Relentless Sickness

March 1

Hey, lovelies. I woke up sore and sore-throated and weakish today. Called in sick to work and slept two more hours, then got up and went to work because there were a few things that really needed to be done today. I mean, if I'd been unable to walk, my co-workers would have dealt with it, but I was well enough to work a bit.

After three hours at work, I felt like I'd been put in a sack and stomped on, though, so I took some more cold medicine and came home. I spent the afternoon at low ebb, drinking tea, not moving much. I don't know why I'm getting sick so often-- it's like I've had a continuous cold for the past several months, that goes into occasional remission. I've been fine for weeks before this, though. Yesterday my glands were swollen and hard as pecans, though they're fine today. My tonsils don't have white spots on them as far as I can see. I don't know. It sucks.

Mornings are the worst, too. I felt pretty much okay by this evening. I ate, even though swallowing hurt, and that made me feel a lot better. This afternoon I worked on moving all my old Tropism entries to sff.net, so now my archives are all moved over from the evil geocities. I know this doesn't thrill anybody else, but it makes me happy. I reformatted the early entries to make them (in my opinion) a bit more readable, so that they look like the current entries, but otherwise I didn't change anything. Everything's moved from geocities now, except for my old Dare journals, and I'm in no big hurry to move those.

I finally succeeded at going to Pergolesi and reading my friend's novel! Such a good book. It's the second in a projected series of four, and it's driving me nuts that the last two volumes aren't written yet! I also got Land of Laughs at last, and started it. It's wonderful. Very reminiscent of Zod Wallop, both in a large sense (both books concern children's-books-becoming-real-and-scary), and somewhat in terms of characterization and relationships. Yummy yummy happy-making stuff.

I also decided which novel I'm going to write next, and I'm super excited about it. It'll be late March or early April before I can begin work on the book in earnest (I have other stuff to finish-- like getting Genius in the mail and doing lots of story revisions-- before I dive into a major project). I'll talk about it at more length then.

Y'all should go read the Ratticisms-- sort of a Web Rats Greatest Hits. My favorite is Rob's: "Baby steps are fine, but sometimes I want to be a giant baby."

Okay, getting sleepy here. I'm off to bed. Hope tomorrow morning is better than this one...