The Rose&#39;s Grove

Hm. I think if they actually went out of their way to mention staying home if you're sick, then you can assume that's what they want you to do. They wouldn't have made a point of saying something if they were iffy about it, you know?

PS -- How are things besides your sinus infection? I feel like I haven't heard from you in awhile. Did you ever get your flist to start working again?

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I thought of that, but since it was my predecessor who said it and not one of the actual execs... I came in, am drinking tea, and figure that once I've gotten a few things settled (the accountant is in today, so I'll have bills to send off, etc) I'll ask if it's okay for me to head off early in the hopes of kicking this thing.

Not bad! The f-list thing seems to have resolved, I've been reading a lot of fun books, writing a bit, and I'm joining up on a RPG group with some friends, so that'll be a nice change. I haven't had a group to play with in a while. And I'm trying to teach myself HTML so that I can have a (*gasp!*) marketable skill the next time I start job-hunting. One of my roommates does HTML stuff for a big company, and she gets fabulous money and great co-workers out of it, so... sounds like a good deal to me. ;)

How about you?

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Oh. Yeah, well, that does make a difference. Sneaking out early's a good option too, though, because you can mention how you've done most of the necessary stuff already. XD

Um, I've been trying desperately to forget that I ever came back from Burning Man by looking at the pictures, typing up long-winded entries with little to no point, and partying like I'm still there (well, it was my best friend's birthday weekend extravaganza, but still -- I went to the bar three nights in a row!). Oh, and still trying to find and fix the mistakes everyone made at work while I was gone. *sigh*

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Yup, that's my theory, too. Hopefully the accountant will finish the checks early, or that plan is shot all to hell. :P

Holy crap, three nights in a row out drinking? I'm confused if I go out drinking three times in a month! I don't know whether to be jealous of your party-animal-ness or relieved that it was you and not me!

Ugh. See, that's the one good thing about my job. For the most part, people can handle themselves while I'm gone... the benefit of having most of one's job be the little things that nobody else wants to deal with, but theoretically can handle if they need to.

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Yeah, well, I did mention that I'm trying desperately to forget that I came back from Burning Man, right? Three nights in a row at Burning Man is less than half of the time we were there! Three nights in a row is not something I do in everyday life, to be sure, but I'm still a little crazy and disoriented from my time there. It's a very perspective-changing place, you know? Not that all the nights out had anything to do with that, but I'm still feeling a little "meh" about my real life right now, and I'm obviously trying to pretend I'm still there.

Bah. Sometimes I think it'd be better if I wasn't so self-aware about my own behavior, and just wandered around in an unconscious stupor like most people. It's a strange thing to sit and analyze your own actions sometimes. Beneficial, yes, but strange as well.

And yeah, I think it would have been better if I hadn't asked them to try to do anything at all. Easier to just catch up than to find mistakes, fix them, and then try to catch up. :p

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Yeah, I understand that. Any time I have the slightest change in my daily routine, I feel kind of disconcerted and weirded out. Like my life has to be integrated again or something.

And dear gods do I know what you mean about the self-analysis. It always weirds me out to realize that most people, in a general population sense, really don't think that much about what they do and why they do it, or spend any significant time on figuring out their own brains. As frustrating as it is to do so, I think it's so important to a really fulfilled and self-aware life.

It's so frustrating when people think they're helping and actually end up doing exactly the opposite. *Rolls eyes*

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... really don't think that much about what they do and why they do it, or spend any significant time on figuring out their own brains.

Yeah, I can't stop my brain from figuring itself out, even if I wanted to, so the people that just wander obliviously through their own lives completely baffle me.

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...so the people that just wander obliviously through their own lives completely baffle me.

Exactly! Aren't they interested in why they do the things they do, or think the things they think? I mean, it's probably self-centered of me to some degree, but... dude, I'm always fascinated by trying to figure out where my brain comes up with stuff and how/why it gets from one thing to another.

