July 23, 2013

I woke up this morning and I looked like Rocky. My eye was almost entirely swollen shut. And not surprisingly, it was very uncomfortable. And the bug bites on my legs hurt. And the one on my ear. It is horribly placed on the back of my ear and it is impossible not to bump it against my hoodie or against the pillow when I'm laying in bed. It is a bother. Possibly more than my eye at times but the eye definitely wins out in the long run. And then there is my forehead which is still red and kind of bumpy. My body is sucking right now.

I texted my manager and let her know I wouldn't be coming in today. I just wanted to eat a big bowl of Golden Grahams and hold an ice pack to my eye. Which I did and it was as great as that scenario can be. I slept horribly last night because of my eye but my the time I finished my cereal it was feeling bearable, maybe the three different pills coursing through my system had started to kick in, and I was able to take a nap. By the end of the day my eye had actually started to look better and now it is still a tad on the puffy side but mostly just red. And mildly uncomfortable. Hopefully it will look even better in the morning, and won't swell all the way up again. If it does look better I might be able to go work at the school library.

In between holding an ice pack to my eye I managed to do a bit of laundry and drove all over Europe in Euro Truck Simulator 2. It's a pretty relaxing game. I put on some Avett Brothers on Spotify and just cruised the open road. I decided to base myself out of Luxembourg because it was pretty much in the center of the map but my last run today finally took me up north to Manchester. It was a disaster. It was my first time using a ferry and I got confused because the navigation system doesn't start working again after the ferry until you pull back out onto the road. This confusion lead me to using the ferry four or five times, costing me over $900 and about eight hours each time. Which in turn lead me to be way late on my delivery. And I got a speeding ticket. But I got to see English on signs and drive on the left side of the road so there is that.