Alas, no blog today

I was so looking forward to my first open weekend after a couple months of convention marathoning. And then I got a tickle in my lungs. And I dragged myself off to do my coffee shop writing and get a haircut. And then my lungs started burning. And then came the phlegm. And I knew not only was I not going to get all sorts of useful things done over the weekend, but I wasn't going to do anything except lie in bed trying to get my lungs back. This is the current incarnation of whatever my "random respiratory bug" thing seems to be. It used to be it would start in my tonsils and sinuses and then work its way down to the lungs. Now at least it seems to start out in the lungs and mostly leave the sinuses alone. But, oh my, I had no idea you could have that much fluid in your lungs and still breathe successfully.

So Sunday I managed about 2 hours vertical and spent the rest trying to sleep through it (which isn't as easy as you might think when the temperature's in the 90s). Sent off an e-mail to my boss telling him not to expect me in on Monday (which saves me the anguish of trying to make decisions about how I'm feeling at an ungodly hour of the morning). And here it is Monday afternoon and I finally felt up to getting out of bed to do more than heat up some soup. But there will be no blog today. Sorry about that.