mistressofmuses | It's fucken wimdy

Skip to Main Content

Current Mood: annoyed
Current Location: my apartment

Entry tags:

It's fucken wimdy

Love that. Love that "some threat of 100mph winds" part especially.

It IS extremely windy. I am not extremely comforted as we watch the windows shake. The power has gone out a handful of times, though always come right back on. (As has the internet, this time!) So fingers crossed it stays that way. Fingers double crossed that the windows don't do anything worse than rattle.

-

Got my second ever migraine aura yesterday night, around 11:00 or so. Can't say I'm a fan! It doesn't hurt, but it is a bizarre feeling to just have a growing blind spot surrounded by bright zigzags drift across your vision. Fucking weird.

I'm choosing to blame a combination of the weather/extreme pressure change with this wind + work stress.

Our online course has been down for three days now, and it's apparently a platform issue, so our developers are limited in what they can do. I fielded 30-some calls about it today, and am feeling salty about how the manager who was doing them yesterday got passive-aggressive about needing assistance (which meant me. And as soon as I offered to help, she did no more.) I would have loved to call in some sort of assistance to help me today, but I'm literally the only one available, so.

Also annoyed because my manager is telling me it is expected that I attend a new phone system training on my day off. I'll get paid for the time, but I don't want to have to structure my day around being home to do it.
(My manager's manager said in the training invite that no, no one has to attend on a day off, because it'll be recorded, but my manager got snarly about it, and I know it'll be easier if I just do the damn thing. I did tell her I might be at the vet at the time for Cy's followup, and she got snarky about "well, it's an inconvenient time for me when I have to pick up my kids, but I still have to figure it out, so you just have to make it work.")

-

ETA: as of about 10:00, the highest confirmed gust has been 96mph in one of the canyons. There's an unconfirmed gust of 114mph in a town a bit farther up into the mountains.

Too many wind!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Oof! Good luck with the wind. It's been pretty bad here as well lately and I think the timing always matches with exhausting headaches I keep getting... Weather-related headaches: Not A Fan (tm).

I'm seething your manager would expect you to attend training on your day off. Sending lots of positive thoughts your way, and not so positive their way.

Definitely Not A Fan of the weather-related headaches. I've noticed over the past few years that I'm a lot more sensitive to barometric pressure changes than I ever used to be: headaches, joint pain, etc. Bleh!

We made it through the worst of the wind fairly unscathed! Lots of downed trees and fences in the surrounding areas, but no damage to our building as far as I'm aware.

I'm very annoyed by my manager Being Like That. 99% of the time I really like her, but 1% of the time she gets very weird and inflexible about things that I just can't parse the why of. (I've done trainings via recordings before, and this is the first time she's ever not been okay with that!)

I hate high winds! And the animals aren't fans, either. I hope you stayed safe. Are the winds expected to continue?

OMG, your manager sounds like a total ass! Especially since they were overruled on the training, but still insist? Arrgh. You are a saint to put up with all the bullshit.

Yeah, the winds seemed to bug Cy for a while last night. Neither of the dogs wanted to be outside much in it, though then it hyped Bella up, haha. Fortunately the really bad wind was just through last night, and only intermittently through today. It's still gusty right now, and has been so on and off, but not the 80-90mph stuff from last night.

I'm so annoyed by the training thing! It's never been an issue with any of our past trainings that I've had to watch recordings of! I mostly really like her and like working for her, which makes the weird demands like this feel even more blindsiding, because I really don't get *why*.

Too much wind! Too much bullshit from your manager! Ugh.

Waaaay too much wind!

And it really does feel like some stupid bullshit with the training. I really would care much less if there was a reason beyond "because I told you to", but there isn't, so I'm both confused and annoyed. Usually she's pretty reasonable, which makes it feel weirder.

Usually she's pretty reasonable, which makes it feel weirder.

I can see why! :/

Windy days, when the tractor trailers sail sideways across the highways! Yeah, not fun.

Migraines that don't hurt are weird. It's like... is it migraine or am I haunted?

Managers shouldn't expect or require that, that sucks

Ah yes! There were lots of reports of semis having blown over. I think most were at least off to the side rather than sideways across the highways, though at least one was a hazmat situation. Always a good time!

Right? I suspect I've possibly had "silent migraines" for some time. I used to get the classic "let me lay in the dark and try to cry without moving for the next 48 hours" ones like clockwork after midterms and finals when I was a student, and after graduating I thought they just went away minus a couple here and there over the years. But finding out more about the symptoms OTHER than pain has made me suspect they did not in fact go away. This is only the second ocular/aura migraine I've had, but man was it offputting. If I *didn't* know that they were a thing... yeah, is this ghosts?

It's surprising because typically my manager ISN'T the type to demand this sort of thing, and has never previously had a problem with me attending a recorded training. A handful of times I've seen her get the same way about something, where she's just weirdly inflexible and will hear absolutely zero argument, and I can't ever figure out why certain things set her off.

Yeah, it can be hard to know if you are exhausted or just-like-that or failing to cope or just getting older, or if it's a migraine. Especially since some migraines are so odd.

Yeah, it's hard to tell what the culprit is, sometimes! I've generally chalked the brain fog episodes or the days where I just cannot seem to get focused on other things. And a lot of times it probably IS those other things.
But some of the bouts just *feel* different, even if I'd use the same words to describe the "symptoms", and my usual coping strategies just don't work.

Migraines are fucking weird! It's such a weird constellation of different symptoms and presentations.

Yeah, it sucks to figure out and treat. I have a list of 'just in case' things to do like water, caffeine, tylenol, eliminate light, etc.

Hydrate, caffeinate, naproxen... Eliminating light the instant I get home from work really does seem to be the most effective if the other things aren't cutting it.

Oof, yeah, eliminating light being effective is pretty telling that it's a migraine.

Fortunately/unfortunately, ha. Fortunately that's fairly diagnostic and makes it seem like the probable culprit, but unfortunate because... well, migraines aren't great!

My fingers are crossed for you that you're making it through these crazy winds!

And your manager needs to be yeeted into the sun because fuck her and her cunty mommy privilege Karen griping trashmouth bullshit. Ugh.

We made it through the winds mostly unscathed! Our building was fine, minus the elevators being out this morning. (That was not a fun six flights half-carrying Cy...) My mom's fence between her and the neighbor came down, and some of her planters and things were broken, but no big trees down, and no damage to her townhome.
Lots of downed fences and trees elsewhere in the area, though.

And UGH. I'm so annoyed about the thing with my manager. 99% of the time she's great, and I generally like working with her and for her. But every once in a while, she gets extremely pushy and demanding about particular things, and I can't figure out WHY those specific things set her off. I've had to do training via recordings before and it's never been a problem. And if there was a particular reason given I'd be less annoyed, but it was basically just "I told you to, so you have to."

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only