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I have made three attempts to post and each post has come out grumpy. I had a lovely Christmas Eve with friends and am now into the loneliest time of the year. And I have a headache. If I can find something happy to post about later in the day, I shall.

I guess the virtue of everyone else being on holiday is that I can take pain relievers and go back to sleep and not miss worktime. I'm relying on DVDs and books for entertainment (because my black box thingie is defunct) so nothing is time dependent. As long as I do my full day's work, it doesn't matter if I start at 8 am (as I had planned) or 4 pm (which looks more likely).

If I can get this headache beaten, dinner will be the trendy latkes (kohl rabi and beet) and if I don't, it will be cheese and bread and fresh fruit. And chocolate. Lots of friends gave me chocolate or coffee or food or a cookbook (2 cookbooks - both homemade - yummy!) for the festive season.

I'm having your headache for you: go and enjoy the season!

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I've slept out my headache. It took most of the day, but I did it. I haven't got rid of the fever yet, but I've come to see these fevers as helping control the inflammation, which is the lowest it's been without the mega doses of cortisone since my body started falling to pieces many months ago. This is all very good.

I've also written a few thousand words. This is good, because I've been asked to run a message (there is absolutely no-one else who can do it and the friend who asked me is guilt-ridden) tomorrow that requires me to walk 6+ ks. Headache and work-waiting aren't going to help me in this, so I need to make sure I've banished both of them.

If anyone is likely to be bored tomorrow and would like to meet in Woden after I've run my main message (it's on the way home - sort of - and I have at least one errand to run there, too) then we could have coffee. Or there's even better coffee at my place, plus chocolate. Much chocolate. I'm not expecting anyone will be free for coffee, but if I don't say "it would be nice" and one of you *is* free, then I waste an opportunity to see a friend, which is a terrible thing to do.

I'm not well enough today to cook, so tomorrow night is kohl rabi and beet latkes. Anyone who meets me for coffee and wants to stay to dinner will get them. And yes, I am engaging in wishful thinking here :). Most of my friends are out of town or ensconsed in family and/or festivity. I'm also channelling one of my characters, which is terribly stupid of me.

Today's anime is Chrono Crusade. Tomorrow it gets returned to its owner (one of my various messages).

What else do you need to know?

That Canberra is hot. That neighborhood children were very happy with their presents this year. That I light five candles tonight. That life is not but a bowl of cherries because I've run out of them (that cherry metaphor always does evil things to me, doesn't it?) That I met some people who found me dull (poor people - they missed out on all my bad jokes because they never found out that I was capable of making them). That - all going well- I shall have television from tomorrow (I don't know how I'm going to get a set top box home, but one of my Woden errands is to go in search of a set top box).

If anyone's wondering why the walking and struggling to carry things and stuff, it will all magically clear next week when the busses are back to normal. It's almost impossible for a car-less person to do things in Canberra around this time of year. If I didn't have to do the urgent message for a friend, I would be leaving the whole lot until I could catch busses.

This is why I did all my groceries before Christmas. Nothing will be easily accessible for the car-less or unwell until next week and then the same thing happens again over New Year. Curious arrangement, but the city swears by it and there it is. My first Canberra Christmas I lived on pasta without any sauce for 3 days, because there was nothing else I had and the only open supermarket was three miles away and it was only open for about 2 hours - this is the reason I prepare so carefully.

And yes, I'm writing much of little import as a way of putting off doing work. However did you guess?