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I've been obsessively checking livejournals, myspace, etc. for like a week now. I can't game because of our lame wireless connection and Something Awful is getting tedious. Yay for slow days at work, and friends that don't start their nights until 11. Everybody is gettting an extra dose of Chris lately so I apologize if I'm camping your journal. ;)

Three nights in a row has become de rigeur for this place. My new housemate is a bartender, which is kind of like living with a friendly drug dealer. I'm completely hooked on going out and the rest of my housemates don't really have a choice. The four of us go out way too much. I don't think I've avoided going to a bar in a couple of weeks. I rarely get drunk when I go to a bar now and I don't ever drink to a point where I can't sober up before last call. It's all about knowing one's limit and when to say no and close the tab.

For instance, a sinus infection and throat thing probably indicates that it's not a good time to go out. Stop getting sick! Go home, drink some tea with lemon, take some drugs and watch something entertaining. I wouldn't worry too much about taking a couple of sick days. I hope you feel better soon.

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No worries, it's good talking to you again!

You living with a bartender sounds like a dangerous proposition - I'm surprised you haven't quit school and your old job both to work with him yet! And I'm glad to hear the moderation thing... me, I'm having a crazy night if I have more than one drink. I like getting pleasantly buzzed, but no further. ;)

God no - no going out, but if this is still bothering me tonight I'll probably do my variant on the old Ukrainian/Russian cure. Find the strongest alcohol in the house, heat it up, and drink a big mug of it, as fast as I can so it's still hot, with lemon and honey if it can possibly go with the flavor of whatever booze I found. I've yet to see a cold that won't start backing off after that treatment.

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zhapper.livejournal.com

I've found that approach works with people too.

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I've had jobs where they would *say* things like that, and sound very earnest, but they would still be very peeved if you had the nerve to actually be sick.
And then I've had jobs where they would *say* things like that, and then be quite relieved that you didn't come to work and infect the entire workforce resulting in an empty office the next week.
It's a crapshoot. But given your comments about their training habits and whatnot, I'd be a little concerned that this workplace is one of the former.

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That's exactly what I've been nervous about. One of the coworkers gave me some (Canadian, hence actually worthwhile) cough syrup, so hopefully that'll give me a start to go on.

It's worth hoping, though... it'd be nice.

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I have had jobs that say that but really mean you'd better not get sick. Or if you are why didn't you get sick over the weekend. XD

And sinuses SUCK. I just pack away alot of tylenyol sinus and try to ignore it. *hugs you* I hope you feel better. :)

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Exactly. So I'm crossing my fingers that they were moderately serious about this... I'd really like to be able to go home in the afternoon, to rest.

God yes. Mine have always had problems - when I was in junior high I had sinus infections at a rate of about two a year, and was on a really nasty anti-allergy inhaler. That's settled down since I got older, and especially since moving to the city, but I still get all kind of nasty sinus stuff. Sore throats, stuffed-up ears, headaches... the whole deal. And I seem to have really weird reactions to cold medication, probably because I don't take them much. I get dizzy, or get kind of weirdly hyperactive and sleepy at the same time. So mostly I just drink loads and loads of tea with honey and lemon, and eat hot soup, and cold fruit sorbets. And absolutely nothing with milk, which is really frustrating.

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Yeah around here if you don't have sinus problems you're considered strange. I lived in Texas for a year and it was so strange to breathe without the sinus problems. I really sensitive to any medication even tylenol. I so hate it when it makes you sleepy and your skin kinda tingles like it's fallen asleep or somthing. It makes me feel like I'm lighter than air. My mom and I had a running joke that I didn't have to do hard drugs to get high, just give me some tylenyol and I'm good. XD

I also get migraine's which is much fun when I have them when I already had a sinus headache. You're lactose intolerent too? I love chocolate chip cookies with milk alas I cannot have them either.

Soup sounds really good right now.

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Oh, wow - normal tylenol is okay for me, it's just the PM stuff that does me in. I'd be scared to take anything if I had that kind of reaction... tingly feelings = not good.

I'm so glad I've never had a migraine, they sound totally miserable.

