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Showing posts with label sick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sick. Show all posts

3.07.2011

I know how the aliens in War of the Worlds felt

I have spent the past week more sick than I've been in a while. As a kid, my dad would hear me whine about how I HAD to miss school because I felt like shit, and then he would tell me that I could absolutely stay home... if I was missing a limb or had a fever. Well, I never lost a limb, and I almost NEVER had a fever. I can't remember the last time I had an actual fever (aside from my hospital trips due to infected kidneys). However, my entire spring break was spent with a fever of around 102. Bullshit.

I still have all kinds of muck trying to suffocate me by taking up residence in my lungs, but I'm determined to kick its ass the way deathbed cries of, "Hoax!" kicked the ass of the Loch Ness Monster (that poor, prehistoric bastard).

You know what sucks the absolute most about being sick? The awareness that anyone you actually infect is then your responsibility (once you're better and they're sick... like that ancient Chinese code where you have to care for someone once you save their life... right? That does exist, yes?). Because you know that they will always make their illness seem worse than yours (despite the fact that it's the same fucking illness). And you know it'll ALWAYS last longer than your illness (even though you have an immune disorder, and had the same illness they do... because, you know, they probably didn't catch an entirely different disease than the one you had, um, from you).

I guess that I tend to lose that nurturing instinct for a good two to three weeks after getting over being sick.

Okay, I'm going to go rest. You should go rest, too. But, you know, not too much. Because if you're feeling under the weather, fuck you. Suck it up. Quit your bitching.

All this aggression is making my lungs hurt. Mega owies.

xoxo

10.05.2010

And now, two seconds with Slagathor

Who watches Fringe? Anyone?

I am freaking in love with that show. Holy shit, is it good times. Olivia is like the hardcore love-child of Chuck Norris and Mulan. Broyles is the most frightening, stern, calm freak of nature ever. Walter is the mad scientist version of what I hope my dad turns into in 20 years, and Peter is freaking Percy from DAWSON'S CREEK (which, no, I never watched. Not a single episode. I just find it amusing that a cast member of the bitchiest, whiniest, pre-teen drama EVER finagled his way onto a show with so many supreme beings of ultimate badassery).

I wish that the cast of Fringe were here in Atlanta. I've been sick with what I am certain is either some weird, mucus-replicating super-weapon made by bald men to try to take over the world so the parallel universe can reign supreme,  or super-triple pneumonia. My brains are oozing out of my face, hurting while doing so, and my sinuses are slowly collapsing under the suction and pressure. Plus, I've been busy as all hell with school (why was learning so much easier a few years ago, when I was so much dumber???), so the poor True Story of Slaggy-Waggy/Slaggo/Slaggs has been neglected a bit. Apologies.

How I've spent almost every moment of free time for the past two weeks.


I met a new friend a week or two ago, by the name of Rocky Doe. He's a dear (not a deer, even though I LOVE puns), and wrote me a poem that was inspired by this bizarre blog-nonsense. In lieu of actually telling you a story or trying to come up with anything clever on my own, I'm going to now close with said poem (with the permission, of course, of dear Rocky Doe).

I hope to update more regularly now that my house is clean(ish) and my midterms are over (for the most part) and my life is calming down (and by "life" I mean "horrendous cold").

Without further ado:

"I went to your blog and read it, and composed this poem in my style.

LLM I

sleep god damn it
sleep come to me now
sleep please don't run away 
please don't run away and leave me awake
please don't run away and leave me thinking
please don't run away and leave me alone

leave me alone to wait
leave me alone to want
leave me alone to sleep

-Rocky Doe"

"Following" doesn't necessarily mean "stalking"