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I hate that habits learned as a child are so ingrained. If didn't feel well on a school-day, my mom would let me stay home from school if I "really felt that bad". I had to be responsible for my own welfare and my own choices, and unless I was seriously ill, I'd go to school.

Now, when I have a fever and a sore throat, and I know, logically, that it would be better to stay home than to go in and make mistakes and spread germs, I still feel obligated to go to work. The only time I stay home is when I am physically unable to get out of bed. I know this is not good. But I feel so damn guilty about being at home on a work day! Literally, this morning I sat huddled on the sofa with a blanket and mug of tea and pondered all the things that needed doing, wondering if I could manage them while taking DayQuil, which usually makes me feel better, but also disconnects me completely from reality. And of course I ended up going to work. I told myself I'd leave if I felt worse, but that never happens. Once I'm there, I'm there. And there's always more to do.

Randomness:

♣ I was thinking that the entire day had been an utter waste, but then I checked my email and f-list. In addition to some smile-inducing items posted by you guys, there was an article forwarded from my grad school roommate. It was all about the Red Shed, the best dirty dive bar in Madison. It brought back fond, fond memories of their Long Island Iced Tea, which is served in Mason jars and costs $5. An excellent deal for a poor grad student on a budget. Many a Thursday night State Street crawl began there. If, of course, there was no birthday to be celebrating with free beers at the Nitty Gritty.

Cheers, Krazy! This ~~liter~~ pint's on me.

♣

why_me_why_not has me addicted to Criminal Minds now. Reid is a totally geeky smarty-pants nerd, which means I heart him. There is, however, a dearth of good CM slash. I'd possibly be OK with CM het or gen, but none of the women on the show intrigue me. Except perhaps Garcia. I'd be interested in reading more of the platonic vibe between her and Morgan. Perhaps I'm just not looking in the correct places for CM fic? Can anybody point me in the right direction? (I've read Rushlight's stuff, and the stuff pimped on the CM slash LJ comm.)

♣ Someone (maybe

crack_broom?) recently rec'd MadMartha's Two Households series. Now, in my own little HP universe, Ron Weasley normally does not have sex. And he absolutely does not have sex with Harry. In fact, I'm not upset if he's just a background character in most of the fanfic I read. But MadMartha's Two Households (at

marthas_library or her Yahoo group or the Best Mates archive), with Slytherin!Harry and cool magical theory and plays for House dominance? I'm loving it. It might even convince me of the validity of the Best Mates 'Ship, which I know some of my f-list sail quite devotedly. It won't surpass the twins or the Snarry, but I might not automatically cringe if I see H/R listed as the pairing.

♣ I had a moment of sheer and complete panic yesterday, thinking that the MS150 and Phoenix Rising were scheduled on the same weekend, and seriously told MrIris that if they were on the same weekend that he could bike the 150 miles by himself, 'cause I was going to New Orleans. Happily, though, they are a month apart.

Have I rambled enough? I think I have.

The in-laws arrive tomorrow AM for a long weekend. I suppose I should get off my fat ass and get the house cleaned.

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You poor sweetie! Fever = body fighting something! Give your body a break and help it out - stay home at least until the fever goes down.

eek! And in-laws on top of being sick??? You poor thing!

I sure hope you feel better soon - and if you find any more good CM slash - let me know, please, I love that show!

But there's always so much STUFF to be done!

Somehow I'm always sick when the inlaws are around. Happens every time, since the first time I went to their home. Is my body telling me something? :P

:D.

I <3 Mad Martha. You should also read her Auror series if you're at her yahoo group. Phenomenal. ;). It's H/R. I did rec. her new fic yesterday in my lj, but it was minor thing so I don't know if I'm the culprit or not. Hmm.

Feel better. Take care of yourself.

~Jess

I haven't read the Auror series, but I'll put it on my to-read list. I saw the file in the Yahoo files section, but it was so big I knew I wouldn't have time to appreciate it properly. Two Households was a good way to start me on the Ron/Harry pairing, though, because it's not the only thing going on in the story. I like the details of Sirius and Remus, and the werewolf issues, the magical law and magic theory, and all that.

How are you doing?

:)

Hehe. I'm eating REAL food again--it changes your whole outlook on life ;).

I'm fine. Tired, but looking over my journal for the past month I realize that I've been tired for an entire month and that's really old news ;).

All is good here. I'm being ficishly productive today and that, as well, is a good thing. :D She focuses on telling a good story where H and R happen to be together. None of her stuff is sex-centric (that I can recall, maybe one oneshot) and in this series there's a big role for Draco that is positive as well. :D The Auror (aka Circles of Power) series is what made me start reading H/R. I can't tell a lie ;), it's addictive. I do some twinfic here and there (which is how/why I friended you) but not as, er, regularly as H/R. Oh, and I ship the puppyship as well.

I'm actually a HP slash whore. I think I need a support group :/.

~hugs~
~offers you some throat spray~

~Jess

I know I need a HP slash support group! We should write out the twelve steps of recovery from slash addiction. :)

Er...but do we want to recover? That's the real question ;).

Still, I'm game if you are :D.

