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Sep. 1st, 2004 11:10 amIt took an hour and a half to get to work this morning. This is usually somewhere between 25 and 45 minutes depending on traffic and the time of year. It's closer to 25 minutes in the summer.
The woman who gave me change from a purchase I made yesterday felt the need to explain that the gold coin she gave me was in fact worth a dollar. Yes, thank you, I know.
Today is Wednesday. This means that I will see my dear fiance in two more days.
I spoke with my department head yesterday to find out if I had to submit a resignation letter or if my position was being terminated. They're going to try and do the latter-this means I can collect unemployment. He may even be able to stretch my employment one more day, to October 1. That would mean an extra month of insurance, and not having to pay COBRA. (I really hope that happens...eight or nine months of COBRA will be quite expensive, if I don't find a job with insurance.)
I'm so not sleeping well, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mathilde mentioned the supplement 5-HTP in her post today. I took 5-HTP for a while, and then stopped in a budget crunch. I think I may start again...it really made a difference in my sleep patterns. (I've been managing five or five and a half hours a night this week, without waking up. Not bad, although I could use more.) I'm not sure if its my own stubborness or something else that makes the sleep thing so hard to deal with. I clearly have trouble sleeping; I've said so for a long time. Taking 5-HTP which affects serotonin helps. This could potentially be an indicator of depression, but I lack (most of the time) other clinical symptoms. Self-diagnosis is a bad thing, but I really don't meet clinical criteria. Nor for dysthymic disorder...I just don't have the depressed mood part...even if I get other symptoms. And maybe that's part of it. Still, if the 5-HTP helps with the sleep disturbance, I should go back to it.
And in a final coolness note (and stuff I'll miss about being DC-Local) tomorrow I head up to Tommy Thompson's office to deliver a bunch of letters we had people sign at last week's vigil, about the funding cuts to youth prevention programming. I'll miss being able to roll out of the office and do that. You know, popping over to the Hill do some stuff and then head back to the office. I'll enjoy tomorrow as much as I possibly can. But just in case...anyone volunteering to post bail?
The woman who gave me change from a purchase I made yesterday felt the need to explain that the gold coin she gave me was in fact worth a dollar. Yes, thank you, I know.
Today is Wednesday. This means that I will see my dear fiance in two more days.
I spoke with my department head yesterday to find out if I had to submit a resignation letter or if my position was being terminated. They're going to try and do the latter-this means I can collect unemployment. He may even be able to stretch my employment one more day, to October 1. That would mean an extra month of insurance, and not having to pay COBRA. (I really hope that happens...eight or nine months of COBRA will be quite expensive, if I don't find a job with insurance.)
I'm so not sleeping well, and
mathilde mentioned the supplement 5-HTP in her post today. I took 5-HTP for a while, and then stopped in a budget crunch. I think I may start again...it really made a difference in my sleep patterns. (I've been managing five or five and a half hours a night this week, without waking up. Not bad, although I could use more.) I'm not sure if its my own stubborness or something else that makes the sleep thing so hard to deal with. I clearly have trouble sleeping; I've said so for a long time. Taking 5-HTP which affects serotonin helps. This could potentially be an indicator of depression, but I lack (most of the time) other clinical symptoms. Self-diagnosis is a bad thing, but I really don't meet clinical criteria. Nor for dysthymic disorder...I just don't have the depressed mood part...even if I get other symptoms. And maybe that's part of it. Still, if the 5-HTP helps with the sleep disturbance, I should go back to it. And in a final coolness note (and stuff I'll miss about being DC-Local) tomorrow I head up to Tommy Thompson's office to deliver a bunch of letters we had people sign at last week's vigil, about the funding cuts to youth prevention programming. I'll miss being able to roll out of the office and do that. You know, popping over to the Hill do some stuff and then head back to the office. I'll enjoy tomorrow as much as I possibly can. But just in case...anyone volunteering to post bail?
