Oh how I feel your pain. I had 600 hours plus of sick leave. Would that I had gotten a payout for that!

Oh ouch. That's where you try to negotiate (well, NSM in Consuela's case) a bonus from the new company to make up for your pain! :)

I just got back from paying my rent, where I found out that another tenant has lodged a complaint against Princess across the hall from me. (Apparently there was a disturbance at 5 a.m. one of the last few days, which I mercifully slept through.) When you're getting noise complaints from college boys, you know you're being inconsiderate of your neighbors!

That's two of her three strikes in two weeks, so I suspect we'll have a new neighbor by this time next month.

I wonder if antibodies from having whooping cough wear off. Must Google....

I grew up in the dark ages and got my antibodies the old-fashioned way. It's hard to imagine someone who has had those diseases deciding to not vaccinate, because they were No Fun. I had a fever so high with measles that I was hallucinating, and I had it for days, because I wouldn't break out. I had to wear gloves to keep from scratching the chicken pox rash and spent the time covered with calamine lotion, giving me a rather spectral air.

I have got to do something with the rainbow chard in my refrigerator. It came in a giant bundle that wouldn't fit in the crisper, so it's covering a whole shelf and hanging off the edge. When I open the refrigerator, I hear a voice saying, "Feed me."

I had pertussis a few years ago, and I'm nearly certain that I caught it from the middle school kids at the summer program where I was working.

Ginger, I also got what immunities I have the old-fashioned way. I know I was horribly sick with measles - according to my mother, they were afraid I'd suffer some permanent damage from the fever. I vaguely remember being inside (during a Louisville summer, before we had AC) and not being allowed out. And chicken pox and mumps ... no fun, but we generally accepted that you'd get them when you were young, recover, and go on with your life. I also remember getting polio and smallpox vaccinations (which really were no fun, but still better than the alternative).

Downton Abbey - Shirley Maclain - season 3.

I remember the hallucinations when I had measles, and I knew I was pretty sick, because my dad taught me to play checkers and sat with me for hours, something he never did, before or since.

sarameg: Is this the book of your cookie-contest friend: [link] ?

Letter from a former slave to his former master who had asked him to come back and work for him post-Civil War.

Timelies all!

Woke up with a sore shoulder and feeling tired. Don't know why in either case. It's Monday, I guess that's reason enough.