wherein Liz hates colds

[edenfalling]

Even when I'm not sick enough to justify staying home from work, being sick still sucks. Especially when I run out of NyQuil. :-(

Fortunately I have Saturday off so I can get to the grocery store for medicine and juice, but unfortunately I signed up to help at my church's service auction a while ago and I'm on the cleanup crew, so I can't just sleep the evening away. *sigh*

I am up now because I slept about six hours from 8pm to 2am and woke after a rather upsetting frustration dream -- I was at some church function in an unfamiliar, huge, and overly elaborate building and the woman in charge of some committee decided that it would be marvelous fun to play hunt-and-chase and designated me as the target for her committee members without so much as asking me, and nothing I said would make them realize I hadn't agreed to participate (remember, this was a dream! UUs don't act like that in real life! ...which is probably a good two-thirds of why it upset me so much, come to think of it) -- and needed a break before going back to bed.

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I came down with this cold on election night and have been trying to keep it from crossing the border between pain-in-the-neck to knock-you-flat ever since. It is a delicately balanced struggle. :-/

And on that note, I think I will attempt to get some more sleep.

Comments

[lexicology]

See, I would say that being sick especially sucks when you're not quite sick enough to justify staying home from work.

And I hate dreams like those! I used to have them all the time. Hope your dreams get better.

[edenfalling]

Frustration dreams bother me much more than nightmares -- both because they are the type of bad dream I am more likely to have in the first place, and because existential futility (no matter how you try, you cannot alter the basic script, and it just repeats and repeats and repeats) grinds me down a lot more than a single jolt of flat-out terror.

I get them under three basic circumstances: when it is stupidly hot, when I am already wound up about something, and when I am sick (which is probably related to the previous two factors, especially when I have a fever).

[aishuu.livejournal.com]

Join the club! My boss came in, infected the office, and we're all sick but not sick enough to not work. I have no voice - do you know how hard it is to make phone calls when you have no voice?

[edenfalling]

Oh, ugh. I hate making phone calls at the best of times, but when your voice is gone? Yikes.

[aishuu.livejournal.com]

Especially when someone on the other end has you on speaker phone... gah.