Back to Work!
Wow, man. Getting up was brutal this morning. I haven't exactly slept in over the holidays (I consider 7:00 a.m. pretty early, even if it's an hour and a half later than when I normally get up) but it was still a nasty jolt. I had taken Nyquil and went to be early last night, hoping that I'd wake up refreshed and healthy, but instead I woke up drowsy and congested. Not good. Somehow the ten feet between my bed and my shower felt like ten miles. I had a terrible nightmare last night where I got fired. Yup, straight up fired. Then I had a dream-within-a-dream where I "woke up" and couldn't tell if I had actually been fired or if it was all a dream. You know, it's a good thing I figured out it was just a dream this morning and actually went to work.
Max comes home tomorrow - at last! Feels like it's been forever, even tho he's only been gone since 12/19. Sometimes I look back on those months he spent in Denver and wonder how I managed not to be totally and hopelessly bored. Or maybe I was. Probably just got used to it over time.
I just finished Atonement by Ian McEwan which I highly recommend. Really great book. As much as I enjoy my murder mysteries, a proper novel from time to time really does me good. I want to see the movie, but doubt that I can persuade Max to go with me, so I will have to ask one of my girlfriends.
Grr. Argh. Why won't my nose stop running? You know, I read online that the average non-sick person produces nearly 3 quarts of mucus a day. Ew. Gross.
And a sickie produces up to 6 quarts of mucus. No wonder I feel sluggish - and fat! That's a lot of extra fluid to be carrying around!
Anyway, as the title of the post suggests - back to work!
Max comes home tomorrow - at last! Feels like it's been forever, even tho he's only been gone since 12/19. Sometimes I look back on those months he spent in Denver and wonder how I managed not to be totally and hopelessly bored. Or maybe I was. Probably just got used to it over time.
I just finished Atonement by Ian McEwan which I highly recommend. Really great book. As much as I enjoy my murder mysteries, a proper novel from time to time really does me good. I want to see the movie, but doubt that I can persuade Max to go with me, so I will have to ask one of my girlfriends.
Grr. Argh. Why won't my nose stop running? You know, I read online that the average non-sick person produces nearly 3 quarts of mucus a day. Ew. Gross.
And a sickie produces up to 6 quarts of mucus. No wonder I feel sluggish - and fat! That's a lot of extra fluid to be carrying around!
Anyway, as the title of the post suggests - back to work!
posted by S at 3:38 PM
4 Comments:
I actually heard that watching the movie Atonement is like running a marathon only to be punched in the stomach at the end of it. Was the book that way?
Haha, that's a pretty good way of describing it but it was more like running a marathon and actually enjoying it, which I hear some people do...
3 quarts??? Please lord, don't let that be true.
a) i adored atonement- definitely like getting punched, but i hate sad books, and didn't hate that one. it was sad, but somehow not miserable. a tragedy in the traditional sense, not the modern hyperbolic sense.
b) i haven't read to the top- i imagine you're better by now. if it happens again, antihistamines (like benadryl) literally work by drying up fluid- they dry up breast milk also if you're nursing! they're pretty good. the wicked gross part (always trust me to take it that one step further) is that the fluid sort of comes from these cells that ooze around when you get an infection and dissolve to let their cellular stuff attack bacteria... the whole process is probably not interesting to anyone but me, but hey, i'm fascinated.
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