Julie's Journal

I should make another category and call it “job-related posts.” I think I will, actually, as soon as I’m finished with this entry.

Today was a very good day at work. It’s going well, to be disturbingly general about it; I’m turning out to be not entirely terrible at what I’m doing. I thought customers would have trouble understanding me (literally), but I’m not repeating myself too much, so I’m presuming that isn’t the case. Also, it’s rather fun to be nice all day… it’s hard to be stressed when one is being nice.

I’m getting even more used to the idea of working eight and a half hours a day… I kind of forgot about the weekend! Weekends are lovely things. I’m still kind of in disbelief that I actually get off work two days a week! (Yes, I’m being serious.)

One bad thing is that I’m not sleeping very well. I find myself needing an extraordinary amount of sleep (for me, at least), and I’m having a terrible time getting it. Last night it took me an hour to fall asleep, and I woke up about three or four times in the middle of the night. (Funny fact: I wake up when I nocturnally kick Seth, which is completely backwards since it doesn’t wake him up.) Anyway, I don’t usually have such trouble falling to sleep, but I do wake up a lot for no reason I can figure. This is very weird, because I never used to wake up in the middle of the night, and I didn’t during the first couple of months that we lived here, so presumably it’s not the regular neighborhood sounds that are waking me up. I fall back to sleep okay, but I’m coming fully awake every couple of hours, and I don’t think that makes for very useful sleeping. Thankfully my work performance (i.e., actual, measurable output) doesn’t seem to be suffering due to this, but I can tell that I’m making quite a few mistakes at work that I normally wouldn’t make, and, also, it makes it a bit harder to be in a good mood when I’m so tired!

The weather here is very funny. Oh, and it finally decided to rain!