When it rains it pours, apparently - and it is literally pouring rain outside as I type this.

Dad went back into the hospital last weekend. Same thing - bleeding on the brain. He had to have the same operation to drain it. So, I was back to long days of emotinal and mental exhaustion. The difference this time was that I was still tired from the last time and it was hard to maintain the same 'up'.

I caught up momentarily in my class, only to quickly run out of time. I'm opting out of 10 marks because I just don't have the time to travel the 30 minutes to spend 3.5 hours in presentations. I will do the written portion, but I'm accepting the loss of 10 marks. Sacrifices :)

Work is good and is mostly flexible, but shit still needs to get done and I'm having trouble focussing. People are also being more difficult this time. Difficult in the sense they're just not pulling their weight which means more crap gets piled on me. I just need them to do their parts so that my focus can just be on mine.

I pulled a muscle in my shoulder/back last night and I'm a cripple today. So much so that I'm actually not at work. This is working out quite well as I really can use the day of not doing anything.

I just want a break here. No stress, peace, breaths of fresh air.

I realize I'm complaining....I AM incredibly grateful that dad's recovering well again and that he's not worse than what he is. Things could be so much worse and I'm thankful they're not. Words can't express what I'm feeling about knowing we haven't lost him.