pick your poison

what is the worst part about being sick?

• the endless buckets of snot inside my head
• coughing uncontrollably
• sore throat
• inability to breathe
• inability to sleep
• the weary eyes from laying in bed for 3 days, reading books
• forcing yourself to watch the train wreck that is the Ashlee Simpson show, because she's giving "her side" of the SNL snafu
• then resigning to the fact that you are a big ass loser and watch Newlyweds too and sneer the whole time that she doesn't know the word pheasant and can't read his romantic anniversary card
• when the roofers show up unannounced and slam their ladder outside your window and leave you diving under the covers with your book to hide and squeal
• when people at work who have events that are more than a month away insist on emailing you a hundred times and call your cell phone to "get started" with the planning because they just CAN'T wait until tomorrow, when you might be able to breathe and form a coherent sentence