05.05.04
Cold time
I don’t think I’ve ever experienced before this particular side effect of having a cold : time creeps along.
I woke up this morning feeling both horribly aware of my body shivering, and at the same time distant from the body. I didn’t get up, planning on a long slow crawl into work well after rush hour.
I dozed. I dawdled. I took a long bath. I finally got myself together and found myself ready for work.
It was 7:30. I was ahead of myself.
Perhaps my time perception is being knocked askew by the cold virus. Usually, I would expect to sleepwalk my way through a cold, the time melting away in the fever. On this occasion, it is holding firm.
Blue Witch said,
May 10, 2004 at 9:03 pm
When Mr BW gets like this, I hide his car keys and ring his secretary, because, although he wants to go in, I know he shouldn’t (he’s had less than 30 days off in 23 years I might add, all but one of them in the last 11 years since I’ve known him).
Hope you’re soon feeling better.
And, as a wise person once said to me when I’d struggled in when I shouldn’t, “BW, go home, they don’t throw any medals in the grave you know.”