Erin, take a break. Don't burn yourself out.

I would really like to have some energy and not feel cold and achy. I have things I need to do today, and I don't know if I'm going to be up to it.

The really frustrating thing is that according to my latest round of lab work, I *am* getting better. I guess I'm now just well enough to realize how unwell I feel.

Ach, Jilli, I hope you get to feeling better. I hate when I feel shite and have things to do -- slogging through the mud of misery.

I think I'm going to work for an hour while dinner is cooking, and then do some serious vegging. Then maybe I'll have a second wind and can get some more done later, but for now, it's clean the cat box, take out the upstairs trash, PJ's and make dinner, send query, edit.

Then catch up on SPN and Downton Abbey. It's...like a job requirement, right?! Pop culture and historical research for copyediting? HA! I should deduct cable...

(OK, I think unfunny things I say are funny. I'm DEFINITELY taking some time off.)

PSA: Don't ever knock the back bumper off of a Toyota Camry. $770 to replace and paint. All out of my pocket. Upside? It's not the full $2500 deductible I was responsible for.

I'm ready to turn in my company car and ask for a car allowance instead.

(Yes, I realise my diamond shoes are too tight, but I'm still pissed.)

My head is full of snot. No room for thinking in there. Too much snot.

It's mind-boggling to me how many managers think employees can't be trusted and you have to ride them every moment to get work out of them.

Yeah. I'm having a meeting with my department admin tomorrow because one of the coordinators I work with thinks she should be able to micromanage my workload. I work for four coordinators, I can't do just her work and she can't set priorities for me for those other people. I set my own priorities. I don't think I'm going to be working with her much longer.

Grrr. Saved half of my sandwich from lunch because it was huge (and so good). I could have finished it and been stuffed, but I decided to not be greedy. And then I left the damn thing on the counter when I went to pay. And the server had brought me an extra new pickle when she brought me the box!

Erin, take a break. Don't burn yourself out.

What Jilli said.

And what Erin said wrt to feeling better, Jilli.

I really need to get some answers from my doctor when I see her next week. My iron is fine now, my vitamin D levels are fine now, so where the heck is my energy?

Grrr. Saved half of my sandwich from lunch because it was huge (and so good). I could have finished it and been stuffed, but I decided to not be greedy. And then I left the damn thing on the counter when I went to pay. And the server had brought me an extra new pickle when she brought me the box!

I feel for you. I bought a latte on my way to babysit and spilled half of it in the cupholder before I ever got a sip.

PSA: Don't ever knock the back bumper off of a Toyota Camry. $770 to replace and paint. All out of my pocket. Upside? It's not the full $2500 deductible I was responsible for.

Ugh, what a giant pain. At least if you were using your own car, you can decide on a reasonable deductible.

There's lots of Paterno memorial stuff going on. Listening to people around campus and reading comments in the local papers, I really don't understand why people have so much trouble saying that he did a lot of good things, and also did certain bad things. It seems like everybody's taking one of the sides, that either the good things or the bad things are SO good or bad that the other ones don't matter at all, and shouldn't even be mentioned. I don't get it.

People are not allowed to be complicated, flawed, make mistakes and yet still have done good things as well. Or, at least, we aren't allowed to acknowledge it.

And then I left the damn thing on the counter when I went to pay.

I do this so often. I sometimes think of the to go box as a coffin for my leftovers.

I'm ready to turn in my company car and ask for a car allowance instead.

Is that something worth looking into? Ugh also. Sorry you have such a stress.

I am Jillifonting this whole thing.

If you ever consider killing a spider without a barrier of some kind in place, don't. Even for a small spider. Ewww, gross. I am so wishing I could go back in time and use a tissue or something. It was squishy.