Twisted Spinster

Today was something of a bust. For starters, I have a stuffed up ear — I used to have this problem all the time, wax would build up in my ear canals until I felt like I had earplugs in all the time, and I’d have to pour that ear-wax softener into them, which sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t. Once it got so bad I had to go to a clinic and have the doctor on call there try to wash them out by shooting warm water and peroxide into my ears. That was fun. Anyway, I hadn’t been bothered by this for ages, not since I left Miami in fact. Now it’s back. I wonder if sleeping with the sliding glass door open (because the a/c was broken) night before last had something to do with it? And of course I went and poked around in my ear with q-tips dipped in witch hazel, and of course that only made it worse.

And today for some reason I was exhausted. The only thing I had done the day before was go to Ikea to return some boxes I had bought (they were too big). True that store is huge and they make you walk a rat’s maze to get to the exit, but I didn’t feel all that tired when I was done drooling at all the showroom stuff. (For some reason their “235 square foot apartment” display is my favorite. Except for the loft bed — I’m just too old to climb a ladder to get into bed, especially when my tiny bladder wakes me up 2 or 3 times a night — I would totally love an apartment set up like that.) Anyway, this morning I didn’t want to get out of bed — both cats kept walking on me and staring into my face and smelling me (to make sure I was still alive, I guess). I finally got up and did some things, and then around the middle of the day started getting the serious sleepies again. But I didn’t want to take a nap in the middle of the day, so I decided to go for a walk, as it was nice outside. Big mistake — I almost ended up falling asleep on my feet. So I staggered back home and crashed. And guess what — I’m still tired. Well sleeping in the middle of the day does that to me.

In other news… nothing much going on. I didn’t do much job searching this week — I’ve been thinking of rewriting my resume and penning up a better cover letter than the lackluster one I’ve been using. I’ve also been wondering if I should put a special web page up about me and my work experience. I wouldn’t tie it back here — vigilant employers are welcome to Google my name, and if some of my opinions are too salty or un-PC to get me hired by some people then those aren’t the ones I want to work for anyway. But I’m not going to lead them by the hand. I prefer to keep my work and “fun” lives as separate as possible anyway. But — I don’t really know why I didn’t think of this sooner: a website might get me a toe into some sort of content management position or at least something with more focus on what I like to do (back end support, writing, etc.) instead of stuff I’m always getting offered (mostly in sales — no srsly, I keep getting all these sales position offers even though there is nothing on my resume showing any sales experience — customer care, insurance quoting, things like that, yes, but no sales). Well I will have to think of where to put it — domain names are cheap these days, and show more professionalism than free blog sites or Geocities or what have you. I think I’ll be working on this off and on this weekend.