day five of … sitting at home, ill. BORED NOW. have rewired the stereo system, already completed major bookshelf overhaul, hung up a picture, and am tired of television, the intarwebs, and reading.

on the bright side, i seem to be able to talk and even sing today, if badly, off-key and ridiculously nasal (and i miss all the higher notes, just because i can’t make those sounds at all apparently — it’s a bit weird really, trying and having nothing come out. nonetheless, anyone who’s capable of making me really, really angry will be gratified to learn that i will be incapable of using my usual shrill voice to express my sentiments. sad!). plus, most of the time, now, trying to take a deep breath doesn’t even trigger a really rotten-sounding cough, wherein my lungs attempt to exit my body via the trachea. so that’s a plus. no, now the cough just sort of lies in wait for me to be unprepared. still, a change is welcome, if nothing else.

i have high hopes for returning to work tomorrow. which is really too bad, because we’re completely overstaffed and ahead of schedule on everything, so i’m sure that my having been out of the office since last thursday has had absolutely no effect on anything at all.