It's Been a Day

Just a venting post here...don't mind me.

I covered for someone on the ambulance last night.  I came home from a call reeking of puke (not mine, I assure you) at 1:30am.  Since I was on call until 5am, I decided to get on Facebook for a bit.  If I went straight to bed, Murphy's Law would have kicked in for sure and the pager would have gone off.  My friend left me a Facebook message asking if I had heard that someone we knew had died.  I had not.  Being the resourceful person I am, I searched the Democrat and Chronicle Obituaries and could not find his name.  I decided to test this search by entering my maiden name to see if my mom, dad, and grandparents showed up.  I didn't find them (because as it turns out, it only searches back to May of 2007) but I DID find a disturbing little tid-bit of information.  It seems my Aunt and Uncle who I adored as a child both passed away in May of this year!  Now, I have not been close to them in a while but as I said, I adored them as a kid.  Do you think anyone in the loser-dad-side-of-the-family could have notified me????????  This was my father's brother and his wife, not some distant weird aunt and uncle!!!  What. The. Fuck.  And oh, surprise, Nicki!  Your father's brother died not too long ago as well!  You know, the ONLY person on that side of the family who went to your wedding?  Yeah, him.

I was finally able to go to sleep at 4am(ish) and at 7:00, my brother-in-law showed up to pick up my son for a trip.  All 3 dogs made a point of letting the world know there was a guest in the house.  I fell back to sleep at 8:15.  At 8:20(ish), my daughter woke me up flipping out over a piece of paper that she just KNEW I didn't give back to her.  She finally found it after I had completely woken up....exactly where I told her it was the first time she asked.

Being exhausted and knowing that I won't be able to function for my meeting tonight if I don't get some sleep, I started to head in the direction of a nap when I realized I had an 11:30 phone appointment with the financial aid office for school and don't even get me started on THAT bullshit.  Let's just say that I may not be starting on my Master's in the fall because of the wonderful person who worked behind the desk back in May...about the time my aunt and uncle died unbeknownst to me!!!

Well, you might have guess it....SHE NEVER FREAKIN' CALLED ME!!!  I called the office and told Tom that I had a phone appointment at 11:30 and he said, "Are you Nichole?" That's me.  "Okay, Nichole, she isn't in her office right now.  If you can give me your name and number and I will try to find her?"  Really?  You still need my fucking name?  Idiots.