The guy sitting in the cube next to me is coughing about every 30 seconds. I know he almost died from pneumonia when he was a teenager and has a chronic lung problem because of that, but I am feeling really annoyed by this right now. I put on headphones with my go-to ambient noise generator but I can still hear him. I'm feeling like an asshole because I'm irritated by this. He can't help it.

My day did not get off to a good start anyway. I woke up thinking about my 6 hour stint in a police car the night of the fire, then I got my husband stuck in my head telling me how boring I am. Then a lady pulled out right in front of me on the way to work and I passed a fire truck putting out a grass fire.