bleeeargh

[kellinator]

I don't feel well.

I wish I could just come out and say, "I'm sick." Then I would be perfectly justified in taking a day off and pulling the covers up over my head. But I'm not sick. Not really. I just feel kind of achey and overheated and things that could be illness, but which are probably just Monday malaise and which certainly wouldn't have persuaded my mother to let me stay home from school.

Why do we (or least I) feel like we have to have a temperature of 100 before it's okay to admit that we need some time to take care of ourselves?

Comments

[tikimama.livejournal.com]

I always consider my sick days for the preservation of physical and mental health. So if you are feeling really not up to going to work, take a sick day without guilt. But not more than once every two months, and never on a Monday or Friday (that just screams "hangover!"). If you really are sick on one of those days, come to work and barf. It make you look tough.

I have Monday malaise, too. Mondays suck.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

A couple of months ago for some stupid reason I decided to get really trashed on really bad cheap wine on a Monday night. Like, embarrassingly trashed. I woke up with the hangover from hell. I really wanted to call in but I kinda felt like, it was my own stupidity that got me in trouble, so time to suck it up and go to work. Actually, it ended up working to my advantage because I told my boss I thought I had food poisoning (well, it wasn't a total lie) and I looked good for coming in sick. Yes, I know, I'm awful.

[tygerlilly.livejournal.com]

I'm a strong believer in taking mental health days