welp, i knew this month was going to be busy, and i did my best to handle it with aplomb. but the result of doing too much in too little time was that i ended up getting very sick (sicker than i have been in a year or more).
perhaps it was inevitable. everywhere i went last week, various people were complaining of various ailments. i guess the changing weather and everyone going back to school, etc. created a perfect situation for people to get sick. i felt a bit crappy last week, but i thought i'd avoided getting really sick... but then on monday morning i woke up with a sore throat that felt like a golf ball and i knew i would be down for the count. i've been off work since then, and it's looking like i might miss the whole week.
last week, i worked three days at my art/fabrication job, then another three days doing event production/video tech in greenwich, CT and brooklyn. it's the tail end of the busy season for the latter job, and working three gigs in a row was a feat of stamina because it's a very physically demanding job. on the last day, i drank a double shot of espresso (they have it in cans for free at the job). my normal amount of daily coffee is zero, so that might not have been a healthy choice. but what's done is done! sometimes you can't just keep that energy level up indefinitely without consequences. but sometimes you can! it was a gamble.
although the last couple days of being sick have passed in a blur, my brain is starting to come back out of the fog, so i'm optimistic that i'll be back to normal in just a few days. in the meantime, i've been watching firefly, drawing, and working on a secret project in between naps.
today, after getting restless legs from lying down too much, i decided to try and take a walk in the park with andrei. we found a huge cluster of chicken of the woods mushrooms. we took some, but there must have been 20+ times that amount still there on the fallen tree it was growing on. i was tired after the walk but it felt really good to get back outside.
what else has happened since the last time i wrote in this journal? let's see...
- i read the book moonbound by robin sloan and enjoyed it. just started annihilation by jeff vandermeer. (i read vandermeer's ambergris trilogy about a year and a half ago, and really liked it but it was extremely dense so i took a long break from his work after that.)
- i got my timing belt replaced. also front brake pads. cautiously; i am hoping that this car keeps going long enough to be well worth that investment.
- i am working on a really fun project for zine club that i can't share yet, but i will very soon. it's been a good distraction from being sick when watching TV isn't enough to occupy my mind.
- my parents flew to puerto rico to begin their travels in latin america for the fall and winter.
other than that, it's just been a lot of work and short breaks in between. i am really looking forward to my schedule taking a more relaxed turn in about a week or so. i guess it will really make me value actually having days when i'm neither working, nor physically incapacitated.
