Know not too wisely but too well

Called in sick to work today for the first time since Snappy Stop. By my reckoning that's like paying $59.52 to stay home and do nothing, which is not a very good deal at all, but I knew if I tried to go to work I'd just be miserable and stuck at work, sneezing and coughing and possibly feigning death in the break room. And nobody wants that.

It felt a little like cheating, but honestly, I would've been all kinds of miserable if I tried to go work in a big dusty thrift store for eight hours. On one hand I've got a vicious cold and a sore throat, which I can deal with. On the other hand my hayfever has been kicked up into overdrive, likely exacerbated by the fact that I work in one of Minneapolis' biggest active dust repositories. Either one I can handle on its own, but NO WAY am I combining the two. Not worth it.