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Mary F'ing Sunshine ([personal profile] melaniesuzanne) wrote2012-01-06 12:08 pm

The sniffle and cough shuffle

I appear to have succumbed to the New Year plague which is going around. I suspect the VP with whom I nearly collided while cornering a cube passed his cold to me. He was out Wednesday and, I suspect, yesterday. I can't confirm yesterday since I spent Thursday passing in and out of consciousness on the Red Sofa of AWESOMENESS. Today I am back in the cube farm playing the role of Typhoid Mary and stuffing tissues up my left nostril.

I am the epitome of class.

And of course today is the most gorgeous and warm day of this week. I really, really, really wanted to bike commute, but in my heart of hearts I knew that would put too much of a strain on my compromised system. Hopefully I'll feel well enough to take advantage of the beautifully warm weather tomorrow. I'm also hopeful that I can bike down to Vienna for the BikeMeDC Winter Cycling seminar meet-up on Sunday. It looks like the previously-forecast rain will hold off until evening or completely pass to the south. Either is fine with me.

In a weird collision of fate, both my youngest brother and I mentioned immigrating to Melbourne (Australia, not Florida) to our mother last night. My plan is much more of a pipe dream -- if one can call studying the Australian immigration, customs, animal quarantine [only 30 days for healthy animals and not six months], and real estate web sites pipey -- than my brother's. Johnny has dual citizenship going for him and he doesn't have nearly the amount of stakes to pull up that Hubbyfink and I do. He's trying to figure out what to do after he graduates next(?) year and I've got a case of the wanderlusts again. On the upside for the 'fink and myself: both of our employers have offices located in Melbourne. In fact, one of the engineers with whom I regularly work is there...

[identity profile] danabren.livejournal.com 2012-01-06 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
playing the role of Typhoid Mary and stuffing tissues up my left nostril.

See icon.

[identity profile] sskipstress.livejournal.com 2012-01-06 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Your addiction to cycling might get me out on my bike before spring. I've got some major wanderlust going on right now, too.

[identity profile] melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com 2012-01-06 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
The unseasonable warm temperatures make it hard to stay inside. :)

[identity profile] sskipstress.livejournal.com 2012-01-06 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I will spend some significant time outside even if it's not on the bike.