The Norm?

What a weird week thus far. Nothing has been normal.

Monday night the supervisor who relieves me came in looking quite terrible. Apparently he had contracted the same illness as had one of the day shift supervisors who relieves him. After I realized how terrible he felt, I told him to go home and that I'd pull the double to cover for him. I don't know, maybe it was the fact he was nearly passed out at his desk, or that he kept stating how cold he was just after he said how hot he was. Either way, I didn't want to end up sharing his funk, and he went home.

So, with that said, Monday night my sleep schedule was thrown upside down, literally. And of course, as we already know, it's an adjustment having to get used to the Braves not being on TV at night.

Tuesday was supposed to be a day off in response to the double, but again I was asked to cover for a co-worker. I only had to go in for a few hours, and it was later than I normally go in. So, here we go with the schedule getting out of whack again.

Then, it's colder outside now. I'm not used to going outside to sixty-five degree weather when last week I was going outside to eighty-five degree weather. On top of that, mid-south winters aren't so much cold when speaking in relative terms. Oh sure, there are days when it freezes and we have very occasional snowfall, but in the end it doesn't stay that cold for very long. The thing about winters here is that they are in such sharp contrast to the summers, and there seems to be a very short period during which one can say, "it's Fall." The summers are extremely hot, humid, and have very little rain. The winters are cold (relatively, remember?), almost completely overcast and gray, and it rains what seems to be almost every day. So, you can see there is a big transitional period - which is now.

Today I think is beginning to become more stable, but we'll see. The day has just begun.

Wait...what's that? I just now heard the lady across the parking lot yelling something absurd followed by a loud crash. I imagine she yelled something like "Look out below!" just before letting the trash bag fly from the third floor.

It's good to have things back to normal around here.