The new toy, a Chromebook, is now living in a spot by the bed. I first moved it there Wednesday night when I started feeling a bit off and decided to go to bed a bit early. By mid-morning Thursday I was laid low with the plague. I figure it was the flu, my temperature topped out at 103.5 before it broke and I sent some texts and made some phone calls I cant remember much of. From Thursday afternoon till Saturday mid-day, I left the bed only to go to the bathroom and once or twice to make soup. I slept a lot and drank a ton of apple juice, orange juice and water. By Sunday morning I felt human again but I was still worried about going back to work Monday. It turned out that there were no classes at Butler on Monday so it was a nice and calm night which was good because I was in sort of bad shape most of the night. I still walked a little under 5 miles though, Im proud of that.
I got a bit off track here. The point of telling about the Chromebook living by the bed now is that its going to make it easier to write here. I can write as I am relaxing and getting ready to go to sleep, I think that will work out pretty well.
I got a little behind on the defuckifying of the house this weekend when I was sick. I caught up some tonight though, I did a bunch of dishes, including washing the jars I am going to use for the herb garden. When I start putting the garden together I am going to take pictures of the process and the plants as they grow and post them here for everyone to see. I already have plans for the herbs, including homemade butter with herbs and a few other recipes I want to try. We really need to start eating healthier again and I need to start cooking more, I miss it.
Work is still nice. Today it was decently warm until the sun went down so I got in a little walking outside. I was hoping to hear one of the owls I have heard before but I didnt hear anything tonight. When the sun started to set, I went out on the roof of the science building and took a bunch of pictures. I also stood on the ledge and looked down into the abyss of the forest behind the building. A wise man once said "When you look into the abyss, the abyss looks back at you" and normally this is very true for me. But for some reason today the demons were calmer and the abyss didnt call to me like it normally has in the past.
I had a lot of mixed emotions about that. I immediately texted a close friend and told her what I was doing and what was happening and thanked her for being a large part of the reason the abyss didnt call so loud. We talked for a bit and it was wonderful.
The rest of the evening I walked around the 5 buildings I patrol. I heard an orchestra practicing in the music building, they sounded pretty good. Other than that not much was going on. I got home and rested for a bit just listening to some music. I thought about reading but Umphrey's McGee was calling me and I listened and cleaned a bit and now I am in bed and settling down. The sleeping pills are kicking in so I am going to say goodnight for now...
No comments:
Post a Comment