Sickie
I really don’t want to sound like the world is raining shit down on me. Things haven’t been going that well lately, but I’m practical. I don’t believe in bad luck or in anything else.
I have some good news, if you want to take it that way. My stereo faceplate, which precicipitated the whole ebay/email hacking, has turned up. I now own two identical stereos. My brother said some day I will laugh about this. I said I already did laugh about it; it is pretty funny. I knew that my faceplate would show up once I bought a new stereo and the faceplate also was where I thought it was, only my friends didn’t look hard enough the first time.
I also started getting sick Wednesday and was full-on sick by Thursday, which threatened to ruin my holiday meal. But you know me. Nothing is going to get in the way of Thanksgiving and my belly. I stayed on my feet and cooked and ate like a champion.
I had two days off in a row, and then I had to call in sick Friday. I felt guilty about doing that, but nobody else feels guilty about calling in sick, and I have a hard time believing that some of my coworkers are sick when they do call in. But who calls in sick on Black Friday? Me, apparently, even though this year, even if I had been well, I’d sworn it off. I don’t have the money to spend on crazy consumerism at 5 a.m. And when I have gone shopping, I always ended up buying stuff for myself, instead of other people. And I’ve already let it be known that the people I love are not getting much in the way of gifts this year. A plane ticket home = one very big Christmas gift.
Anyway, I’m still quite sick today. Maybe a tad better than yesterday in that my eyes aren’t leaking every time I cough. But I figured I’d better go to work anyway. I know I won’t even get sent home because I’m sure I’m needed. A normal person would probably still stay home. At least I have tomorrow off.
And I still have lots of leftovers to eat. Mmm, leftovers. Never to sick to eat them. Especially if I get them very hot to scald the dickens out of my throat.
I do think at this point I’m going to give up on my RSS feeds. Because I was sick and busy over the last couple of days, they have exploded to nearly 500 entries that I have not read. I am going to read entries by my friends and will probably nuke everything else. I think I subscribe to more than 150 blogs. That’s a lot of blogs.
All right, enough writing. I think I might go back to bed until it’s time to take a shower for work. I wonder how long it’s going to take me to force myself to go downstairs to eat.
