Ugh. Well, I'm sick again.

Yeah. I staggered into work after an amazingly crappy night's sleep and spent the morning staggering around the ward like a zombie, then they got the food trolley out for lunch and I had to go throw up. The smell of the food just got to me, which is a sure sign that I need to check out. So I told the sister and she told me to go home.

I got home about half three, collapsed on my bed and slept through until about eleven at night. And then staggered up to use the phone and call in sick.

I would be back in bed now, but I've been reading selected bits of selected Terry Pratchett novels about the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, because they rule. So it's kept me up for a bit. I shamelessly ship Sam/Sybil, for the record - a canon pairing, and a het one too. Maybe there's hope for me and my love of canon pairs yet, even if I do seem to have become physically incapable of writing anything but Youji x Ken fiction. Part of me still wants to try my hand at Ken x Omi because it's the cutest, fluffiest Weiss pairing ever, but maybe I'll leave that those as are good at it.

Now for the tick-the-box terror meme everyone else has been doing.

Click here for box-ticking fun of the meme variety.

✓ I miss somebody right now.  (my dad... sad but true.)	✓ I don't watch much TV these days.  (Unless having the thing on in the background when I'm at work counts. Which I don't think it does because I'd rather it wasn't on.)	✓ I own lots of books.
✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses.	✓ I love to play video games.	× I've tried marijuana.
× I've watched porn movies.	× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.	✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy.
✓ I curse sometimes.	✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.	× I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.

