This can usually be found on Twitter.
So, there ends the weekend which was not a weekend. As a way to start the next week, I woke up (after re-sleeping, then having a really weird dream about packing to return to Singapore - from Manek? - and, later, two charging elephants) - I wake up at 10:45, which is pretty much the earliest I can wake up and not have time for breakfast.
As an aside, in case you are not one with the Twitter, the weekend which was not a weekend was not a weekend because of a illness which struck me down pretty much exactly on Friday evening, then let go of me around Monday ("three day weekend") afternoon. Extraordinarily boring, and - initially - somewhat painful, but there you go. My upsides are still clogged with goo - ugh! - but everything's a whole lot better than it was, and I expect all symptoms to vanish (except maybe for mornings) by tomorrow or the day after.
The other reason for making this post - apart from solidifying much anti-rhinovirus rhetoric and complaining about a lack of breakfast options today - was to make a mental note of how disturbing - both in language and deed - are these two very disturbing (but completely unrelated) cases. So much for right-to-speech (as always, subsection 2 bites us where the sun don't shine).
On a cheerier note: there have been some fantastic LOLcats on ICHCB lately. Including: that is not right, Right around the next corner NO NOT LIKE THAT NO STOP, (average) *Caught*, Oh my, the religious cameleopard, and - the pièce de résistance - Cat in repose in other's bed.
Let's hope things pep up at work somewhat. Otherwise: another day, another week! Luckily, a shorter one than usual.
Labels: free speech, human rights, india, lolcats, sickness, twitter
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I'm happy. Yes, I'm also sick, lonely, bored, tired, sleepy, awake, restless, irritated, overworked, and just plain angsty. But I'm happy? No particular reason. I took the day off from work because I was sick, and spent most of it lying around being sick. And yet, and yet - I had a nice session of Rome, watched a couple of interesting things on TV (including part of St. Elmo's Fire and Mythbusters - the one where they try breaking into an office using Hollywood techniques), and am ending the day feeling ... happy and fulfilled. The friends who that Valentine's Day note on my blog went out to seem to have mostly made it through okay =), and ... yeah, that's about it. Nothing bad, something possibly good, so it's a scratch above the zero line in the final call. Which is fine by me.
God's in his heaven, all's right with the world! -- Robert Browning
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Feel like shit. No exaggeration. Couldn't sleep properly last night, then woke up with a sore throat, nausea, and general weakness (as well as some remnants of yesterday's illness). Either this is really the third 'sick' day I've had in something like two or three weeks (although, in all fairness, the first two days were pretty straightforward food poisoning).
If I feel this sick tomorrow, I'm taking the day off. Seriously. This just ain't worth it no mo.
P.S. To all my friends who are having love/crush/relationship issues this Valentine's day: HOPE IT GETS BETTER!
Labels: sickness, today, valentines day
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Excuse the mood, but then, here is the situation:
Then again, I'm lying on my bed, snot pouring out like its going out of style, so I guess I have the right to be depressed. Sigh. It'll be better tomorrow. Also, my birthday is coming up.
Could be worse, I guess. Check out this chick. Also: if I'm going to be worried I'll "never find true love", now is a horrible time to do that - I have a very annoying habit of getting major crushes in end-Feb/early-Mar. So, y'know, wait until mid-April or so, and then accept that it's all overs oh noes etc.
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That stupid photograph of Sue the dinosaur mould has finally dropped off the top of my list of my "most popular photos (sorted by interestingness)" on Flickr. Its position has been taken by the much more interesting Eastern Express Highway. In other news, my photo of Ruby Pan has had 400 views, way more than any other I've got online, despite the fact that t3htarik still has a much better photograph of her (the importance of metadata, I guess!).
I still feel really, really weak (not to mention horribly bored: lying around all day watching TV can do that to you), but hopefully my illness will pass by tomorrow. Watched a lot of Yes Minister, and ate a lot, and lay around doing very little.
I also got a clock/radio/alarm thingie, so I might actually wake up on time, as well as learn a little as I listen to BBC World while blogging at night. Like right now.
Anyways, sleepytime. Seeya all after I go comatose for a few hours, hallucinate vividly, and then maybe suffer amnesia about the whole incident.
Labels: flickr, sickness, xkcd
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"A beach house," he said, "doesn't even have to be on the beach. Though the best ones are. We all like to congregate," he went on, "at boundary conditions". "Really?" said Arthur. "Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where body meets mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other."