The Rose's Grove

Woke up, hauled self out of bed, grumbled about sinuses, went to make tea... and carefully piled a teaspoon of lemongrass onto the cap of my tea-strainer. Naturally, it all fell out when I tried to close the strainer (upside-down). Yesterday, I felt relatively okay first thing and still managed to get the same task sent back twice because I didn't quite understand that they wanted all their buttons changed so that they didn't have the franchises the dealer doesn't carry, rather than just half of them. Seriously. The poor advocate must've thought I'd lost my mind.

Between that and the fact that I can't go five minutes without sneezing, I think it's best for everyone that I stay home today, drink a lot of herbal tea, and try to sleep this damned virus off. Blergh.

In totally unrelated news, happy birthday to kungfuwaynewho!!! Many happy returns!♥

Home sick with icky ear thing still bothering me. It got a little better this morning, but I still want to hold out a few hours and see if I think I should go to the doctor. It doesn't actually hurt so much as half my head is full of sinus pressure and my neck is a bit tender/swollen. But I had some drainage (hello, TMI, sorry, but it's true) this morning, which is usually a good sign, and I feel significantly better... just not sure it'll last.

In the mean time, I'm trying not to feel too guilty about taking an impromptu day off. :P

I have achieved a practicum! I"m going to be organizing and recording the photo collection at this local house museum, about which I'm terribly excited. The process was a bit amusing - I'd scheduled an appointment with the executive director (who also happens to be my exhibit design professor), and got off early from work to go to it, and of course ended up a bit early because I'd been nervous about the buses. Showed up at the house/museum, said hello to one of my classmates, and my professor and his wife (who spoke briefly to our class about... something I've forgotten, because she works at another local museum), and his response was pretty much "Hi, great to see you, no trouble at all that you're early, do you feel up to blowing up some balloons?"

Apparently he had forgotten to tell me that the museum was having a big fund-raiser/open-house thingy this evening. And had consequently, in all the hubbub, had forgotten that I was there to talk to him about the practicum, not to help out and hang out at the fund-raising thing (as the classmate was, although she's also (unrelated to the party) doing her practicum there). So I blew up balloons and festooned an abandoned vespa and the front gate with them, and carried plates and things to various rooms, and helped his wife put together hors d'ouevres and then we set up my practicum. All of which was terribly fun. That's part of what I love about museum work, honestly - you literally never know what you're going to be doing next. And after that I accepted the insistent offer of a beer and then trooped home, despite sort of wanting to stay (because I do enjoy myself a good schmoozing party, when I know the grounds I'm on), but I thought it'd be better to delay that sort of thing until I'm more prepared and know more about the museum. Besides, as casual as it was, I didn't really feel like I was dressed for it, and...

I'm coming down with a sinus thing. All the symptoms are in line - I've had plugged ears the last few days when I wake up, I've been sneezing, and now I have a sore throat. Bleh. So I will go in tomorrow and survive the last day of the week, and then I shall, most likely, sleep all weekend. But now I'm drinking tea and will go to bed early (possibly with something hot and alcoholic in my system), and all is more or less well. Except my throat, which is scratchy.