under the weather

Currently listening to: Work – Rihanna feat. Drake

So me put in work, work, work, work, work, work
When you ah gon’ learn, learn, learn, learn, learn

I picked this song because the lyrics are basically gibberish and that’s what’s coming out of my mouth these days.

I’m feeling a bit under the weather right now.

Last week was the woman disease and it completely wiped me out.  I take my iron supplements and vitamins daily but it’s simply not enough. I’m so hydrated that even Moo Deng would be jealous.  I’ll have to look into getting an iron infusion since my insurance won’t cover it unless my anemia gets worse.  I laugh about this because how much worse does it need to get?  Till I’m hospitalized?  Heh.

I haven’t had this much coffee or espresso in a long time.  Typically, I’ll have two cups of coffee a day but I am going on my fourth cup easily by mid afternoon and then switching over to green tea.  I am still sleepy by the time I come home even though I have more work I have to do.

Saturday, I hung out with Krystiana and we went to Unique World, watched Wicked, and then ate dinner.  On Sunday, I went to a Jimin exhibition, ate K-BBQ in Korea Town (K-Town), and then went to Hollywood to go shopping at the Line Store.

Then it was back to the grind on Monday working close to 15 hours.  On Tuesday, I woke up with a sore throat. I was tested and my COVID results were negative.  I powered through and went to sleep early at 2100 after I finished working.  Wednesday, I tried to go to sleep early again because I was still not feeling 100% but the work just kept coming till 2300.  Thursday, I used my vacation day to work my other job because I was providing trainings for staff and had meetings that I couldn’t defer.  We also had an audit and received a mark of 99%.  I wasn’t happy that it wasn’t 100% but there’s nothing I can do about it now.

Afterward, upper leadership invited me out for happy hour.  There’s an unspoken rule that if you’re asked by leadership, you ought to go because this is where the networking really gets done.  Even though I’ve established my place at this entity, I need to continuously secure it because there are others who are waiting in the queue to take my position in a heartbeat.

I’m so thankful that Friday is around the corner…I plan to sleep at least 10 hours…