Good morning, all! Yesterday was a completely frustrating day: every plan and intention I had to be accomplished between 10 AM and 6 PM went to hell, and I wasted my day because of others' irresponsibilities.
After eight hours of raging, I was in no mood to be social last evening, so I caught up on the posts and went to bed early. The biggest problem was a Fed Ex shipment from San Francisco, which was to be delivered by 3 PM. The Fed Ex tracking on their site told me all morning that the packages were en route from Memphis. I got to the office around 10:30 AM and waited. Everytime I checked by telephone on the situation, I was told that the packages were en route to their destination. I had to leave at 3 to be to a doctor's appointment at 4, and the packages were guaranteed by 3 supposedly. At 2:45, I spoke to a Fed Ex customer service person who told me there had been a delay and the packages weren't yet on the delivery truck. After telling Fed Ex where to jam the packages, I left. Their tracking site tells me the packages were dumped at the office at 4:39, almost two hours after I left.
Now, the shipment was most likely delayed by air problems, so I wasted my day, but if the person who requested the shipment had asked the Gershwin Trust to ship them by second day as I requested they do, I wouldn't have wasted my day.
So then, I got to my appointment, signed in around 3:45, and waited to see my HMO's eye specialist. At 5:30, I finally saw his assistant and was asked to wait. There were four people waiting ahead of me, one of whom had been waiting snce 3:30, so I left. I rescheduled my appointment for next month and asked for his very first appointment of the day. I cannot believe the stupdity of an HMO booking appintments approximately every 10 minutes for a doctor who's clearly taking over 30 minutes to examine a patient! Fuck it.
Perhaps if I hadn't wasted my day on Fed Ex, or I'd had more reading material than the magazine I read twice while I waited, I woulddn't have minded the wait. I'm too old, too testy, and too tired of catering to idiots.
Today, I have to go to Toyland, ascertain the cartons are indeed there. Then NYPL, and then my goddaughter's dance recital, which means a trip to the Bronx.
I'll think about LOST HORIZON, which never thrilled me as book or either film. Right now I think its salvation would be a cast of classic clowns: Red Skelton or Jimmy Durante as the High Lama, Ethel Merman, Milton Berle, Buddy Hackett, and Phil Silvers, with Barbra Streisan in the Margo role, and George Segal in the Ronald Colman part.
