Fight or Flight, or Frozen Delight

When faced with a stressful situation, one has the opportunity to make a conscious, character-building choice to handle said situation quickly and responsibly,

Or

one can go to Friendlys, eat an entire Cookies 'n' Cream sundae...


then come home and take a long, hot chamomile bubble bath, watch Intervention and just avoid the stress until the sugar coma kicks in.


I may not have accomplished any of the things on the multiple lists lurking on my desk, in my purse, and stuck to my mirror, but I can now rest easy because I still smell like chamomile and I also know that Lauren and Audrina have reconciled their friendship (for now anyway).

What should I be doing? Good question.
I will describe those tasks as "anything other than clicking around WebMD to make sure I don't have some symptomless-yet-fatal disease," which coincidently enough also accurately describes what I have been doing instead. What are the odds?

I'd say the odds are pretty good. Much better than your odds of catching dengue fever or getting bitten by a black mamba in your laundry room. Actually, I can't make that comparison with any certainty; I don't know what kind of weird things you do late at night when you should be balancing your checkbook or figuring out a seating chart for your wedding reception. I'm not judging you, I'm just not going to bet money on it. That's all.