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Ivan the Terribly Average Posted Feb 11, 2007
I have a sore throat. Fabulous. This is what I get for trying to keep flood waters out of the garage. It had better be gone by Friday, when I'm supposed to be going to Sydney to have fun.
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Ivan the Terribly Average Posted Feb 12, 2007
I came home after two hours, feeling ghastly, and spent the next six hours in bed. I appear to have slept off a mild fever. The voice is still a bit odd but it hardly matters.
I got off lightly with the flooding, it seems. About sixty houses just south of here were swamped, and things were made worse by the fact that they're just downhill from an equestrian park. Good for the garden; not so good for soft furnishings.
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Ivan the Terribly Average Posted Feb 12, 2007
If we'd had that rain over a week, rather than over an hour, there'd have been no problem...
I wonder how I'll feel tomorrow. I *want* to go to the office, but I might not be up to it.
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Ivan the Terribly Average Posted Feb 12, 2007
Last year I'd have compiled a list of things that would have made my condition worse, and then gone and done them.
I caled the surgery earlier today and reserved an appointment for tomorrow, in case I need it. I hope I don't.
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Ivan the Terribly Average Posted Feb 12, 2007
It's nearly sunset, so I can now consider going back to bed without feeling like so much of an invalid. *sigh*
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Ivan the Terribly Average Posted Feb 12, 2007
I feel quite lifelike now. Back to the office today...
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Ivan the Terribly Average Posted Feb 13, 2007
The best thing about this job is being appreciated once I actually do show up. I spent a day fending off people who were trying to lighten my w*rkload because I'm not completely well. At the last job - oh, gosh, it doesn't bear thinking about, so I won't.
Two more days, then four days off.
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Ivan the Terribly Average Posted Feb 13, 2007
I'm going by bus, Friday lunchtime. It's only a bit over three hours and the bus is quite comfortable, and it only costs $20 one-way. To fly - well, the flight would be about 35 minutes, plus 20 minutes waiting for luggage, plus 1 hour hanging around waiting for the plane to leave in the first place, plus taxis, plus... well, you get the idea. The bus is a whole lot more practical. It stops at Central Station in Sydney, where I can get a suburban train to Newtown, where the station is right next to the Town Hall Hotel, where I shall wait for D.
(A bus to Adelaide, direct, takes over 18 hours. No way am I ever doing *that*. <pure lunacy>
Tonight I have to do some basic house-tidying; tomorrow I'll deal with laundry, and Friay morning I can pack a few shirts and things and head for the bus station at leisure.
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Ivan the Terribly Average Posted Feb 14, 2007
Sorry, didn't realise I was chewing that loudly.
One more day...
Today I went to meet a friend in the building I used to w*rk in. I couldn't go through with it, and had to call her and ask her to meet me outside. I'm a bit shocked at how ill I felt at the thought of being back in there. Never mind - I'll make a point of going in there sometime, to force myself to get over it.
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