caught between two wits...

It's hell to be The Slow One when you're hanging with two people who know how each other thinks... Eor and Butonquail dated in late high-school/early college, and have been close friends ever since, so they bounce off each other quite well.:)

Just now they began teasing me about my current favorite drink, orange Stoli with Tang...

Eor: "We have Tang, the drink of the astronauts... and vodka, the drink of the -"
(in unison with Butonquail) "Cosmonauts!"
Eor: "for a drink called - "
(Eor and Butonquail in unison) "The International Space Station!"

bleh

Yesterday I woke up at 6:30am with the sore throat from hell, and couldn't get back to sleep until I'd had some hot water, honey and lemon to sooth it. I tried to baby myself all day, and I think the vodka and Tang helped (hey, you can't go wrong killing the germs with alcohol and megadosing on vitamin C, right?), (and no, I don't think I overdid it with the vodka and Tang, I was actually pretty moderate :)) but it's still not gone this morning, and my nose is starting to run. I called in sick. I feel like a jerk, I always do when I call in, because I'm constantly second guessing myself - would I feel better soon if I went in? Or would I make it worse? But now that I've made the call I'm going to gargle with Listerine and go back to bed for a while longer.:P