I'm just hoping there isn't some kind of cosmic punchline

[exsequar]

Wanna know something hilarious? I probably have whooping cough! Yep, the one that makes you think of little kids in the 1800s. WHOOPING COUGH! It's bacterial but they can't do anything. The doctor (who was lovely and sweet) prescribed a cough suppressant that I had already bought over the counter for myself and doesn't work very well. So basically the doctor's visit was a waste (I had to pay full price since my insurance is BULLSHIT) except for confirming what I already suspected, thanks to bexone.

Awesome.

On top of that, I got not one, but TWO parking tickets today. Let's not talk about it.

On the other hand, things in the lab are for once the best part of my day. I got a beautiful snowy white product in 90% yield today (that's very good) and it made me quite happy. Finally things are going right!

The other good thing that happened today was that my 102 Dublin prints arrived. They're so PRETTY you guys. I want to roll around in them forever. I can't wait to put them up on my wall!

So uh, way to go karma for giving me freaking whiplash. Ugh.

(Seriously, WHOOPING COUGH.)

Comments

[go-gentle.livejournal.com]

My junior year of high school, half the boys basketball team got whooping cough, so I guess it's more common than people think.

[tiltingheartand]

Oh, wow, congratulations on that yield. *jealous*

Also, oh man, that sucks that you have whooping cough. :( :( :(

[thediane.livejournal.com]

Whenever I'm sick, I always joke that I have whooping cough, but the thought of getting it was always absurd. But I guess you can get it still! Poor baby :( Feel better *hugs*

[daybreak25.livejournal.com]

whooping cough? you mean the one that kills babies? D: what does that mean for adults?

*is freaking out*

feel better, though, and a nice FUCK YOU to the universe. ♥

[wasoncedelight.livejournal.com]

I got two parking tickets in a matter of hours, once. That... was not fun. :\

But yay for your yield and your prints!

[rorylareina.livejournal.com]

Whooping cough went through my high school when I was a sophomore, and I swear half the school was out sick. And I went to a huge school. It was an achievement NOT to get whooping cough.

[jebbypal]

Ummmmm, first, I thought whooping cough when you described your symptoms.

Two, you may want to double check your doctor -- I may be wrong and it may be that whooping cough is only treatable when it's caught at a certain stage, but I'm fairly certain that if you take antibiotics it will clear up faster (plus, they can give prophylatic antibiotics to anyone you've been in close contact with -- might want to mention it to Dara and the like because it is notoriously hard to diagnose unless they actually look for it in the blood work).

*hugs*

[alazysod.livejournal.com]

Oh, whooping cough. That went around the camp I worked at. It was actually kinda funny, since half the camp would be sick and you could tell which counselors were hooking up by who was getting it next. We called it "the whoop." Good times, weirdly.

(er, sorry to be going all nostalgic over your illness *facepalm*)

[hebrew-hernia.livejournal.com]

NINETY PERCENT YIELD? You are seriously my fucking hero. I never did anything that good in lab. What kind of scale are you working on/what was your theoretical yield (in terms of grams/moles)? Hell, what are you making? *GEEK*

Also, whooping cough? Did the doctor say whether you're contagious? Thaaaat sucks. But on the other hand, how many people can actually say they've had whooping cough? Intense.

[thelemic.livejournal.com]

... wow. Whooping cough... that's. Sort of impressive, in a D: sort of way.

Hope you get better soon

[theaerosolkid.livejournal.com]

OH, DUDE! My bestie totally just got scarlet fever, not even lying, wtf is up with weird diseases this year?

[modillian.livejournal.com]

Aw hun, here's to hoping for a quick recovery. I don't know anyone who has had whooping cough, but I can kind of commiserate because it's kind of like how I remember having strep throat when I was really young, and only learning a few years ago that strep throat is another name for scarlet fever, and then freaking out retroactively because I could have gone blind or had organ failure or something like that and my parents somehow neglected to tell me that little fact when I was older. 8|

The other good thing that happened today was that my 102 Dublin prints arrived. They're so PRETTY you guys. I want to roll around in them forever. I can't wait to put them up on my wall
Prints! I got a poster made with some of my pictures from Paris, it's awesome to have in my room to remember and point out things.

[snuffkin.livejournal.com]

I dreamed about you and Cobra Starship tonight <_< It's only slightly creepy :X And you didn't look like you do but I knew it was you lol

[pushingyouaway.livejournal.com]

*cookies and hot tea*

i hope you get better!

[rain-dances.livejournal.com]

Ugh I still cannot believe that! :(((( *hugs you* I hope you start to feel better soooooon.

But congrats on your success in the lab! Yay for you!