Sunday has been cancelled on account of plague.: seanan

Sunday has been cancelled on account of plague.

I had a great many plans for yesterday. In fact, I had two complete plan 'packages,' allowing me the choice of a) spending the day at the Sacramento Zoo with my mother, my sister (Melissa), my sister's wife (Mary), and my sister's three step-kids, or b) staying at home sipping faux-Mimosas -- Crystal Light orange mixed with Diet 7-Up, DON'T JUDGE ME -- while starting the end-to-end rewrite on Late Eclipses of the Sun and prepping the next few 'Velveteen vs.' stories.

Instead, I spent the day either a) face-down in the toilet, praying for the sweet embrace of death, b) face-down on my mattress, praying for the sweet embrace of death, c) passed out on the bathroom floor, praying for the sweet embrace of death, or d) at the urgent care, where they gave me IV fluids and scolded me for spending so much time unconscious before seeking medical care. Being as I don't have a car, and the buses on Sunday are practically non-existent, I bore my scolding with valiant disdain, and concluded by throwing up on one of the attending nurses. Sorry about that.

The zoo would have been a lot more fun.

In other news, all of my deadlines for the week have officially been pushed back two days on account of plague, which ate my Sunday and has turned Monday into 'invalid recovery zone' territory. I am keeping fluids down at this point, and may even risk such extravagant splurges as Saltines and a shower. Sometime. Soon. Not now, however, as my head is still full of angry weasels, and I'm still not sure I'm over that whole 'praying for death' thing.

Plague: much more fun to read about than it is to experience. Seriously.

interesting how small my world is...

wilson_jackson

October 1 2008, 05:01:59 UTC 8 years ago

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I have no idea how I found your journal but I saved your post on the books that changed your life and have been slowly finding them at the library. Today I perused your site a little and found out you must be near Sacramento to consider the zoo (but missed it due to the plague). I too live outside Sacramento!

All that long windedness to say I'm glad to have found a kindred spirit in Sacramento!

Re: interesting how small my world is...

seanan_mcguire

October 1 2008, 14:03:52 UTC 8 years ago

I'm actually up in the East Bay, near Mt. Diablo; I come to Sacramento once a month to meet with my high school D&D group (yes, we've been together more than a decade). But the Sacramento Zoo is so much better than the local zoos right now that it's the road trip destination of choice.