Day 11 - Purple Fail

The bottom half of my (extremely long) hair is purple. Tonight was the first time washing it out since getting it dyed again, and I had forgotten how much it bleeds the first few washings. I also didn't notice how badly it had bled; the bathroom light is almost burnt out and I haven't changed it, so I have been effectively showering in the dark. It wasn't until I came back to hang up my towels that I noticed the purple streaks in the tub, and by then it was too late to just rinse it away.

-10 points for procrastinating on changing the light bulb, -1,000 points for spending all day tomorrow bleaching the bathtub

(+20 points for not dying the towels purple!)

Day 10 - Productivity Fail

The array of sticky notes on the door behind me is my to-do list. I like this system because once I finish something I can move it to a different wall (and have a nice list of things I have accomplished), and then at the end of the day I can throw them out with a satisfying finality and set up the new list for tomorrow.

The photo above is today's to-do list. The hour is presently 11:09. Now it is tomorrow's to-do list.

-10 points.

Day 9 - Paperwork Fail

I work nights at the rock climbing gym until 9:00, or whenever people leave (which is ALWAYS later). I'm usually able to get out by 9:30, which puts me at home at least before 10:00, but then I have to take anti-insomnia meds and they don't kick in for almost an hour... So all in all, it's always a late night for me. (Now that I am oooold, I mean. In college, bed-time was 2 am and an all-nighter was nothing.)

Part of my job at the gym is to certify people to belay on the rock wall, and for members I co-teach an hour-and-a-half class once a month, with the provision that people must come back to practice until they've got it down (i.e. until I'd let them belay me) before I will actually certify them. For actual climbers who already know what they're doing, I just have them come in for an open climb to check them out.

So then it's 9:15 tonight, the regulars are all leaving early for once, and some guy walks in hoping to be certified RIGHT NOW because he can never make it to any of the open climbs. I'm exhausted and slightly annoyed, but I dutifully snag one of the regulars before she can get out of her harness and have her climb a couple times for me so I can watch this guy belay.

Eventually he checks out okay, though it somehow took him FOREVER just to put on a harness and get organized and before long my regular was equally annoyed and just wanted to get out of there. Then it's past 9:40 and I just need to get him to sign the liability waiver and certification checklist and tracking sheet and contact information and rules and guidelines... (We have, admittedly, a lot of forms to fill out.)

Except I didn't have any more of the liability waivers. Without which I couldn't actually, formally, certify him. So he'll have to come back another time, and I stayed late for no reason.

BLEARHGLARGHLARGH

+10 points for extra clock-hours, -10 points for fewer sleep-hours, -50 points for using the last of the waivers without noticing...

Day 8 - Rx Fail

Today was a veritable hat-trick of prescription struggles:

1) I realized last night that I had run out of one of my (many) prescriptions without noticing, and so had to call the Rite-Aid automated refill at 11 o'clock at night. The robot-lady-voice cheerfully informed me that I couldn't pick up my prescription until a half-hour into my work shift for the afternoon.

2) I stopped by Rite-Aid on my way to work anyway, in hopes that it might have gotten refilled early, and was thrilled to find that it had! Then when I got home after work I discovered that I had accidentally managed to pick up a prescription for Mom instead.

3) And now it's 11 o'clock again and I've just found that I'm out of a second prescription as well. And the robot-lady-voice says for some reason I can't have it until the day after tomorrow. And it's my anti-insomnia meds. BLEARHGLARGHLARGH

-10 points for not paying close enough attention to my meds, -30 points for being out the $20 co-pay for Mom's meds, -50 points for spending the next 36 hours awake.

Day 7 - Gravity Fail

This is a crappy picture of what was a much larger, uglier bruise and friction burn. I did a height-test roll on the silks last night, but the catch slid off my thigh and burned the hell out of the back of my knee. I also almost face-planted with the extra drop-length, but I got away with just brushing my nose on the floor.

-10 points for missing the catch and the fact I can't kneel or even bend my knee without pain, +20 points for still having a face.

Day 6 - Quick-Fix Fail

Well, I didn't find the right cord, but I did find my old camera (which is compatible with the cord I do have) and came up with a great work-around: transfer my camera's memory card to the old camera and use it and the available cord to upload the photos to my computer. Brilliant!

Except the old camera wanted to reformat the memory card.

+10 points for craftiness, -20 points for being crafty rather than cleaning my room to find the right cord

Day 5 - Equipment Fail; Continued

Found the camera, grabbed the wrong cord.

+10 points for actually taking a picture (yesterday's), -20 points for not being able to get to it.