Blogflog. More Flu talky talk.

[dreamstrifer.livejournal.com]

Ugh. More flu talk. Seriously, LKH is just getting on my nerves about this flu thing. Mostly because she's being so dumb about it.

http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2008/03/flu.html


LKH in bold. Me in plain.

I have the flu. Jon's apologized for giving it to me, but it wasn't like he did it on purpose. Real influenza is very contagious, and it's airborne contagious, not just touch contact.

As opposed to that FAKE stomach flu. I'm sure everyone, EVERYONE is aware the flu is contagious. That's why they have flu shots after flu shots after flu shots for all the different strains.



Hard not to catch if someones got a cough and you're sharing a bed with them. Yeah, and I guess we should have stopped that whole kissing thing, but, well, I just couldn't help myself. So, I have the flu.


She just had to tell us this, didn't she? I mean, seriously, I don't find the thought of kissing a flu-y person appealling in the least. And to parallel LKH's life, my mom has pneumonia right now. My dad, who HAS to go to work (he owns his own business, and works more than anyone else I know), has not only been sleeping in another room, he's unfortunately had to limit his contact with my mom (and as they've been married and been ridiculously in love for like, 33 years, that's not the easiest thing to do).

I'm still kind of stuck on the whole how she had to tell us she kissed germ-infested Jonboi. Ick.

I would say some stuff about reincarnation and how my path of faith believes in it, and my theories on it, but I'm running a fever. One of my rules is never to discuss religion when running a fever. It's too hard to tell if you're making sense of a topic that's already difficult to explain at the best of times.


Not that she makes sense when she's perfectly well. Let's hope she's not WRITING under this fever. Then she'll REALLY not make sense.

But I have my tea, and I'm going to sip it, and do this blog, and hope to feel better. I probably should wake Jon up, and have him come down so he can help me with the dogs and everything so I can get to my desk and do my pages on Merry. Hey, I took yesterday off. My schedule doesn't really include cushion time this year.


I know it's been discussed before, but honestly. The woman needs a break. She can certainly afford it. She has the flu, for heaven's sake. And if she can't talk about religion and make sense, what makes her think she can write?!

She needs a nice long vacation. If for no other reason than to get some therapy before she buys her characters more Christmas presents.

If I get over to my office and can't think, let alone write on the book, I'll stop, and I'll go back to laying around and feeling pitiful. But I've done work in the past running fevers this high and higher.

Actually, that explains so much.

But I think I am going to have to call, uncle, on trying to bull my way through this morning on my own. I thought I could do it, now I'm thinking that having help would be nice. Time to call in the troops.


What, have someone else write her books for her? Actually that would be an improvement, except of course, if that person were Jon.


Jon is better than I am, so I can call for help.

D'oh!

One of the interesting things while Jon was so sick for this week was doing everything more alone.

Translation please?

Jon's Mom and Dad helped a lot, but I was still cooking dinner, doing the kid thing, and taking care of Jon, as well as getting my pages done each day.

Wow. Kid thing? Doesn't she deserve to be taken care of too? Of course, Jon had the flu, but he's a grown man.

Oh Laurell, your life is SO HARD. You have to do all this stuff! With Jon's mom and dad helping you! To continue the parallel of my parents, my mom had pneumonia and couldn't cook or clean. So I did both (which I enjoy anyway so it wasn't a big deal), and my dad had to make sure my mom didn't need to go to the hospital and worked 10 hour days of physical labor and customer service.

Suck it up.

It reminded me how truly difficult it is not to have that partnership so you can divide and conquer. I was raised in a single parent household, and this week has reminded me how difficult that is, so my hat is off to all of you who do the single parenting thing for real.


Hmm... she wasn't a single parent, huh? You know, between her divorce and marrying Jon. I would say it's nice that she respects single parents, but this just screams "SUSPICIOUS" to me.



Oh Laurell. I just don't know what to say anymore that explains my absolute disgust for your blogs.

Comments

[drho.livejournal.com]

Laurell reminds me of men who whine about 'babysitting' their own kids.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

She really acts like the very worst stereotypes of men, and she seems to think that's daring feminism instead of finding new ways to be a jerk.

[fangedsekhmet.livejournal.com]

She has man flu, which equates to a bad cold. If she had the real flu she wouldn't be online moaning but in bed, aching and barely able to move.

[jerel.livejournal.com]

That was what I was thinking. Coughing is not a flu symptom. The flu is feeling like you're dying. Been there, done that--got my flu shots every year since.

