Bled dry

Donat­ed blood today. Fun­ny thing is, now I’m real­ly tired. I guess that’s not unex­pect­ed. What’s unex­pect­ed is that it was a longer day than I thought it would be.

I start­ed the day with the appoint­ment I had to look at a clien­t’s net­work­ing and rein­stall some soft­ware at 9am, and I was actu­al­ly there on time, which i just have to say to remind myself that yes, I am capa­ble of being on time when I make the right deci­sions. After 2 hours I was ready to go, but got to talk­ing with the client and then found out that anoth­er one of the con­sul­tants work­ing for this client, who’d been work­ing with this client for a lot longer than I have, is leav­ing, appa­rant­ly because of bud­get cuts.

First I’m won­der­ing why they’re pay­ing my use­less ass to be there when she – part of the back­bone of the com­pa­ny even if she was­n’t an employ­ee – has been effec­tive­ly laid off. Sec­ond I stayed around for her farewell lunch, which was good Japan­ese food. Yum.

So that meant I was late get­ting to the blood cen­ter. Most­ly they don’t real­ly care, but I’d planned out my day and I was get­ting behin­der and behin­der. For­tu­nate­ly I’ve been work­ing out more, which means that my blood flows faster. Back in the days when I weighed in 30lbs heav­ier than I am now, I recall it tak­ing as long as 20 or 25 min­utes to get a pint of blood out of me. Today it was 6.

Then I got on a bus and read the whole way home. Now I’m beat, and I haven’t even start­ed doing the work I was sup­posed to fin­ish last night. I’m hop­ing that 20 – 30 min­utes lying down will refresh me and I’ll be ready to jump back in and get some stuff done.

Send me good ener­gy vibes or some­thing. I need ’em.