| Jan282009 | I Caught a Cold |
My blood pressure is running a little high right now. I felt a little sick yesterday morning so I pulled up my calendar and saw that… my entire day was free! No meetings at all! It was a golden invitation to taking one of those sick days that I never use.
Cut to this morning when I see an invitation to very important review meeting. An invitation that was sent at 11am. For a 12pm lunch meeting. What the fuck, people. First, give me a little fucking notice here. Second, this is like meeting #9 in a review that should have only taken 2 hours. People need to stop letting reviews turn into week-long, fucking training sessions. Argh.
Deep breaths. …Six, seven, eight, nine, and ten.
I’m actually feeling ok today, thank you for asking. I took yesterday off and I mean off. I didn’t stop by the office, I didn’t promise to do any sort of work and I only checked my email twice. I spent most of my day concentrating on wearing this illness away.
I tried really hard to sleep in but I only managed to nap until 8am. Instead, I headed over to the grocery store and stocked up on some fun things. Top of the list was two cans of Campbell’s Chicken Soup, orange juice, ice cream and ingredients for the beef stew I like to make. Then I settled in for the day with the Friends DVDs that I’ve been borrowing from my girlfriend. In my memory, it was always such a superficial and saccharine show but I’ve been proven wrong. It’s actually very enjoyable and not at all as painful to watch as, say, Seinfeld DVDs.
Around dinner time, my sore throat was really starting to bug me and I came up with the brilliant idea of making a ceviche. I went back to the grocery store and picked up a quarter pound of Chilean sea bass (you can slap me here for being such a yuppie), a lemon, some white onion, tomatoes and coriander. By no means is this some sort of authentic recipe but it’s something that’s very easy for me to throw together in fifteen minutes and the lemon juice does wonders for my throat pain. Simply amazing. I’m going to make it again tonight.
This morning, my throat feels a little better. I think my sinuses are aching more and this will probably lead to headaches and drowsiness later in the day but I’m back at work anyway. Maybe I’ll take the afternoon off if it gets bad.
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