Sick
May 31st 2004 -
Sick
Yup, that’s me. I took half of Thursday and all of Friday off work sick, and then the worst of the cold hit on the weekend and I wasn’t able to breathe through my nose for three days or so. On the bright side, the illness got me down under 85kg thus allowing me to have sweets again, so yay. Enjoy them, no, have them, yes.
Also, I didn’t do any writing until last night. Fortunately, I was ahead in the writing to the tune of about three days, so I’m still on schedule, for what it’s worth. I’m not sure how long the novel will be.
The worst bit of not-writing is getting back into it again after having not-written for a while. The bit-to-be-written seems more and more insurmountable the longer I put it off, and (in this case) required that I sit down in front of the computer and not do anything at all for almost half an hour until I eventually stopped feeling sorry for myself.
Firefly
We watched some more Firefly at Jon & Kate’s on the weekend, and enjoyed it a bunch. I don’t think it’s quite lived up to the promise of the pilot – there have been a couple of fairly indifferent episodes – but I’m still happy with it and keen to watch it to the bitter end. Or sweet end, or however it ends.
Settlers
Played a six-player game at lunch today, and pulled out a very unlikely victory – I wasn’t doing particularly well throughout, and two people got very close to winning so we were all battling to stop them getting longest road (by stealing their clay, for example). And I managed to get largest army (nobody else was really competing for resource cards) and draw two resource card victory points and that was that. Andrew K. was righteously annoyed, as he was drawing six ore every time an eight was rolled – or would, if it ever got rolled when the robber wasn’t on the square.