C5, home, and grumpy sick boy

[dalekboy]

The little I saw before the 'flu floored me, was good. Then I proceeded to keep myself away from the con to try and avoid becoming C5's official Patient Zero.

Comments

[ariaflame]

Sometimes I think illnesses wait until we've got something we really really want to go to and then leap on us.

Gah... Somehow Lex's birthday seems closer than it did last week (well that makes sense, but it seems closer than it should be... )

Hope you feel better soon, and that your loved ones miraculously escape catching it.

[transcendancing]

Wow - that's really sucktastic. I know how much you were looking forward to the con, and also everything to do with Lex's birthday and Sharon getting out and about. Hoping that you're feeling a LOT better quickly.

[purrdence]

gouge out the offender's eyes and pour lemon juice in the empty sockets if I'm bothered by petty issues by idiots.

I like your thinking. *thumbs up*

[king_espresso]

Now I'm gonna have to find out who pissed you off and how. Damn you, gossip-virus!

[dalekboy]

Sadly no-one in particular, but I'm so fucking grumpy right now, and it feels like the last week and a half, everyone has wanted a piece of me. I don't mind that for catch-ups, legitimate concerns, and people with real problems, but some of it was people who should have known better.

A made up example would be "oh no, it's a disaster! I can't find my library book! Boohoo! I'll get a fine! I'm soooooo stressed and upset!"

Meanwhile I've got friends going through genuinely hard times, two aunts have gone to hospital (one's out, one we will have to see), and Sharon's grandfather, who has been such a fabulous and inspirational man his whole life, has turned into an empty shell in the space of a few months.

I'm just sick of people with easily bruised feelings and no perspective.

[jocko55]

It was a really tough pub. The first question in the trivia quiz was "Are you looking at me?"

[king_espresso]

Know what you mean. What gets me is people who think it's a cosmic tragedy if their sporting team loses or if their fake fingernail disintegrates unexpectedly. Some people self-dramatise and look for something to be distressed and concerned about whether it's the death of a controversial celeb or a flat tyre.

Real shit-storms happen sometimes, real life-altering shit storms with hard frozen-shit cores. Some of us see shitstorms as something to get through. Others are so fortunate that any little adversity is a cloacal typhoon to them. It's the old "poor little rich girl" thing and my best response is to be theatrically patronisingly sympathetic until they get the message.

[arcadiagt5]

Hope you get well soon.