mamajoan

I'm feeling very mercurial today. I was fairly chipper this morning (especially considering I got to bed at 2am and had serious trouble getting up). But then we had our weekly department meeting and suddenly I was Very Cranky. I just had no patience for a half-hour discussion of whether the page numbers in the index of our manual should be ten-point or twelve. Arrgggghhh.

And then, not two minutes passed between the time I finally escaped the meeting and the time a coworker/pal came to tell me it was lunchtime. I was quite cranky by then but didn't want to bite his head off, so instead I was just sort of monosyllabic at him until he went away.

All of which leads me to pull out my calendar and check my cycles. Sure 'nuff, tomorrow's the three-week point, the point at which PMS usually starts to kick in. Apparently this is going to be one of those irritable months. Some months are breast-pain months, others are heavy flow and cramping months, and then there are the irritable months. Whee. Maybe I should make this a low-caffeine month too; that often seems to help.

I love being a chick, but sometimes it sucks being so fully at the mercy of hormones.