The Best Horrible Day Ever

So, yesterday. Friday, the normal best day of the week, right? I LOVE Fridays, because they mean Saturday is next, which means no work and no classes for two whole days. But yesterday I was having a crappy day. Actually, it was more of a roller coaster day. Let me lay it out for you like a roller coaster, because it really is the best analogy.

Morning. At work early, it's Friday, there's no stress, I'm feeling fine - I'm cresting up to the top of the hill and having a great time.

Mid-morning. My body decides that it's time to clean house and the icky feeling that women everywhere know starts to take over my body. I crested that hill and started down the other side.

Just before lunchtime. I find out that something I was working on for someone at work has been finished up by her, without any further input from me and in fact without me even knowing about it until after the fact. The roller coaster is suddenly speeding to the bottom, and bam, I crash.

Lunchtime. Sarah spends a half an hour with me, cheering me up. You saved my sanity, Sarah, you really did.

After lunch. Started feeling really crappy, like physically going to be ill crappy. Light headed, weak, clammy - my mood plummets back down after that short rise Sarah gave it.

Mid-afternoon. I talked to my supervisor about the work thing, and felt a little better, but was still on the down side of the coaster. Then I went out across campus to hang up some posters, and when I was walking back to the office, I found out from someone that a press release that I wrote a week ago appeared in the paper. The coaster started to climb back up. And then I saw the article and realized that they put a byline with my name on it in the article. That coaster soared right back to the top of the hill. A byline! With my name! It's my first ever, and I loved it.

After work. I was still riding pretty high on the byline thing, but the hormonal coaster was slipping back downhill. And my phone and Internet service went out and stayed out for a while, and I was expecting a call from a friend (Hi Sally!) who had no idea that it was out, so the coaster was speeding back down that hill.

Short time later. I was playing the Sims, and the woman in the family I was playing was stargazing with the telescope, and suddenly she was abducted by aliens! It's the first abduction I've ever had in the game, and I've been playing a lot of hours and for over a year now. That coaster started climbing the hill again for sure.

8:30 last night, or so. The SU/Georgetown game is on ESPN. SU has been behind the whole game, and it really looked like they were going to lose. At halftime, they were behind by 15 points. Sucky. Coaster sliding down again. But! Don't count my Orangemen out! Gerry sunk a couple of threes, he fed a nice pass to another player for a 2, and suddenly they were up by 1 point with seconds to go (and it was the first time they led all night). And they managed to hang on to the lead and win the game, advancing in the Big East championship. That coaster sailed back to the top of the hill, and frankly this time it stayed there. There's nothing that raises my spirits quite like a good game of basketball where SU wins.

So, crazy huh? Overall it felt like a crappy day, but the best things managed to happen inside of it. Still, thank goodness this coaster ride only happens once a month. Otherwise I would surely lose my mind.