Sick day notes
Feb. 10th, 2010 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sereneThat's the first time Dreamwidth's eaten one of my posts. Ah, well.
The gist:
Good stuff:
Bad stuff:
I dropped the car off this morning at 7 and went to work, but I didn't last long. The boss says to stay home until I'm well. I do believe I'm going to take her up on it. Sigh.
*That's not really what it's called, but probably should be. Punchier, ya know?
**I was gonna say Protestant Work Ethic, but I was raised Catholic, and I really do think it's an American phenomenon more than it's religiously based at this point
The gist:
Good stuff:
- Mango juice
- Aspirin
- Potato soup cooking on the stove
- An adorable partner experimenting with roasting his own coffee. The first batch was good. The second smells burnt (well, like wood-burning-stove smell), but tastes good.
- Sick pay
- Appointment with the Rheumatologist is this Friday
- My mom's coming tomorrow! Only for the night, but still; the kid and I will visit her in Burlingame this weekend if I'm well
- The kid likes college! ("College isn't so bad, Aunt San. It's way better than I thought it would be.") She goes when she's sick. She goes when she is tired. She is being so responsible and collegiate. I'm very proud.
- This weekend, the kid's going on her first college field trip, to the De Young, and it's free!
- Got away with buying most of her school clothes/shoes for around $100. She only lacks a jacket now, and maybe a few more pairs of socks.
Bad stuff:
- I'm guessing I have a sinus infection. Waiting to hear back from the doc. Missing Surviving The Apocalypse 101* with aquenigmatic, who will now have to be in charge when the shit comes down. My hero!
- Missing work. I loathe it, even though there's now sick pay for it. I think my revulsion toward taking days off is part neurosis, part American Work Ethic**, part good old-fashioned conscientiousness, and part self-involvement. I know intellectually that taking time off when I'm sick is best for everyone, but I fight with shame over it nonetheless. Likewise missing the appointment with aquenigmatic. Hate it!
I dropped the car off this morning at 7 and went to work, but I didn't last long. The boss says to stay home until I'm well. I do believe I'm going to take her up on it. Sigh.
*That's not really what it's called, but probably should be. Punchier, ya know?
**I was gonna say Protestant Work Ethic, but I was raised Catholic, and I really do think it's an American phenomenon more than it's religiously based at this point