Whew, breathing again.

That sucks extra hard that you have so much work stress on top of the uncooperative doctors and pain, ita. I'm sorry.

But no boss wants to hear that of their employees

That's bullshit, by the way. Anyone who wants a robot for an employee is a terrible boss. And I know that means there are a lot of terrible bosses in the world.

Seriously. I know there's a lot going on at work, and of course bosses want all their employees to be there bright eyed and bushytailed all the time, but that's not reality.

This is beyond your control, ita !, much as that sucks. You are not doing this to foil your boss's plans. Anyway, what sara said.

In completely mundane news, I can't find where we were talking about it now, but the reason I needed a second cup of coffee today? Is because I never had the first cup; I just now found the first cup, completely undrunk. Oops.

That's bullshit, by the way.

Really? I'm not criticising my boss here, you know. No one wants people they don't hate sick--there are a bunch of reasons I don't want to tell my boss I need sick time. #1 is "I don't want to be sick" and "#2 is I'd rather be working on the project". I'd at least hope he agrees with #1. #2 might sound cold, but how can you not prefer that to me being ill? Like I said, I sure do.

Of course he would prefer that you're not sick, but he can't be angry with you for it.

Oh ita, your feelings are totally understandable, but sarameg is right. Hospital is a medical necessity right now and work has to be on hold.

He's going to be mad about two things--a bad call I made today, and the project lead being out unavailable for at least one day with 10 business days left to go on the project. I am angry about both those things too, and anxious. They aren't good, and no matter what the reasons for either, they'll have to be coped with, in terms of juggling tasks and crashing the project schedule.

I'm entirely not looking forward to any of that. And it's harder to think of any of that with the headache, and while I feel braced for getting the same doctor this visit too.

On a trivial note, I was flipping through a "25 worst names ever" list, and saw a friend's mother on it, but her name was spelt wrong. Said friend had mentioned when we were back for sister's b-day that her mother's name was misspelt on all those lists, but I didn't expect to actually see it. Doesn't alter the worstness of the name, though.

Can I ask what the name is?

I know someone who worked with an asshole doctor named Richard Head, who actually went by the name Dr. Dick Head. And my mom went to school with a guy whose name was Harry Bahls III. The third!

Went to high school with Peter Whacker. I heard he changed his name in college.

This is Buffista conversation number six or seven, but I never get tired of it.