Lessons not pleasantly learned this week
- When you procrastinate something you’re expected to have ready for a meeting, you look foolish.
- Hives can be caused by anything. I.E., your doctor can’t tell you whether your virus, probable bacterial infection, or a new, unknown allergy is why your head is swelling, sore and itchy all at the same time.
- Hives leave by the swelling and blotchiness slowly traveling downward…so if today your upper eyelids are puffy, tomorrow your under-eyelids will be puffy, and then your cheeks, and you’ll be generally scary looking for a three or four day period.
- Aspirin does not go well with low blood pressure. Unless feeling like passing out all day is your bag. On a positive note, ibuprofen does not seem to share the same effect.
- Medical science is still unsure how to tell when a regular cold becomes a bacterial infection. So, the decision to use antibiotics when you’ve felt sick for several weeks is still a gamble. (15% are bacterial, but an additional percentage seem to heal faster with antibiotics).
- Long-term mohawks have a peculiar growing pattern in which the short hair immediately next to the ‘hawk grows faster, and in unpredictable directions. Owners of said mohawks are sometimes resistant to getting a trim, since they don’t regularly see it.
- Listening to the Blagojevich recordings will not give you any juicy bits to share, just make you additionally disgusted at the corruption.
- When you’re offered a job that isn’t a good fit on the same day that 68,000 jobs are lost across the country, your best option is to take it and put up with it.
8 comments Tuesday 27 Jan 2009 | m. | Other, Personal
so..uh…you’ve got hives and a new job? con..gratulations?
I’m with Tim here. Hives and a new job = good thing? okay thing?
On a positive note, a bill was signed yesterday that provides 25,000 new jobs in the wilderness business (though low paid). That means I have a chance at being poor AND being in the wilderness!
Hives + new job = frustrating things. But, both things I can live with.
That’s great about the wilderness jobs – wonder if my bro could get in on that too. Also, yesterday it finally became law that if you receive a discriminatory paycheck based on gender, you can sue for discrimination up to 180 days since the most recent paycheck that shows the discriminatory pay. Instead of since your first paycheck ever. Thank you, Ms. Ledbetter!
Congratulations m! Hope things improve quickly!
M, Cheryl said to tell you to try Pepcid (yes, the ulcer medicine) for your hives…they give it at the hospital as a non-drowsy anti-histamine. Sorry to hear that you are not feeling well, but congratulations on the new job.
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Sam scored 100-175 monkeys in a fight. I scored 250-300, but I lied: I said I would crush a small monkey’s skull if needed in battle. I just don’t know what I would do come the time. Cool quiz, Greg!
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