flu-like symptoms, smoking astronauts, and a birthday

[lolaraincoat]

My computer -- the laptop that is -- remains dead or at any rate well past pining for the fjords. It couldn't go into the shop this weekend because the shop is not open on the weekends, and it can't go in tomorrow as I will have to be on campus from 8:30 in the morning until 10:30 at night.

Tomorrow, that is to say, will be a high-energy day. This is a pity as I will have no energy because I have another goddamn cold, the third in three months. What the hell? Is this just a normal part of aging, that one day you have a functional immune system and the next day you do not? I was always a strong and healthy person, physically anyway, and all my ailments were always joint and muscle troubles from too much exercise of the wrong varieties. Now I get colds all the time! and not just mild colds either. This one has me running the opposite of a fever. Seriously, at one point this afternoon my temperature was 96.9. Another possibility, more bracingly, is that I am already dead and just cooling off slowly. Or perhaps I became a vampire at some point and it just slipped my mind? (This is possible. It's been a very busy couple of months.) I'd enjoy that, I think. Grr. Argghh.

On a cheerier note, here's a link to video of William Shatner singing Rocket Man, with a cigarette.

And the cheeriest of all notes: It's the birthday of the Two-Toed Sloth! Happy birthday, twotoedsloth, you excellent mammal you!

Comments

[mulberryfields.livejournal.com]

Here I am visiting livejournal. I hope your laptop can be quickly fixed - sorry to hear it's pining. Did you ever hear that apocryphal Monty Pythonecdote about John Cleese spending hours at a story meeting insisting that his story about returning a toaster was funny, and it just wasn't working for anyone else, until Graham Chapman (who'd been lying on a sofa with a hangover or something) said, "oh, for god's sake, just make it a parrot."

Also sorry that you have a cold. You know, I remember another time - this was a couple of winters back, I think, when you were running the opposite of a fever and claimed to be dead & cooling off slowly. So at least you're consistent. AND, if the cooling process really did start a year or two again, at least it is progressing very very slowly. But ... I do hope you're feeling better soon.

[lolaraincoat.livejournal.com]

Hah! no, I hadn't heard that story. It's a good one!

And hmmm, do you suppose repeating my own dumb jokes is a flu symptom? Or ... maybe ... that's what vampires do. Yeah, that's it! I'm sure Spike would do that!

No fangs yet, but it's early days yet. I *am* frighteningly pale already and also wanting to sleep all day. Yep, I'm a vampire.

How are you doing?