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Warning: this post is not actually gross but talks about topics that some people are squeamish about (namely: toilets). If you are squeamish, please move on.
So, the paper toilet seat protective covers that are always provided "for your protection" in public bathrooms. I don't use them. They are weird and crinkly, and I'm not really sure what I'm supposedly protecting my bum from in most cases. And they don't do all that much in actually gross situations.
One of my former coworkers radically disagreed, to the extent that every time she left a public restroom, she would put down a fresh protective piece of paper ::for the next person.:: Clearly, she never had the unfortunate experience of being the next person. Walking into a stall to find a piece of paper on a toilet seat feels way less sanitary to me than just walking into a stall to see a bare toilet seat.
So anyway, I changed jobs, and one of the benefits was no more risk of patronizing toilet protection. Except I walked into a stall today and the toilet seat had been protected! Noooo! I really hope that it is just that Old Coworker came to the new office for the day, and not that I have to deal with this again.
A lot of fruit and I just do not get along. The citrus fruits raise my body temperature and make me vaguely feverish. Many other fruits give me hives. (No, I don't watch SGA. Yes, I do know about Rodney McKay's citrus allergy.)
I'd gotten really paranoid about ever eating any fruits that weren't apples or bananas, but about a year ago I went to an allergist, who promised me that I only had hyper-active histamines and not allergies. In summary: fruit makes me itch but it will never make me die. She gave me a prescription for an antihistamine, but I still... was just out of the habit of eating fruit. At this point, for instance, orange juice just tastes like fever production.
Lately I've gotten cavalier about things and keep thinking things will be fine if I just take a pill with the fruit. (Side note: pulling out a generic-looking bottle of prescription drugs and taking one with a fruity alcoholic beverage is a really good way to upset the people around you.)
But clearly things are getting worse. Over the weekend a blackberry drink made my skin get clammy; this afternoon I have repeated the trick by eating a peach without taking drugs first. My skin is ::really:: hot. Whatever this non-allergy is, it seems like maybe I should look into it again. It does not seem healthy. Or maybe I'm just overly sulky right now because the fexofenadine didn't instantly fix the rather awful reaction I'm having.
Filed under: Curses, I Thought I Had Escaped You!
So, the paper toilet seat protective covers that are always provided "for your protection" in public bathrooms. I don't use them. They are weird and crinkly, and I'm not really sure what I'm supposedly protecting my bum from in most cases. And they don't do all that much in actually gross situations.
One of my former coworkers radically disagreed, to the extent that every time she left a public restroom, she would put down a fresh protective piece of paper ::for the next person.:: Clearly, she never had the unfortunate experience of being the next person. Walking into a stall to find a piece of paper on a toilet seat feels way less sanitary to me than just walking into a stall to see a bare toilet seat.
So anyway, I changed jobs, and one of the benefits was no more risk of patronizing toilet protection. Except I walked into a stall today and the toilet seat had been protected! Noooo! I really hope that it is just that Old Coworker came to the new office for the day, and not that I have to deal with this again.
Filed under: Ok, I Know I Did This to Myself But I Am Still Annoyed
A lot of fruit and I just do not get along. The citrus fruits raise my body temperature and make me vaguely feverish. Many other fruits give me hives. (No, I don't watch SGA. Yes, I do know about Rodney McKay's citrus allergy.)
I'd gotten really paranoid about ever eating any fruits that weren't apples or bananas, but about a year ago I went to an allergist, who promised me that I only had hyper-active histamines and not allergies. In summary: fruit makes me itch but it will never make me die. She gave me a prescription for an antihistamine, but I still... was just out of the habit of eating fruit. At this point, for instance, orange juice just tastes like fever production.
Lately I've gotten cavalier about things and keep thinking things will be fine if I just take a pill with the fruit. (Side note: pulling out a generic-looking bottle of prescription drugs and taking one with a fruity alcoholic beverage is a really good way to upset the people around you.)
But clearly things are getting worse. Over the weekend a blackberry drink made my skin get clammy; this afternoon I have repeated the trick by eating a peach without taking drugs first. My skin is ::really:: hot. Whatever this non-allergy is, it seems like maybe I should look into it again. It does not seem healthy. Or maybe I'm just overly sulky right now because the fexofenadine didn't instantly fix the rather awful reaction I'm having.
