sheer exhaustion

I worked my normal shift until 8am t his morning, but instead of going home and going to bed, I had to stay for a meeting. Now, the meeting didn't start until 10:30, but I knew that if I went home to get breakfast, I would be entirely too tempted to lay down and fall asleep. So I opted for breakfast to go, and staying at the office for an extra two hours... Then the "30 minute" meeting lasted for an hour and a half. So it was 12:30 by the time I got home. Which of course means that I slept until almost nine o'clock, waking up just in time to get ready for work all over again. The entire day was ruined! Thank goddess I have two days off after tonight! I'll need them to recover...

Being shorthanded at work soon is going to put a damper on my hopes of taking time to go to Wolvenwold at some point this summer. The Beltaine celebration is in two weeks, so I know I can't go to that one. And the June gathering the same weekend as the Civil War thing in Kingston, which is when they said "no days off for anyone!" Apparently they think there's going to be a huge need for dispatchers that weekend. So there goes June. The only other gathering this year that I know of is in october. Which, of course, is when I was going to try and take my personal days to go see Duane. (Florida in October is supposed to be really nice!) And I doubt that I can get two sets of personal days in the same month... I guess I'll just have to see how things go. As it stands right now, a trip to FL definitely outweighs a trip to south MO to Wolvenwold, as much fun as that would be. Florida is more important :) and will be fun, too!

well, time to get ready for work... again...