It's been years since I've been this sick with a ...

It's been years since I've been this sick with a cold - sick-in-bed sick. Vitamin C is helping, as is toasted barley tea: in World of Warcraft it restores 22,000 points of both Health AND Mana, and does so in the Real World, also. It'll be a long day of Faculty Orientation tomorrow at the college, so as much rest as I can get today is clearly indicated. I've entertained myself by re-reading (when I wasn't sleeping) the 4 Antryg & Joanna novellas, and I'm still very pleased with them.

Next week I start what I hope will be the final read-through of Ben January #13 (still debating with the publishers over the title); and beginning the set-up for Asher & Ysidro #7. The structure of that one is going to be tricky, since it (like January #13) is one of those mysteries that involves a crime that took place in the past. In the case of January, the original events took place in 1785 (and he, Hannibal, and Rose have to go poking around in the Caribbean for clues) - in the case of Don Simon, about 3 centuries before he encountered Asher and Lydia. There are three other books I want to start as well (Well, actually 9, but 3 at the head of the queue)... all "on spec," so they're farther down the line than work I'm contracted for. (YAY for contracts!)

School starts on the 11th. WAY too much to do.  Time to go back to bed.