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Jun. 24th, 2008 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolI am, as it happens, alive. I am very very figuratively quiet at the moment because ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
susie22 is here for a few days and it is a bit rude to leave one's guest on the sofa by herself. I am also literally very quiet as I have acquired The Lurgy and, for the first time in ages, am actually properly ill. Well, I'm not. That's what infuriating. I'm running a constant low-grade fever - you know, the type that makes you freezing but also sweaty and manky - my joints hurt, I'm coughing, I have a sore throat and this morning I woke up with no voice. I coaxed it back into existence by the medium of tea and patience, and now I have a strange warbling creature of a voicebox and on certain words and pitches - I'm natureally quite high-pitched - it just gives in entirely.
This is what I believe is traditionally referred to as Bloody Annoying and as I'm not displaying anything else than this in terms of alarming symptoms then I can't really scive work. Actually, I can and tomorrow I probably will, as talking to customers when you can't say words who then ask you more questions is not great. They let me be in the basement for most of today. Hurrah! I am setting the alarm early and if I can't talk then I'm phoning in sick.
To be honest, it's sort of funny, but it's getting irritating. SEND ICE CREAM AND WHISKEY PLEASE.
susie22 is here for a few days and it is a bit rude to leave one's guest on the sofa by herself. I am also literally very quiet as I have acquired The Lurgy and, for the first time in ages, am actually properly ill. Well, I'm not. That's what infuriating. I'm running a constant low-grade fever - you know, the type that makes you freezing but also sweaty and manky - my joints hurt, I'm coughing, I have a sore throat and this morning I woke up with no voice. I coaxed it back into existence by the medium of tea and patience, and now I have a strange warbling creature of a voicebox and on certain words and pitches - I'm natureally quite high-pitched - it just gives in entirely.This is what I believe is traditionally referred to as Bloody Annoying and as I'm not displaying anything else than this in terms of alarming symptoms then I can't really scive work. Actually, I can and tomorrow I probably will, as talking to customers when you can't say words who then ask you more questions is not great. They let me be in the basement for most of today. Hurrah! I am setting the alarm early and if I can't talk then I'm phoning in sick.
To be honest, it's sort of funny, but it's getting irritating. SEND ICE CREAM AND WHISKEY PLEASE.
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Date: 2008-06-24 09:57 pm (UTC)I've always found the "but I might be contagious and certainly wouldn't want to get the customers sick!" excuse to be golden.
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Date: 2008-06-25 10:09 pm (UTC)'Getting customers ill' was countered, unfortunately, by spending all day away from customers and sorting out the stock room. Alas!
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Date: 2008-06-25 01:57 pm (UTC)...I staggered into work for a few days when I was sick the summer before last, because I wanted the money. It did not occur to me that this is what 'sick pay' is for. I am dumb.
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Date: 2008-06-25 10:10 pm (UTC)t'pitin the basement, sorting out sackfuls of clothes and stuff for the sales and whatnot. The basement is now looking beautiful, although I suspect the damp didn't help...