still lurgified
Feb. 14th, 2007 11:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ewtThis cold is a real nasty; no wonder I was so tired last week. I'm hoping I'll feel better now that I've had a (belated) breakfast and an assortment of drugs, but if not, all appointments today are getting cancelled.
If you'd told me ten years ago that I would cancel things because I had a cold I would have laughed at you. I don't know if Engrish colds are nastier or if I'm just generally less healthy, or if this is some sort of weird being-a-grown-up thing, or if when I was younger I was always so stressed that my body just fought stuff off and now it's too tired to bother, but I have changed my tune considerably. I know that if I do not rest and take it easy today, this thing will drag itself out and could lead to other nasties like bronchitis (which I had in 2003-ish I think) which sap more energy than I want to give up. Also I feel several magnitudes worse than I ever did with any cold as a kid. So, I've become a first-class wimp.
Maybe with good nutrition and rest and appropriate exercise I will get my l33t h4x0r immune system back. Maybe not. Either way the best thing for me to do today is rest.
Other than that things are going well. I'm glad to have managed to get some music online yesterday. I started setting The Owl and the Pussy Cat, which is going to be silly no matter what I do, so I may as well go with it. I had meetings with scary important academic people and they went extremely well.
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pfy his V-day gift last night and he liked it. He gave me a charm bracelet, woot! I have wanted one for ages and now I have one! It is silver and pretty and it has a safety chain so if the clasp breaks I'm less likely to lose it. It has one charm on it - a spinning wheel. More will be acquired in due course. Feel free to point me at ones you think are appropriate!
I have acquired a music notebook; I didn't pay that much but it's still expensive for the amount of paper it is. However, it does fit in my handbag and is very convenient for first-draft stuff, the sort of thing I can work on during train rides and so on. It is also, to be fair, very nice paper, and the pocket in the back is genuinely useful. It's a shame they do not make pocket cahiers with the music lines on them. I've thought about making my own portable something out of this type of 6-stave manuscript notebook but it isn't very efficient. And no, I'm not going to buy plain cahiers and draw the lines in pen, and I'm not going to print out my own on scrap paper and staple it together, although those are both options they are either too much faff, or too flimsy. I know this is only first-draft stuff and jotted-down ideas but I would like to actually keep these for some time. Similarly, folded-up ordinary manuscript paper is not going to help me much, because I will lose it.
To do today, stamina allowing:
-drop by Woollies and look for beanbags or inflatable chairs
-lots of other stuff I can't immediately remember.
I might be a tad defensive today. Not sure why. I blame lurgy.
If you'd told me ten years ago that I would cancel things because I had a cold I would have laughed at you. I don't know if Engrish colds are nastier or if I'm just generally less healthy, or if this is some sort of weird being-a-grown-up thing, or if when I was younger I was always so stressed that my body just fought stuff off and now it's too tired to bother, but I have changed my tune considerably. I know that if I do not rest and take it easy today, this thing will drag itself out and could lead to other nasties like bronchitis (which I had in 2003-ish I think) which sap more energy than I want to give up. Also I feel several magnitudes worse than I ever did with any cold as a kid. So, I've become a first-class wimp.
Maybe with good nutrition and rest and appropriate exercise I will get my l33t h4x0r immune system back. Maybe not. Either way the best thing for me to do today is rest.
Other than that things are going well. I'm glad to have managed to get some music online yesterday. I started setting The Owl and the Pussy Cat, which is going to be silly no matter what I do, so I may as well go with it. I had meetings with scary important academic people and they went extremely well.
I gave
pfy his V-day gift last night and he liked it. He gave me a charm bracelet, woot! I have wanted one for ages and now I have one! It is silver and pretty and it has a safety chain so if the clasp breaks I'm less likely to lose it. It has one charm on it - a spinning wheel. More will be acquired in due course. Feel free to point me at ones you think are appropriate!I have acquired a music notebook; I didn't pay that much but it's still expensive for the amount of paper it is. However, it does fit in my handbag and is very convenient for first-draft stuff, the sort of thing I can work on during train rides and so on. It is also, to be fair, very nice paper, and the pocket in the back is genuinely useful. It's a shame they do not make pocket cahiers with the music lines on them. I've thought about making my own portable something out of this type of 6-stave manuscript notebook but it isn't very efficient. And no, I'm not going to buy plain cahiers and draw the lines in pen, and I'm not going to print out my own on scrap paper and staple it together, although those are both options they are either too much faff, or too flimsy. I know this is only first-draft stuff and jotted-down ideas but I would like to actually keep these for some time. Similarly, folded-up ordinary manuscript paper is not going to help me much, because I will lose it.
To do today, stamina allowing:
-drop by Woollies and look for beanbags or inflatable chairs
-lots of other stuff I can't immediately remember.
I might be a tad defensive today. Not sure why. I blame lurgy.
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Date: 2007-02-14 02:13 pm (UTC)I think the recent cold/flu that's going round is halfway between the two, and thus more ill-making than a standard cold. I also know it's hit different people very differently - I was in bed for a couple of days feeling dizzy and tired and a bit snotty, yet someone I saw yesterday has been in bed for a week with a high temperature, unable to eat anything but Lucozade and nibbles. I suspect if he stopped drinking Lucozade and started drinking water he would get much better much faster, but he is one of those fussy people who are too good to drink Cambridge tap water, so I thought if I take Lucozade at least he'll be drinking something.