Back from the grave. . .

[catscradle]

Well, I'm back to work for the first day since my bout with the flu. My words of wisdom to the masses: Get your flu shot now if you haven't already. This is about as sick as I've ever been. Got this bug the day after Thanksgiving And I'm still not up to 100% yet. Missed a week of work, which means I'll be spending a chunk of sick leave and vacation to make up for it =P Don't mind the sick leave, but I don't relish the thought of digging into the vacation time for the flu.

Had a high grade fever for about 4 days and spent the nights sitting on the couch trying to tough it out because I couldn't sleep. Spent a few of those nights trying to puzzle out non-exsistent riddles because my mind was racing. Anyone ever get that? The brain hooks into some nonsense and tries to figure it out? I only do that with high grade fevers. In the daytime, I know it's nonsense, but at night it seems pretty important. I did this many years ago when I had just been introduced to St. Anselm's proof for the exisitence of God - my brain never did quite recover from that one.

Then there was the night I made the mistake of watching Cat Ballou and I couldn't get the banjos out of my head. So my brain is racing to the sounds of dueling banjos. Christ, you don't know insanity until banjos are involved, let me tell you. Feel free to use that as a sig quote.

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fever thoughts

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

one time i was really sick with pneumonia, high high fever, not able to eat much, and it got so i ended up with this recurring feeling i was on the u.s.s. minnow with gilligan and the skipper. the bed was rolling on the waves and everything. ugh!

Re: fever thoughts

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

I wonder if Nietszche ever wrote about fever recurrence. . . it's a phenomenon of the truly worst kind. I remember thinking one night that if the riddles didn't stop by the time my alarm went off, I was going to just accpet the fact that I had finally gone insane. It did stop in the morning, though there are those that would argue against my sanity. ;)

Re: fever thoughts

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

I think fever mindloops must be related to insomnia or too-little-sleep mindloops... I certainly have THAT a lot. Like when I can't sleep from 4 to 5 a.m. because I keep thinking SOME STUPID THING over and over and over and over! It seems so vitally important at the time (this plot point, this design idea, this action item for the next day, something to write in an email) but really it's usually trivial.

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

Ack! Poor sweetie! [hugshugshugshugs]

When I went to get my flu shot on Wednesday the woman giving it to me asked why I finally decided to get one. I started to mumble something about just deciding it was time and she said "Colorado freaked you, huh?" to which I had to admit that was at least a part of it, yeah.

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

Colorado is freaky in so many ways. . . But yeah, this flu thing has a lot of people freaked out here. There were 4 people out of the office last week and 3 more out this week. I think I will forever more get a flu shot after this year =P

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

I lucked out in that there's a flu shot place literally right next door to me. So all I had to do was walk in and pay my fifteen bucks. If I'd known it was that easy I would have gone much sooner. But at least now I know for next year.

In more cheerful news, did you see that Chick tract parody that Neil Gaimain posted a link to the other day?

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

Nope, nope, do supply the link please!

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

You will LOVE it.

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

Oh Jesus. . . That's perfect. Right down to the art style and Lovecraft quotes. I think my favorite is the dreams about cities where the geometry is all wrong.

You know it's really hard to read a Chick tract and think this guy is totally serious. Just went to the site and read some of the new ones and . . . God, you wonder what color the sky is in his universe. And you know, it's there plain in black and white, so what he's saying *must* be true. What goes through the mind of his readers - which is scarier? I don't know. . .