn.

Okay. Duty calls.

Another reason to cut back on the overtime

I kind of think that all the extra hours I've been putting in have started to affect my productivity.

It's not that I can't do the basics of my job, because I can, and I do. However, I find that I've been so tired lately that all I'm doing is the very basics, and not going out of my way anymore to learn new things or take on new projects.

There are a couple of projects that I have actively not been working on. Part of this is the tired-related inertia, although a lot is due also to the fact that I'm waiting for directions from one of the supervisors on the projects in question. Still, I know that if they were to give me detailed instructions, a map and a flashlight, I still likely wouldn't be able to devote much energy to the process. My spoons are running kind of low these days.

So.

I plan to take full advantage of my few days off coming back from Québec City. I'm going to 1) rest, a whole lot, and 2) put my apartment in order. It's Reading Week at my father's university, and he has informed me that he will be coming by on the Thursday to help me put my bookcases together. So that's coming along.

I really wish I knew what my schedule looked like past November 12th. They haven't put out the new schedule yet, so it's pretty difficult to plan out the next few months.

Okay, back to work.