Missives from the quarantine lab.

[pauraque_bk]

Oh my god, you guys. I have been SO SICK. I got mildly ill when I went on vacation, then crashed in a flu-like area when I got home and stayed there for several days. When Thanksgiving rolled around I thought I was better enough to go hang out with my family, but I was not correct. I've been oscillating between "I feel much better!" and "oh wait no I don't!" for the past week. I've kept minimally abreast of online responsibilities (at the expense of everything else, I have to say), but I hope a return to normalcy is forthcoming.

Anyway! I have to point you to the master list of entries for the pornish_pixies Poetry Challenge. I am so happy with all the participation, I could plotz. When I set that challenge I wasn't sure anyone would care for it, and I was thrilled to be so wrong.

Also, who's excited about merry_smutmas posting starting tomorrow? *waves hand frantically in the air* I'm not a big fan of the holidays in general, but having so much goodfic and goodart to look forward to makes them worthwhile. As you can see, I have made a concession to well-mannered frivolity and adorned my icon with a festive hat. (Actually, aithopa hatted it last Christmas, and I kept it in a box with the colored lights and shiny balls.)

Whee, cold medicine is fun!

Comments

[gmth.livejournal.com]

Wah, hope you feel better soon. That kind of ick is the worst.

[pauraque]

Thanks. *sniff*

OMG, are you totally excited about Smutmas posting?! I mean, I know you are, but. :D

[gmth.livejournal.com]

OMGyesIcanhardlysitstill!

Is it midnight yet??

[wootsauce.livejournal.com]

Get better! This time of year sucks, huh? I'm living in fear of the day I run out of medecine.

[pauraque]

I welcome illness as a socially acceptable occasion to get high.

[muridae-x.livejournal.com]

*suspicious look*

You sound very cheerful and hyper on that cold medicine, I must say.

I hope it's doing you some good and that you feel better. In the meantime, it sounds like you're going to have plenty of fic to read to tide you over during convalescence.

Get well soon!

[pauraque]

Well, I feel okay now, or I wouldn't be posting. The week-long silence corresponded to the time when I was too miserable to be cheerful.

[muridae-x.livejournal.com]

That kind of oscillating better then worse bugs are always the crappy ones to struggle through though.

Usually when I'm sick I sleep away the mornings, then break out the laptop and cuddle up in bed with it. When I'm really sick I go cold turkey on computers, and that's just scary. :-)

[megstuff.livejournal.com]

Hope you're better for good before long! I had that same kind of just-can't-shake-it flu a little while back - it was horrible.

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, I think I have what you have. Tell me it's not going to last that long. Aaaarggh.

Um, which is to say: welcome back, and I hope you feel better soon!

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

*Sends virtual cookies*

(they're the new virtual chicken soup)

[asphodeline.livejournal.com]

heee cold medicine is fabulous!! Mine makes me FLY!!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hannelore/]

Now only if your body could be convinced that it's not able to get this sick for the REST OF THE WINTER. One can hope!

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Ew! That's awful! I hope you feel better soon--I thought of you today when I went to the Darwin exhibit.:-)

[noblerot.livejournal.com]

*fills a little paper boat with chicken soup and sends it across the bay*

[arwencordelia.livejournal.com]

Ugh! I'm now convinced there's a sort of Thanksgiving cold/flu plague; you know, everyone travels, meets germs they haven't met before, then are miserable for a week. My entire office has this or something like it but no one can really stay home (yes, we sound like our very own quarantine ward).

Sounds like you have better cold medecine than I do, though :) Feel better soon!