The monster in my tummy is angry

I've recently finished my antibiotic regime to get rid of an infection of H. Pylori bacteria in my stomach. The doctor says I'll have a build up of excess acid in my stomach for up to three weeks after the infection is gone. This leaves one tired Alana up with heartburn at unfortunate hours.

Things I need to stay away from include:
pop

deep-fried foods

or basically anything too acidic

The good news is this explains most of the reactions I've had recently with certain foods.

Labs don't die

Sometimes Physics makes me feel like this poor guy. I spent hours working on a lab only to find out that some of my data is crap and I'm probably going to have to redo parts of it. Bah!

Sounds like someone's got a case of the Mondays

I hate when you just can't shake a bad mood that makes everything worse.

The only thing worse than those days are days like that when things actually go wrong.

Or today.


I've been stuck in a funk pretty much since I woke up, and it seems to just be going downhill, fast. I spent nearly the last hour working with a supervisor trying to fix what appeared to be malfunctioning equipment. Finally after it all we discovered that I had been doing part of the procedure wrong* and it had finally been too much for the equipment. The only highlight was that he was quite nice about it, and was okay that I had essentially wasted his last hour**.

Now I'm sitting in the Physics lounge half an hour after work and I can't seem to find the energy to get up and go home.


I haven't felt this lousy since the day I was laid off.










* because I was trained wrong, but whatever
** he's known to be somewhat irritable