Miscounted backstroke

[slemslempike]

This morning when I was swimming I miscounted my backstrokes and smashed my head into the tiles. And the week is going to continue to be this horrible until about Thursday evening.

It would comfort me greatly to know that it is not in fact the case that everyone else is doing brilliantly, so if you would like to have a grump in the comments, that would be lovely. Sod positivity.

Comments

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Ouch! poor you. You mean you're going to smash up other parts of yourself until Thursday evening? Stay in bed with a laptop (but mind your knees).

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Hopefully I will avoid actual physical repeated injury, but there is horrible work to do, and when I am grumpy the iniquities all roll into one horrible thing.

I mustn't stay in bed! Bed vanquishes all my good intentions.

[snowballjane.livejournal.com]

I fell over while running through the dining room in yesterday and have a huge purple bruise on my knee. It is hurty and thwarting my training plans. Hmph!

And whyyyyyy do I have to be in charge of the work experience person again?

Roll on Thursday evening!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Did the pleasure of having a minion wear off some time ago? I wihs I'd had cool work experience. Though mostly what I did for work experience was go and learn to ski in the Alps. But I could have had work experience at uni, though goodness knows what I'd have done. I feel like my life is a series of wasted opportunities at the moment.

BOOOO to hurty knee! Does the purple match your skating dress?

[netgirl-y2k.livejournal.com]

Temping in hateful call centre. Have to pretend to be upbeat and cheerful person so they give me a good write up. Eight hundred and ninety nine other employees actually upbeat and cheerful people. Feel like I'm i Stepford Wives. Send Help.

Also, ouch, your poor head.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Are they really? You must make it your mission to break at least one person before you leave, so that there can be a domino effect of anger in the call centre.

[morganmuffle]

Woe :-( I used to do that when I went swimming, became too paranoid to do backstroke anymore (now I just don't swim)

Today is grey and a monday and I am convinced I have swine flu (probably unreasonably) and I managed to go over on my ankle on the way into work so 1) it's sore 2) my socks are wet as it was right into a puddle.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I don't even swim that fast, so it seemed safe! But alas no. I don't think anyone saw, but it was rubbish.

I am sorry about your ankle. I always find that really scary, it feels like it should have broken because it hurts, and then it's slightly annoying when it's not a proper injury.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Having got up early in order to make it into work by nine for once, the bloody bus was early and the driver pulled away just as I neared it. The next bus was then late.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

The buses are all over the place. It doesn't matter in term time because there are so many, but now it's holidays there are only two an hour, and it makes a huge difference.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I did that years ago at a school swimming gala and to this day I stop at least two metres short of the end whenever I swim backstroke, so I know how traumatic it is.

It's raining? Will that do? I am unreasonably upbeat at the moment for a grey gloomy Monday.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I've done it before but that was ages ago and I thought that I was better now I'm more grown up. But I'm NOT.

I suppose I can't actually grump at your upbeatness! It is gloomy here but not actually raining.

[sheenaghpugh]

Well, I just lost half the draft of a loooong post because my sodding connection went down for a mo. Plus I am fed up with (a) the weather, (b the ludicrous design of women's bodies. Intelligent design my arse, the world was constructed by Bloody Stupid Johnson.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am VERY much in agreement on (b) today.

[xanantha.livejournal.com]

1. My penfriend Sarah e-mailed me to say that her family are having to fix a date for her mother's life-support machine to be switched off.

2. My baby sister has Swine Flu and I am frantic with worry in deeply irrational way.

3. The bathroom basin is draining so slowly it might as well be called "blocked".

4. I barely slept at all last night. Again.

5. The weather is horrible. This makes me woeful.

6. Am about to post off a cheque that pretty much cleans out the Brownie Bank Account, as we have to pay the entire accommodation fee for the cancelled pack holiday.

7. Am still on a migraine a day, every day. Which = an injection a day. Which = thighs that are just one giant bruise.

8. The spasm-y muscles in my shoulders seem to be seeing just exactly how tight they can wind themselves. This is Very Painful Indeed, should you be wondering.

9. My knee gave way as I was going up the stairs earlier. This hurt. And startled me something rotten.

10. I am coughing up yuck. Again. Ugh.

Hope your bumped-head is less sore soon.

x

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

BOOOO. Your list is comprehensively horrible. I hope the things that can get better get better, and that everything else is no worse than it has to be.

[chiasmata]

Despite having had a very good weekend, I must mention the following:

- I appear to have acquired something that might or might not turn into a cold, as NEVER EVER happens when I spend the weekend in Manchester.

