matociquala will be reading in my place, and you get Scott Lynch, to boot.Honestly, I get sick, and I'm useless. I have no idea how many authors and performers and suchlike soldier on in the face of illness. I feel sort of ashamed that I can't, but I've never been good for that.
After two days down, I'm insanely bored, and my mind is spinning in ever smaller and more frantic circles. Sickness almost always triggers in me periods of intense anxiety and depression. Too much time to think on things I ought not allow myself to dwell upon overly long. To make it worse, this bug has perfectly coincided with three days of marvelous weather here in Providence. Days in the '80s Fahrenheit! We should be at the sea, and, instead, we're stuck inside, taking a tiny bit of solace in the warm air through the windows and the chance to air out the apartment. Tomorrow, in true Rhode Island fashion, we're set for a radical temperature shift, and the high will only be 60˙.
We've watched more of Games of Thrones, and I'm liking it a great deal.I've tried to keep myself occupied by reading, short stories by Ligotti, and I've begun and finished Richard Milner's book on Charles R. Knight. I did have an important conversation with my agent yesterday afternoon regarding many projects (I might have been lucid).
Okay, enough for now. And typos be damned.
Woozier,
Aunt Beast
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Comments
Sorry the virus has screwed things over for you. Be well soon.
Edited at 2012-04-17 08:12 pm (UTC)
I still haven't got around to watching Game of Thrones. I may have to give in and buy the DVDs sooner rather than later; my attempts at frugality are so often overcome by such temptations.
May you either recover quickly, or else be transformed in new and awful ways by the invading microbes so that mundane concerns fall into their proper place beside the yawning cosmic madness. Or whatever.
I feel you on the weather front ~ it's absolutely glorious here, and yesterday I managed to get two spectacular blisters on my feet which are keeping me from going out and walking. Sometimes we are prisoners to weakened flesh.
Erm... not intestinal.
Fever, body aches, exhaustion.
Also, much agreement on the Game of Thrones front. This is the first show in *years* I've actually really, really looked forward to the next episode. I'll buy the DVDs of this for my family for sure. I'm enjoying the second season more than the first, but that may be because I have a more reliable internet connection now, and don't spend aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages waiting for things to buffer. I've only read the first book, and thought the show was a good adaptation. I'm going into the second season blind and I'm still really enjoying it - I'll no doubt read the books in future.
I've had no joy finding an open comic shop in my part of the UK but I'm launching into Central Europe tomorrow and will check comic shops as possible to see if I can get a hold of Alabaster :)
Incidentally, "Game of Thrones" (both the book and the television series) RULES.
I have a music recommendation for you. The band Of Monsters & Men are from Iceland and their album My Head Is An Animal just came out this year. They are being compared to Arcade Fire but personally I find their tunes catchier and I want to sing along. Have you ever used the program Spotify? You have to have a Facebook account to log into it and you can listen to entire albums for free... that's how I'm getting to hear this Brown Bird you talk so much about.
Hope you're feeling better.