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Gastroenteritis afternoon
Apr. 23rd, 2014 03:20 pmToday has been one of those frustrating "mind is awake and rolling but body is ill and prone" kind of days. I've been spending the endless-seeming hours drinking tea and fizzy water, and reading*, and giggling over adorable gifs**, and discussing feminism and its ramifications on the traditionally-cultured male psyche with a friend, and listening to Welcome to Night Vale, and doing all the things you do when your brain wants to go go go but your body's just like "nope, rest".
This afternoon, however, I managed to:
--Get up to make more tea (+)
--Fold some laundry while the kettle boiled (+)
--Sit down to recover for a bit while the tea brewed (-)
--Discover some leftover pumpkin spice caramels on top of the fridge (+)
--Which I can totally fit into my calorie count because the only other thing I've eaten today has been a half a bowl of oatmeal and a banana (++!)
--Get the tea back to bed in that space between the tinnitis growing louder and the vision starting to blur (-)
So, yeah. Not better yet. But working on it. And having a reasonably okay day anyway.
*I'm about midway through Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World via audiobook, and today I've burned through most of Shannon Hale's Book of a Thousand Days, largely because it was on my Kindle app (it had been on sale and I'd heard good things about it via Twitter), and I just haven't felt up for wrangling a real book when my iPhone's much easier to hold/prop up. I was gratified to discover that much of the excellent worldbuilding came from Mongol history, and I strongly suspect Hale used Modern World as a primary text. I feel all smart and well-read!
**In between fits of giggling, I tweeted the link to this gif and how it had completely made my day. Somewhat puzzlingly, my tweet was favorited by a dude I had no visible connections to; his profile said he was a writer for It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, which I've never watched. When I opened the gif on my computer just now and saw the full file name, however, I realized it's a scene from that show, possibly one that he wrote. So I'm hoping I made his day too. :)
This afternoon, however, I managed to:
--Get up to make more tea (+)
--Fold some laundry while the kettle boiled (+)
--Sit down to recover for a bit while the tea brewed (-)
--Discover some leftover pumpkin spice caramels on top of the fridge (+)
--Which I can totally fit into my calorie count because the only other thing I've eaten today has been a half a bowl of oatmeal and a banana (++!)
--Get the tea back to bed in that space between the tinnitis growing louder and the vision starting to blur (-)
So, yeah. Not better yet. But working on it. And having a reasonably okay day anyway.
*I'm about midway through Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World via audiobook, and today I've burned through most of Shannon Hale's Book of a Thousand Days, largely because it was on my Kindle app (it had been on sale and I'd heard good things about it via Twitter), and I just haven't felt up for wrangling a real book when my iPhone's much easier to hold/prop up. I was gratified to discover that much of the excellent worldbuilding came from Mongol history, and I strongly suspect Hale used Modern World as a primary text. I feel all smart and well-read!
**In between fits of giggling, I tweeted the link to this gif and how it had completely made my day. Somewhat puzzlingly, my tweet was favorited by a dude I had no visible connections to; his profile said he was a writer for It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, which I've never watched. When I opened the gif on my computer just now and saw the full file name, however, I realized it's a scene from that show, possibly one that he wrote. So I'm hoping I made his day too. :)
