ghost in the glass

yesterday was spent being sick - I had a PT appointment in the morning, after which I should have gone to work. Got to PT, found I didn't have my bus pass, necessitating going back home after PT and THEN going to catch the bus. It's a measure of how many spoons I *didn't* have that by the time I crawled back home the idea of collecting the bus pass (which was sitting right where it should be) and dragging myself back out again was enough to make me want to curl up and cry.

So I called in sick instead, spent four hours half napping in the human cat chair (it's a papasan), dragged myself out to an unsatisfying lunch (due to the service, not the food), made the stupid mistake of thinking I might hit up the clothing store next to the grocery store as I don't have much in the way of summer skirts/tops that qualify as office wear (thereby leaving me with an abiding hatred for clothing designers, cheap ass material, ugly designs, american standards of completely inaccurate body shape, and most of the human race that I had to rub elbows with), and finally to the store to get some milk and stew meat. I ended up writing all of that off under "exercise" to counteract the oreo icecream sandwich that came with lunch.

Spent another few hours half napping in the cat chair, found and watched Sherlock on netflix (omg, guys, GET A ROOM - oh, wait, you have one. Stop pretending to use two bedrooms!) and then made split pea and ham soup from scratch and some little beef pot pies for lunches... which might be suffering from slightly past its ideal date frozen pie crust. It smelled... tangy. Okay after it had cooked - and I ate one for dinner and didn't come to any harm - but the tangy smell is lingering in the kitchen and I don't like it.

I think this is a short week (there's some holiday or other, I don't even know) and oh yeah, I have finals, and mostly I just want MORE SLEEP. x_x

It seems it's time for another round of general "large companies don't give a shit and have sucktastic customer service and minority fail" (deviantart) and "certain parts of fandom are doing it wrong" (this one IDEK, I'm hearing Pepsi and FictionAlley, but I am not in that particular fandom and have nothing to do with that particular fansite, so I know none of the particulars. I'm sure someone else does.)

My overall reaction to all of this can be summed up as "oh god, is it monday again??" and "blaaaaarrrrgh."

Please note that it is not that I do not care. I get that nothing changes if people don't take a stance and yell it loudly from the rooftops. I do. I applaud the people doing so. I simple... have no energy. NONE. I am on pills to make me functional right now, and have made use of a doctor's note just to get me through my current class in school, I have exactly enough energy to get through a normal workday and my schoolwork and honestly, that's about it. (Also, it is now officially winter, the weather is - MY definition of - COLD, and how cold I am dramatically influences how much energy I have. Cold leeches it out of me like nobody's business, I huddle up and go comatose, I get sick, I feel like I have a constant headcold, my bones hurt and my ability to think or function slows to a crawl. Cold weather is NOT my friend, and neither is perpetual darkness and/or working in an enclosed basement with no natural lighting.)

So, yes. I am sorry the world is made of fail, but right now I lack the wherewithal to do anything about it, because setting up new accounts and swapping out old ones and getting used to a new format or, honestly, being *angry* about anything is so much MORE than I can actually muster up the energy for right now that it's not even funny. I feel obligated to note that I've at least SEEN it all, as I am a member of one of the sites in question, but oh god am I not even remotely up to dealing with it right now.

( In better news, cats make everything better. (pic!) )

So. I made a good try at getting to work today. I bundled up and went trudging out there.

True fact - our apartment drive is scraped 100x better than Rockville's actual roads are. v___v

So after slipping and sliding around for two blocks, in the street because there's no sidewalk anywhere, and being at a bit of a loss how to even get to either of the two nearest bus stops without potentially playing frogger on a busy street with cars on ice, I call work to explain I'm going to be a bit late. Because oh yeah, I haven't actually SEEN a running bus yet either.

Turns out that:
a) the metro isn't running above ground, which both of the nearest stations are (assuming I could even get there, as that's 5-8 blocks on ice in traffic)

b) while the ride-on bus website swears they're running on a snow schedule, my workplace has circulated the notice that the buses, at least in Silverspring, are NOT running.

c) the nearest roads are 2" of solid compacted snow with a layer of slush and ice on top. Also, I haven't brushed off my car. Like bloody damned hell am I driving in it.

Soooooooo... this is me, at home. Boss said they're giving us all an extra personal day to take off. I'm not the only one, as the boss man and the other guy who takes the metro also can't get in. Which leaves our one guy who lives two blocks from work as the only person there, unless our late night guy can hitch a ride in with someone. And then we're going to get MORE snow tomorrow and wednesday. You folks from places that get winters like this all the time can laugh it up, but Maryland does NOT usually get this shite and doesn't have enough equipment to deal with it. No one's got snow tires, no one's got chains, the roads aren't adequately scraped or salted/sanded, and if they've halted public transport then sorry, I don't think MY little car's any better off.

Also? We're running out of places to scrape and plow the snow TO. The plowed drifts are taller than I am. v_v