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[rivka]

Still breathing here.

I'm much less sick than I was last time. Some definitely nasty coughing-and-shortness-of-breath episodes, but nothing that didn't go away in time. Although I don't have a great deal of mental energy, I don't have that vacant, checked-out feeling I had for days on end before. I'm eating well - ravenously, actually - and sleeping adequately. Truth to tell, I wish I were sleeping more. I'm pretty tired most of the time, but for some reason I've had trouble getting more than eight hours of sleep out of 24.

Last night, I managed to get out for a lovely Valentine's Day dinner with curiousangel. Before I got sick, he'd made reservations at our favorite sushi restaurant - the one that serves the "pretty in red roll," red tuna wrapped around the outside of a king crab and avocado roll, with a streak of red chili sauce and a streak of creamy pale green slightly-wasabi-ish sauce across the top. It's out in the suburbs where we used to live, so we haven't been there since we moved. I rested all afternoon (although I didn't really sleep, damn it) to work up the energy to go out, and except for some breathing trouble both times I had to walk to the car, I did great. Mmmm, sushi. I got the whole pretty in red roll to myself, because curiousangel doesn't like avocado. Mmmm, curiousangel. wcg also stopped by with the best Valentine's Day gift ever: a copy of Irresistable Forces, which has Lois McMaster Bujold's novella about Miles' wedding, "Winterfair Gift." I heard her read the first half at Minicon lo these many years ago, and have been waiting for the book with impatience ever since.

I'm thinking that I'll go to work tomorrow, but I'm planning to (a) get a ride instead of taking the bus, and (b) stay in my office all day instead of venturing out to run subjects or something. Or maybe I'll stay home, but I hate to keep doing that. I'm low energy, and I can't really move around too much, but that doesn't mean I can't do my job. Parts of my job. Right?

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[ailbhe]

Oooh. When you've read the story, let me know. I loved it!

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Are you kidding? I had it read before the sun went down yesterday. ;-)

I thought it was very very sweet, but it made me long for another novel-length Vorkosiverse story.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Yaay Happy Valentine's in the middle of eckyness.

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[wcg.livejournal.com]

Ah, good, you've read it. I just finished it myself.

Had a Piotr Vorkosigan moment, reading it, as Ekaterine made a certain decision about wearing a particular gift while she sat in what had once been the old General's study. "You'll do girl."

[tammylc.livejournal.com]

I hate staying home too. Feel like I'm slacking off somehow. And at home I'm just sitting around on the computer - that's what I do at work, so what's the difference? Except it never really works out that way in real life. A couple weeks ago my cold made me stay home on Tuesday, but Wednesday I figured I was well enough to go back to work. I ended up feeling awful, utterly unable to concentrate, and even ended up taking a 2 hour nap in the middle of the day at work. Clearly I should have stayed home.

Only you can say what the right choice is for tomorrow, but my experience says that if you're at all in doubt, ignore the brain weasels and stay home and get some rest.

Glad to hear you're still breathing and even doing pretty well, all things considered!

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[ailbhe]

I thought it was *so* rosemantic that I nearly exploded. I can tell I'm going to go and read them all again soon. I loved the fridge-raiding bit.

I still haven't read *anything* else in that anthology, though.

[selki.livejournal.com]

oh boy oh boy! Will hit the bookstore on the way home, thanks for the tip.