Have called in sick to work

I don't feel as horrible as I could, and I know that, but I'm really hoping that if I treat myself now I won't have to call in again tomorrow. Trouble is, in order to get better I know I have to eat, and all I've been able to stir myself to swallow so far has been dark chocolate raisinets.

I feel guilty because staffing was a little thin, yesterday. Summer is over but our numbers are not going down as much as expected, so far, and several people called in sick, yesterday. (One has been out for I think five days - they don't tell us anything but I suspect he may be in the hospital as he has Crohn's disease.) Yesterday, after 5pm we only had five people at the Checkpoint. But the fact is, the understaffing is not my fault. It has to do with poor scheduling which goes back to that demand that we have x percentage part-timers and people on split shifts, which I can't do anything about, so i probably need to stop feeling guilty and go back to sleep.

Food, though. Food first. I'm going to make myself a soup. It feels like a sacrilege to make soup out of the leftovers from last night, as Eor made a really cool meal with carrots braised in cider and brown sugar, and parsnips, radishes and arugula fried up with garlic and peppers. Also black mustard chicken. :)

yawner of an entry.

I slept a good deal - perhaps three or three and a half hours - today, and when I would get up I would do dishes, trying to catch up from all those we used last night cooking that fantastic meal. I also read (Peter Duck, mostly - and I disagree with Amazon, I think it really should be read as the third in the series, otherwise it would be very confusing). And now I'm cooking another strange meal - garlic mashed potatoes, jalapeno chicken sausages and baked squash. Um, I can't remember what kind of squash it is. Butternut, I think, though the one we got was weirdly shapely - when littleredhead saw it the other day she said we should sew little clothes for it. ;)

ETA: It's a shame I don't like squash.

a book list meme - popular to buy and not get around to reading

via pussreboots

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand.

What surprises me is how many of these I've never heard of. I'm going to add a dash (-) after things I'm looking forward to reading in the near future (hopefully) asterisk (*) by things I haven't heard of, and two (**) by those I wouldn't want to be caught dead reading, because I'm that kind of bitch.

( 106 popular books to not read )

Eor is being good and writing email to someone. Glancing over, his paragraphs all look just about the same size, which reminds me of when bravecows was writing Clark Kent/Lex Luthor Smallville fic in the style of Jane Austen, which probably only occures to me at this moment because I was just reading the beginnings of Mansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility wondering if I'd read them before.

Obviously I need to go to sleep. There's a reason why I don't get any writing done when I'm sick - brain not function.