Grab a keyboard

I'm an infrequent blogger. In the past year, I've managed about 3 posts per month, on average. Maybe it's laziness. Or maybe just that I've been out of the habit so long, it takes a lot to get me to make the effort of blogging in the first place.

How funny would it be to optimistically sign up for NaBloWriMo (yes, like that other thing, but with an even more mangled abbreviation), hoping to make a blog post every day in November, and then check on December 1st and find I'd still only done 3 blog posts? You know it's likely to happen.

But I'll try anyway. (Although of course, if I fail dramatically, this post never existed, riiiight?)

I'm still feeling lousy from my bout of flu, which isn't fair because it's been five or six days and it's totally supposed to have gone by now. I've been hovering between proper flu (wanting to sleep all day, and still feeling tired) and a mere bad cold, but I think I'm heading flu-wards again today - temperature, exhaustion and aching eyes. Not to mention the nose that will not unblock (at the weekend I managed to go through 180 tissues in about 18 hours), the sore throat that will not go away, and everything else.

What I would like, please, is for the world to stop for another few days, or even a week, and then I can stay at home and get better and then go back in to uni without missing anything. As it stands, I haven't gone back in since Thursday morning, so I don't feel I can reasonably miss any more lectures. Not to mention that I have to go in for before 9am tomorrow to pick up some French homework (from last week's missed seminar) to complete in the afternoon before class on Thursday. Bah. Getting up before 7am (Kevin's not here, I have to take the bus) might just kill me.

I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to do for the rest of today. I want to nap, but that could defeat my aim of going to sleep really early tonight, so in the meantime I need to find something to do that doesn't require actual brainpower and, hopefully, not staring at the computer screen and making my eyes ache even more. Doing well so far, aren't I?