Stupid cold.

[squeequeg]

2000 words written in the novel revision, so I suppose that means I'm feeling better. Granted, it was exposition-heavy and lumpy in places, but I'll have another revision before I send it to anyone, so it'll do. (Besides, it's part of the How It All Went To Hell bit of the story. Tough to avoid exposition there.)

I think the main thing I hate about being sick -- other than the way my body tried to produce enough mucus for the next year all at once -- is how much of a waste it is. I feel that if I'm taking the day off from work, I should be doing something useful with it (like writing), rather than lying in bed going "glaaaah." I should be getting laundry and dishes and useful chores done, not discovering that thanks to the cold medicine, I no longer have an attention span long enough to handle more than a comics page at once. (A page of text was right out.) I should be remembering and celebrating birthdays like 2h2o's and ethicsgradient's, not taking half an hour to eat a goddamned piece of toast.

So yeah, I rather resent losing this last week. At least now I'm up and thinking, and can take care of thomascantor if he catches what I had. Time to go get more chicken soup.

Comments

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Bah. Colds suck. I am glad you are on the mend.

*gentle hug*

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

*hug back* thanks. I can even breathe now!

[wavyarms.livejournal.com]

I hear you. I feel like I'm totally wasting my time when I'm sick, too. But that's why you have to stay home - because you are, in fact, not able to concentrate usefully on anything. Heal fast!

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I can't even read an old favorite, because my mind keeps wandering. I guess I just hate feeling useless.

[sal-sal.livejournal.com]

I, unlike you, must not have inherited this Calvinist guilt and work ethic. When I'm sick I have no problem putting a movie on and just dozing the day away, knowing that by resting I'll get better faster.

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

Screw the Calvinist work ethic. If it's bad enough that I can't even go out to get a movie I haven't seen eight times, then I'm just flat-out bored in addition to being sick. Though sleeping for six-hour stretches did help.

[heatmhub.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you are recuperated enough to be writing.

I, too, fret at the "waste" of time. I deal with it better when I simply think of colds as a force of nature, much like hurricanes, tornadoes, and thunderstorms only on a smaller scale. There is little to be done but to accept them and do what must be done to make it through the storm safely. Anything but survival is not a priority.

And really, when else can you justify lying on the couch all day doing nothing? ; )

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

But I do that anyway! Maybe sal_sal's right about the dour Calvinist work ethic.

Let's hear it for replacing mucus with BRAINS!

[rissymonster.livejournal.com]

Sad to hear you were sick; glad to head you're on the mend and proactively procuring chicken soup! Hugses.

Re: Let's hear it for replacing mucus with BRAINS!

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

thankee! Now you get better too! soup and kleenex and bad tv to the rescue!

[pantshead.livejournal.com]

other than the way my body tried to produce enough mucus for the next year all at once

See, you were doing important things! Preemptive mucus production is easily as useful as doing the dishes.....

(That wasn't really what you hoped for, was it? Glad you're mending!)

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

It's only good if I remain mucus-free. Somehow I suspect that won't happen.

(And thanks. I'm feeling much better.)