Grey and rainy outside

[schneefink]

I spent two thirds of the weekend in bed and when I woke up today I still had a fairly bad headache, felt dizzy when I moved too quickly, and my ears and throat hurt too, so I decided not to go to work today instead of sitting at my desk all day doing nothing and feeling miserable. And yet I guiltily asked myself if I wasn't just using this as an excuse to stay home, after all many of my coworkers came to the office when they were feeling worse.
...I think I underestimated how much I've been brainwashed by the capitalist system, shit.

I also hoped that I could at least use the opportunity to take another walk when it's nice out, but sadly it's raining today, which will ruin the last remains of the snowmen built when we had beautiful snow a few days ago.

I finished the rough first draft of my Yuletide fic, which I'm very excited about. I thought that it would probably work best not to touch it for two or three days before starting to edit it, but I'm also impatient and want to finish it immediately... I did try starting a treat instead but it got out of hand immediately and instead of fun adventures I was suddenly writing angsty family drama, idk how that happened. Not sure I can salvage it but maybe I'll try.

Comments

[dr_zook]

I'm glad you realized your brainwash. ;) No, but really, it's perfectly alright you took the day off (and stay in bed)!

Yay for Yuletide progress!! I'm going to have a look now at what treats I could write. :3

I was suddenly writing angsty family drama, idk how that happened - Ah, it happens to the best of us. ;)

[schneefink]

It would have been a beautiful story about grief and reconnecting etc. - completely not what that person requested ^^

Good luck with finding treats to write!

I'm very glad I stayed home today, I took it easy and feel a lot better now.

[lilysea]

I think if there was EVER a time not to go to work while sick, it is DURING A GLOBAL PANDEEMIC.

[schneefink]

Right? DD said the same: if there ever was a time where you do not want to risk going out with a weakened immune system it is now.

[jae]

Where I live, it is actually currently ILLEGAL to go to work when you have those symptoms. I can't believe schneefink's co-workers bragged about that!

[schneefink]

To be fair, they didn't brag about it, they just acted like it's a normal thing to do. (And I'm almost entirely sure they at least did PCR-tests before they went to work.)

[jae]

How do you do a PCR test when you wake up feeling lousy and then still go to work on the same day? It takes at least half a day at the very shortest to get PCR test results back, and that's when they're being super speedy.

[schneefink]

I hope those were the days when they actually stayed home! (Which did happen sometime.) It's absolutely possible that some of my coworkers were even more stupid than I thought but I would like to hope/pretend that they have a modicum of sense.

[out_there]

*hugs* Hope you feel better soon.

[schneefink]

Thanks, thankfully I started to feel a lot better in the afternoon :)

[michelel72]

I hope you feel better soon. And I hope you're able to turn that angsty family drama into its own fic, even if it doesn't want to be the treat you were aiming for.

[schneefink]

I felt better in the afternoon (but I was definitely very glad I decided to stay at home.)
Not sure if I want to write that angsty family drama, I hope I can use it as backstory to maybe write a fun adventure a few years later... we'll see.

[nnozomi]

Late in responding but I hope you are feeling better now (and if not, that you're still comfortable at home, not miserable at work).
I did try starting a treat instead but it got out of hand immediately and instead of fun adventures I was suddenly writing angsty family drama, idk how that happened.
These things have a mind of their own. Either one sounds promising, though!

[schneefink]

Yep, feeling better now, thanks :)
Currently I'm considering making a drabble out of it... we'll see.