Current location:	editing
Current mood:	sickish

Back from the Long Break
I've had a long break from LJ and writing--not by choice. The day after Norwescon, I got sick. Really sick. Fever, chills and a severe sore throat I worried might be strep. It lasted for days, with my tonsils coated white (pretty ick) and I got a mild case of laryngitis again. Patrick was in Denver for a conference, and I tried--I really tried--to go to work on Thursday, but Orion was showing signs of being sick, too, having had some fever in the night and a wet cough. So we stayed home.
I think the virus came from a little boy we shared the hotel room with at Norwescon. Maybe. Who knows? But he was feverish and coughing.
So--by Friday I worked a few hours, with my voice failing. Rested over the weekend and my throat started feeling better, but guess what? It decided to move from my throat to my sinuses and lungs.
I know that my personal, emotional stress is keeping me down and letting these viruses kick my ass. I just recovered from pneumonia, now this?

This morning I worked on the editing--on ch 67 now--and it's moving along pretty quickly. I plan to print it all out. I should do this on my super-fast work computer. Make another pass that way because I think I'll be more successful with cutting when I work with it printed out.

Tonight, the doctor is treating the staff to a night of bowling. Bowling? Haven't been since I was 12 and the ball I had to use weighed 13 pounds. I have no idea if that's average or not but I could hardly manipulate the thing. I don't have good bowling memories. We'll see how tonight goes.