The best laid plans, and all that

[white_hart]

I made it 292 days into my year of daily posts, but the last few days have been utterly draining and I simply couldn't manage to come up with anything to say; I don't particularly want to talk about what's going on at work (and probably shouldn't even if I did), but it's blanked pretty much everything else out.

(My Facebook memories today told me that two years ago I got my regraded contract. Given what the last two years have brought, I think I've earned every penny of that higher salary, and then some*.)

Still, a 292 day streak isn't bad.

Anyway, I have nothing cheerful to say, so if you feel like telling me something that's making you cheerful, please do!

*I also sometimes think that maybe the higher grade job is just too much for me, but it's the same job, really, and none of the things that have made the last couple of years so difficult would have been avoided by me not being regraded.

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[antisoppist]

If work is going to be an overload of nightmare stuff whatever, you may as well be being paid for it, but that doesn't stop it still being an overload of nightmare stuff, which is not a good thing.

I forgot a cheerful thing. I went to my choir's concert, and I thought I would be bored or depressed due to not singing in it but I enjoyed it a lot and am glad to have had the opportunity to see what we all look like, bits of which were very funny.

[white_hart]

This is true, and it isn't like anyone said "look, you're now a grade 9, so one of your key staff is going to be diagnosed with advanced cancer, and you're going to have to deal with a global pandemic", to say nothing of the current nightmare. But it has been two years of solid nightmare and it doesn't look like it's going to stop any time soon, and I am utterly worn out now.

I'm glad you got to go to the concert, and enjoyed it! I do miss live music; we have tickets to see Billy Bragg next week but I don't think either of us really feels that comfortable with the idea of being in an enclosed space with lots of other people right now (and it's in the New Theatre, which is *big*).