So Saturday morning I woke up with an ear ache and a lump in my throat. Over the course of the day the ear ache slowly diminished, but a full blown annoying head and chest cold developed. Lots of coughing and hacking. Lots of nose blowing. It is not the kind of sick that has one completely curled up in a ball unable to do anything, but just the kind that is JUST bad enough to keep you unhappy and make it hard to concentrate and make you prefer not to be doing anything all that intense.
Monday I went into work because there was one thing I wanted to get done, but as soon as I’d done that I headed back home and then basically did nothing of any usefulness for the rest of the day.
Tuesday I worked from home in the morning, although my speed and productivity was not up to healthy par. I went in for a couple hours in the afternoon because there was an all-hands meeting, but I probably would have been better off skipping it. I did however try not to cough on too many people.
Looking at today I will probably once again do a partial work from home day, working from home in the morning and going in in the afternoon. Depends how I feel when I wake up I guess. I’m certainly not 100%, but I’m on the upside of this sick and am better than I was yesterday or the day before. It is very annoying however.
Also, as can be seen in the picture, I have been being a lazy slob. I’m desperately overdue for both a haircut and a shave. On the shave at some point I decided I would wait and do it at the same time I got my haircut. On the haircut, I keep remembering and deciding I want to go get it done at times where the barber near me is insensitively closed, like the middle of the night, or a Sunday evening. What is wrong with them?
Both are getting to the point where they are really bothering me though. I like myself best with short hair and clean shaven.
Back when I lived in New Jersey (years ago now) I was on a strict hair cut every 5 weeks schedule, and I would always make the appointment for the next one when I left the one before. Then when I was in Florida, I would get a haircut before each visit to a client, which was never more than 6 or 7 weeks apart. Since I have been in Washington, I just haven’t been on a pattern… and I need to be.
As for the shaving, I have just been lazy. An extra couple minutes in bed in the morning, or shaving? The time in bed wins every time. And on weekends I try to remember, but often don’t. And unlike the last couple places I have worked, there are often other scruffy people, so I don’t feel quite as out of place.
Never-the-less, I don’t really like it. So I’ll need to do something about it.
Maybe today I will take care of both after I’m done my morning work from home session and before I come into the office. I could do that instead of lunch. That might be a plan.
Of course I thought of that both Monday and yesterday, and then I thought that going to the barber and coughing up chunks of grey goo all over the barber chair might not be appreciated all that much by the barber. So maybe I’ll wait on the haircut if tomorrow I am still a big ball of germs.
you just know that this is the picture they’d use on the new if you ever got lost or became a serial killer or something.
he’s really pissed about all those geico commercials.
I am sure this will be a good representation of what I will look like after three weeks lost in the wilderness in search of Bigfoot.
I only recently realized there were 3 different cavemen.