Scattered thoughts on a Wednesday
Aug. 23rd, 2006 01:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zoetheProving once and for all that traveling in Europe did not bestow me with new reserves of grace and style, upon first arriving at the office this morning I slammed my middle left finger in a vertical file. It's all swollen and blue.
Yes, I am indeed back to work. Spent a short time saying hello to people and then hit the ground running, with piles of files dumped back on my desk from the people relieved at no longer needed to babysit them. True to my prediction, everything was at a hurry-up-and-wait status and I got back just in time for the next phase. Yay! There's nothing worse than having nothing to do.
The cold/flu/SARS/bird flu/black death thing continues to cling to my chest like a mynock. I felt reasonably good this morning, until 4 hours after my last dose of Thera-flu. At that point I completely fell apart, coughing so hard that I couldn't breathe and nearly throwing up before it all stabilized again. I'm watching the clock to make sure I'm right on top of the next dose, and stopping for more of this miracle drug on the way home from work.
Classes started this week. I am not in them. Wow. Wow wow wow. I haven't really grasped the notion of weekends without homework being the norm. It's still so foreign, after 4 years of school. I'm looking forward to the first Saturday when I wake up in the morning and have nothing to do. (It won't be this Saturday; I have to go fetch Ferrett from the airport.)
Local friends are attempting to make plans with us. I am still feeling too sick to be enthusiastic about them. Maybe by next week, when I'm well again. Right now, getting through the work day seems like challenge enough.
I do have to go to school today, actually. Must pick up my diploma!
Yes, I am indeed back to work. Spent a short time saying hello to people and then hit the ground running, with piles of files dumped back on my desk from the people relieved at no longer needed to babysit them. True to my prediction, everything was at a hurry-up-and-wait status and I got back just in time for the next phase. Yay! There's nothing worse than having nothing to do.
The cold/flu/SARS/bird flu/black death thing continues to cling to my chest like a mynock. I felt reasonably good this morning, until 4 hours after my last dose of Thera-flu. At that point I completely fell apart, coughing so hard that I couldn't breathe and nearly throwing up before it all stabilized again. I'm watching the clock to make sure I'm right on top of the next dose, and stopping for more of this miracle drug on the way home from work.
Classes started this week. I am not in them. Wow. Wow wow wow. I haven't really grasped the notion of weekends without homework being the norm. It's still so foreign, after 4 years of school. I'm looking forward to the first Saturday when I wake up in the morning and have nothing to do. (It won't be this Saturday; I have to go fetch Ferrett from the airport.)
Local friends are attempting to make plans with us. I am still feeling too sick to be enthusiastic about them. Maybe by next week, when I'm well again. Right now, getting through the work day seems like challenge enough.
I do have to go to school today, actually. Must pick up my diploma!
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on 2006-08-23 05:46 pm (UTC)I'm working on Equinox plans, if you're still interested. I'll know more as soon as September's work schedule is settled.
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on 2006-08-23 06:18 pm (UTC)no subject
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on 2006-08-23 06:34 pm (UTC)Sounds like me at the end of a cold....caused by bronchiospasms, and the basic asthma inhaler does the trick.
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on 2006-08-23 06:44 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2006-08-23 09:13 pm (UTC)Sweetie, go to the doctor.
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on 2006-08-23 11:37 pm (UTC)no subject
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on 2006-08-23 06:24 pm (UTC)I hope you don't have what I have, although I have to admit they sound very similar. *sigh* I'm where you are on coughing, although it was so bad on Friday that I didn't skip the throwing up stage, twice. I seem to be coming out on the other side though. And I'm sure you will too.
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on 2006-08-23 06:43 pm (UTC)Glad you're feeling better.
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on 2006-08-23 06:47 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2006-08-23 07:06 pm (UTC)(I actually did think of whooping cough when I was struggling to breathe around the coughing.)
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on 2006-08-23 06:42 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2006-08-23 06:45 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2006-08-23 06:54 pm (UTC)*sighs dramatically*
oh, wait. you're sick and won't go to the doctor cos "doctor's are for wimps"
that should keep you busy.
*okay... so I'm bein' a meanie head.
hope you get well soon
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on 2006-08-23 07:07 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2006-08-23 08:55 pm (UTC)So I totally understand the hypochondria label. I stopped believing in doctors long ago.
Don't worry what THEY might think, all that matters is your health.
*hugs*
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on 2006-08-24 05:19 am (UTC)Tell me about it. Last week I dreamed that I was supposed to be studying for the bar exam, which was to be administered THAT DAY. And I didn't study. And I'm not a lawyer. But nobody would listen when I said I wasn't a lawyer; they just insisted I had to take the test.
I woke up freaked out and had to take deep breaths & remind myself: There are no more exams. I am out of school. There are no more tests.
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