This week, in bizarro-world:

[mylittleredgirl]

Okay, I actually regret turning off the game last night, because fielders were pitching and pitchers were fielding and that's probably about as hilarious as a 13-0 loss can be.

I don't have a dreamwidth account, not so much out of personal politics or anything as that I am way behind the news curve and feel daunted by the idea of having to figure out something new. (My brain cells are kind of like Boston pitching yesterday -- scattered injuries, overworked, and getting lost somewhere out in left field.) Am I gunna lose all my frenz? DO U STILL LUV MEEEE?

I thought I had swine flu this morning, but then I ate a bagel and felt better. I can't decide if I want to freak out about this thinly spread epidemic or not. The numbers on the CDC site make it seem so bland that the cynic in me thinks this is all a big diversionary tactic, and next week we'll discover that we invaded England or something while no one was looking. However, CDC people also say "this could mutate and kill everyone in like ten seconds," so I will err on the side of not putting unsterilized objects in my mouth, nose or eyes.

I cannot get up the oomph to do a darned thing this week. I'm brushing up on my telekenesis by staring at the piles of to-dos on my desk and attempting to will them to do themselves.

Comments

[icarus-abides.livejournal.com]

Ya know, I live on the other side of a basketball court of where two of the cases live. And I'm not worried at all. Its basically the flu with a side of GI problems. Meh. I see absolutely no reason to worry unless one is traveling to Mexico or has a compromised immune system. Just, working in a doctor's office and having a biology/immunology background, I have to deal with the STUPIDEST questions all day.

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

Oh man. POOR YOU. It would so suck to work in a doctor's office right now. People are all "I NEED PRESCRIPTIONS OF EVERYTHING SO I CAN STOCK UP MY UNDERGROUND SWINE FLU SHELTER!!!"

[icarus-abides.livejournal.com]

Dude, I've had everything from people calling in saying "well, I read the symptoms online and I don't really have any of them but my sister's best friend's boyfriend was in Mexico six months ago and came over for dinner last week so I think I might be exposed" to people asking me for the vaccine (WHICH DOESN'T EXIST) and then accusing me of discriminating against them when they find out that they cannot get the vaccine (WHICH, I REPEAT, DOESN'T EXIST). I can't make this shit up.

It really doesn't help matters that the regular flu is still ending out its run this season and strep has started going around. For some reason people tend not to believe you when you tell them that its a virus and not bacteria so antibiotics won't have any effect and anti-virals are not a proven preventative measure. Teh stoopid. Gah.

[ornithoptercat.livejournal.com]

Seriously, it's just some more the flu, as far I can tell based on what I'm hearing. Which sucks and all, but, oh noes, the flu, get some rest drink lots of fluids don't go in to work especially not on public transportation you moron.

I've also been all "zomg do I have the swine flu" because I had a bad headache and an unhappy stomach and nasty dizziness all the night before last and yesterday, and am still not fully ok. I live in a freaking metropolis, so I could have gotten it from someone on the bus or one of the gazillion Hispanic kitchen workers, even if no one I KNOW has been to Mexico and I sure haven't. But now I'm wondering if perhaps it's some sort of migraine thing, since all my headaches seem to be in the same place lately and I'm pretty damn sure it's not my glasses. Or it might just be some other random whatever-the-hell bug I picked up from riding the bus with idiots who don't understand the concept of "cover your nose when you cough". Or something I ate.