Body 07 Dec 2005 10:58 pm
Flu season is weird season
I have the flu, as evidenced by headache, chills, weakness, inappetite, and a whole lot of stupid ideas. I’m at that stage in which I resemble a stoner — the sort of stoner who thinks that it’s really fascinating that sheet music is a way of representing time in two-dimensional space, and then when you play it you convert space into time. Ooooh. It’s like you rotate it into another dimension. Kinda. Wow, dude. Similarly, I found myself thinking, “You know how everybody says of dead people stuff like, ‘She’s still alive in the world while she’s alive in our hearts’? If that were true, then if I were dead and a friend was thinking of me, it would be like I was thinking of her. Oooh.” And then, in a brief moment of lucidity, “What?”
I am hoping for a mild fever tomorrow, because that always makes me bizarrely happy. Everything seems to get brighter, and I sit at the window thinking, “Oh boy! Squirrels! Oh boy! Crows! Yaaaay!”
Josh made a special trip out to the store in the dark and freezing cold to get saltines for his sick, complaining, addle-pated wife. Josh is the best.
on 08 Dec 2005 at 12:14 am 1.jeffbadge said …
Man, I was going to offer some comfort for the bad feelings but now I’m just jealous. When I have the flu I’m not privy to any fascinating insights
I do get a mild euphoria when I give blood, though. I should go do that again. BECAUSE IT’S ALL ABOUT ME.
Hope you feel better soon!
on 08 Dec 2005 at 12:59 am 2.Cam Sculpin said …
When I have the flu I’m not privy to any fascinating insights
Heh. Yeah, me either.
It’s loopy notions that I’m privy to.
Have fun with the blood-letting, and thanks! After a day of serious and determined napping, I am already feeling like I’m on the mend.
on 08 Dec 2005 at 6:59 am 3.cissa said …
Hope you’re feeling better soon- and this did make me laugh!
on 08 Dec 2005 at 7:41 am 4.Mia said …
I hope things are improving, though you know, a day of sitting by the window going, “squirrels, yaaay!”, albeit a feverish one, doesn’t sound that bad either.
on 08 Dec 2005 at 10:57 am 5.mallard said …
I forgot about you rejoicing in the crows and squirrels. That made my morning!
Anyway, I hope you feel better soon.
on 09 Dec 2005 at 8:55 am 6.Rechercher said …
“That is the best squirrel ever.”
It still brings a smile to my face.
on 19 Dec 2005 at 10:42 pm 7.FootFace said …
I find that feeling sick like that is almost… supernatural. I hate it. Everything has another dimension, like I’m wearing an extra skin made of sick jokes and bad dreams. When I’m well again, I can’t believe how good it is to be able to see and feel things as they really are again.
on 01 Feb 2010 at 6:27 pm 8.Brandon said …
Wow, O.o I have the flu too and this made me laugh xD
I guess I do seem like a stoner right now I’m laughing about everything xD
got a fever sweating like a beast and giggling like a schoolgirl wow lol