The Cold of Minor Inconvenience.....

[thoreau]

At work - medicated (thank you Dayquil) while making it through The Cold of Minor Inconvenience^tm - which is better than The Cold of Never Ending Suffering^tm which also appears to be going around. But to complete the milieu - the building shutoff the heat for the weekend - so it's insane cold in the office today which only adds my general grumpyness level which is at a sustained 6.5. but if they continue talking Britney gossip outside my office - uncontrolled spikes of grumpiness may ensue. I decided to cancel lunch with Chris capy, one of my favorite people to soak in palmolive with, because I'd rather when I'm feeling effervescent rather than marginally homicidal and I wouldn't want to subject Chris to germ warfare. So - :) - I will go warm up my leftover tijuana pie - and try and cheer up.

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on another note - I wrote this somewhat lengthy post on New Years Day titled "We can make a choice to make things different....." - talking about how might choose to turn our energy around and make 2009 better for all of us.

I was hoping that post would spark conversation - but two things conspired against that... 1) that I posted the post on a holiday - and 2) that it was lengthy.

But here's the reader's digest idea: How we take the disappointments of 2008 and work to turn them around in 2009? How do we MAKE 2009 better - rather than just typing that we're going to?

I'd hate to see us come to December 31, 2009 - and see a dozen posts of "well thank god that shit is over." (that is what I wrote on January 1, 2006 in my journal so I'm not pointing fingers)

Comments

[audrabaudra.livejournal.com]

I'll come back to the idea of how to make 2009 better--one way would be to dedicate some time out of our lives to a grassroots, volunteer effort that is close to our hearts (it's funny how time appears and makes itself available when we decide to do something constructive with it, isn't it?).

But please let me be the first on the list to wish you a quick recovery from The Cold of Minor Inconvenience!

Colds

[musikub.livejournal.com]

Best be careful with the colds... I've been working the zinc angle to try and disable mine. And then there's the death colds. Most recently, The Republican Death Cold.... It's like other Death Colds except it hates queers and wants to invade Iran. My friend dodgingwndshlds is an expert on them.

Re: Colds

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

he seems to get them with regularity - unfortunately.

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

My own grumpiness factor this morning was about an 8, but it's moderated down to about a 5 right now. Hopefully, it'll be down even lower by the time I get home in an hour, since I was DEFINITELY the grumpmeister with Danny this morning.