Yes, do. Sounds like a perfect excuse for a mental health day q!

If it's any consolation (knowing it isn't), we got about 3/4 inch ice over the weekend. So, I spent the better part of yesterday scraping and chipping ice off our back porch, shed door, fence gate, front porch and steps and sidewalk, two cars, and long long driveway. My incompetent lazy neighbors, who leave their cats out all the time in any weather without food or water, who refuse to improve their house or mow more than once every six weeks, who park their ridiculously huge van right in front of our house at the base of our driveway making it nearly impossible to back our safely (and mrs. tr33 pregnant on top of it), whom I loathe more daily, did nothing at all to their driveway, leaving it a sheet of glossy slick ice. I stepped on it for a second for leverage, flailed around like a monkey, and dropped solidly on my left hip and right hand. So both of those hurt like a monster and are bruising, not to mention both hands are throbbing and curled up like claws from the three hour marathon of scraping and banging a shovel on the concrete to break up this damnable ice.

typos = sore claw hands.

Yes you can.

I can offer no Schadenfreude except to say that I'm doing some new web development and I've completely forgotten how to do it.

I feel you. I'm too lazy to type it all out but know that my day is going very much the same way. Of course, I was running so late this morning and my contact would not go in. Something was stuck to it and it took me way too much time to get said invisible irritant unstuck. I never should have left the house today.

No, you can't. You must stay there and persevere.

ahahaha! I am funny.

seriously, go wash your eye or go to Walgreens and have them wash it for you. Or ask your boss to wash it. Just don't let your eye down. Everyone else, umm.

If your eye looks as bad as it feels, find an excuse to drop in on your boss and blink frequently. Chances are the boss will look at your bad eye and ask you "Can you SEE your computer screen OK?" and you can reply "Well, kind of" and you'll be sent home with an authorized sick day as a precaution against mangled spreadsheets.

Sorry to hear that q.
If it's any consolation, I thought I was going to get shot today and it isn't even lunch.
Was supposed to drop off rent assistance for a sub-let - guy just got out of doing a 30-year "stint" in Jackson - as I'm walking out the door the secretary was like, "Hey yeah, [guy] came in today, started shouting at everybody and when he was asked to leave he said that he "couldn't wait" to see you later."
Then my phone rings, and my contact at the mission says that he got booted for constantly waving guns in people's faces.
So here I am, cash in hand, walking around back of some trailer, trying to deliver said cash to an armed, potentially violent and hostile ex-felon who has issued a pseudo-threat to my secretary.

Turns out he'd slipped on the ice and had a bad morning, apologies all around, thanks for the cash, merry christmas.

TIME FOR LUNCH!

Had an eye appointment, which means dilation, which means I'm sitting at home waiting for it to wear off. If I hadn't told our receptionist I'd be back after lunch, then I'd just take the rest of the day off.

q., I think you ought to have your eye checked by ophthalmologist, to be safe. Not too long ago my husband was drilling something, no safety glasses (don't do this, really), and he got something teeny in his eye, which he thought was just scratched - but it was embedded, and had to be removed, and since he had delayed a while it went further in, or whatever happens.

It made it more complicated than it needed to be, I guess, and in fact it has impaired his sight in that eye a bit. He always wears his safety glasses now.

You have my permission to go home. Given my pitifully small jurisdiction on all things life-based, I doubt that will help you much.