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[geminigirl]

The best part of Pride yesterday?

The people who said "Thank you for the work you do."

Apparently there are people who aren't my clients and my friends who appreciate what I do. Sometimes I forget about this, in my anger and frustration about not being able to do it, about funding cuts and all those things.

Skipped the Festival portion of today. Woke up sneezing and decided it was a bad idea. The sneezing isn't unusual, but it took longer than most days to stop. I spent most of the day sleeping, and have been aching all day. Didn't realize why until late tonight. Apparently I've been running a fever. Took my temperature before I went to the grocery store and it was normal...96.5. Took it tonight as I was choosing clothes for tomorrow...it was 100.2. I suspect the Tylenol I took for the body aches this morning knocked down the fever, although it did nothing for the aches. It would explain the way I ate today, too.

I think bed is a good idea-despite the amount of sleep I've gotten today, I think I wouldn't mind some more.

Comments

[mathwhiz78.livejournal.com]

What agency/what type of work do you do?

[geminigirl]

I do HIV/STD/Substance Abuse prevention work with youth. Right now my primary clients are youth of color, who are using, abusing, in treatment for, or at high risk for substance abuse.

[mathwhiz78.livejournal.com]

You DO rock!

And I should hook you up with my friend Mel, fighting_in_sf, who works with dual diagnosis clients. =)

~mike~

[geminigirl]

I would rock harder if 1. there was funding for this kind of programming next year (my grant runs out in September) and 2. if I could find a new job in NY/NJ...

[entirelysonja.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear you're feeling yucky -- I hope more sleep helped!

[geminigirl]

I woke up about 18 times during the night, because I had chills. Plus, Oblivion insisted on sleeping on top of me.

How are you feeling?

[geekchick]

Ooof, hope you feel better soon.

[geminigirl]

Love the icon.

Did you have fun at the festival?

[geekchick]

Thanks; they don't have quite the right hair for the new 'do, but it's not completely wrong either. ;) We did have a good time, although I think I managed to do something wonky to my knee. Sorry we didn't see you there. When you're feeling better, we should talk about fruity drinks someplace.

[geminigirl]

< Homer> Oooh Fruity Drinks

I'm not sure what I've got, so hopefully it won't take too long to go away.