Sick again... still... differently...

Life is kicking my ass lately, and it seems like beatings will continue until morale improves... I've had a lot of posts in my head but they aren't making it out through my fingers to the keyboard.

Last week I did some fretting about my lingering cough from the Perpetual Cold, but it did seem to get better toward the end. For the weekend I went to Philadelphia to see old friends and take a weekend workshop in the Ido Portal method's "Corset Protocol" -- basically a whole lot of joint prep, range of motion exercises, and spinal mobilization. It was great, and I feel like I have enough material (and have done enough thinking) to put together my next set of workout routines, which is exciting.

I also hurt something in my shoulder though, which is super achy now, and got food poisoning on the day I stayed after the workshop in order to actually hang out with friends. I ended up seeing nevers in person just briefly, instead of the afternoon I meant to spend, lost my breakfast spectacularly on the side of the road on the way to the airport, and spent some really scary time being sick in the airport while my flight was delayed and delayed and I couldn't really leave the bathroom. Ugh. My eternal thanks to a) the girl who took my $20 and bought me a bottle of water while I was in there, and b) later on, the gate attendant who saw me trying to nap at the gate and put her own coat over me. (I noted her name, eventually, and the airline's already heard from me about her kindness.)

I'm not happy about how every planned vacation lately seems to get "augmented" with sick days, putting me ever more behind on work stuff. Self-assessments for performance reviews were due yesterday, I haven't started, and of course the pile of emails is terrifying. I'm home sick though, and will remain so until I can eat something other than Cream of Wheat and tom kha soup.