menstrual musings ;)

It's that time of the month, again. *painful groan* I guess I should be glad that my periods are so mathematically regular right now - but the bad side to it is that they actually happen more often (they were frequently late before), and, what's even worse, they always come on a weekday.:/ And I only get 10 sick days per year at my workplace. While, in this kind of situation, I need 12 (or 13, considering the fact that I took two in April - one at the very beginning of the month, another one at the end). Besides, it's kind of embarrassing and difficult to try to come up with a different excuse for a sick day every month (yes, my boss is a woman, but I still don't feel comfortable telling her the real reason I need to stay in bed for most of the day - especially since I don't think I know anyone else who does; not at my workplace anyway). So this time I told a blatant lie about car trouble on the way to my parents' house, which supposedly forced me to stay there overnight and then wait for the car to get fixed before I could go back. I feel stupid and bad about it - I hate to lie and invent stories like that - but at least it saves me one sickie for later, because in this case I will be able to put it down as 'personal day' (of which I can have 3 per year). By the way, here is a question to the women on my flist who still suffer from this disgusting 'natural disaster' every month: do you need to take a sickie for it, or do you just grit your teeth and go to work/school/wherever else you're supposed to go that day?... And if you stay home because of it, do you tell your boss - or whoever else was expecting you somewhere - the real reason for your absence, or do you invent some other (less embarrassing?...) ailment or excuse?... I'm just curious. I also can't help thinking that in a matriarchal society, we would all get an official day off once a month, specifically for that purpose, and no one would be questioning its necessity. Or am I just a pathetic wimp, because some other women I know don't seem to care or suffer much during that time at all?... Opinions, anyone?

I suppose I had more to say, but I think I need to go lay down for a bit, again. *sigh*