A bit fuzzy, but just imagine you have a mild fever.

Pretty remarkable for the Left Coast!  And this is proper snow, too, not those big clotted slushballs that Vancouver tries to pass off as snow.

I’m home with a bit of a cold and while I didn’t particularly want to have to give up a days’ work, or feel like a big bag of gross, I couldn’t have chosen a more picturesque day to be sick.  I have that sneaky staying-home-from-school feeling.  I’m eating cranberry muffins and black cherry yogurt and doing the dishes.

Actually, that reminded me of something else I wanted to write about:  Whence comes this desperate need to justify time off, and/or do as much as possible when staying home?  Is it some kind of hideous Calvinist hangover?  “Sorry, I just couldn’t make it in today, my lungs are outside of my body and my extremities are bloody stumps; can I telecommute until the weekend?”  “Yeah, I’m home sick.  My sarcoidosis is acting up again.  It’s all right though, I made 40 lbs. of almond brittle, gave the cat a bath, wrote the Great Canadian Novel, waxed the tub and did my hammered dulcimer practice.  I’m so lazy today; I think I’m going to go lie down.”  This might be related to one of my many anti-free-market rants, but I’ll just leave it at that for now…

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December 18th, 2008 Mom Says:

Love that blog!

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