Winter blitz
Nov. 30th, 2010 11:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athenaltenaSo I'm back in Boston after Thanksgiving break, and now begins the blitz until Winter Break.
I'm glad to say that Ryu is doing a lot better, and visibly put on a lot of weight from last Tuesday. Tonight I managed to get her to take both her medicines and get her some food, so I'm very glad about that.
Sunday night when I came in our internet went down, and I had flashbacks to RCN. Apparently it was a DNS server issue that affected a lot of people around here. But that on top of being crowded on a bus made me enter Bitch Mode for a bit, which I apologized for once I had gotten some sleep, and Angelo commented later that he'd never seen me like that.
It doesn't happen often, but a combination of things resulted in a slight mental overload. I'm good now though, and this time of year tends to be when the Depression Monster strikes, so one evening of Bitch Mode is a small price to pay if I can avoid it (and I think I'd know by now if the Depression Monster was going to strike, since it tends to get really bad after Daylight Savings Time changes and it gets dark. Seasonal Affective Disorder sucks.
I also discovered this morning that I was almost out of coffee, but disaster was averted since I had just enough to make a morning cup. I went to a place down the street called Polcari's that's an old old store that sells coffee and spices (they also have a really old pull cash register that the guy there says he hates but they keep around for nostalgia) and asked what he'd recommend, and he suggested some Italian stuff called Caffe Gioia, which has this hilarious bit of Ital-glish:
This coffee blend in vacuum package doesnt contain extraneous matters. It offers the nice coffee scent just roasted and ground.
I rather like that, and I told the guys at the story that I'd tell them how it was.
I'm glad to say that Ryu is doing a lot better, and visibly put on a lot of weight from last Tuesday. Tonight I managed to get her to take both her medicines and get her some food, so I'm very glad about that.
Sunday night when I came in our internet went down, and I had flashbacks to RCN. Apparently it was a DNS server issue that affected a lot of people around here. But that on top of being crowded on a bus made me enter Bitch Mode for a bit, which I apologized for once I had gotten some sleep, and Angelo commented later that he'd never seen me like that.
It doesn't happen often, but a combination of things resulted in a slight mental overload. I'm good now though, and this time of year tends to be when the Depression Monster strikes, so one evening of Bitch Mode is a small price to pay if I can avoid it (and I think I'd know by now if the Depression Monster was going to strike, since it tends to get really bad after Daylight Savings Time changes and it gets dark. Seasonal Affective Disorder sucks.
I also discovered this morning that I was almost out of coffee, but disaster was averted since I had just enough to make a morning cup. I went to a place down the street called Polcari's that's an old old store that sells coffee and spices (they also have a really old pull cash register that the guy there says he hates but they keep around for nostalgia) and asked what he'd recommend, and he suggested some Italian stuff called Caffe Gioia, which has this hilarious bit of Ital-glish:
This coffee blend in vacuum package doesnt contain extraneous matters. It offers the nice coffee scent just roasted and ground.
I rather like that, and I told the guys at the story that I'd tell them how it was.
