Achievement
Sep. 10th, 2003 07:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inulroI went out on a school night, and made it to work in the morning. That's the first time in quite a considerable time I've been able to do that. I was even in work earlier than usual despite not being able to sleep when I got home at a reasonable hour (which was still several hours after my bedtime). Physically I'm not feeling too bad. Emotionally, however, I've got that lack of serotonin thing going on from lack of sleep again, which, combined with the fact that my department is rapidly turning into a disaster area, meant that I was really less than brilliant company today.
I did indulge in retail therapy to make myself feel better (I may be sad and shallow but it works, especially where bargains are involved). I was in a discount bookshop looking for office supplies, which I failed to secure, but I got a big pretty book of ethnographic photography in Burma between the wars (£6.99 hardcover); and one of the basic histories of the High Middle Ages (cos you can't have too many, and actually my grip on the basics is a bit weak, despite my expertise about the peripheries), also hardcover, for £5.99.
The need to indulge in retail therapy is not a good sign if I want to give up work to be a poorly paid nursing student. I know I've been really poor, for many years, when I was really good at cheering myself up by window shopping, but now that I have money, I'm failing miserably in the "not spending money" quest.
I have also not received my prospectus from UWE yet. That would be the consequence of phoning up to request one during clearing. Hopefully one of our nurses will be going that way soon and can pick one up for me.
Off to take some pain killers and go to bed with wet hair again.
I did indulge in retail therapy to make myself feel better (I may be sad and shallow but it works, especially where bargains are involved). I was in a discount bookshop looking for office supplies, which I failed to secure, but I got a big pretty book of ethnographic photography in Burma between the wars (£6.99 hardcover); and one of the basic histories of the High Middle Ages (cos you can't have too many, and actually my grip on the basics is a bit weak, despite my expertise about the peripheries), also hardcover, for £5.99.
The need to indulge in retail therapy is not a good sign if I want to give up work to be a poorly paid nursing student. I know I've been really poor, for many years, when I was really good at cheering myself up by window shopping, but now that I have money, I'm failing miserably in the "not spending money" quest.
I have also not received my prospectus from UWE yet. That would be the consequence of phoning up to request one during clearing. Hopefully one of our nurses will be going that way soon and can pick one up for me.
Off to take some pain killers and go to bed with wet hair again.
