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Day 2,355: Weekend

It felt like a weekend today. The first one thats felt like that in a long time.

Liz and I hung out all day today and it was lovely. We watched TV together and ate food together and walked the pups, both morning and night, and we watched The Winter Soldier together way too late into the night.

Its almost 1am.

A perfect day.

Liz encouraged me to get the dj controller Ive been obsessing about for the past week or soso I just got it. Its a few hundred dollars. Definitely not the strictly...

Day 2,354: A Good Death

Listening to soundtrack music right now, and Im reminded just how impactful a proper death can be in a well-told story. I mean the death of a character that cuts you right to the core, that feels real and makes you think about real life. And, I suppose thats why death is important in stories; they make us think about real life.

The death of Gandalf, for example is about the loss of our parents and/or grandparents. If the Heros Journey is a story form that mirrors our own lives, the loss of...

Day 2,353: Animal Crossing

Liz is out in the living room right now playing Animal Crossing on the switch. She was just voice chatting with her sister, J, and her sisters friend because they were visiting together on Js island. It was very, very cute. Very endearing to hear them talking about all the stuff they wanted to give each other and make for hershe just started playing the game recentlyand how she needed to go to bed because she has work tomorrow, and commenting on each others outfits, etc. Very endearing.

Cant...

Day 2,352: Easy Rain

It rained today. It was raining tonight, even, as we took the dogs out. But it was that light rain that you can stand in and not get instantly wet, but you can hear it and feel it. Easy rain.

Thats most often how it rains in LA, easy rain. It rarely rains HARD here. Not like Humboldt rain, which comes with winds and in great big wet drops that are thick enough to make it so you cant see while youre driving. Every so often it rains like that down here, but most of the time, its light; the kind...

Day 2,351: Last Day

Today was my last day of taking antibiotics. Im so happy about that. Almost happier than my flu-like symptoms disappearing

Day 2,350: Back Baby

Im back baby!

Kindastill easily tired. Not firing on all cylinders. Didnt get to write today till just nowbut I did write. For the first time since I got sick.

Reading my book, you guysits good. I dont mean that to toot my horn in any objective way; quite the opposite. I mean *I* like it. Genuinely like it. Its giving me a little more perspective, a little more confidence in my own current writing, trusting that I have turned a corner. I can do this.

Liz shared some really fun music with me...

Day 2,349: The Killing Joke

I watched The Killing Joke tonight. It was on HBO and it was short for a feature (average length for an animated movie though). Iwas not impressed.

It looked beautiful. And Mark Hamill is genuinely brilliant whenever he voices the Jokerbut man. The Barbara Gordon stuff is shockingly tone deaf, and worseunnecessary to the point that its actually just boring. Blech. I mean, the film had other problems, many, many of them. But that was the biggest reason I wasnt really feeling it.

I havent seen...

Day 2,348: Getting There

The recovery proceeds apace.

I was tired today. I took like a two and a half hour nap. Im definitely still in the process of getting back on my feet, no doubt, and today being a day off was very much needed. Gonna do the same thing tomorrow.

Iam looking forward to being back to normal. Big time. Im looking forward to writing. Working. I read an article today about how the US has an unhealthy obsession with work. I definitely fall into that category, but I really, truly love what I do. I love...

Day 2,347: omg

Omg you guys

I

Feel

BETTER.

Likeactually better. I felt normal today, with the singular exception that I feel more tired than normal in that post-trial exhaustion way. So, not back to 100%, but I didnt feel SICK today once. Not once.

And its definitely the antibiotics that make my mouth taste like ass. The taste comes and goes depending on when I take a dose, so its got to be that for sure. Blech. Four more days of that stuff. Then Im done.

And if my symptoms stay away for the next two days,...

Day 2,346: Sick of it

Starting to get sick of being sick

Its been a week. Two weeks, really, of feeling wiped out all the time.

Im better. Today, I really felt better. But Im not done with it yet. Ill still go through several hours a day of feeling achy, tired, brain-zapped, headache, etc. SICK. Blech. Im over it.

I feel totally disconnected from my normal routine. Not-rested. Ill sleep for 9 hours and even take a nap during the day, but wake up exhausted.

Just feeling kind of down tonight, I guess.

I watched Live...