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desperanceThis is the fact: that I feel crap today, thick-headed and woozy and cold. Is this:
(a) just the weather (it's been raining literally all day, and is just vile out there, and even the relentless splatter of it against the windows is getting to me);
(b) just broken nights and bad sleeping;
(c) some lurgy kind of bug; or
(d) the traditional post-book breakdown?
Not that it matters, because wherever in the alphabet it comes from, the treatment is the same. I am going to lie on the sofa and drink hot toddies (made with ridiculously indulgent single malts and organic honey, along with the lemon juice and Angostura bitters, because there just ain't any cheap stuff in the house, hon, and I'm not going shopping in this weather, in this state) and read The Jungle Book. Which is, actually, work: I am smitten by a Bright New Idea and actually need to revisit this essential text. At least, I sort of do, I need to have it fresh in my mind. What's taken me a little by surprise is just how well I know it already; I do remember its being a favourite when I was young, but it must have been one of those favourites that I went back to time and time again, because I know this almost by heart already, and I didn't remember that.
(a) just the weather (it's been raining literally all day, and is just vile out there, and even the relentless splatter of it against the windows is getting to me);
(b) just broken nights and bad sleeping;
(c) some lurgy kind of bug; or
(d) the traditional post-book breakdown?
Not that it matters, because wherever in the alphabet it comes from, the treatment is the same. I am going to lie on the sofa and drink hot toddies (made with ridiculously indulgent single malts and organic honey, along with the lemon juice and Angostura bitters, because there just ain't any cheap stuff in the house, hon, and I'm not going shopping in this weather, in this state) and read The Jungle Book. Which is, actually, work: I am smitten by a Bright New Idea and actually need to revisit this essential text. At least, I sort of do, I need to have it fresh in my mind. What's taken me a little by surprise is just how well I know it already; I do remember its being a favourite when I was young, but it must have been one of those favourites that I went back to time and time again, because I know this almost by heart already, and I didn't remember that.