Sounds like the crud that goes around schools this time of year. It's like a chest cold with a general "blah" feeling--aches, loss of appetite. We've had a couple of teachers down with it, but so far I've avoided it. Which is surprising, because I'm the school's permanent sub, so I've been in their rooms, sitting at their germ-infested desks. Knock on wood. :)

[dreamstrifer.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Last time I had the flu, which was approx. 6 years ago when I was but a lowly sophomore in high school, I could not get out of bed. The first day I had it I had to miss finals because I was so ill I couldn't even stand up. I would save my energy and take a bath every 3 days, because I couldn't sit up more often than that. It sucked balls.

I thank God every day I haven't had it since.

[sound0fdrums.livejournal.com]

Has to be. I just got over the real flu a week ago and there was no way I could do anything, much less sit up and be online or be writing. Hells bells, turning over in the bed was a chore.

[missrogue.livejournal.com]

I just read the post and was so going to flog it.

Seriously though. When contagious, one stays away from other people, even ones they love. Why? Because it's common sense and courteous. They are both idiots and why natural selection has not worked it's magic on them is beyond me.

It's sad she thinks she's all that. We all know her books aren't going to be considered classics in 100 years. Sorry LKH, it's true. Your books will never be in that special "penguin classic" section in the bookstore.

Also, that whole British in a past life thing made me gag. The Brits are not the only ones who love their tea. Tea is well loved with lots of sugar or artificial sweetener down here in the South.

[notadoor.livejournal.com]

If she's not a tea fanatic who does the whole tea-kettle-loose-tea in-teapot-tea-cosy business and considers microwaving water and throwing a tea bag into it the highest form of blasphemy and perversion, there's no way she was British in a past life.

[dreamstrifer.livejournal.com]

No kidding. My dad cannot afford to get sick. If he doesn't go into work, things don't get done that HAVE to get done for the store to open (we own a bakery and he's up at 2 AM baking huge batches). If Laurell doesn't go to work, she misses writing for a day, which, in hindsight, isn't a big deal. I mean, three days usually don't mean missing deadlines in the grand scheme of things. And taking it easy while your body is fighting a virus is much better than being sick for weeks.

[amamelina.livejournal.com]

Tea is also well-enjoyed in the Orient. Lovely places that I want to visit like China, Thailand, Japan and so forth.

cute icon!

[dwg.livejournal.com]

I just read that and I sat there going, "O RLY? The REAL flu? CONTAGIOUS? YOU DON'T SAY!?" Call me crazy, but one of the first things you do when that's going around is stop kissing people and then possibly go sleep on the couch.

And you don't need a biology degree to know this!

So I have absolutely no sympathy for the situation. I've got my own zombie plague to worry about.

[zombiexbunny.livejournal.com]

I really, really despise the way she has to *explain* everything as if we're all too stupid to know any better. I've noticed she does that a LOT.

I can just picture her sitting there telling herself that she is doing a GREAT SERVICE by telling people how it REALLY is and thank GOD she is here to do so. Because we'd all be so LOST and probably wearing our shoes on our HEADS if she were not here to clue us all in.

[rin-x-x.livejournal.com]

"the kid thing"? Are you shitting me? You call raising your kids doing the "kid thing"?

[dreamstrifer.livejournal.com]

Note how she proceeds with saying "Taking care of Jon." That just pissed me off. Yeah, Jon has the flu, but that doesn't mean he's more important than taking care of your child! Jon can drink water and take pills by himself. He's a big boy. A big baby boy, may be but still a grown man. Ugh. She disgusts me.

[duchym.livejournal.com]

Yes, the way she talks about her daughter is absolutely disgusting. I think she has more love for her car than her child.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

One of the interesting things while Jon was so sick for this week was doing everything more alone.

"More alone" is like saying "partially pregnant." You are alone, or you are not.

Jon's Mom and Dad helped a lot, but I was still cooking dinner, doing the kid thing, and taking care of Jon, as well as getting my pages done each day.

*sigh* Can't you just say "taking care of my daughter"? You make me feel so sorry for Trinity.

But I have my tea, and I'm going to sip it

Is anyone stopping you? Honestly, that sounds almost defiant.

But I think I am going to have to call, uncle, on trying to bull my way through this morning on my own. I thought I could do it, now I'm thinking that having help would be nice. Time to call in the troops.

*hopefully* You're getting a ghostwriter?

[kethryvis.livejournal.com]

Could she actually find a ghostwriter to work for her? Somehow I'd like to think that any writer worth their weight in anything would run screaming from her books.

