The Great Oogie Boogie

man, i fuckin' hate sinus infections. i can't believe i used to get these like, constantly. i once had a sinus infection for 3 months straight.
how did i live?! was i just tougher, more rugged and manly and un-sissified?
or was i just emotionally desensitized to physical misery, like a plucky Irish orphan?

finally, at the ripe old age of 30, i've found something i feel irrationally entitled to: no ailments lasting longer than 2 days.

i can cheerfully withstand any amount of severe pain as long as i know it will be over relatively soon. i even cracked jokes at my extremely painful IUD fitting last month.
but sustained discomfort makes me come all undone.

i don't think i should be required to do more than bathe myself and moan piteously, because goddamn it, my head will NOT stop producing snot!!
you'd think at some point my system would run out of the raw materials needed to produce mucous, but no. if i could find an industrial use for snot, i could contribute to the war effort and do my part for America.