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I'm sick.

It's not fun. I started being sick Wednesday night. I had a little bit of an earache, and by Thursday morning, it felt like my ear was on fire. Plus runny nose, fever, cough, etc. Just general suckyness. I left work early on Thursday and Friday (as soon as I could, because I can't pass my stuff onto anyone else, as I'm the exact bottom of the totem pole and there isn't anyone else who knows how to do my stuff) and headed home for naps and games of Civ IV.

I hate being sick, but even more than that, I hate going to the doctor. So mostly, I've been hiding in my room like it's a leper colony, treating my bed like an island. I even "watched" a few DVDs while starting some DS games.

The only upside to me being sick this weekend is that J.W. is out of town. This way, I can't get him sick. It's good; I'd feel even worse if I were spreading my pathogens to my loved ones.

Friday, Rachel, Dad and I went to dinner. Pick Up Stix, and ice cream. Tasty. Conversation involved Dad trying to convince me that Guiliani is a more experienced candidate that Obama. It basically went round and round for a while, when I killed it by saying, "I can't verify any of the statements you're making right now, and as such, I refuse to accept them just because you're saying it." I also got annoyed with Rachel, for saying that I wouldn't be able to find a place in the area I want in my price range. Which is crap, and the way she said it seemed to suggest she thought I was completely ignorant. Anyway, I got snippy, but that may have been because I'm sick.

After dinner, Rachel came back to my place and helped me search everything for my iPod. Which I'm almost ready to declare missing. Right now, I just can't find it. A week more, and it's gone. So we searched and searched, and I used the searching time to re-straighted my room after two days of flopping around like a caterpillar on my bed. (And you all know how much I like cleaning.)

So, all tidied up, Rachel and I settled in to finish a game of Civ. I won, by a lot. By peaceable means, though. But now that I know what I'm doing, I'm done playing it on easy. :D

After that, I checked my email to find Jeff on, bubbling with details to share about his Keg Bong. All I can say: bad ass.

Mum came home around midnight, and I was still up, so I decided to swing by the store to pick up more tissues on the way to drop Rachel off at home. Since it's after midnight at this point, I had no issue with going out in my gray boy shorts, dark blue tank top, and slippers (one piggie, one bunny). Oh, and a French scarf tied around my shoulders like a cape. Again, this I blame entirely on me being sick.

So we get to the store, and it's a lot busier than I anticipated. But I roll with it; I have no shame when I'm sick. I did take my cape off, though. Collected the goods I needed, and even stopped for a dance party in the cat food aisle. (Someone was nice enough to leave us some Nirvana on.)

Then I took Rachel home, and came back for bed.


Now it's Saturday, and I'm at work again. Since there's no one close enough to infect anyway, I'm staying the full day. I'm stocked with tissues, and I brought soup for lunch. So far I've watched two episodes of Lost and read through a month's worth of Cyanide or Happiness. And updated my Myspace page... so basically, very little. I'm excited to go home and nap some more. I'm feeling about 60% better right now, and I think by tonight, it'll be up to 70%.

Tomorrow, Johnny Waffles comes home. Woot! (I'm excited.) Two thoughts on that: A) Weddings suck (stop falling in love and getting hitched people, there's entirely too much work involved in all that anyway) and B) Traveling sucks. Stay home where you belong, everyone!


My goals for tonight:

A) Nap
B) Shower (that's right, I have to plan ahead. I'm like a cat when I'm sick. It takes a lot of energy to make me get in the water.)
C) Find iPod! (Fingers crossed on this one, I'm hoping I'll just walk in and it'll be somewhere random and hidden in plain sight.)
D) Have Rachel come visit me for a game of Puerto Rico
E) Update Myspace page with Dinosaur pictures
F) Repaint toes
G) Find my Pride and Predjudice DVD and listen to it while I play more Civ.

Okay, that's all I've got. I hope you enjoyed my May post.