Time flu

[j4]

Och, I know you weren't worried really (though thank you to brrm for txting to see why I hadn't been on irc!), but in case anybody wondered why I've been completely silent on the internets for the past week, it's because I've been holed up in our Botley Badgerarium with flu. UCISA sent me home last Thursday (after I'd manfully struggled in for three days with what I thought was an annoying tickly cough [and what my officemates probably thought was the most annoying thing in the universe]) and today's the first day I've been able to go back in -- for the last few days I've been unable to do anything but sleep, take painkillers, and read Chalet School books. "Wot no internets?" I hear you cry -- no, unfortunately, we're still not networked at home yet, though this was probably for the best, otherwise I might have subjected you all to long posts about my fevered imaginings in which my cough was actually an email address and everything else in my brain was a directory on a website which I had to redesign, and if I could only tidy up all the documents in the directory I'd be able to think clearly again. Yes, count yourselves lucky I didn't bore you with that.

So, after a week of this virus, I am fed up of coughing; I am fed up of all my muscles aching from coughing; I am fed up of waking up in the middle of the night drenched in sweat; I am fed up of baby food (apart from PORRIDGE); and I never want to see another sodding aspirin again. HOWEVER! I am delighted with my new discovery, that is, Beechams "All in one" cough medicine. The image on the packaging clearly invokes the Holy Grail in its iconography -- look at those rays of healing light, that glowing cup of immortality! -- and its regenerative powers seem to live up to the implicit claim. Be aware, though, that far from giving you eternal life, it actually destroys brain cells, being 19% alcohol. SO DARK THE COUGH OF MAN. But no wonder it makes you feel better, eh?

Anyway, enough about illness. If you've posted anything or emailed me in the last week I won't have seen it; and there's a high chance that email will have been swept away in the tides of spam (on which I've just had to do a fairly brutal deletion job). So please comment here and let me know if I've missed anything drastic/important/exciting/interesting!

Comments

[imc.livejournal.com]

Well, it depends on your perspective. If you look at it as "tedium vs interesting stuff" then you get a different answer than you would if you are seeing it as "easy vs difficult and inconvenient". They're both legitimate points of view, and in any case it's not compulsory to go to either event even if you are miraculously cured by tomorrow morning. I just mentioned it because you asked for comments about [potentially] interesting things (and I didn't know gnimmel had just posted a new entry about it).

[j4.livejournal.com]

It does indeed depend on your perspective -- e.g. the Leys choir doesn't sound like "tedium" to me (otherwise I wouldn't be thinking of going to it). Two hours is only a short rehearsal, the Hallelujah chorus is a jolly good shout, and Christmas carols are always great even if I can sing most of them in my sleep (the usual problem is remembering which of the top three parts I'm supposed to be singing this time). Not sure why you're so down on it but I think it sounds fun!

However my perspective at the moment is that I'm still coughing most of the time and all my muscles ache from having coughed non-stop for the last 7 days; this does kind of colour my decisions about what to do and what to avoid. I'd certainly been planning to go to gnimmel's housewarming (it's been on my calendar for months) but I really just don't think I'm going to be up to the travelling, let alone the singing. Which is a pain. :-/

[imc.livejournal.com]

Not sure why you're so down on it

Mainly because I'm exaggerating for effect. I am actually in it (since about 9 days ago) but slightly irritated that the one day in the month they chose for the Saturday rehearsal happened to be on the same day as the housewarming which I would otherwise have considered going to.

The first evening rehearsal I went to (which featured Hallelujah and a bit of the Anvil Chorus) was quite jolly, but I suspect that's because most choir members had already spent several rehearsals on it. It's when you have to sing lines of "O Come All Ye Faithful" repeatedly in sections of no more than four bars and wait for the other sections to do theirs that it becomes slightly less than exciting. But then, I've been spoiled as it's been a very long time since the last time I was in a choir that needed intense note-bashing.