now I’m home sick for real. i feel weak & sleepy…napped from 8 til noon. (I went in, but my computer wasn’t going to be ready until afternoon, so I figured I might as well go back to sleep. since, frankly, just getting my computer set up was about all I could imagine doing this morning.)
watching 24 while blogging. I
watching 24 while blogging. I was gonna post a link to a weblogger quiz I saw the other day, but she’s been overwhelmed by its popularity. poor thing. I wonder if I could mirror it? <shrug>
I think I’m going to go in tomorrow, at least for a little bit. I want to see how the techs did with my new hard drive, and I want to dump in the contents of the zip disks sitting in front of me. mmm…nice clean hard drive. I can’t wait to get it set up the way I want! we’ll see how long I last. I figure I might make it until lunchtime, but possibly less than that if I’m sneezing a lot. I don’t wanna infect the rest of the office.
see, now it’s 9:30, and my brain is picking back up again. I don’t know what it is. when I’m sick, I totally lose brain power around midday and lose it until evening. then I have this little burst, which always leads me to go to bed later than I ought. damn.
what about illness & infirmity
what about illness & infirmity in Ult/Alac, anyway? I’ve always figured that illness was relatively rare among the Imperians, given their level of medical technology, but you’d have to imagine that the Alac would suffer from all sorts of medical problems, from colds on up. and I don’t think I’ve shown that, either.
my next step, I think, is to take the bits that I’ve written here and integrate them into the narrative, writing around them to fill in Aila’s first year at the Crater. (assuming, of course, that her first year includes a short journey away by Marcus, and ends before she goes off the menstrual medication.) I’m hoping, of course, that that work will give me enough heft in that section to power both the very, very weak section that goes right before it, and the remainder of the crater section.
and I’ve changed my mind again – while the formal name is going to stay “Delta Base”, the majority of its inhabitants will refer to the place as “the crater.” it just feels more natural to me, and seems more fitting for the people, the setting, etc., etc.
of course, I’m still missing, near as I can tell, a lot of the setup for part 2 (Ult) and the political issues that play out there. but I haven’t forgotten….
maybe I’ll actually take some
maybe I’ll actually take some nyquil tonight before I go to bed, even though I find it utterly vile. I just want to be able to sleep!
November just seems to gotten off to a raring start, eh?
I feel wrung out, and
I check out Scripting News
I check out Scripting News fairly regularly – some of his stuff makes me roll my eyes, and some of it is quite intriguing. but today I realized just how much the M$ settlement is freaking him out.
and all last night, when
and all last night, when I did sleep, I dreamt about fonts.