Vapid is an apt word that crosses my mind too often when I think about things too much (which is always)!

I have the same deal with poison ivy once I get some it spreads all over my dam body. Get some tecnu. It's soap that will take the oils out of your skin. It was originally invented to take radioactive material off people. It's better if you use it right away but still good afterwards too. The same company also makes a gel that you put on that dries poison ivy up very fast. Trust me it saved me a lot of agony.

Have you read Penny Dreadful???

i wish i could not care what people think as much as you do. and i agree, couch life isn't the best. i'm kinda doing that right now.

have you read Geek Love by Katherine Dunn, or Conferacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole?

Suggestions; Vapid stagnation transversed.....ingest a book !

". You see, Florida doesn't have 'breathable air'. It's too humid, like sitting in the shower with the water on hot and trying to get cool fresh air. "

that's why all the old people like it! "It's like a sauna here!" they can all say.

"I get huge fluid filled blisters that take over my flesh and stay for about 6 weeks and cause horrible pain."

I think that's actually the BLACK PLAGUE you've got!

"I'm not a scratcher."

I am! I scratch even when I'm not itchy!

"Suggest some good books for me"

Up in Honey's Room by Elmore Leonard
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown (unless you hate his other stuff... but I don't!)

I hope you feel better soon!

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!!

Failing that, a book called Last Chance to See (also by Douglas Adams). Fairly short, but it chronicles his adventures across the world searching for endangered animals.

Also, hope the ivy rash gets better. Or something. I'm not good with the 'moral support' or 'get well' social-ish stuff.

i guess you should try poison the ivy!!!

Try some harder books. Ulysses by Joyce.

You'll polish this one off in a night, I'm sure, but it was a fun read . . .

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest (2009) 416 pages - ISBN 0765318415

In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska’s ice. Thus was Dr. Blue’s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born. But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead. Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blue’s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history. His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive

Lots of video games, been there plenty of times recently.
As for Poison Ivy, I can attest. It sucks. Somehow my Dad didn't get it when we both apparently hung around the wildlife because... apparently he's not allergic to it so he doesn't get the same annoyances I got that fateful day.
I had to get a shot to get rid of my poison ivy. Didn't go away with all the drugs they put me on... all the steroids. Blah.
Good books? I'm behind. Slow reader with barely any time for a life outside of work these days. So, I'm in need of both suggestions and time to read the piles of books I've accumulated over the years of working at a bookstore.

Ketchup, you're funny .
What's not funny is poison ivy. You're the second here I read that has had it in the past month. Crummie. I've been fortunate to avoid it, my house was just built in a poison ivy field and if we don't mow the lawn regularly it's there. It grows like wild flowers! Wish I had known. So far so good with no outbrakes here!! Hope it doesn't drive you nuts. Thank you for the love on "It is" set too.

Have a great day........no scratching!!!