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bheansidhe offered to grab me ginger ale and more won ton soup today. I upped the ante and asked if she'd be willing to drive me to Kroger, as I was feeling better and wouldn't mind getting out for a bit. And with the impending "ice storm" worries, I wanted to grab the stuff we need (like OJ for Elayna) asap.
After grabbing groceries there (including lots and lots of ginger ale) and soup at the chinese restaurant (got won ton and egg drop this time), we came back and chowed down. Other than the noodles I dumped in the soup, I've avoided solid foods pretty completely for the last day now. It definitely seems to be helping. I'll be making a pasta bake for dinner tonight, so that'll be my first attempt at true solids again.
One nice thing about the last few days is that I've gotten lots of reading done.
I finished Night Watch, for one, and I must say, it got better as it went along (and especially once the time-travel "meat' of the plot kicked in). It still dealt with some issues that might be too serious for a typical DW novel, but they were all integrally connected to the world's history. This was, to put it simply, more Men at Arms than The Fifth Elephant.
I then re-read the first Riverworld novel (To Your Scattered Bodies Go). It's been literally twenty years since I read it, and I really regret not re-reading it sooner. It's still damned good. Much of what I love about it was stuff I missed the first time (like not catching the very obvious PJ Farmer surrogate character, Frigate), but I'm just really enjoying Farmer's style. I'm really enjoying rediscovering the New Wave movement. I'm now halfway through the second book, and loving it just as much. How could I not love a book about Sam Clemins on aRoadRiver Trip with a lisping giant?
I followed this up with the latest Burke novel from Andrew Vachss, Only Child. Like Night Watch, it takes a while to build up (there's a good twenty or thirty pages wasted on something that, as far as I can tell, is solely there to set up a future novel with a major Mama plotline), but once it gets going, it's damned solid. Vachss has started to find his sense of humor over the last few years, and although it never gets in the way of the serious world about which he writes, it adds to the depth of his characters (and makes the tragic stuff a lot more touching -- the off-screen death of a long-time minor character really affected me).
And I've also caught up on Andromeda and the Sopranos on the Tivo. It's amazing how efficient I can be when I'm merely entertaining myself!
Oh, as for the final health update, I'm about 90% better. My major issue right now is weakness, more likely the result of lack of sustinence than anything else. Also a major hurting in my shoulder, due to the fact that when Elayna and Shadesong returned from karate last night, Elayna felt the need to ring the doorbell forty-six times, cause me (in my fevered and napping state) to start up, pushing my weight down on my shoulder. Twenty years from now, I'll be referring to my bum shoulder as an "old war wound," and have a nifty story about how I got hurt while saving my entire platoon. Temperature-wise, I'm at a bit over 99, which is high, but not excessively so.
And on that note, time to pre-heat the oven.
bheansidhe offered to grab me ginger ale and more won ton soup today. I upped the ante and asked if she'd be willing to drive me to Kroger, as I was feeling better and wouldn't mind getting out for a bit. And with the impending "ice storm" worries, I wanted to grab the stuff we need (like OJ for Elayna) asap.After grabbing groceries there (including lots and lots of ginger ale) and soup at the chinese restaurant (got won ton and egg drop this time), we came back and chowed down. Other than the noodles I dumped in the soup, I've avoided solid foods pretty completely for the last day now. It definitely seems to be helping. I'll be making a pasta bake for dinner tonight, so that'll be my first attempt at true solids again.
One nice thing about the last few days is that I've gotten lots of reading done.
I finished Night Watch, for one, and I must say, it got better as it went along (and especially once the time-travel "meat' of the plot kicked in). It still dealt with some issues that might be too serious for a typical DW novel, but they were all integrally connected to the world's history. This was, to put it simply, more Men at Arms than The Fifth Elephant.
I then re-read the first Riverworld novel (To Your Scattered Bodies Go). It's been literally twenty years since I read it, and I really regret not re-reading it sooner. It's still damned good. Much of what I love about it was stuff I missed the first time (like not catching the very obvious PJ Farmer surrogate character, Frigate), but I'm just really enjoying Farmer's style. I'm really enjoying rediscovering the New Wave movement. I'm now halfway through the second book, and loving it just as much. How could I not love a book about Sam Clemins on a
I followed this up with the latest Burke novel from Andrew Vachss, Only Child. Like Night Watch, it takes a while to build up (there's a good twenty or thirty pages wasted on something that, as far as I can tell, is solely there to set up a future novel with a major Mama plotline), but once it gets going, it's damned solid. Vachss has started to find his sense of humor over the last few years, and although it never gets in the way of the serious world about which he writes, it adds to the depth of his characters (and makes the tragic stuff a lot more touching -- the off-screen death of a long-time minor character really affected me).
And I've also caught up on Andromeda and the Sopranos on the Tivo. It's amazing how efficient I can be when I'm merely entertaining myself!
Oh, as for the final health update, I'm about 90% better. My major issue right now is weakness, more likely the result of lack of sustinence than anything else. Also a major hurting in my shoulder, due to the fact that when Elayna and Shadesong returned from karate last night, Elayna felt the need to ring the doorbell forty-six times, cause me (in my fevered and napping state) to start up, pushing my weight down on my shoulder. Twenty years from now, I'll be referring to my bum shoulder as an "old war wound," and have a nifty story about how I got hurt while saving my entire platoon. Temperature-wise, I'm at a bit over 99, which is high, but not excessively so.
And on that note, time to pre-heat the oven.
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Date: 2002-12-04 02:51 pm (UTC)I liked Vachss' earlier stuff, but not so much since he moved away from pure narrative into story-telling via vignette. What's this one like?
I caught up a bit on tv, too. Boston Public, which is hysterically eventful, far past the point of plausibility, yet done straight-faceed, and Bring It On, which is about cheerleading but way better than I'd expected. I hate not being able to do much...
When I've had a fever, I'm often shaky for a ew days, but then fine. Hope you are, too!
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Date: 2002-12-04 05:31 pm (UTC)I've often described Boston Public as "The Very Special Episode" show. I haven't enjoyed a David Kelly show since Picket Fences, though.
We love Bring it On, though -- damned fun movie (and it has Kirsten Dunst).
I hope you feel better!
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Date: 2002-12-04 04:10 pm (UTC)By the end, I found myself really impressed with Night Watch in a way that I haven't been with a Discworld novel for quite a while.
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Date: 2002-12-04 05:47 pm (UTC)Yeah, the more I think on Night Watch, the happier I am with it. The chunk in the middle was some of his best stuff yet.
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Date: 2002-12-04 04:12 pm (UTC)And I'm glad there's someone like bheansidhe who cares enough about you to help you get the stuff you need to feel better. I hope your health continues to improve, the faster the better.
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Date: 2002-12-04 05:50 pm (UTC)And yes, good friends (and, from a selfish standpoint, good friends with no jobs or other daytime commitments) are a wonderful thing.
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Date: 2002-12-04 06:28 pm (UTC)If I lived close enough, I'd have come and done the dishes myself, and threatened you with THAT LOOK(tm) if you didn't take it easy and get some rest.
Not to ruin my good rep..
Date: 2002-12-04 07:19 pm (UTC)unemployed bumfree-lance professional currently between active contracts, and thus had no time committments. ;)Plus I bought the boy lunch when he d'oh! fergot the cash he'd just withdrawn & left it sitting in the money machine slot.. ouch!