What a wild day

I'm so tired and what a wild, wild day this was.

I didn't sleep well last night at all except for the short time right before my alarm woke me up in a deeper part of my sleep.  So this morning I was groggy and moving really slowly.  And it's the start of my period so I'm not feeling my best.

Then on my scooter ride in, I witnessed a car collide with a runner.  The car was pulling out of a parking garage when it happened so fortunately, not going very fast.  The runner walked away so I hope that means she was okay.  The driver's apologies through the car window sounded a bit insincere.  Almost everyone that I see pull out of the parking garages on my daily commute is on their cell phone.  Rarely do they even notice pedestrians on the sidewalk, so I'm not at all surprised this happened.  It was very alarming to watch. 

Then mid-morning, I got an e-mail that the Atlanta job would post today.  So my day was filled with refreshing the job posting website over and over, with no sign of a posting all day.  Hurry up and wait.

This afternoon, I then downloaded our semi-annual analysis that helps us develop leads.  After I download it, I always save a copy of it onto a portable hard drive with the prior analyses so that I can easily access any time period depending on the investigation I'm working on.  I also make a copy for my colleague on his portable hard drive. Well, it turns out the change in encryption software has made our drives read-only until we reformat them and re-encrypt them (which would erase everything).  

I don't want to keep track of multiple drives, so I have begun the painstaking process of copying all 1 TB of files from my drive onto a temporary location so that I can then reformat and re-encrypt the drive before moving it all back and finally add the new analysis.  This will be days and days of work that I had not anticipated.

As I left my computer running to continue the copying process, I headed home and managed to get my brand new dress caught in my scooter where it ripped a huge hole.  This was my first day wearing it.  It doesn't appear to be salvageable.  

On a positive note though, tonight was my second African Rhythms dance class.  It was a chance to just forget about the outside world and let the stress of the day flow off me as my feet moved to the beat of the drums.  My feet are really sore (we dance barefoot) and my body is exhausted but my mind is a bit more settled.  I'm now ready to face the rest of the week, whatever may come.  It is only Monday so there are a lot of days left for it to get better.