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17 November 2010

I'm siiiiiick. It is now Day Three of my annual battle with the crud, and while I am no longer the Mayer of Sicktown, or Governor of New Sickington, I think I'm still Professor Emerita of Sick Studies at Sickyville State. What to do today? →[More:] Here's how sick I am:

--Monday: Sub delivery vehicle broke down. They are a mile away. I did not go get it.
--Tuesday: I am positive that I have at least three BookMooch books (cheap romances, all) and two t-shirts waiting in the mailbox at my office. They are also a mile away. I did not go get them.
--Wednesday: Today was the lottery for the city park space we may want to use for our wedding. (It's actually a synagogue from 1863. This guy.) The parks office is across the street. I did not go over there. I sent the boy, and he came back saying that he paid them the full reservation amount even though we may not go with them (and EVERY OTHER PLACE I KNOW only makes you pay a max of half as a deposit). Jerks.

I have come to the end of the internet, and even though I hit the limit of my Netflix queue, I have no energy to watch. (Though we did finish Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town, and man did I love that shit.)

Any other suggestions? Because there's only so much I can sleep.

post by: Madamina at: 14:52 | 7 comments

(To clarify: HE is not a jerk. THEY are the jerks.)

posted by Madamina 17 November | 14:54

I hear Call of Duty: Black Ops is fun, if you're into that kind of shooty shooty boom boom stuff.

posted by apoch 17 November | 15:01

I am now 3 weeks into some sick crap, but been working when there's no fever. Went to the doc today, as I'd had enough. Seems I'd had some viral thing and then some bacterial thing took hold while the defenses were down.

I recommend stuff from PBS Mysteries, if that's agreeable. Often predictable, but also often entertaining. Free at pbs.org, depending on they're cycle. Other fun things there, too. We watched The Secret Life of Scientists the other day with the kids. I think I enjoyed it more than anyone else in my family. The MIT cheerleader was very fun.

Feel better soon.

posted by lilywing13 18 November | 04:08

Also, sounds like you're going to get married in the park. Better than losing the deposit, right?

Mazal tov, as this can simplify your plans. Hooray, the space is reserved. I got married in a city park, and it was happy and wonderful. I wish you the same.

posted by lilywing13 18 November | 04:12

Well, the nice thing is that it's a beautiful space on its own, and the reception-and-other-potential-ceremony venue (a B&B of similar vintage, only a block away) is kind of being butts about getting back to us, so my feller said that we should probably just do the ceremony at the park. I was kind of dead to the world, so I agreed. But it's not a bad idea.

posted by Madamina 18 November | 10:42

When I was recovering from surgery this summer, I watched all three seasons of Arrested Development, three seasons of The Guild, and The September Issue, all on Netflix watch it now. I feel all three were valuable cultural experiences.

I also read Eat, Pray, Love, which I do not recommend. It came off too I'm-overprivileged-boo-hoo to me, but YMMV.

When I had the crud this year (two weeks ago), I read all the blog entries on Mad Men fashion here. It is really interesting to read their take on how the costume designer is approaching each of the characters. I don't watch Mad Men (no cable), but I still enjoyed the analysis. I like fashion and I like costume design and I like reading gay-bitchy-tinged analysis, so again, YMMV.

Get better soon, and ((((((Madamina)))))).

posted by jeoc 18 November | 20:03

When I was horribly sick this summer (and my partner was away for five days), Hulu was a huge comfort. I set it up to play all of Carl Sagan's Cosmos, then I drifted in and out of consciousness for the next however-many hours. Then I switched to You Tube queues and played through bunches of old PBS shows while I dozed and hacked and moaned.

Feel better soon! And feel free to kvetch all you want!

posted by Elsa 18 November | 20:41

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