Ever have one of those days...
 

... when you feel you just can't win, and can't even lose just go get it over with?

... when you're outside the gym, and can't summon the drive to even walk in the door?

... when you know there's something good around the corner, but you just can't tell how far it'll take to get to the corner?

... when you realize half your music collection is somewhere else? (OK, I doubt anyone else is having that, but it's bumming me out, on a personal level...)

... when you feel like all that's going to come out of your mouth (or your fingers, if we're talking about typing something) is going to be misunderstood, or just not the right thing to say?

... when even if you've checked a lot of items off your To Do List, and still don't feel like you've accomplished anything?

... when you feel like less than yourself?

Yeah, I'm having one of those days. Please add bits of your day, so that we may comfort ourselves with our normality.... Or at least so that I can comfort myself with my normality. After all, it is all about me here... ;)

... when something you've done 100 times before suddenly becomes completley foreign and you can't figure out how the hell to do it again?

... when the main reason you remain at a company walks out the door for the last time.

...There are days when you're already late going somewhere and you somehow hit EVERY red signal light on the way there.

..There are those work days when you arrive extremely early and stay much later than usual, but there still seems like there's not enough hours in the day to complete your work.

...There are days when you feel so stressed and overwhelmed with work, tasks or responsibilities that you don't even know where to start.

Sorry to hear you're having one of those days, Erica. Hoepfully, you'll be over this Manic Monday in a few hours.

...where your neat idea to ask students a 7-question survey about their research habits turns into an IRB review?

...where you actually manage to complete all the IRB paperwork and training, and no faculty will sign off because it's not their project? Even though it's going for exempt review?

A day like that???

Well no. I can't say that I have.

I don't know. I'm having one of those lives lately. The best thing about it is that, I always move on to better days eventually. Frustration is good for th soul - or something.

.....but, why is the sun going down already?

The question is when I DON'T have one of those days,

Man Oh Man is today one of those days...I'm just now decompressing:

This morning I had an appointment (which I had to take off 2 hours from work for) at the local Social Security Office to start the just-married-name-change procedure that every government web site I'd visited said began with the SSN. I'm there in line before the doors open (hearing about "appointments" which were never offered to me on the phone or online) and-but-so-anyway I get to the window finally, with all my paperwork filled out already and in good order, when the clerk informs me that the Federal Government does not recognize the Official, Embossed State of Nevada Marriage License. WHAT????????????? Yes, it's recognized as legally-binding as in we ARE married, but I can't use it for ANYTHING else, like changing my last name! (And let's not have a debate about that, please: I'm doing it for very legitimate business reasons.)

She said I had to go to the DMV and get my driver's license changed first. I told her that the DMV website said EXACTLY the opposite. She just shrugged. Now, I have an appointment at the DMV for Friday to do the change...any bet-takers out there? I have the feeling that I'm going to be back here in the "ever-have-one-of-those-days-thread" Friday afternoon!

Oh, and part two:

On the way to work, after all that fun at the SS Office, ALL the warning lights came on in my car. I had to call in to work that I'd miss the Very Important Meeting I was to attend today. Now, I'm STILL waiting for the quote from the mechanic while I'm sitting in my brand-new, expensive desk chair in my home office, just knowing I shouldn't have spent that money yesterday. OY. :mad:

I feel for ya, Lizziebith! I've had car troubles off and on all winter- big PITA, and PITW. I waited to change my name for quite a while, but I know I sent my info to SS, and then took my new card and switched my driver's license. Maybe they changed the rules?