- It took me 4 hours to do the 2.5-hour drive up there on Friday, as apparently the whole universe was heading north and the weather turned apocalyptic around Birmingham; and then yesterday I took a 40-mile detour to avoid the M6, as everyone was driving in a frankly terrifying fashion on a very rainy day with no visibility, and I didn't want to end up in a pile-up.

- The amount of lab-work I have to do this week is, quite frankly, beyond comprehension.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I really feel that there is far too much work expected of us on phds. How am I supposed to fit in my important sitting and whining when I am constantly having to write things that about three people will read anyway?

Yuck to the horrible surroundings of a very good weekend.

[pisica.livejournal.com]

The Little Stranger was really disappointing, and yet I read all 500 pages of it.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of disappointment!

[felinitykat]

I fully expect to have a miserable work week this week, due to multiple deadlines and launches, everything landing on my lap and decisions other people made several months ago now inexplicably being laid at my door. OH GOOD.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Ah, boo. Being made inexplicably responsible for other people's work is ridiculous.

Have you seen Wild Child, by the way?

[calapine.livejournal.com]

That is quite horrid of the tiles not to MOVE POLITELY out of the way really.

I pulled something in my ankle so no running until it stops making me go ow and omg I was doing SO WELL with the running. And I spent most of yesterday in bed because of WOMANLY TROUBLES that refused to sod off despite shiny painkilling drugs and hot water bottles and lots of swearing.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

That would have been the appropriate thing to do! If I were tiles I would have done so.

Sorry about your ankle. But well done for doing so well up to now! Stupid womanly troubles. I hate them.

[snowballjane.livejournal.com]

Also, if you feel at all sick/dizzy/ear-ringy/eye-blurry etc. after your head smash please seek medical attention asap!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I seem to be fine, but I will look after myself.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

I am grumpy because of the apparent failure of Barclays to provide anything like a service for its customers. ALL I WANT IS A NEW CHEQUE BOOK, IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a DEEPLY UNREASONABLE REQUEST. And you've reminded me that I have to call my ISA people who say they've found the money, but seemingly can't be arsed to give it back to me.

Lunch Friday! I shall be coming in from Ealing in the morning, shall I come to Barons Court to see you there?

[irrtum.livejournal.com]

Ouch! I've done that once since commencing the current bout of swimming. Whenever we do backstroke now (and we do have to) I stop and turn around to look all the time, often halfway along the pool, and get criticised for it. Hope your head is not still hurting.

And - it seems I hadn't stopped smoked quite so successfully as I'd thought.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

There is a line on the ceiling and I usually have 4/5 strokes before the wall then, and mostly I turn too soon and paddle the last bit anyway. But today I got confused and suddenly there was the wall. It is much better now, thank you.

Oh dear.

[anglaisepaon.livejournal.com]

Ack, your poor head! Rotten tiles.

I am finding it increasingly more difficult to even find the 5 jobs a week I have to apply for to qualify for unemployment. And what's worse, I have jury duty tomorrow. Gloom all round!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

What happens if there just aren't the jobs? That's gloomy all right. Here, we just have to show that we have been doing job-seeking "activity", so my last JSA book reads "looked on university webpage - no jobs. Looked on jobs.ac.uk - no local jobs. Asked a friend if they knew of any jobs - they did not".

[slightlyfoxed.livejournal.com]

Thought I was being helpful in arranging something for myself and hosuemate, but am actually just stressing us both out. GRRRRR. Why do charitable (and partly selfish) impulses lead to bad things? Head all full of fluff.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

That's not fair, charitable impulses should do nice things for you, not cause stress. Boo.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

I've ruined an entire decade. Not over the course of the afternoon. More sort of over the course of the decade. But still. And APPARENTLY I'm not allowed another stab at it. And I think I've forgotten how to write and I'm jealous of everyone I meet. There.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. I think we should be allowed to do over years and decades if we want. Probably not all of them, but certainly we should at least once get the opportunity to redo things at least once.

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

I will grump! I went back to the doctor, still feeling crap after a week of antibiotics, and he said at the end of the course I can expect to feel only 50% better, it'll take 6-8 weeks to fully recover, and then told me off for expecting to be better quickly! "You have pneumonia, it's not a cold! A century ago this sort of thing regularly killed people!" Then he told me I'm not well enough to travel, so I have to extend my stay and not go home this week.

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

And the painkillers he prescribed, while better than the hospital ones, are giving me stomach aches!

[metamorphosa.livejournal.com]

Ouch! I will help:

I have discovered that my body no longer likes cheese. This is most definitely not good because I happen to love cheese. I am vegetarian and I eat it with, on, and in everything. I mean, come on, cheese?!