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So I told everyone on Y!M I was going to bed, and I totally was going into that there bed, but I can't sleep. There is acid crashing through my body, and not the awesome raaaaage kind. Just the "Hey, my body's failing" kind. I have gastritis. Again. I caught it from those dirty, dirty patients who are on the floor below me and who have an obsession with wandering about and getting in the confined space of the lifts to cough all over hapless admin staff. Again. I hate being sick all the time and being refused time off to do things like hurl eleven times in one night (yes, I counted) and vomit up blood. I feel better now, but the acid still sucks. I can't eat curry, and curry is life. :(

As a result of pained ersatz sleep, I was late for work this morning - as, er, usual. Anyway, really late. I ran to the lifts, all bleary-eyed, tired and vomity. And this old patient Who Probably Has Gastritis is all, "Oh, don't use the big lifts. Here, use this lift."

I was all, "Um, no. This lift is fine, thanks. Also, it's nearly here and it's not stuck on the ninth floor."

"But look!" he said, "This lift is coming down now!"

"Oh, right," I said, and turned away.

"Look, come over here--"

"Excuse me?"

"Come over here and get this lift!"

"...No?"

I looked at the Big Lift That they Sometimes Carry Coffins Down In, and the Small Lift That Would Make Me Late. I got into the coffin lift. "You can't go in there!" insisted the patient, "The other one is--" I shut the door, and made my way up.

What the hell. I don't go around being all, "Bitches! Stop smoking in the hospital!" or "Move faster! It's my lunch hour!" Why are people so obsessed with telling you what you can and can't do? Unless you're littering or poking the eyes out of fox cubs, I don't care. It's none of my business. And which lift I choose to get in when I'm late and harassed is none of yours, Mr. Asshat.

STOP!

~~HAMMER~~ MEME TIME

In meme news, aren't userpics special and unique snowflakes? Why, they're 100 x 100 works of art! They should be hung in an online Louvre. This online Louvre is not, incidentally, www.museedulouvre.fr but rather Livejournal. In the spirit of great mini works of art that say 'O RLY', 99% of them featuring Harry Potter, please to try this meme:

Taken from zhonghua2000, but now with the letter 'u':

Reply to this post, and I will tell you my favourite icon of yours. Then post this to your own journal using your own favourite icon.*

*If you have that tiresome pants-stretching icon, why are you on my Friends list?

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OK, I'll just go with the last part and tell you I like your Quebec icon. It's very pretty and I've never seen you use it.

Hee. I do like that Quebec icon. I'm going to use it as my trip to Canada approaches. It makes me giddy with excitement.

This is my favourite icon of yours:

It's just so atmospheric.

At the Museum our front-of-house lift is broken (yeah we only have one) and we're still running the big popular school holiday program, so I spent most of my shift yesterday shepherding people through to the back-of-house industrial lift that you could totally fit like ten coffins and a dinosaur in. It costs a bazillion dollars to run. I dunno why people like telling you what to do, though. Perhaps you have a submissive face. Now pick your favourite icon of mine, bitch!

This is my favourite icon, because it brings the lulz to the yard:

You're probably right on the submissive face thing. They probably mistake my disinterest with a Please to Instruct Me sign. Or it's because I'm short. "O hay, there's a short person! Let's oppress her stumpty self!"

Dinosaurs are cooler than coffins.

shounghuau2000 would like you to pick out your favoUrite of hers pleaze.

pants-stretching icon?

This icon:

It's beautiful and I'll always associate the picture with you. :p

When Chris worked in hospitals, he was ALWAYS sick. I guess it goes with the job. =/

And I love the 'My Life Iz Ruined' icon'. And don't tell me it's not Mon Louis. ;}

It's ridiculous. Our staff literally have a new virus each bloody week. I need out.

That icon most certainly is notre Louis. He's such an emo kid, but we love him, right? ;)

This is my favourite icon of yours:

It just makes me laugh every time I see it.

GET OUT OF THAT PLACE NOOOW. i think you will go insane before long.

Chris spent all our time in town yesterday saying that. LOL!

I've applied for seven jobs this week. If I don't have a new job by the time i go to America, I'm quitting the minute I get home and going to an agency. After I get my holiday pay, of course. >:)

You'll have to sit down on a free day and work out how you can improve your health, stamina, resistance. Healthier food + vitamins? Less booze? Try to get more of a regular sleeping pattern? Less coffee?...
It's an offer you'll have to make to feel less crap. Vomiting 11 times, and blood for that matter is *NOT* okay! You might want to look into that aswell - Was the blood from a puke-raw throat, or from the inside? The latter would not be good at all and would be the fanfare for King Ulcer.

^^ WORD. Most likely it is gastritis, and vomiting eleven times would indeed make the throat bleed (been there), but that doesn't change the fact that the stress of your job and maybe other lifestyle factors lower your resistance to infection. Everything I hear from you tells me that you need and want to get the hell out of that hospital. Don't delay it because you think things might get better, or because you reckon you can survive for a bit longer. We were none of us put on this earth just to survive.

This is exactly what I've been telling Rem about his office, which is bad enough without being full of sick people (which actually it sometimes also is) to catch stuff from. If you pick a day this weekend to go through what you can change right now to help preserve your health, and a day next weekend to do the same thing to figure out how to make the break from the job, then it could be the catalyst for something better. We'll be spending our weekend this way too, so you'll be in ~~good~~ ~~sane~~ interesting company. ::hug::

As for the icon question, it's gotta be "MY LIFE IZ RUINED", starring our very own Louis. :D

Agreeness on a lot of those things. I'm going to e-mail you guys about it. Hmm...

I do so love that Louis icon. Hee!

Come and be my secretary at my hospital! >:)

Also, pick me! PICK ME!

Okay! I could do that. :D

This is my favourite icon:

It's so... you and Anna. And echoes of good times.

I couldn't sleep either so I'm tired out in sympathy. I hope you're feeling much, much better soon. x

Do you like my new day-glo icons? ;)

I like your O Rly? icon and your BB toast icon. :D

Your day-glo icons rock. ;)

For now, this is my favourite icon of yours:

It's just so... iconic!