Not a good day

Ugh. Yesterday was bad, today is not good either. 

Yesterday I tried to take the subway across town to meet a colleague from my congregation. That seemed doable when I planned it. But by the time I was on the subway, not so much. And then the subway, being the subway, had problems of its own. Service was halted, a train in sight, stopped in the tunnel instead of at the platform. There was an announcement about track work and a shutdown further east (just a few stops from my destination). Finally the train pulled into the station, but almost as soon as it started rolling, there was an announcement that it would be going out of service. We all exited at the next station, St George, where in addition to the high pitched metal-on-metal squeal of our train starting and stopping, there was the aggressive thundering rumble of trains on another platform overhead. 

It was all too much. 

I texted my colleague that I wouldn’t be able to make it, and went upstairs to wait 17 minutes in the cold for a bus back to my neighbourhood. But at least I could be outside in relative quiet. 

Anyway. 

Today I was hoping to see my doctor but they told me the wrong time so I have to go back Monday. And I emailed my work that I just can’t handle as much as they want me to do. And now I’m in bed at 4 o’clock in the afternoon with a headache and nausea. 

I was so hopeful last week! Seems like a lifetime ago.