[shadowbloodwing.livejournal.com]

Right... what LKH needs is an emerald athame to the back of the head, not to be online moaning about a cold that she thinks is the flu. And she needs to get off my D&D.

[shadowbloodwing.livejournal.com]

...and I need to get off RoK, because the reference just slipped right by me. XD

[mystickiwi.livejournal.com]

She reminds me of this professor I have who on the first day of class told us that we were expected to attend every single class because he never canceled class when he had cancer, why should we skip it when we have the cold? Now, cancer is pretty freaking serious to say the least, and power to him if he felt up to teaching a class then, but he and LKH both seem to have that "martyr to their work" attitude. They have it soooooo rough, but they keep pushing, why can't we? It's nice that LKH doesn't have an office to go into where she can contaminate loads of people, but it's ok to say "I'm a germ bag, I'm going to sit on my couch, watch bad daytime tv, drink fluids, and nap"

[dreamstrifer.livejournal.com]

That professor is just asking for it. Seriously. I know people who've worked through cancer and it's a horrible, wasting disease. They don't ask people to sacrifice like they had to, because they know it IS a big sacrifice. And cancer isn't contagious. Flus and colds ARE. If you have a horrible cold where you can't concentrate and you have a splitting headache, you owe it to yourself and your classmates to rest so you can concentrate after you get better.

*sigh

[ayako.livejournal.com]

I had a LOLCat made up for that last flu blog. I thought I would have to store it forever in my special LKH/Anita LULZ folder but what the heck. :)



Anyway, I don't really have anything to say about her being sick because, frankly, no one cares. I just hope "the kid" doesn't catch it since they don't seem to adhere affection infection control.

[dreamstrifer.livejournal.com]

That is brilliant. Seriously.

And considering how lovingly LKH talks about Trinity, I think the young girl is safe.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

I hate her most of all for the narcissistic, uncaring attitude she displays toward Trinity in her blogs.

My parents, as I mentioned a few days ago, were very loving, generous people. However, they were also pretty narcissistic and self-involved. And those traits limited their skills as parents, and my brother and I have spent years (literally) in therapy and working on our own to overcome the ways that warped our psyches.

My heart breaks for Trinity if the attitude expressed in the blogs is at all representative of their real-life interactions. And even if it isn't, imagine living in a house with your mom and two of her groupies/enablers...ew.

[amamelina.livejournal.com]

Can I just say, when she does write that "Reincarnation" blog, I'm making a big batch of e-cookies for whom ever flogs it. I can just tell it'll be craptastic.

Oh, I can see it now. "Reincarnation is the belief the we are all born and reborn. Our souls are eternal and we live many lives." Followed by how she was probably a queen or someone special in her past lives and how she and Jonboi were together then, too, because they are "just so connected" in this one.

[mystickiwi.livejournal.com]

we could probably just write the blog for her and save her the trouble of thinking about where all those commas go

[mm_madb]

I'll admit that my dad says "the kid thing", and has for years.

On the other hand this is the man who offered to take two days off of work and make my younger sister watch my mom through one session of chemo* six months ago when my life was falling completely apart so that he could be up here with me while I got into therapy for major depression. And when I told him he didn't need to do that he informed me that it was "part of the kid thing" and he was willing if I needed him.

Which is...not so much something that anyone could consider LKH doing for her child. One (i.e. I) gets the impression that if Trinity were to have a major life crisis that LKH would blog on about it endlessly while the poor girl had to find her own help.

I'd like to think I'm being too harsh. I don't think I am.

*My mother has been going to weekly chemo sessions for the last eight years. Yes, cancer sucks, but in our family it's looked on as a chronic condition and having my 23 year old younger sister do the driving instead of my dad is not like having him disappear during a major and life-changing surgery.

[librarista.livejournal.com]

I don't think LKH would even blog about Trinity having a crisis. There must be some aunt or someone that the girl gets pushed off to when she's being too much work. There might be some mention of teen angst and then a long blog about LKH's childhood and how different and special she was. Or if Trinity's father got involved, we'd get another insightful entry about him. And no matter what we'd be told how wonderful Jon is.

[morriganscrow.livejournal.com]

But I have my tea, and I'm going to sip it
Really? Are you sure that's the appropriate action? Personally, I thought you should use it as an enema....

[christraven.livejournal.com]

Is it too much to hope that the explanation for LKH's decline in her writing is because one of these prior 'fevers' cooked her brain inside her skull?

[krss.livejournal.com]

LOL!! I think you might have something there.