Just Shoot Me... Please...

It's barely 2pm and today has already been one long headache fest...

We recently moved my son to a new daycare. They cannot get it through their heads that this child has allergies and his nose runs EVERY day. So they panic over it on a regular basis. Today he has a low grade fever and not feeling like arguing with them I bring him home and call to make a doctor's appointment so she can explain to them that this is just the way it is. They're not taking any appts today, cuz 2 Dr's are out and they're already double booked and he's not a priority, which I happen to agree with under the circumstances. So I have to take him in in the morning, which means I get to miss the first day of work I've been offered in a month. Perfect.

And then, the recruiter I've been working with to get a job calls me and I'm thinking it's about the job I interviewed for yesterday, which she was all keen on me getting. No, instead it's a job she want's me to start today, that all she can tell me about it is that it's in Billing. I tell her I can't start today, but maybe tomorrow, though in reality I can't til Monday, but I'm thinking, yeah, right, they'll actually have all that lined up that quick. I so don't think so. She has yet to call back, so I'm thinking that's a no-go. Course, with the headache I have, I wouldn't trust myself withen 10 miles of an interview right now ~ it's making me a tad bitchy.

Then I call the unemplyment hotline thingie to report my job search results for the last two weeks. It's all touch tone stuff, but everytime they find some reason I have to call the customer service center. This time it was because I'm in school.

The dingbat who gets on the line asks me how long I've been in school. "2 years". No, she says, when did you start school. I kid you not. "Uh, 2 years ago?" No, in the last few weeks. Oh, Okay. "January 12th." Did you start school because you were laid off?

At this point, any doubts I had about intelligence in the state system flew out the door. I was laid off Jan 6th of this year, yet started school 2 years ago ~ so I'm thinking no, I did not go back to school because I was laid off.

Then she asks if I'd quit school to accept a job. Gee, lemme think. halfway to getting a Bachelor's... thinking no, here. When I told her I wouldn't, she got upset with me. Like suddenly getting an education was a crime. I've worked full-time and gone to school full time for over a year, and now that I'm unemployed it's a problem?

So, please, someone just put me oughta my misery ~ I can't even go have a drink since I have orientation for the Honer Society tonight, then class (with my first Exam of the semester no less...).

And it's only Wednesday..... *sigh*