Or, “blogging around midnight.”
I rarely do this because I am usually out cold by this time, but because I’ve spend the entire day in a cycle of sleeping, waking up to expel mucous, taking medicine, and drinking fluids, I cannot get back to sleep as of now until the medication starts working once more. And I’m all out of mucous at the moment so my activity options are limited. Somewhat.
That’s right, mucous. Think about it. It’s gross. And I’m telling you about it anyway. This is the internet, people, mucous should be the least of what bothers you.
Mucous aside, I’ve relapsed in the sickness I had last week which started out as a sore throat, but after playing the show on Saturday, I seem to have torn up my throat (singing backup… which, to my surprise, involved more screaming than actual singing) and made it susceptible to bacteria because of that. Also, it seems that there’s a cold bug floating around exopolis, and this might have carried over to me in an airborne fashion since I seem to be on their smokers’ same cigarette break schedule.
I have to run to work tomorrow and pick up my computer because I simply can’t be out for this long at a time. However, in the interest of keeping my coworkers healthy, I am going to try to get in and out of the office before whatever I’ve got can be transmitted to anyone else. I will not be playing the role of the Outbreak Monkey.
And rehearsing for that show on Saturday which made me sick has severely pushed back my dev work. Now that my Sundays are available again I really need to get back to work on freelance, which, fortunately, right now are non-stipend so there’s no due date. But just simply not getting them done is in poor taste.
I want to list them here in case people can lend a hand or some advice since I’m a better collaborator than a leader (this happens to be true musically, also). So, in the order of which they are supposed to be done, I have set work to these:
-Miribella Jewlery
Friend of mine who can actually make some pretty stunning pieces, so I know who to ask for advice if I’m ever going to get a girl a piece of jewelry. Task: Create an elegant and very simple interface without looking too Web 1.0.-Culturazzi
Metroblogging, but using as a starting point the world that has no reliable public transportation. Task: Create a portal from a blog without installing blog software on a hosted site. Shit. I just realized how hard this might be…-2nd St. Jazz
The best venue to work for; totally not professional and that’s the way we’d like to keep it. Task: Site re-skin, network musicians, agents, managers, and 3rd party booking companies on a local MySQL database to then be spit back out that info on the internet, coordinate all of our in-house booking agents to update one master calendar instead of having our club dates scattered throughout the internet. This, I can already feel, is going to take a while.
And I just took a gander at how many emails I have to answer for work as a booking agent: 103 new emails.
I already feel sick again.
Oh, but the medicine is kicking in right about now.
Oh man! I hope you feel better soon, and er, uh, stay away from me eh? YOU’RE INFECTED! Quick, someone get my 2 idiot kids and a nightscoped rifle!
You should try some of my lentil soup, it’ll slap the sick right outta you!
Plenty of fluids and sleeping. Which you are doing.
And no more singing until you’re one week clear from the gross green stuff that comes out of one’s nose/throat.