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Towards the end of yesterday, I kept an insane sense of equilibrium by placing my cold fingers against my hot forehead and cheeks. I managed to make it home, head swimming, completely dizzy, and I took my temperature. 102.6 F. All throughout the day, songs kept getting stuck in my head, regularly sticking like splinters in skin, a skipping record, repeating the same phrases, the same guitar lick, over and over and over and ...
I swam through last night. Swimming and wandering up through the dark murk of fevered muck, swallowing water and the occasional aspirin, hoping it would all clear away soon, but not caring, not thinking, not caring too much ...
Sometime in the night, the fever broke a bit. A rush of sweat prickled down my neck, over my forehead, and in spite of this I instinctively curled up tighter under the duvet that I thought would stay folded in the basket until winter was here again. Outside, the rain lashed down, soothing the noise in my head with the noise of relentless nature and the metallic tap of drops on the A/C unit in the living room window. I know I was a zombie, trudging around the apartment every hour or so, from around 7 or 8 PM until around noon today, stopping once or twice to take my temp, and then logging into my company's email server to find phone numbers to call, to call in sick. It felt endless.
Svet came by earlier and played Nurse, feeding me extra-pulpy orange juice and steamed veggies and chicken, and leaving me with a gorgeous mango and some other foodstuffs. We also watched the end of The Last Emperor, which was very good, but also very, very long.
Buh. It's probably time to go to bed again. This is not fun at all. I think it was all the stuff from Sunday that did me in: we went on rollercoasters in the morning, and then went to a picnic at a hunting lodge in Wisconsin, where I played catch with my brother, and then threw a frisbee around, and also played a bit of softball. Too much sun for pale me - I got burned, didn't re-apply sunscreen when I should have, and probably didn't drink enough water, either.
Towards the end of yesterday, I kept an insane sense of equilibrium by placing my cold fingers against my hot forehead and cheeks. I managed to make it home, head swimming, completely dizzy, and I took my temperature. 102.6 F. All throughout the day, songs kept getting stuck in my head, regularly sticking like splinters in skin, a skipping record, repeating the same phrases, the same guitar lick, over and over and over and ...
I swam through last night. Swimming and wandering up through the dark murk of fevered muck, swallowing water and the occasional aspirin, hoping it would all clear away soon, but not caring, not thinking, not caring too much ...
Sometime in the night, the fever broke a bit. A rush of sweat prickled down my neck, over my forehead, and in spite of this I instinctively curled up tighter under the duvet that I thought would stay folded in the basket until winter was here again. Outside, the rain lashed down, soothing the noise in my head with the noise of relentless nature and the metallic tap of drops on the A/C unit in the living room window. I know I was a zombie, trudging around the apartment every hour or so, from around 7 or 8 PM until around noon today, stopping once or twice to take my temp, and then logging into my company's email server to find phone numbers to call, to call in sick. It felt endless.
Svet came by earlier and played Nurse, feeding me extra-pulpy orange juice and steamed veggies and chicken, and leaving me with a gorgeous mango and some other foodstuffs. We also watched the end of The Last Emperor, which was very good, but also very, very long.
Buh. It's probably time to go to bed again. This is not fun at all. I think it was all the stuff from Sunday that did me in: we went on rollercoasters in the morning, and then went to a picnic at a hunting lodge in Wisconsin, where I played catch with my brother, and then threw a frisbee around, and also played a bit of softball. Too much sun for pale me - I got burned, didn't re-apply sunscreen when I should have, and probably didn't drink enough water, either.
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Date: 2004-08-05 05:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-05 02:09 pm (UTC)Where did you go on roller coasters?
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Date: 2004-08-05 02:33 pm (UTC)