Side effect or convenient excuse?

OK, it's only a couple of hours since I did my second jab, so perhaps I'm being a bit feeble here. All I can say in my defence is, it's a HUMUNGOUS dose I'm on - the maximum recommended dose right from the start. It takes most people 3-6 days to take as much of this stuff as I get in a single dose.

Anyway, here, in no particular order, is a list of all the people, places and inanimate objects that have irritated me today:

• the woman who sat next to me on the course I went on, by asking lots of fatuous and inappropriate questions;
• one of my colleagues, by failing to understand the point I was trying to make;
• another colleague, by failing to answer his phone when I needed to talk to him;
• my husband, by waking me up this morning with his snoring;
• my brother, by forgetting to mention in the dream I had last night that he and his wife had had another baby (yes, I know it was only a dream, but I was still irritated with him when I woke up);
• the supermarket, by failing to stock the thing I went in for this evening;
• every chemist in town, by being closed when I wanted to nip in and pick something up;
• the woman next to me on the train this evening, by playing with her hair in an annoying way;
• my MP3 player, by failing to pick up a radio station on the train this morning;
• the woman on my hypnotherapy relaxation CD, by using the made-up non-word "feel-imagine" three times in quick succession;
• and I'm sure there were a few others.

Perhaps irritation is my natural state and I usually work a bit harder at suppressing it. I reckon a rhinoceros' dose of hormones swirling round my already decrepit body should be enough to allow me to get mildly testy from time to time, though...