Personal Revelation #397 - Routines Good, Randomness Bad

I got sick. This would be the reason I haven't posted anything yet - I had the GREAT fortune to get ill the night I got off work for my two-day break.

Today, I'm taking a day off work for illness, and plan to go back tomorrow. Of course, I don't really want to go back to work, but that's an understatement. I'm dreading going back to work.

I have a real talent for making illness-related absences stretch and stretch. I do this because when I think about going back to school or work, the dread consumes me. I almost literally make myself sick again at the thought of going back.

What's weird about this is that, when I'm in the midst of attending school or going to work when I'm well, I don't dread it at all. Sometimes I'm tired, sometimes I'd rather be at home with a good book, but I don't dread it.

Someone in the adults_add community mentioned the same problem a while back, and had it suggested to them that what is wrong is not the idea of going back to work you don't mind - it's the breaking of routines. I nodded my head along with this, but it didn't much sink in, until ( I was thinking about it today )

Dukes of Hazzard review:

There are routine movies and others that blaze a trail. There are routine bad movies and others so horrendous that they redefine bad, that make us look up synonyms for agonizing and abysmal and then gnash our teeth because the language has not kept pace with the decline of film. There are even movies that are so blazingly rotten that they can redefine past experiences and make us look back on recent weak efforts like "Stealth" or "Fantastic Four" and think, "Ooh, that was fascinating."

It stars Seann William Scott and Jessica Simpson - really, what more do you need to know?