Taking a break…
Am fortressed in my office, away from all the peoples, as all the peoples I know are currently carrying some version or other of the plague.
Gnome-Idiot cheerfully informed me yesterday morning, (while hovering over my desk and mouth breathing) that she had spent the night hurling into the toilet , and would it be alright if she went home after this stack of paperwork?
…I mentally told her to get the fuck away from me, while verbally assuring her that I totally supported her choice in going home to get better, and that she should feel free to leave as soon as possible.
…This was roughly two days after the WHS Pimp started hacking up lungs n’ things in his office, returning from his day off. The same day that Ma called and said she had abton of crockpot food she couldn’t eat by herself, and wouldn’t I like to come over while wearing a surgical mask and rubber contamination gloves, to pick it up…as she TOO was dying of some kind of stuffy head-cold.
Three totally different strains of plague, now surround me. The battle has been fierce. I’ve forced vitamins and liquids until my bladder is near to exploding.
…So far, so good.
…Of course, now that I’m claiming that, I am prob’ly doomed to get one or all three in the next few hours.
Problem is, I don’t have time for that yet.
…I know the show is closed and all, but along with the final visit of Corp next week, at the office, I have two shows to see, a script to peruse, an Ab-Fab sleepover with Marty to attend, a Wedding, and The BFF’s way-belated BD-AWESOME-GIFT-OF-AWESOME to shop for, bills to pay, laundry to do, and TP to buy.
I’m booked.
…Also, I don’t WANT to get a cold. Not any three of the current varieties seem very appealing. So, I sit here, treating my appendages as germ-fields-of war, every paper pass back-and-forth with the rest of the office staff. My hands are now chapped, cracked and dry from antiseptic overuse, I just shot my last Emergen-C this morning, and in a panic last night, I started chugging that awful Gollum juice toddy, in hopes to add it as another form of preventative.
…Surely, nothing could survive this onslaught of prevention, right?
(she hopes, heartily.)
…Providing all stands germ-free, my week of self-imposed quarantine will end tomorrow…as I watch Marty kick some ass in “Henry V,” and move directly into swilling “medicinal” alcohol…in the form of a lot of wine…until I pass out. Waking up (at whatever o’clock that turns out to be), I then begin my quest of shopping and bill paying…and somewhere in there: some laundry.
…Which will bring me to the half-way mark of my weekend. I’m pulling focus on one step at a time, at this point. So as to not tempt the bugs too much. If they think you have it all signed, sealed and delivered, they hit you even harder (I find.)
…So shhhh. Don’t tell.
…Meanwhile, I’m off to face the “inbox” once more…and consider the options of Children’s Theatre, around the holiday. And, the calculated percentage of odds riding against mounting an entire show without grumbling curse words when I fuck up a line…or being a surly bastard to small people seeking hugs and smiles during tech week.
~D
