1. I had my second reemployment advice meeting today, which went reasonably well. I am officially giving myself my vacation week off from job-hunting (though I will do follow-up on applications I've already submitted), which is permissible so long as I don't try to claim benefits for the days I'm not searching.
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2. I am 90% packed, and the remaining 10% is basically my laptop and related stuff, my phone, and my carpal tunnel prevention wrist bracers which I obviously need to wear tonight. (They prevent me from putting pressure on things while I sleep.)
My flight leaves Ithaca at 6am, which means I want to leave my house at 5am so as to reach the airport by 5:10-ish and figure out the long-term parking lot. I have my boarding passes printed, and security never takes much time at an airport as dinky as Ithaca's, so as long as I'm in the building by 5:30am, I will be fine. But I want to put out the trash and set my curtains and so on, so I need to get up by 4:15am.
I am NOT a morning person, and I never sleep well on nights before a journey. But I figure I will drug myself with Benadryl and go to bed around 10pm, and hopefully I will get at least a little sleep.
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3. I have asked Upstairs Neighbor E to keep an eye on my peppers while I'm gone, which is obviously necessary since this morning a squirrel (presumably, anyway) tried to uproot one of them and made smaller holes in two other pots, and this afternoon while I was doing laundry, it came back and ate the short pepper my mom gave me. AGAIN. And that one was halfway through blooming and probably would have started producing actual peppers in the coming week.
I am not amused.
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2. I am 90% packed, and the remaining 10% is basically my laptop and related stuff, my phone, and my carpal tunnel prevention wrist bracers which I obviously need to wear tonight. (They prevent me from putting pressure on things while I sleep.)
My flight leaves Ithaca at 6am, which means I want to leave my house at 5am so as to reach the airport by 5:10-ish and figure out the long-term parking lot. I have my boarding passes printed, and security never takes much time at an airport as dinky as Ithaca's, so as long as I'm in the building by 5:30am, I will be fine. But I want to put out the trash and set my curtains and so on, so I need to get up by 4:15am.
I am NOT a morning person, and I never sleep well on nights before a journey. But I figure I will drug myself with Benadryl and go to bed around 10pm, and hopefully I will get at least a little sleep.
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3. I have asked Upstairs Neighbor E to keep an eye on my peppers while I'm gone, which is obviously necessary since this morning a squirrel (presumably, anyway) tried to uproot one of them and made smaller holes in two other pots, and this afternoon while I was doing laundry, it came back and ate the short pepper my mom gave me. AGAIN. And that one was halfway through blooming and probably would have started producing actual peppers in the coming week.
I am not amused.