Surfacing

[chanaleh]

I had the Plague most of last week. It started with running a fever when I got home on Thursday night the 12th. Then it was up and down Friday, and then I was basically fine all weekend -- fine enough to actually run down to NYC for jessruth's birthday dinner on Saturday night and drive back the next morning (!), and run around to a concert and another b'day party and a rehearsal... before coming home and collapsing. By which time I was running a fever again, and so it went the rest of the week: wake up, feel not quite so on the brink of death, go to work (late, mostly), go to rehearsal... and be back on the brink of death by the time I crawled home. But I couldn't stay home altogether because the Major Work Event was coming up and I had a zillion things to do on deadline.

Also, did I mention I broke not one but two thermometers? (By dropping them while trying to either clean or shake them down.) The first was mercury, of which hazards I have a rather greater appreciation now that I am married to a crack hazmat response team scientist; the second was the non-mercury replacement which I bought (after a few days of getting annoyed with J's digital one reading anywhere from 97.9 to 98.1) and then dropped immediately upon completing the first use.

But by Friday I was on the mend (physically, if still bottoming out emotionally, but that's also much improved now as PMS Day is past and my general reserves are bouncing back). Got in some R&R this weekend, thanks in part to having bagged on lunacon -- and the Major Work Event went off successfully on Sunday night. So for this couple of days, we're doing several kinds of post-event cleanup and enjoying being able to leave at 5:30pm again.

Tonight: a mountain of laundry (literally, it's towering about 3 feet high at this point) and dinner with ablock before my 9:15pm rehearsal call. And it's sunny and mild out and I am, despite the lingering low-grade hacking cough, happy.

J is going on interview #4 this week -- at Columbia! *does the dance of joy* He's going down Wednesday afternoon, interviewing Thursday and some of Friday, returning Friday evening. (Interview trip #3 was March 5-7, to IU Bloomington. No further commentary on that for now, at least in the public record.)

And Thursday is Rosh Chodesh Nisan, which means Passover is barely 2 weeks away. On the one hand: Gah! On the other: I get an honest-to-God work vacation the entire week, much of which (after getting back from having both seders in Virginia, which I'm also much looking forward to) I expect to spend on housecleaning and general life maintenance, in the best possible ways... and admixed with judicious amounts of plain goofing off. Awww yeah. *dusts off the GameCube*

April calendaring to come next week. ;-)

Comments

[jehanna.livejournal.com]

Yay, resurfacing!

I'm looking forward to Passover too...several days in the woods with parents & cats. Ahhh.

[smacaski.livejournal.com]

I just celebrated PMS Day last week, but I didn't even get the day off from work--how lame is that?

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

PMS Day is definitely best observed with a day off work. *nods sagely*

Mine usually hit on the weekend, though, for whatever reason... but this time it was totally Friday. Totally. Gah.

[besamim.livejournal.com]

Glad you're feeling better.

Out of curiosity, is the Pesach leave at your school paid (I would hope so given it's closed for the week)? I once worked at a Judaica store and the owner (who was, shall we say, frugal) told me upon hiring that he figured if he doesn't make any money from yontif, we employees shouldn't either. Yeah...

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

It's considered a staff holiday, so yeah, paid. (I'm on salary, anyway; I don't know how exactly it is handled for hourly folks, if there even are any, but I'm sure they're paid accordingly.)

[moria923.livejournal.com]

Glad you're feeling better. This year's rounds of colds and flus seemed to start early and end late for lots of folks. I sure hope it's gone for good, but who can tell?

You mentioned last year you might be able to recommend a goy-friendly seder. If so, I'd love to know now. For a long time I've wanted to experience one, especially since Christian Easter was originally based on Passover.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, there's actually a Dorchester seder which is probably the one I was thinking of to recommend to you. I usually get email from miraclaire about it, which I'll forward to you, if she doesn't weigh in here first. :-)

[lonebear.livejournal.com]

I will try to convince you to come visit. It's not too far away. And if you are crazy enough to be driving, we are on the way. :)

[c1.livejournal.com]

Nice you're on the mend!

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Very glad you're feeling better!

Has he been able to interview anywhere local?

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Not so far. Nashville, Houston, Bloomington, and now NYC. :-}

Of course, there's still no actual prospect of moving until one of those makes him an offer.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

We can hope...