March 21, 2016

It is eight o'clock and I have started writing this because I want to go to bed. I got five hours of sleep last night and I woke up at six o'clock this morning so I could run on the elliptical. I should have chosen sleep.

It was good being back at work but I could have gone with an extra week or two of Spring Break. Or maybe just an extra hour or two of sleep. The new sixth grade teacher brought in child photo options for the slideshow. She said she was the fourth of five kids and her mom had lost interest in taking pictures of her kids at that point so she only had one individual picture, which wasn't very good, and several pictures of her with her siblings. I went with one of those and cropped her sisters out of it.

And now I'm falling asleep in my chair so let's hurry this up.

This afternoon my fifth grade teacher friend brought her class to the lab and we talked about her Spring Break cruise. She had obviously spent a lot of time out in the sun, whereas I left the house maybe three times and occasionally glanced outside. She didn't catch any weird diseases on the ship, which is good because that seems to be a genuine concern these days when it comes to cruise ships. Along with cruise things, she spent a lot of time reading, and in one of the books she read there was a character with my name, first and last and the same spelling. Craziness. I was a little worried that maybe my life had been stolen but this kid only made it to seventh grade, so only my name was stolen. Still very strange.

After work I had a haircut and then I came home to awful things. Tanner had a bad day. I don't know the order of events but sometime during the day he threw up all over upstairs; he forced his way downstairs and spent some time on my bed before he dug at the blankets (tearing a whole in one of them) and throwing up all over my bed; there was also diarrhea on the carpet in the family room not too far from my room. I am thankful that the diarrhea didn't happen in my room and I am thankful that all of the really gross vomit happened upstairs, because it looked like by the time he got to my bed it was mostly water and a partially chewed dog biscuit. So much water, unfortunately, that it went through two blankets, my sheets, and soaked my mattress. It was a bitch dragging that thing outside so it could dry off and air out. It was a nice windy day, so at least that helped. I also Febrezed it. While I did a couple loads of laundry to clean my sheets and pajamas, that were also on the bed.

The icing on the cake to Tanner's day was having a seizure right before dinner. We have never really been sure why he has seizures but I think it is safe to say that today's was stress-induced. I am incredibly annoyed that he violated my bed but his day was way worse than mine.

Tonight I am going to sleep on the floor under my computer desk because it is about as far away as I can get from all the vomit and diarrhea. I'm also too tired to put my bed back together. My mattress is heavy as hell and I'm exhausted, getting it back inside was enough effort for one night. Tomorrow I'll worry about sleeping in my violated bed. The sheets will be clean and the mattress will be flipped over, but I'll know.

Needless to say, with the Tanner stuff and the tired stuff, I did not do any schoolwork tonight. I'll need to remedy that tomorrow. I need to download all the articles I need to read this week and I need to start thinking about the paper I have to write about universal design. I fear it will be a long week, and it hasn't started off on the best note.