Ugh. I don't know what to do. My head is mostly cleared up, just a slightly stuffy nose. But now, everytime I lie down, I cough. It's almost 2am. I want to sleep. I don't think I can sleep without the aid of nyquil, but I dont think I'll be able to get up at 6 for work and then, you know, drive until the nyquil is out of my system.

I have enormous anxiety about missing a third day of work in a row. There's no rational basis for this. I know. I'm still sick. No one at work would find it reasonable for me to risk my life (not to mention others on the road) driving while chemically drowsy.

The anxiety about missing another day, though. I don't know how to fix that part.

paperdol, if you're still sick, the best thing you can do *for* your job is stay home and rest and recover for another day, you know? You're actually *doing* your job in the best way possible by staying home, I think.

Anyway, I hope you get some rest, soon.

Will you write me a note?

In two languages, with equations showing why I'm right, if they want some, too.

This is why Nilly is the best.

Go you, Lee!!

One of my neighbors just gave me a present. It's my book, hard bound in leather with the title and my name embossed in silver on the spine.

That's AWESOME.

I am on my way to work. That is Not Right. For the record.

Um, Jesse, isn't it like not-even-properly-morning, in your timezone?

You should work these other-timezones hours only if that means getting trips from work to those timezones, meaning coming to visit me, of course.

paperdol's neighbor is, indeed, awesome. And a note from Nilly should do it. Also, as far as I'm concerned, sick people should stay home and keep their germs to themselves.

I love the idea of the ninja flight - just think! someone else packs for you, you don't have to stand in line, you don't get stuck in a middle seat, no screaming passengers of any age, you get where you're going rested!

And I think the Virginia bad-driver laws, though enacted by people who aren't likely to suffer from them, are partly in response to a prevalence of bad driving (mostly to help balance the badly out of whack state budget, though). The Post's commuter column, Dr. Gridlock, cited the Virginia law about making right and left turns on red ... which leads me to ask, aren't you supposed to stop on red?

I have an unexpected 'holiday' due to an all-campus staff/faculty meeting being suddenly called yesterday. I hope it just means that the president is retiring or something rather than the university going bankrupt or something. I may have woken up in a pessimistic mood, because I should be going "whee! free day!" especially because this is one of the ones with a four hour class in the morning and a four hour class in the evening.

Also, I get to watch Pushing Daisies in real time. That this isn't cheering me up right away is a good sign of how gronky I am.

aren't you supposed to stop on red?

there are certain municipalities in Virginia where you can actually argue for "orange" and have a fighting chance. Most of them near colleges. In Baltimore, red lights at downtown intersections are usually treated as an advisory. I haven't driven my car much in Philly - yay - but, um - have you seen people with PA license plates on the road? Yah, them. (erk, now us.) I don't think they stop for much. Except cheesesteak and anything with a Steelers/Eagles logo on it.

Awesome gift paperdol, and - to repeat everyone else (as DH is currently driving to work, hacking - for the 10th day in a row), stay home, rest, and sleep.

I'll join the chorus: stay home, sleep, and cuddle your bound book. That sounds like somebody had access to a library binding service, which can rebind old books or bind up magazines into more permanent form. It's a very lovely and thoughtful gift, indeed.