Home of the Wanderer

A friend asked me this morning, via google-chat, whether I had died yet. No, I responded, at least I don’t think so.

I spent all day in bed yesterday, though, despite having a normal temperature. A normal temperature! For a full day! That, friends, is my test to determine whether I’m ready to resume normal life. So here I am, attempting to resume normalcy. And my internal clock is all mixed up. Oh well, at least I’m not shivering at 100ºF. The worst of my symptoms have passed, and I expect that – so long as I stay hydrated – I will continue to recover well.

Regardless of which set of infections I turn out to have had, I should no longer be contagious through social contact, nor through food-prep, and so I’ll be putting something yummy together for my friends tonight. Also, I have a lot of phone calls to make if I’m going to catch up with my planned timeline.

Okay, so I’m still sick.  I spent most of the day in bed, not feeling like doing much, taking my temperature occasionally (still ranging from 100 to 101), and making occasional phone calls.  In one of those calls, a friend suggested that I ought to eat something.  Agreeing, I’ve thrown together a bite of food.

Based on all the “rest and plenty of liquids” advice, I went ahead and started simmering up a mirepoix from scraps I’d saved a few weeks ago, and began poking around in my cabinets for something to go with the broth. (more…)

Not a low fever, exactly, but there I am.  I thought it had broken last night, given that I was down to 98.6 when I woke up this morning.  But here I am now.  And a hot bath!  Mmmm.  Warm water.

This evening, I didn’t prepare any food for our volunteers because, well, I’m still sick. And it’s not nice to get volunteers sick.

So instead, I ordered pizza. Yummy yummy pizza. Next week, I’ll be back to cooking up yumminess for our crew of volunteers. Meanwhile, I hope to enjoy the bath that got canceled last night.

I have a flu, or flu-like symptoms – my muscles ache, the lymph nodes in my neck are swollen (big enough that I can feel them pressing into my neck when I turn my head), my head hurts… and I tried to take a bath tonight only to discover that my water heater had somehow been infiltrated with sediment. All the water from the hot tap was brown. Strangely, the cold water tap was running clear. (more…)

After a weekend-long training with the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP), a late-night meeting of the initial co-creators of MasterPeace Theater, and an early morning, and in anticipation of three weeks of full-paced work and travel, I decided that tonight I would take some time off.

Fortunately, I’d already heard from most of the folks who would have come to the committee meeting that, for one reason or another, they were already busy. I called the rest of them to check in, and share my hope that I would see them next week.

So now I have time to catch up on my work! (more…)