sparkfrost | How you built a tower tumbling through the trees...

Well, we've had cooler weather followed by a torrential downpour, so I guess fall is finally here. Normally I'd be sad about it, but good god, this summer was stupidly, painfully hot and I'm glad to be done with it.

Monday must have been "Everybody be an Asshole to Suze" Day, because seriously, everybody was. Six customers (I counted) were complete douchebags to me for NO REASON. Seriously, there is no possible action that I took that would have made it okay for them to treat me the way they did, and yet. Manager actually hauled me outside after two in a row took their assholish anger out on me, just to give me a few minutes to calm down. I did get props for not flipping out on them, so that's something. And then, to make it all better, while walking home that day a car sped right through a puddle splashing me. And like, not just a bit either. My jeans were soaked, I had road water on my face, it was disgusting, and on top of the shitty shitty day I'd already had was enough to make me cry as I walked home. Awesome. And then I did math homework! Yay!

Tuesday wasn't much better, between finding out some family news that is good but also really upsetting, to getting into a brief fight with Palmer, to being totally unmotivated to do jack shit and therefore falling behind in getting schoolwork done, to being so obviously distressed when I went to get my parents car that they kept trying to find out what was wrong and all I could tell them was "bad day"... It was a rough start to the week.

Wednesday was a bit better, but I was still completely unmotivated and didn't get shit done. Today has gone a bit better, completed all the work for one class and most of it for another, hopefully will finish that up and get to work on a third. And then I'll have the whole weekend to finish up the last two, good times.

So, my knee has been acting up over the past couple of weeks, and last night/this morning I kept hearing and feeling it pop and crack as I moved around. While not entirely painful, it wasn't really pleasant either, so today I'm wearing my knee support brace, and I think it has helped a bit. My knee isn't popping as much, so that's good. A while back I talked to a trainer about my knee issues, and she recommended lifting weights to improve strength. So from now on I guess I'll be incorporating weights into my gym workouts.

I haven't biked at all this week due to the constant rain, but I have been walking to work, so at least I'm doing something. A regular at the shop offered to help me tune up my bike and show me how to put new tires on, so as soon as I can I'll take the bike over and work on it. And that's about it!