Not normally, no, but my dad is mildly allergic, and if I'm sick or having allergy problems I avoid it because it causes more mucus than usual, which makes me feel more crummy.

It does, doesn't it? I've got some instant miso that I keep for 'emergencies' here at work... I'll probably have some in a bit, I think.

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The PM knocks me out for hours sometimes I wonder if that stuff has morphine in it or something. :)

Migraine's are evil. I don't usually get over them for at least two or three days, longer if I have to be hospitalized.

I didn't know that well I'm glad I don't drink it anyway.

I love Chicken broth, nothing in it just broth. Especially if I have a sore throat.

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Tylenol PM has the same stuff as Unisom and oddly enough, Benadryl. Diphenhydramine is an anti-histamine that can cause hallucinations and other strangeness. A lot of people don't handle it very well, myself included. A regular dose makes me a zombie for the next 30-40 hours. Sure, it makes you sleep, but I always feel really crummy the next day when I take that stuff. I don't really think I sleep as much as just pass out and become semi-conscious again the next day.

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Exactly, I feel like I'm walking around in a haze the next day and my brain feels mushy too. It hits me so hard I have to take and the immediately go straight to bed. I don't take it often because I fear that there would be a fire during the night and I would be unconsious and die.

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I don't usually get over them for at least two or three days, longer if I have to be hospitalized.

And you were in the military with this? o_O The army refused my cousin because she has mild asthma!

Ooo. Broth. I should stop and get some chicken broth on the way home, for dinner. Maybe some bread, to go with it. ♥

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Yeah, they apparently just figured it was really bad headaches. :x And they don't ask you if you have migraine's in the inprocessing center. At the time I had only a few, but like my mother as I get older I have them a lot more often. Actually the first time I was hospitalized was when I was in Oki, funny thing that was when they told me they just considered migraine's to be "really bad headache's" of course this was my CO who told me this so...you know.

Also the asthma thing, that's because of all the physical stuff you have to do in Basic and onwards. They (at the time now it could be different) don't consider migraine's to be physical.

Oooh, warm fluffy bread and chicken broth, now you're starving me. I know what I'm having for dinner and it's a rainy day too. It's fitting.:D

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True, true... I guess now that I think of it my cousin made it through a week of Basic and then got diagnosed with the asthma, so that makes a kind of sense. But... dude, the people I've known with migraines are totally non-functional when they get them! You'd think they'd want to watch out for that, with all the trouble it could cause a person in a military situation.

On the other hand, I have Issues with the qualifications system in the military. They do such idiotic things with the rules, sometimes.

It's warm and sunny out here (oh, the irony - that it's raining out there and sunny here where we're infamous for our rain), but damned if I care. I'm sick; I'm going to have broth and bread, damn it. XD

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When I get them I just go down, like any sounds, smells, taste everything is just awful. I can't stand any of it I just have to sleep through it. They have some meds out now that deal with migraines but the one I took didn't say that when you take it it makes you throw up cleaning out your system and then apparently you're supposed to feel better. I'm one of those strange people that just.can't.throw.up. So I was even more misrable.

So do I, it's funny really. Before I went it I was the ultimate good girl I didn't rock the boat and didn't swear, I was polite, I respected my elders etc. Then when I went in they treated us like a second rate citizen, the cops anyway. Mainly because we were held to a higher standard, to deal with the overbearing CO's and other officers I just became this loud, swearing bitch just to be heard. Sexism, harrassment it's all there but of course they say that's just because we're in a man's playing field if you want to make it you have to ignore it. Now not all the males were like that but a lot yeah and they were mostly in the senior ranks. Anyway I didn't mean to rant about it, it still is a hot button for me, apparently. :D

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My sinuses have been REALLY bad both yesterday and today. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the weather change that is coming this week. It's supposed to be in the 60's and cloudy tomorrow, and then rain and showers the rest of the week. I don't know if it's that or not, but I definitely feel your pain. Both my ears are aching, my eyes have been watering all day, my throat is sore, and I have bad pressure in my cheekbone area. Arghhh.
Feel better soon ok?

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