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× I have broken someone's bones.	× I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal.	× I hate the rain.  (absolutely and quite categorically not. I prefer it when it's raining, actually.)
✓ I'm paranoid at times.	✓ I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free.  (um... lipo. Yeah.)	✓ I need/want money right now.
× I love sushi.	× I talk really, really fast.	× I have fresh breath in the morning.
✓ I have long hair.  (Or so I am reliably informed by just about everybody who sees me with my hair down.)	× I have lost money in Las Vegas.	✓ I have at least one sibling.
✓ I was born in a country outside of the U.S.  (... because I'm not American. Goddamn US-ce btric meme.)	× I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past.	× I couldn't survive without Caller I.D.
× I like the way that I look.	× I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months.	✓ I am usually pessimistic.
✓ I have a lot of mood swings.	✓ I think prostitution should be legalized.	× I slept with a roommate.
✓ I have a hidden talent.	× I'm always hyper no matter how much sugar I have.	× I have a lot of friends.
✓ I have pecked someone of the same sex.  (More than that, actually.)	✓ I enjoy talking on the phone.	× I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants.
✓ I love to shop and/or window shop.	✓ I'm obsessed with my Xanga or Livejournal.	× I'm completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother.
✓ I have a mobile phone.	× I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months.	× I've rejected someone before.
× I currently like/love someone.	× I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life.  (I k now what I want to do, it's just doing it that's the problem. Sigh.)	× I want to have children in the future.
✓ I have changed a diaper before.  (Do adult diapers count?)	× I've called the cops on a friend before.	× I'm not allergic to anything.  (Well, I have asthma.)
✓ I have a lot to learn.	✓ I am shy around the opposite sex.  (I'm shy round goddamn anyone if I really like them.)	× I'm online 24/7, even as an away message.
× I have at least 5 away messages saved.	✓ I have tried alcohol or drugs before.	× I have made a move on a friend's significant other or crush in the past.
✓ I own the "South Park" movie.	✓ I have avoided assignments at work/school to be on Xanga or Livejournal.  (It's called weiss_badfics, and it has consumed my life.)	× I enjoy some country music.
× I would die for my best friends.	× I'm obsessive, and often a perfectionist.	× I have used my sexuality to advance my career.
× I think Halloween is awesome because you get free candy.  (What? I've never got free candy! I've been stiffed!)	× I have dated a close friend's ex.	× I am happy at this moment.  (No, at this moment I;m exhausted and trying not to think about how much I want to puke. Yay, sickness.)
× I'm obsessed with guys.	✓ Democrat.  (Well, if I was American I'd be a Democrat.)	× Republican.
✓ I don't even know what I am.  (... wait, you're talking about politics?)	× I am punk rockish.  (I don't think so, but I'm currently wearing an Emily tee-shirt and a black studded choker. YMMV.)	✓ I go for older guys/girls, not younger.
× I study for tests most of the time.  (... no.)	× I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I've ever met.	× I can work on a car.
✓ I love my job(s).  (When I'm not on frackin John Young Ward, anyway.)	× I am comfortable with who I am right now.	× I have more than just my ears pierced.
× I walk barefoot wherever I can.	× I have jumped off a bridge.	× I love sea turtles.
× I spend ridiculous amounts of money on makeup.	✓ I plan on achieving a major goal/dream.  (Some day, I WILL get my goddamn nursing diploma. I mean that, college!)	× I am proficient on a musical instrument.
× I hate office jobs.  (*nods*)	✓ I went to college out of state.  (... well, out of the county. I'm English, dammit.)	× I am adopted.
✓ I am a pyro.	× I have thrown up from crying too much.  (No, but I've hyperventilated!)	✓ I have been intentionally hurt by people that I loved.
× I fall for the worst people.	× I adore bright colours.  (Basic black, baby.)	× I usually like covers better than originals.
× I hate chain theme restaurants like Applebees and TGIFridays.	✓ I can pick up things with my toes.  (*drops pen on the floor* So that's a yes, then.)	✓ I can't whistle.
✓ I have ridden/owned a horse.	× I still have every journal I've ever written in.	× I talk in my sleep.  (... not that I know of.)
✓ I've often thought that I was born in the wrong century.  (Yeah, I want to live in outer space.)	✓ I try to forget things by drowning them out with loads of distractions.	× I wear a toe ring.
× I have a tattoo.	✓ I can't stand at LEAST one person that I work with.	× I am a caffeine junkie.
× I am completely tree-huggy spiritual, and I'm not ashamed at all.	✓ If I knew I would get away with it, I would commit at least one murder.  (My secret shame is I would love to be a leet assassin Sue.)	✓ I will collect anything, and the more nonsensical, the better.  (Random tare panda stuff? Yes please.)
× I enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner.	× I'm an artist.  (I draw bad fanart of Ken Hidaka. I am not an artist.)	× I am ambidextrous.
✓ I sleep with so many stuffed animals, I can hardly fit on my bed.	× If it weren't for having to see other people naked, I'd live in a nudist colony.	✓ I have terrible teeth.
× I hate my toes.	✓ I did this meme even though I wasn't tagged by the person who took it before me.  (My friends list don't tag. They just do stuff and see what happens.)	✓ I have more friends on the internet than in real life.  (Sad but true.)
✓ I have lived in either three different states or countries.	× I am extremely flexible.	✓ I love hugs more than kisses.
× I want to own my own business.	× I smoke.	✓ I spend way too much time on the computer than on anything else.
✓ Nobody has ever said I'm normal.	✓ Sad movies, games, and the like can cause a trickle of tears every now and then.  (I cried when Aerith died even though I knew it was going to happen, and I still mourn the passing of Maes Hughes.)	× I am proficient in the use of many types of firearms and combat weapons.  (No, but I have a horrible tendency to think weapons are extremely cool. Leet assassin Sue, remember?)
✓ I like the way women look in stylized men's suits.  (Marlene Dietrich owns my soul.)	✓ I don't like it when people are unpleased or seem unpleased with me.	✓ I have been described as a dreamer or likely to have my head up in the clouds.
