.: the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day :.

I can honestly say that today was the worst day of my entire graduate school career, at least for as far back as I can remember. It was going to be such a lovely day too! I woke up early at 7 AM to get a jump on the day and I was going to spend the majority of it at one of my favorite libraries, where the 6th floor offers a great overview of some of the UBC campus. I had had a good breakfast and was already to go...



But then as I was walking out the front door, I noticed that it was raining (as predicted), and decided to run back inside to grab an umbrella. But with the doorframe being as low as it is (you have to step up to get out the door), I managed to hit the side of my head pretty good. Good news / bad news: good news... I didn't have a headache. Bad news... I managed to tweak my neck somehow and it instantly began a pain that I have had for the past 8 hours. And I'm not even talking about the kind of pain where you just take an aspirin and rotate your head a bit until the pain goes away. This pain has been deep within the back of my neck, spreading out to my shoulders, up into my head, and down into my upper back. It has even spread into my arms.



So what did I do? I took two 222's (a Canadian aspirin which is like a slice of heaven) and went into the rain, hoping that the pain would go away. This is where bad instantly went to worse. The rain has managed to melt most of the snow, but now we have to walk around on a mixture of wet ice and 4-inch deep slush, which just so happened to seep into my new shoes. I then got on the bus, having gotten soaking wet on my entire left side (my umbrella is pathetic to say the least), only to be stuck at the front. And the driver was super jittery, so we kept getting jerked around, which only aggravated my neck pain that much more.



Then as we got to the campus, I stepped in a huge puddle (I can seriously hear you laughing out loud right about now!) in an attempt to jump over it. I finally made it to the library, where I did after everything manage to get the perfect seat on the 6th floor... only to suddenly realize that a great view means nothing when the rain and clouds are out (that shot to the neck must have disconnected my brain). But after reading for over 4 hours straight (which was frustrating with my aching neck, which was only getting more and more inflamed as I sat there), I found out that the library didn't have two of the books that I needed, and that I now needed to go all the way over to Regent, which is only a 10 minute walk, but in the rain I was reintroduced into the misery happening outside. And the rain had now turned horizontal, which made my pathetic umbrella even more inadequate and made my hands itchy because of the loss of feeling outside from the blistering cold.



So I finally made it to Regent and found what I needed... but as I was trying to get through all my reading, a friend came along and hit me on the head... which made me want to scream. So I finally counted my losses, packed up, and came home... only to remember that Monday is laundry day. I did manage to cheer myself up with twice as much pain medication (though it did nothing for me, so I don't really know why I decided to take more, other than the fact that there is nothing else to take for my pain), put on old warm clothes and slippers, and post to my blog.



About the only beautiful part of my day was the fact that I wrote a poem (I guess you could call it that), but I am seriously in too much pain to post right now (I will try tomorrow!). If there were any sleeping pills around here, I think I would take twice the suggested dosage, crawl into bed, and pray for a better day tomorrow. But tonight is roommate dinner night, and I really don't want to miss that! So I will deal with the pain, have myself a great meal and some good conversation, and hit my pillow tonight (which I think is the source of all my problems since it was aggravating my neck all last semester).







Please feel free to post all your bad day stories...