Haven’t been out and about much online this week, sorry about that. The reason? I have the fucking flu.
Yes, that did require profanity.
I get the flu approximately once every 5 years – you’d think I’d have learned by now to track it on a calendar or something, but nooo, I haven’t. It’s not something I look forward to, obviously, but it’s only twice a decade so I can deal with it. I’ll watch TV and drink juice and wish I was dead, and after about a week I’ll go back to normal. No, I am not productive when I have the flu. I don’t get things done, I don’t write, I don’t do much of anything. This morning I binge-watched Ask A Mortician for several hours before wandering downstairs for the afternoon, drinking some soup my son made for me (from scratch, no less) and somewhat fuzzily coming to the conclusion that maybe I really should let people know where I’ve been all week. So that’s where I’ve been: Either upstairs in bed sleeping and binge-watching YouTube or downstairs on the couch watching TV. Which has YouTube and Netflix and Hulu on it, thank all the gods, because the only thing our cable is good for is making the Internet run faster and inspiring my wife to plan more DIY home renovations.
So anyway, I’ll continue to be in mostly non-productive mode for a while longer while I finish fighting off the flu and the burgeoning sinus infection that may or may not have come with the flu, but at least I’m downstairs on my laptop making a post and I managed to feed the cats this morning, so actually an extremely productive day for me on the flu-having spectrum. Would even go so far as to call it a good day…if I didn’t have the bloody fucking flu.*
*bonus points if you know what fic that’s from 😉