My recent posts finally caught up with me. The bad karma came back and hit me upside the head. I meant to post something much more fun and meaningful tonight, but due to the circumstances I think I’ll give my brain a rest and post a mundane “Here’s what happened to me today” entry.

The cold poem? I guess I must have been a little arrogant towards the end of that post, stating that though my friends were sick I myself was feeling fine. Well… on my way to work this morning, I nearly threw up and passed out when some kind of flu bug decided to deal me a swift hard kick to the arse.

A couple of the awesome people I work with drove me back home, and I spent most of the day in bed, completely exhausted but unable to sleep. It was the most frustrating, uneventful, bedridden day I’ve ever had. I was too sleepy to read but too sick to sleep. My limbs were heavy and unmoving, as though in sleep paralysis; my eyes were full of “sand,” as though I’d been sleeping for years; my ears blocked out all external sound, as though I were dreaming… but I couldn’t dream because I couldn’t sleep. Pissed me off. Quite literally.

And I mean that. I was dehydrated (still am), so I kept drinking. I took that “Drink plenty of fluids” directive to heart. I had about three full bottles of water, two full bottles of juice and a big bowl of soup, and I kept having to get up to pee about every 20 minutes or so, maybe 10.

Later, when I felt a little more awake and energetic, H.E. decided to cheer me up by getting me a USB hub for my computer. The damn thing made my USB system controller go AWOL, and I spent the rest of the evening wailing and whining at the world as I tried to reinstall the drivers again and again and again.

Yeah. Totally cheered me up to think that the use of my tablet, scanner, and CD burner were lost to me forever. I mean, imagine it; if it weren’t for these three babies of mine, I couldn’t make new topsy turvy images! All this… on top of the fact that I lost my cable connection a couple of days ago when the outlet decided to stop sending the broadband signal to my cable modem. Not to mention my sickness. The whole Murphy day made me, well, sick… and I was ready to cry.

But, whew! After hours of swearing at my computer and my various installation disks, I managed to make everything work again, and the clouds cleared out, letting the sun shine through as the choir of angels was cued and my body got better. I still have no cable, though (cable guy’s coming tomorrow), but everything else is back to normal.

So as soon as I get my wits again, we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming.

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