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Jul. 25th, 2012 04:52 pmIt's termtime and my Wednesday class was lovely as ever. This was a relief, for it turns out that the on-again-off-again sneezes and fevers and chills have been part of the virus I had a few weeks ago. S (admin person) and I compared notes and she had just compared notes with the friend who gave it to her. I have the lesser version of the virus and actually get more days when I can do stuff that either of them, but I still get bad days, of which today was one. I taught and then did all my messages and then went to bed. I'm out of bed only to cancel my evening out tonight. I had the same symptoms in Sydney, but not so nastily - this virus is much better in warmth than cold. And it takes forever to fade. The symptoms are those of a series of bad colds, with the added entanglements of no control of core body temperature and of intermittent fevers and (my bugbear) chest problems. Doctors won't do anything until secondary infection sets in.
It cramps my style but doesn't stop me from having style at all. And it meant that I told my students that it didn't matter how grumpy they were, they were going to write happy poems about winter. We filled half a wall with happy poems about winter and a linked serial tale.
Words of the day were virile, assurance and being.
My good news of the day is my reading. Six books by Margo Lanagan (all rather rare, lent to me by Margo herself) and three by Alan Garner (all fairly recent, from the library). They're for articles, but they're all volumes I wanted to read in any case. I shall read some of them tonight, in lieu of movies with friends and also tomorrow, since I want to get the loans back to their real home as soon as possible and one of the articles has a deadline. Being ill only sometimes stops me from enjoying life. Today it stops me from spending time with friends, but I shall still enjoy the evening.
And now, another photo:

It cramps my style but doesn't stop me from having style at all. And it meant that I told my students that it didn't matter how grumpy they were, they were going to write happy poems about winter. We filled half a wall with happy poems about winter and a linked serial tale.
Words of the day were virile, assurance and being.
My good news of the day is my reading. Six books by Margo Lanagan (all rather rare, lent to me by Margo herself) and three by Alan Garner (all fairly recent, from the library). They're for articles, but they're all volumes I wanted to read in any case. I shall read some of them tonight, in lieu of movies with friends and also tomorrow, since I want to get the loans back to their real home as soon as possible and one of the articles has a deadline. Being ill only sometimes stops me from enjoying life. Today it stops me from spending time with friends, but I shall still enjoy the evening.
And now, another photo:
