Leave Starts NOW!!!

So, I'm officially on a leave of absence from work. I never thought it would come to this, but it has. I'm probably going to take this time just to work on myself, do a lot of reading and a lot of writing (haven't even started the novel yet, which is not good), and hopefully not much TV watching, which I know I'll do. I'm not sure how well I'm going to handle all of this, but it's worth a shot.

I just finished The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People over the weekend. While most of it should seem obvious, when I actually pay attention to myself, I'm amazed how of it I don't actually do. I'm hoping to use my time off from work to focus on Habit 7, which is Sharpening the Saw. Basically, it means to work on myself, give myself some rest and develop my mind and body. Refresh myself. Renew myself. God, I sound like a fucking new-ager, and never thought I would be spouting off this self-help stuff. Oh, well. Good advice is still good advice, and working on myself is something I've been neglecting for a long time.

Another Sucky Day, Part 2

Ever have one of those days where you keep thinking about it to the point where it ruins your whole next day? Yeah. The problems yesterday just felt like were bleeding into today and kept distracting me. So I tried to just take it easy. Watched "Altered States" which I recorded on TV.

I also finished the Mass Effect novel, Mass Effect: Revelation. It was okay. I don't regret reading it, and it is likely to provide some important background for the game when it comes out (and, God, I am jazzed up about this game), just don't expect something deep or contemplative. It's a pulp sci-fi novel that good for having some fun.

Damn, what a sucky day!

This day really blew sweaty donkey balls. So I had an argument with my supervisor and the office manager, to the point where they pretty much threatened my job. After five years at this place, I've pretty much had it. I'm only a part timer and they know damn well what my schedule is and when I'm available, but they seem to refuse to accept that. I'm seriously debating just handing in my resignation letter on Tuesday so that I'll leave on my own terms and tell them to go screw themselves.

Do I sound bitter?

I wound up having to do something I hardly ever do just keep myself together and popped a Xanax. Kids, just say no to drugs. Then again, it was really the only thing that stopped me from flying off the handle. I never thought things would get to this point, but here I am. It doesn't help that the work turned to total shit today when an important project file decided to corrupt itself and spent most of the afternoon trying to recompile it. Now I'm in a really bad mood, which is leading to this emo post.

I guess I've got lost time to make up for. I hadn't realized that I haven't posted to this blog in over a month. NaNoWriMo started yesterday, and I have yet to start righting for obvious reasons. I'll have to get going on it this weekend, otherwise I'll get so far behind that I won't be able to catch up and hit my 50,000 word goal.