Against better judgment, always.

I should probably refrain from talking about anything at all rather than say another thing about how shitty I feel, but then I’d have to do more Real Work, and no one wants that.What I hate most about being sick this way, this time, is that the sequence of events is all screwed up and [...]

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Lessons learned

I’ve been doing some magnificent coughing. So much, in fact, it kept the both of us awake last night. I could’ve taken some Benadryl to knock me out (same active ingredient as all OTC sleep aids! Who knew?), but after having taken the maximum recommended dosage of ibuprofen and Tussin yesterday, I wasn’t [...]

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Why, I must be feeling better!

Note to those submitting a piece of written work for judgment: when you use a word that ends in “-ness,” consider whether a shorter, less cumbersome, and in fact correct form of the word exists.“Rigorousness?” No.“Rigor?” Yes.

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While I concentrate on hacking up phlegm,

Enjoy this picture of the family playing Spud after the fish fry last Sunday.
Everyone is assigned a number. One person throws the ball in the air, then calls a number. That person has to retrieve the ball, then yell “Freeze!” or “Spud!”, at which point everyone freezes. The person with the ball [...]

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All better!

At least the fever is gone, and my body feels much less tired and beaten. I assume I’ll still be coughing up junk for a couple days, but as long as I don’t feel like I’m knocking on death’s door every time I cough, I’m happy.
Hey, how about that weather? Temps in the [...]

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What did we do before the internet?

T was worried tonight that I might have the plague or some other serious disease, given the general crappy state of my health in the past 24 hours. I reasoned that if my lungs felt perfectly clear before I inhaled the gingersnap crumb, and perfectly wheezy and irritated afterwards, and are now producing globules [...]

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Here’s a quiz

When you have a fever, should you:A) Say, “Whatever!” and still plan to at least walk a half hour on the treadmill, until doing the morning dishes (a 10-minute endeavor) wipes you out completely?B) Say, “Whatever! I can still try to read 25 grad school applications,” and read the same application three times before you [...]

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Back home.

I don’t know about T, because he left this morning before I’d really woken up, but I’m just about as miserable as I’ve ever been. Neither of us had slept more than 6 continuous hours since last Tuesday, and most of those days we chugged along on 3 or 4. T can subsist [...]

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Hiatus.

Most of y’all know that Spouse and I have been out of town with his family since last Wednesday, and most of y’all know that this is because around 2am on Wednesday, we got a phone call from Spouse’s brothers saying that their brother-in-law Paul had a massive heart attack around midnight and died. [...]

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Why yes, I am drunk with power!

In case you were wondering, one way to make me chuck your application in the trash is to begin your statement of intent with an explication of a scene from The Lion King.* On the other hand, thanks for making my self-assigned goal of reading 25 applications today that much easier.
*I did read the [...]

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