A bad day and a better day

A healthy dose of optimism. That’s what I need. Is what the doctor ordered half-empty or half-full in my medicine cup?

Needless to say, Monday was a less-than-ideal day. One might even call it “crappy.” I discovered that my last boss at Costco Pharmacy, who was going to write me a law school letter of recommendation, contracted H1N1 and was unable to write me a letter. With my hope of submitting applications before November 1, this posed a great challenge to find another person willing and able to write a letter in the next two weeks.

I also received an e-mail from Travelocity telling me that my flight in December would be altered to cause me to have a nearly-16-hour layover in New York, during which time I would also have to transfer from LaGuardia to JFK (or the reverse, I can’t recall). Now this is ridiculous. Thus, I called up Travelocity, and in a two hour three-way call between myself, the agent and a Delta Airlines agent, my flight was cancelled and I was rerouted to a schedule that would require I spend the night in an airport for 14+ hour layovers and/or spend the night in Seoul alone. Not exactly what I wanted to hear.

Fortunately, my Tuesday proved to be a better day and helped partially negate the problems from the day before. One of my favorite professors, whom I have taken four classes with, agreed to complete my letter of recommendation within two weeks. So grateful! Additionally, after an hour of searching on the Delta Web site, I called up the agent from Delta again and was able, after another hour and a half on the phone, a flight that had only two layovers, which were each less than three hours long, and I would land closer to Ulsan, where Derrick is staying.

Alas, a tension/sinus migraine flared up last night and almost immobilized me before work this morning. After some fountain Sierra Mist and caffeinated coffee TLC, I was able to ward most of it away. However, I began to have a dry (though not sore) throat last evening and into today. Let’s hope that’s nothing to worry about, considering that the entire Polk County only has 1,000 vaccinations to go around, and I am not one of the target publics (baby/child, sickly, elderly or pregnant) to receive one. I am also wary of flu shots because the last one I got in high school caused me to sit in a chair covered in Vicks Vaporub just to breathe and living on Pedialyte and Jell-O, a.k.a walking pneumonia (though I was stationary for a week). Well, now it’s time to down my Vitamin C tablets and drink OJ – and stress less since that weakens your immune system, too.

P.S. – My post title reminds me of the Animaniacs short “Good Idea/Bad Idea” with the mime. Loved that.