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Today is a 'don't overwork' day. It's also a 'go to the doctor' day. I've done two of the three totally important bits of work already and in a moment I wend doctorwards. Tonight I shall teach, and that's the third bit of totally important work. I rather suspect I shall be teaching on antibiotics*. Watch this space for exciting updates**.






*Since footnotes are important to my life, let me just say that when an asthmatic goes from summer to winter, this is a very likely result. It's not the first time that I have had a chest infection after a bit of a climate shift. Save your sympathies for when I'm seriously ill. Now, though, chocolate would not come amiss.

**I just realised that I have a lovely opportunity here to have more footnote than text. That's all this is: extra footnote. Total waste of your time. I really ought to apologise.

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I promised an update. The doctor days that I have a rather nice chest infection, am doing all the right things, and need to take the exact same antibiotics as I did when in France (so I got to compare the prices, close and personal and France is cheaper, which we knew). I still teach tonight, but have to cancel my excursion tomorrow night because I need to go to bed a bit earlier for a few days and avoid the cold night air (teaching finishes way earlier than tomorrow's evening with friends). All is well for Sydney, because the doctor says I'll be over it very quickly because it was caught at the precise right moment.

In other news, I finished only one book today, but still have time for another. I don't have the energy to read four (which is odd, because I wasn't well yesterday and actually read six). I think I shall postpone preparing for Saturday's class until tomorrow and Thursday and take it a bit easy today. This means teaching and reading and lounging around pretending I'm ill.

Mail-wise I got only one book, and that one was for Aurealis judging. I might have to wait a few days for the missing big parcel. If it comes when I'm in Sydney and I have to pick it up from the post office, I shall think the universe is cruel.