~J

Poor sweetie - drink lots of OJ, and get lots of rest. Colds are yucky. especially with the sore throat thing. Blargh.

I absolutely adore Mad Martha, and all her stories. She's got a Drarry at her library LJ that I haven't read yet, but I know I'll like that too. Her illustrations of Slytherin life are utterly engaging.

I've got OJ, hot tea, and vitamin C and zinc lozenges. Plus DayQuil and NyQuil. If that combination doesn't work, nothing will!

:D I'm excited to see the power struggle that (I assume) is taking shape in TH5: MF.

I loveloveloveloveLOVE Criminal Minds! Best crime show in aaages, that, and it's the characters that mainly make it so (good writing and strong acting helps, of course *wink*). My complete and utter OTP for it, though, is Reid/Hotch. And yeah, good stuff is sparse on the ground. I went looking about six months ago and found very little (can't even remember where now).

Get well soon, you. *wags finger* Take care...

I can see the possibilities in Reid/Hotch. I was surprised, when I went looking, to find so much Gideon/Reid fanfic. Admittedly, my viewing has started in the middle of the second season, so perhaps I missed something important... but that strikes me as such a mentor/student relationship that it doesn't fit for me.

*snickering at subject line* Mandy's brilliant, isn't he? :)

We haven't got series two here yet, and Dom & I missed maybe six episodes of the first one, but yeah, I'd agree - Gideon/Reid doesn't strike me as fitting. Hotch mentors Reid quite a bit, too, but not in anything like the fatherly way Gideon does it. I love that Hotch is such a ruthless bastard and can compartmentalise his life so perfectly. And hey - Thomas Gibson. *fans face* I've had my eye on that boy for quite a long time now. ;) That was probably the only time in the first series that I said something like "Oh, that's TOTALLY unrealistic!" at the screen, when the female members of the unit were swooning over Hotch's brother and one of them said soomit akin to "And he doesn't look like Hotch!". Um, hello - Thomas Gibson! :D You don't cast a leading man in a role in a show and then have the female characters think he's gross. But eh. :)

*pets* I'm sorry that you're still not feeling well. Get better quickly, babe!

I really like Criminal Minds, but I don't watch it often. For several years (I'd say from the end of my freshman year of HS to my freshman year of college), I wanted to be a forensic psychologist and work for the FBI. It still fascinates me, but not as much. I decided that I liked learning and reading about it better than I would actually practicing it.

*nods*

I think the discipline itself is interesting, but being a profiler would be too stressful.

I've had to give up watching House this season because of Spanish classes, but Wednesday night is reserved for Criminal Minds.

I'd hug you in thanks for the kind thoughts, but I don't want to spread my germs! :)

I've had to give up watching House this season because of Spanish classes.

That's tragic. Course, I stopped watching for quite a while, but now I'm back and falling in love all over again.

Shoot, I wish I'd known you had to give up watching House, I tivo every episode and coulda burned them and mailed them to ya. I'll check and see if I still have them saved. If I do, this season is yours.
Hope you feel better soon. Screw cleaning, just rest. The in-laws will understand.

We debated buying a TiVo specifically because of House. It's one of the few shows that both of us watch, and we were bummed to miss it. But if nothing else, re-runs are sure to be broadcast sometime over the summer. :)

I went and checked, hubby deleted all but this week's. Crap. Sorry! I do have the DVD box set of Season one I can burn for you though, if you want...
Oh btw I was scanning things to make into icons tonight, and scanned a couple of silly things that reminded me of you. Nothing naughty. I'll e-mail them to you.

Thanks for thinking of it, but don't worry - I can always add the discs to the Netflix queue if I don't catch the rebroadcasts. :)

Do you have the USA network? They run the previous week's House episode. You'd have to check your local listings to find out when. It's worth a shot. If nothing else, you'll know for next time.

Feeling like hell, then to have company on top of that? Oh, I feel for you. Hopefully this goes away overnight.

I know what you mean, sometimes when I take a Friday off for a three day weekend, I kind of feel guilty. I told my dad this a year or so back, and he was like "Don't be, they don't care whether you're sick or not, and they treat you bad anyway". I'm was floored. 'Dad, you're the one who yelled at me when I was like 15 for calling off work for...'can't remember why, just the yelling. He says, "Well I was wrong."

What is that? Since I was 15, that is on of the yellings I've can remember vividly. To the point I know I was on the stairs trying to get away from him, as he yelled. Anyway, the things we have integrated into our minds stick with us far too long.

I hope you feel better soon. * Big cyber hugs *

*cyber hugs back* (Germs don't spread through the ether, do they?)

I was a pariah at seminar today. I told everyone I was ill and not to sit near me.

If I'm still sick Monday, I'm staying home. It's a holiday, technically, but I had planned to work anyway.

Here's some chocolate, eat it, it will help.

Hope you feel better before Monday.

So sorry that you're still not feeling well! *hugs and passes the vitamin C*

You know, I had the same problem of trying to work sick until all of the people in lab got paranoid of the germs I was spreading and started calling me "Typhoid Mary." Now they look askance at me if I so much as cough and don't trust me when I say I'm still healthy ... so, I hope you get people in lab who'll care about your health and tell you to go home when you're sick! *hugs*

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