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Yesterday I had to plow my way through an edit pass on a 40-page paper. Unfortunately, I also came down sick with something. By the time I managed to get to the end of the paper, I was long past ready for bed.
Today I've spent almost the entire day in bed, getting up a couple times only to say, no, I don't want to be up. It's not a horrible serious sickness with nausea and the like, just kind of feverish with a constant headache and occasional cough, and just feeling run down and tired. After the past week of getting up two hours earlier than usual, but not getting to bed a lot earlier than usual, it's not surprising that I've become run down, but given my other symptoms I'm certain I picked up some kind of flu or something.
Unfortunately it meant that I had to miss the last day of my KEXP contract again—the second time this has happened, last fall's car crash being the first—and I feel really lame about that. The last thing I want is to start seeming unreliable and not be asked to continue. Still, they do have a very strict stay-home-if-sick policy, and while I may not be coughing or sneezing much, I'm definitely sick and definitely would not have been able to sit and focus well enough to get the work done. I'm sure they understand that.
I finally got up around 7:15 to make myself some Lipton chicken noodle soup, which I really didn't feel like eating, but made myself do so anyhow. Now I'm just finishing a glass of cranberry and orange juice and writing this post, then I'll be off to bed again. Hopefully tomorrow I'll feel better.
Today I've spent almost the entire day in bed, getting up a couple times only to say, no, I don't want to be up. It's not a horrible serious sickness with nausea and the like, just kind of feverish with a constant headache and occasional cough, and just feeling run down and tired. After the past week of getting up two hours earlier than usual, but not getting to bed a lot earlier than usual, it's not surprising that I've become run down, but given my other symptoms I'm certain I picked up some kind of flu or something.
Unfortunately it meant that I had to miss the last day of my KEXP contract again—the second time this has happened, last fall's car crash being the first—and I feel really lame about that. The last thing I want is to start seeming unreliable and not be asked to continue. Still, they do have a very strict stay-home-if-sick policy, and while I may not be coughing or sneezing much, I'm definitely sick and definitely would not have been able to sit and focus well enough to get the work done. I'm sure they understand that.
I finally got up around 7:15 to make myself some Lipton chicken noodle soup, which I really didn't feel like eating, but made myself do so anyhow. Now I'm just finishing a glass of cranberry and orange juice and writing this post, then I'll be off to bed again. Hopefully tomorrow I'll feel better.