× I have played strip poker with someone else before.	✓ I have had emotional problems for which I have sought professional help.  (I probably still do have emotional problems for which I should seek professional help.)	× I believe in ghosts and the paranormal.  (Prove this meme exists.)
× I can't stand being alone.	✓ I have at least one obsession at any given time.	× I weigh myself, pee/poo, and then weigh myself again.  (... what? That's truly pathetic. I don’t even weigh myself. As long as my clothes still fit I figure I'm doing fine.)
✓ I consistently spend way too much money on obsessions-of-the-moment.  (Proportionally, anyway.)	✓ I'm a judgmental asshole.	× I'm a HUGE drama-queen.
× I have travelled on more than one continent.	× I sometimes wish my father would just disappear.	× I need people to tell me I'm good at something in order to feel that I am.
× I am a Libertarian.	× I can speak more than one language.  (Mein Deutsch ist sehr scheisse aber I still get veil angst about the sehr, sehr furchtbar fangirl Deutsch in Weiss fic.)	× I can fall asleep even if the whole room is as noisy as it can be.
✓ I would rather read than watch TV.	× I like reading fact more than fiction.	✓ I have pulled an all-nighter on an assignment I was given a month to do.
× I have no piercings.	× I have spent the night in a train station or other public place.	× I have been so upset over my physical gender that I cried.
× I once spent Christmas completely alone because there was a miscommunication on which parent was supposed to have me that night.  (My parents are still married, so no.)	✓ There have been times when I have wondered "Why was I born?" and may/may not have cried over it.  (ah, miserable adolescence. What doesn't kill you makes you even more embittered and resentful!)	× I like most animals better than most people.
× I own a collection of retro games consoles.	× The thought of physical exercise makes me shiver.	× I have hit someone with a dead fish.  (*adds it to 'things to do before I'm 30' list*)
✓ I am compulsively honest.	× I was born with a congenital birth defect that has never been repaired.	× I have danced topless in front of dozens of complete strangers.
✓ I have gone from wishing I was a girl to revelling in being a boy to feeling like a girl again in the span of five minutes, and not cared a whit for my actual sex.	✓ I am unashamedly bisexual, and have different motivations for my desires for different genders.  (Well, bi shading to gay, but I believe in keeping my options open!)	✓ I sometimes won't sleep a whole night or eat a whole day because I forget to.
× I find it impossible to get to sleep without some kind of music on.	× I dislike milk.  (If only.)	× I obsessively wash my hands.  (No, but I might as well do what with the job.)
✓ I always carry something significant around with me.  (Yes, it's called 'my notebook' and if i go out without it I wither and die.)	× Sometimes I'd rather wear a wig in day-to-day life than use my own hair.	× I've pushed myself to become more self-aware and thereby more aware of others.
× Even though I live on my own I still cry sometimes because I miss my mother.	× I hand wrote all the HTML tags in this document.	✓ I've liked something which a majority of people claimed was either bad or weird.  (I'm a Weiss Kreuz fangirl. You do the math.)
× I have been clinically dead for a brief period of time.	× Instead of feeling sympathy/empathy with people and their problems, I simply become annoyed.  (Depends on the person, the problem and the amount of work I still have to do that they are keeping me from. Ah, nursing.)	× I participate/have participated in auto drag races and won.
× I do not 'get' most comedy acts.	✓ I don't think strippers are money-greedy or slutty for dancing.	✓ I don't like to chew gum.
× I am obsessed with history/historical things and can't wait for someone to build a time machine so I can be the first to use it.	× I can never remember for the life of me where I parked the car.	✓ I had the TEEN ANGST thing going for at least 2-3 years.
✓ I wish people would be more empathic and honest with each other.	× I play Dungeons and Dragons weekly.  (No, but I probably would if I could.)	✓ I love to sing.  (Badly, along with my mp3 player.)
× I want to live in my mother's basement when I grow up.  (No, I'd like my brother to get the Hell out of it.)	× I have a custom-built computer.	× I want to create a certain someone's babies, even though there's a 0% possiblity of ever achieving it.
× I would be in a relationship with one of my pets if they were human.	× I've gone skinny-dipping.	✓ I've performed in three plays.
× I enjoy burritos.	× I'm Irish and loving it.	× I have a thing for redheads.
× I am a twin!	× Most of the times, I'd rather do something intellectual instead of doing something generically 'fun'.  (Yes but no. I'd rather write than watch TV, but I'm writing anime fanfiction and badfics posts...)	× Once I set out to finish something, I always stay at it until it is completed before I move on to something else.  (If I did, I would have finished 'Seuche' years ago.)
✓ I wish there were a way to erase past mistakes.	× I sleep more than 12 hours a day.  (No, but I would if I could...)	✓ I wish I could be prouder of what I've accomplished, but it's never enough.
✓ I need more time to myself.  (Yeah. I need to finish my fanfics.)	✓ I wish I was more open-minded.  (I wish I wasn't such a horrible cynic.)	× I hope that I go really prematurely grey.
✓ I download songs from the internet.	× I've just reenacted chapter 58 of Death Note with my best friend.	✓ I say random things to freak people out.
× I'm still a little mad about the ending of Death Note.	× I love playing Truth or Dare.	× I love listening to slow music, but I hate singing to it.
× Music helps me remember that I am not alone.	× Playing my favorite sport makes me temporarily forget my problems.	× I think this survey is particularly long.
✓ I prefer my LJ friends to my real-life ones.  (I'm a squirrely online entity. I have no real-world presence.)	× I can only hate someone that I love.	× I've ordered an extra two shots of espresso to an Americano at Starbucks.

Whee.

Now I'm going back to bed.

And I've got a hideous Endurance Sue to spork tomorrow in which an Policeman!Ken falls in love with a green-haired robot girl (or 'marionette', in the ficcer’s world, though I can’t see what makes her any different to any other robot girl) and for various truly pathetic reasons I want to put the report up on marysues as well - not least of which because damn, I hate that Sue - and nausea and vomiting or not I'm going to spork it, so I need to get a good night's sleep so the Sue doesn't make me vomit. Later.

... and I still love my mood theme.