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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2008-09-04 08:20 am
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Con crud

I decided that since I felt so tired last night, I wouldn't do anything useful after I got home from the grocery store (cold medicine run). Lazing about waiting for Mythbusters to come on, I decided I'd lie down a little bit about 7. Mom phoned at 7:45 and I immediately fell asleep again, waking up at 3. Decided maybe I ought to get out of my clothes and put a nightgown on, read Mushishi 5, fell asleep again until the alarm rang at 7.

And I'm still tired. At work, since the rest of the cold symptoms are mild and I don't have a whole lot of sick leave at the moment, although I expect there's a good chance I'll be out tomorrow if I get worse. I'm supposed to work on Saturday, and it's awkward to get sick this moment as I'm taking a Saturday art class this semester that pretty much kills my ability to trade Saturdays with anyone else. Blarg.
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[identity profile] rayechu.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh1 I didn't even think of the call button. I was thinking more of the inside buttons, where you have 10 people in the elevator but one person hits all the buttons. However the sleep/nutrition probably does have a big effect. I know when I go to conventions I tend to eat out a lot, which is not exactly healthy. I know the campus/con comparison wasn't great, but I think they are somewhat similar for a smaller con.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
It's still a valid comparison - campuses are breeding grounds for bugs. :D I think that with cons, you're just all in the same building all the time, which makes it a bit easier for infections to pass from person to person.

[identity profile] rayechu.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
On another note, do you remember hearing of con crud before 2003/4ish? I haven't been as active as I was but I don't remember everyone getting sick around 2002/2003 when I went to conventions in big groups. I wonder if the sickness is a newer thing in general and if so, why? Is it caused by the increasingly younger fan base? Or some other factor?

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope, I've been getting con crud since I've been going to cons, back in 198mumble. :) I think you were just lucky. :D

[identity profile] rayechu.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Well considering I was on of the increasingly younger fanbase back then it wouldn't surprise me. Maybe con crud has nothing on public high school germs XD

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh dear lord, no. XD Mom was a teacher and therefore had immunity from all the bugs, as she was exposed to them constantly, and had no sympathy for me when *I* got colds.

A few years after she retired, when her immune system had scaled back a bit, she got a bad cold and complained to me on the phone and I told her I had NO SYMPATHY! :D

[identity profile] rayechu.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Hahahaha. But all this talk of colds has me craving 7up.
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