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Funny that just as I’m putting so much time and energy into being someone else’s pillar of strength, so many bad things are happening to me.

Yesterday it was the bike. I took my bike to the shop for an unrelated fix, and they say they need to replace the headset, which they installed brand new just five weeks earlier.

As if that wasn’t enough gross incompetence, they don’t have the parts, and the guy who took my bike apart isn’t capable of putting it back together again using the old parts, so I have to survive the next ten or more days without my primary mode of transportation to my job or to the hospital to support my best friend in her time of need, and without any ability to continue training for my charity ride.

On top of the existing issues with the ceiling leak, falling behind in class, and being behind schedule in the fundraising for the charity ride, this is really getting discouraging. June (and perhaps now July?) seems to have been officially declared “National Kick Orny in the Teeth Month”. What crisis am I gonna have to endure next?

Wow. What a life it has become. I wish I could update you on everything that’s gone on, but everything that’s going on prohibits me from actually doing so. You’ll get some updates, but I’m afraid it’s not gonna be in the short term, because all of a sudden I find myself under incredible time stress.

There are really five major demands on my time. The first is this new job, which as consulting jobs go really hasn’t been bad so far.

The second is that at about the same time as I started work, a very close friend was hospitalized. I’m not going to get into the details of that, but I’ll be setting up a filter for posts relating to that, if I ever find the time to write them.

Between those two things, I’ve literally spent all my time either at work, at the hospital, or sleeping (and sleep time has already been cut by 50 percent).

On top of that, my final class in my graphic design program has started, and I’ve already fallen behind. Getting caught up is going to be a huge struggle from now through mid-August, when the class ends.

Then there’s my annual cancer charity ride, which is only six weeks away. I have to really get back into training mode, and start raising some money. I usually start at the end of May, but so far this year I’ve only raised $20 out of the $3,000 I need. Fortunately, at least I’m not responsible for it until the middle of October, even if the ride takes place in August.

And, of course, there’s a bunch of DargonZine work that came out of our 2005 Writers’ Summit, which is the topic for another post that I have been hoping to make.

So I’m here, but I haven’t been under this kind of stress in a long, long time. I’m really hopelessly swamped right now. Maybe I should be making more use of LJ’s post-by-phone facility.