The Grand Opening of the House of Veelzabub
Well, here I am...It's 9:21 on a Friday night and I'm home alone and on the computer. Would this surprise anyone I know? Probably not. And if they were to express any astonishment at this fact, it would only be because normally I'm still at work. But tonight is different. Tonight I am sick.
I really am sick. I swear. I have been hacking up things so disgusting you don't even want to think about them. Occasionally a really good one will come up, looking somewhat like a cross between an ordinary garden slug and one of the creatures out of Heinlein's The Puppetmasters. All and all not the sort of things you want to imagine in your mouth, much less spit out.
I went to work (at my major conglomerate sporting goods store) and actually worked for about three hours. Of course, I was slightly limited by the fact that I would not let any customer get within four feet of me. I think of this as doing my civic duty, what with the lack of flu shots available and so forth. I must add though, if any of us had any decent health insurance this wouldn't be such a huge problem-thanks again for the help W. But I digress. After several hours of contributing my germ-ridden self to aid the approximate 4:1 employee to customer ratio, I asked if I could just go home. All I wanted to do was curl up in a little hacking ball and go to sleep. To make a long story just slightly shorter, they were pissed. "I guess so...." Let us remember that it Friday night and there are NO customers in the store. I ignored the Looney Toon daggers being shot at me and weezed a "bye" as I ran out the door. I did remember to punch out.
So now I'm at home. My bed has never been so comfortable, but despite that fact, I cannot sleep. You would think that the mighty dose of nyquil, coupled as it was with thera-flu (store brand, but hey, I'm broke) would have sent me into the drooling arms of unconciousness, but no such luck. I can't sleep. I have nowhere else to be, although I have plenty of other things I should be doing. All I can think about is that I have to be at a stupid store meeting at seven a.m.. It's some kind of pep rally for the holiday retail season. Great, I'm gonna feel really peppy at seven on a Saturday morning. I hope they all get sick.
Well, that's my life.
-Veelzabub
I really am sick. I swear. I have been hacking up things so disgusting you don't even want to think about them. Occasionally a really good one will come up, looking somewhat like a cross between an ordinary garden slug and one of the creatures out of Heinlein's The Puppetmasters. All and all not the sort of things you want to imagine in your mouth, much less spit out.
I went to work (at my major conglomerate sporting goods store) and actually worked for about three hours. Of course, I was slightly limited by the fact that I would not let any customer get within four feet of me. I think of this as doing my civic duty, what with the lack of flu shots available and so forth. I must add though, if any of us had any decent health insurance this wouldn't be such a huge problem-thanks again for the help W. But I digress. After several hours of contributing my germ-ridden self to aid the approximate 4:1 employee to customer ratio, I asked if I could just go home. All I wanted to do was curl up in a little hacking ball and go to sleep. To make a long story just slightly shorter, they were pissed. "I guess so....
So now I'm at home. My bed has never been so comfortable, but despite that fact, I cannot sleep. You would think that the mighty dose of nyquil, coupled as it was with thera-flu (store brand, but hey, I'm broke) would have sent me into the drooling arms of unconciousness, but no such luck. I can't sleep. I have nowhere else to be, although I have plenty of other things I should be doing. All I can think about is that I have to be at a stupid store meeting at seven a.m.. It's some kind of pep rally for the holiday retail season. Great, I'm gonna feel really peppy at seven on a Saturday morning. I hope they all get sick.
Well, that's my life.
-Veelzabub
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