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Monday, September 20, 2004

Let's keep this short, in case what I have is contagious. I wouldn't want you to catch anything.

Actually, I think it's going to be okay. I don't think I have anything communicable at all. I spent most of the day, when I wasn't wincing and moaning, trying to decide how to describe how I felt. The word "horrible" isn't very descriptive, but it kept coming to mind.

When I was light-headed and dizzy straight out of bed this morning, I wasn't worried. Not at first, anyway, because that's almost the best I can hope to feel first thing in the morning. But then the achiness started, in my head and my back and my chest. My throat felt as if it had a tennis ball lodged in it. This wasn't good, especially since some kind of bug has been going around the family.

But I don't think I caught that bug. I think, instead, that something else caught up with me. Not sleeping, that caught up with me. And yesterday I had no appetite, so not eating (not usually a problem) probably contributed to the situation.

I've tried to keep a positive attitude about it. I'm not sick, just run down. (That's positive, isn't it?) I managed to keep working throughout most of the day, although I did have to lie down every once in a while. The aching has tapered off this evening, with the help of medication. I still don't feel like myself, but at least I no longer feel like an unwrapped mummy.




19 September 2004

Storm clouds moving east.



I told Tammy to stay away today, in case I was sick with something she couldn't afford to get. I now don't think that was necessary, but I'm glad I took the precaution. I plan to wake up tomorrow morning feeling perfectly fine, and to carry on as if I weren't sick at all. Because I'm not.




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Either I didn't do a very good job picking football teams this weekend, or the wrong teams just kept winning. I was 3-6 in the early games yesterday. That was too big a hold to dig my way out of, even though I was 7-0 the rest of the way. I blame mostly the Redskins, Titans, Packers, Chiefs and Broncos. They really should have done better, so I could have. (Picking the Texans was my own stupid fault.)

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One year ago: Replete
"I can't tell you how happy I was to be in the middle of all this. (Actually, I was on the edge, in the corner, but somehow it still felt like the middle.)"

Three years ago: What's the Use?
"You know, the ones where small tribes of randomly assembled humans wander the planet looking for the last uncontaminated apple orchard. The ones where thugs and looters control the cities and the rest of us huddle in huts on the beach. The ones where the sky is green or yellow or brown."


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