Continental Drift

Still not well, but overall, feeling a lot better than before. Small fever and sore throat, still tired, still sneezing, but no pains. I'm reasonably hopeful I might actually be well again by Monday.

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Have spent most of the day alternating between the bed and the sofa, under Musti. ( Cut for pointless whining. )

And I'm trying to think of something good to say as well ... er, I think I managed to reschedule the health check-up for March. Not sure if that is good or not.

I was hoping that the low fever that's been bothering me in the evenings for over a week now was finally gone... but looks like the rain I got caught in today has brought it back.

I do hate having this sort of low fever... not really enough to complain, not enough to justify not going to the office (especially as it's always gone by morning), but enough to make me feel utterly tired and achy and heated.

At least it's only four days until holidays. I really can't wait. Can finally catch up with reading and stuff again, I hope... I haven't even managed to read the last several sshg_exchange fics.

I hate November. Yes, I know it's December already, but it feels like November. Dark and grey, grey, grey.

Why can't we have snow already? At least it would give some light. It's been weeks since I've seen anything that isn't greyness outside... well, I suspect there was some sunshine the other day, but as I've been waking up so late in the day lately, it's generally sunset about 2 hours after I get up, so I don't really get to experience it.

I should be going out, getting some fresh air and all that, but going out in this weather's just making it all worse. Oh well, I will have to go out on Wednesday anyway, whether I want to or not... obviously, I don't want to, but to be honest, a full medical checkup is probably what I need right now, so I should be glad that it's obligatory and organised for me by the company. Maybe I'll finally find out what is wrong with me - although to be honest, I'm not sure what I worry about more: finding out that there is something wrong, or finding out that there is nothing wrong and I'm just going around fainting and feeling dead for no good reason at all.

I seem to be in need of sleep. Slept until 12 yesterday and until 12:45 today... okay, so I didn't get to sleep until nearly 3 last night, but even so, I think I slept quite a bit. It's rather nice. :-D

What is not quite as nice is that my left shoulder and hip continue aching. No bruising though, which is odd. Oh well. And my back seems to have got hurt too - something I didn't even notice until yesterday afternoon. Not much, but there's some hurting in the left side, and a rather visible scratch as well (and not a kitty scratch for a change). I have no idea where I could have hit that. Have been trying to figure out my fall trajectory, but this doesn't seem to be working.

Pätsu is starting to get on my nerves though. She's been wanting a boy for over a month now, taking a break of a day or two now and then and then starting again with increasing enthusiasm. It's rather grating, not just the wailing (which can get bad enough) but that she doesn't care about where she does her business when she's like this... always have to stay on guard and see that she doesn't go to my bed or take my clothes, etc.

I'm not sure the fresh air yesterday helped that much... feeling really rather crappy today. Headache, massive sneezing, sore throat again... no fever now at least (but some last night again). Plus my neck, shoulders, upper back and upper arms ache. A lot. Didn't feel it yesterday but I suppose it's a sign of how bloody unfit I've got... wouldn't surprise me if it's because of the camera yesterday. Although it's not really that heavy, so I guess I just need more practice. ;-)

I did feel the strain when taking vertical pictures, felt fairly strong muscle shake in the upper arms then (I think the weather didn't help). Bleh. (And then big idiot men write long posts in photo forums whining about the trend in having a few smaller DSLRs available too and saying all cameras should be huge bricks because they keep hitting the wrong buttons and don't have space for their fingers... just bloody get one of the bigger cameras yourself then!)

And it's raining today. Grrr.

I know I should really go out anyway... I need a new mouse, for example. But I suppose I can still survive without that for a few days. It's just the scroll wheel acting up and mostly not working... just need to remember to use the keyboard scroll wheel more then for now. And arrow keys. Still annoying... the mouse isn't even that old, so it's not an expense I counted on having any time yet. Now for the search for a usable mouse that has a couple of extra buttons without being an over the top l33t gamer mouse costing a fortune... seems this middle range isn't that well catered for these days (i.e. the middle ground between the most basic mice, which I don't want, and the ultra super mega übercool gaming mice, which I certainly don't want).

And I think that's enough whining for now. ;-)

I wonder if it's doing all this work that is making sure I'm not actually getting any better... have had fever again every evening now, and massively sneezy mornings. In any case, the nice people at work are making sure I won't have a chance to go wandering about in the cold moist weather and get worse, what with sending me a bit more work. And then a bit more work. "A bit" meaning a full day's workload again or so.

On the other hand, the work I did in the first three days this week would just rather nicely cover the 70mm f/2.4 prime that Photopoint has just started selling... argh!! I need to remind myself I don't need a full collection of primes at every imaginable focal length. I'm not a photographer! I don't even dare to change the lens anywhere but at home! (At least I've got better at that. Of course, the more often I change it, the more likely I'm going to face the issue of sensor cleaning at some point, which is something I don't yet want to think about. I should get some cleaning kit though, at least an air blower.) I need to remember that there are really only two more lenses I "need"... one normal one with a bit more range than the kit lens... the Sigma 17-70mm should do nicely there, plus it's a macro lens, covering that need too, and then a cheapish telezoom... yet bloody Pentax keeps seducing me with those small flat limited primes which are just so very, very pretty and small...

*weeps*

Pah. I should start working instead of daydreaming about prime lenses. (And who the hell daydreams about prime lenses anyway? It's a bit silly.) And take advantage of the fact that I don't have a kitty climbing around me at the moment.

Well, yay, because that means I can work at home! Of course, if I had known I wouldn't be getting work until half past one, I could have watched Torchwood in the morning or something... now I have 20,000 words (which, I think, I'm expected to do in three days or so) and shouldn't really be wasting time on anything else... oh well, I have a cold, I'm allowed to take breaks. ;-)