So something really creepy happened to me last night. I'm putting it here instead of the creepy thread, because I'm sure it was caused by stress.
So I've been an adjunct proffesor for a year now and my application to become full-time faculty has been dragging for about that long for various reasons. However, I was informed that I should have it "in July." Well... July is here and almost over and still nothing. This makes me nervous, because as an adjunct they asign my class to another professor, but I give it, they get the pay and full benefits and then just give me the after tax net pay. The problem being, once they know your app is near completion they simply leave them as "staff" on the schedule and, get this, pay NO ONE. I was told that my app will now be completed until August, which means I'll work AT LEAST half the month for free, potentially longer. It has become my main source of income as I'll only teach two classes throughout the semester at the language institute. I have some savings, but only to get me by maybe three months.
On top of that rainy season started and with it power outages. My house is the only house in the entire neighborhood that hasn't had power for close to two days. I submitted an online claim and my GF submitted one on the phone. today we've been calling only to get the, "All our reps are busy, please hold," BS for 15 minutes before it hangs up. While the darkness and silence isn't too bad I worry about the food in my fridge. We asked the neighbors today if we could put some stuff in their freezer before it goes bad and they said yes, but we also have some veggies, milk, etc... Finally because we have no power, the plug in mosquito repelants have been worthless.
This week I'm done with both my current courses, the summer semester at the university and a 19 day intensive course at the institute. So we have finals, turning in grades, etc. all the closing out activities that are stressing me the fuck out.
All that brings me to last night. I'm stressing out, because of work. I can't sleep because the mosquitos keep buzzing in my ear and I'm just getting irritated. I grab one of the candles we have, go to the TV room and sit in the recliner trying to read a hockey magazine just to see if it'lll make me sleepy and just pass out. Just when I think it is working and I'm laying on the couch facing the hallway I hear deep snoring. I'm comforted to recognize it as my own and begin to fall back to sleep when all of a sudden that snoring is no longer mine and I hear it behind me, by my ear. I open my eyes and I can still hear it as well as I can FEEL someone behind me. I look out into the hallway and into the bedroom where my GF is still sleeping. I try to move, but of course I can't, I can only lay there, paralysed and as I try to call her name nothing happens. As I'm trying to rouse myself from this, from behind the bedroom door I see someone walk out it what appears to be a white t-shirt, blue jeans and a white sheet over their head. All they do is walk back and forth from behind the door, across the doorway out of sight and back. All I could think of was, "Great, this is the first time this happens in over 15 years and I get TWO of you?" I was more concerned about the thing behind me than the one in the bedroom as it started moving around.
I began taking deep breathes and tried calling out to my GF, but her name only came out as a whisper. Finally I was able to get up and yell it waking her up. I just collapsed back into the couch breathing heavily and shaking. She came over all concerned and I told her all about it. "It's just the stress, hun, breathe, you're ok."
I hadn't spiraled so bad in years. I need this week to be over and for my power to be back on.
