The Anecdotal Life Part. 76
I am a flu-ridden person. A walking, flu-ridden person, but all the same, the flu is in there, crawling around inside my head upsetting the mental furniture and thus, my equilibrium. When your equilibrium gets upset, it affects your stomach and so on down the line... as it were. Today, I can't even think inside the box , though the word box is not appropriate since my head feels like a large musty trunk in the back of the attic that everybody's scared to open. Admittedly, sometimes I even look o.k., but not today. When I get over the current dizzy spell I will limp to the shower so I can stand myself.
Elsewhere in my life," Things are not improving" either. I finally got the Citizen's Bank of Rhode Island to understand that, though I realize they have a busy schedule chasing bankruptcies, and since it is a New year, could they possibly consider sending me a 1098 for the boat loan and interest? They had sent one to my old address and I was taking a paranoid trip about identity thieves getting it. The flu, at least, levels one's thinking. If identity thieves want my loan, they can have it. For that matter, they can have my identity while they are at it. It hasn't been doing me a heck of a lot of good. I feel like this quote may well have been one some Trekkie made up as he or she entered a Star Trek convention." who am I? where am I? who are all these funny looking people ( particularly the big furry one with the pointy ears and red eyes )? and why am I wearing these funny looking clothes?" I think it was a play on a line by Spock or should have been. My father went through a two-year Spock period after my mother died. Flu has this effect. I haven't had the flu since 1966, so I shouldn't complain over just a few lost days.
I had , a few days ago, in another country it seems, gone up to the boat to find out when my boat would be launched so that I could relay this info to the Captain I had hired to do the job. But oh golly, I had the wrong date in my head. What again this year?! They won't be launching it until May 1st. That meant I'd have to find a new captain to do the deed i.e., move the boat to a new marina near the Bay Bridge, because Captain Jeff will be off in the Bahamas or something. As I slowly made a weak pass at sorting out my thinking and climbed into the front seat of my car, the first dizzy spell of flu hit. If I kept my face straight ahead, I could make it home and knew it, but it was slow going and I began running out of gas in North Baltimore. That gas station probably thought they had an early morning, military type, drunk on their hands. I kept making abrupt right and left turns to keep from turning my head. But! I made it home with only one lurch into the side door of my car when I got out into my parking lot. Apparently, there is a great deal of flu going around for all to partake of this wonderfully, leveling experience. So be careful and here's to better days....and nights darn it. The electricity went off for five hours last night. That was really riveting when I thought of "my condition" and depositing two rowdy, spring-driven cats somewhere. But as I said, "better days".
Copyright: February 20, 2008
Elsewhere in my life," Things are not improving" either. I finally got the Citizen's Bank of Rhode Island to understand that, though I realize they have a busy schedule chasing bankruptcies, and since it is a New year, could they possibly consider sending me a 1098 for the boat loan and interest? They had sent one to my old address and I was taking a paranoid trip about identity thieves getting it. The flu, at least, levels one's thinking. If identity thieves want my loan, they can have it. For that matter, they can have my identity while they are at it. It hasn't been doing me a heck of a lot of good. I feel like this quote may well have been one some Trekkie made up as he or she entered a Star Trek convention." who am I? where am I? who are all these funny looking people ( particularly the big furry one with the pointy ears and red eyes )? and why am I wearing these funny looking clothes?" I think it was a play on a line by Spock or should have been. My father went through a two-year Spock period after my mother died. Flu has this effect. I haven't had the flu since 1966, so I shouldn't complain over just a few lost days.
I had , a few days ago, in another country it seems, gone up to the boat to find out when my boat would be launched so that I could relay this info to the Captain I had hired to do the job. But oh golly, I had the wrong date in my head. What again this year?! They won't be launching it until May 1st. That meant I'd have to find a new captain to do the deed i.e., move the boat to a new marina near the Bay Bridge, because Captain Jeff will be off in the Bahamas or something. As I slowly made a weak pass at sorting out my thinking and climbed into the front seat of my car, the first dizzy spell of flu hit. If I kept my face straight ahead, I could make it home and knew it, but it was slow going and I began running out of gas in North Baltimore. That gas station probably thought they had an early morning, military type, drunk on their hands. I kept making abrupt right and left turns to keep from turning my head. But! I made it home with only one lurch into the side door of my car when I got out into my parking lot. Apparently, there is a great deal of flu going around for all to partake of this wonderfully, leveling experience. So be careful and here's to better days....and nights darn it. The electricity went off for five hours last night. That was really riveting when I thought of "my condition" and depositing two rowdy, spring-driven cats somewhere. But as I said, "better days".
Copyright: February 20, 2008
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