On Blogging While Under the Weather
I’m in bad shape today. The details are unimportant – insert a huge paragraph about sleep issues and head-colds here, if you must – the important part is that I am very tired and very listless. That feeling you get where you lie awkwardly and cut off circulation to your arm, leaving it feeling numb and faintly foreign as you try to get blood to return? That is my entire body. Right now, I do a good line in staring absently into the middle distance. Not thinking, just…lost. Tired to the point where the very thought of doing something causes my brain to misfire. I bump into things when I walk around. I drop things: butter knives, coffee mugs, laundry baskets, pens. And yet, somewhere amid the haze and chaos that is today’s thought process, there was this singular idea: make sure you blog today, even though you don’t feel like it. Not because I have anything particularly useful to
