{"id":696,"date":"2007-11-12T14:12:19","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T22:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=696"},"modified":"2007-11-13T15:39:51","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T23:39:51","slug":"cantakerous-canker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"Cantakerous Canker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grumble. What a day!<\/p>\n

I’m behind in my work, so I attacked my to do list like a woman on a mission and found that I absolutely needed my binder full of archive CDs.<\/p>\n

…which of course was hidden in one of my many boxes still unpacked, gloriously surrounded by various other unpacked items owned by H.E.—heavy, unorganized items, mind you, which always freaks out my OCD sensibilities when I cast an eye over them.<\/p>\n

I knew it had to be in one of four certain-sized boxes, two of which were on the periphery of my neatly stacked boxes of books, easy to unearth, the other two of which were sitting somewhere underneath H.E.’s fax machine and at the center of the most jumbled mess you can imagine, not so easy to unearth.<\/p>\n

Naturally, it was in the last of the four boxes, the one furthest from the edge, the hardest to get to, at the very bottom and heart of the stacks.<\/p>\n

So I’m fine now, considering. Not so grumpy now.<\/p>\n

But I’ve been sick off and on since the first day of the move, everything from the flu to the cold, perhaps a little bit of food poisoning and sinus headaches. It’s been swell, really.<\/p>\n

Somehow the worst of any illness I get always begins with me biting my tongue or the inside of my mouth, which pisses me off because once I’ve done that, it’s hard for me to avoid doing it again. I bite. It swells. It gets in the way, and I bite it again. ARGH!<\/p>\n

For a long time, because I’ve related this bit of self-cannibalism to colds, I’ve often called the resulting sores cold sores<\/em>, but a co-worker of mine at my last day job asked me, “Do you have herpes?”<\/p>\n

“No,” I said. “Why?”<\/p>\n

“Then you don’t get cold sores<\/a>. What you get are canker sores<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Ah. It was like a bright light came on for me. All those times I bit myself and referred to my sores as cold sores?<\/a> Could people have been thinking, “Whoa. That woman has herpes?”<\/p>\n

Oh, my God. The delayed humiliation. I suppose that explains it if people seemed to pull away from me.<\/p>\n

It was that or my grumpy attitude.<\/p>\nShare this post:

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Grumble. What a day! I’m behind in my work, so I attacked my to do list like a woman on a mission and found that I absolutely needed my binder full of archive CDs. …which of course was hidden in one of my many boxes still unpacked, gloriously surrounded by various other unpacked items owned by H.E.—heavy, unorganized items, mind you, which always freaks out my OCD sensibilities when I cast an eye over them. I knew it had to…<\/p>\n

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