Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

I’m living in a land of Chloraseptic. My health hasn’t been great since Friday. I woke up feeling kind of puny, but I still went to the gym, and UGH, it all felt more difficult than it should have. That night, I woke up in a sweat and had a HORRIBLE experience which I won’t go into, because I’m a nice person who has learned that some things really are TMI. I will share that in order to break the fever, I had to slide into a bath of cold water. After that, I felt absolutely fine. Not sure if it was MSG or food poisoning or what… but it was bad. Very bad. Saturday was feeling cranky and low in energy. Then yesterday, I woke up with a raw throat and a regular old cold. Still have it today.

The good news is that my friend Jeff has loaned me the full series of the Joss Whedon television series, Firefly in order to prepare for a screening of the movie Serenity. It’s much more sci-fi than I would have chosen on my own, but I am really enjoying it, and now that I’ve gotten through enough of the exposition, the humor is starting to kick in. That always helps me. I’m also quite pleased about the inclusion of Alan Tudyk, who I’ve noticed for years. His character is great. He’s the competent pilot of the ship (very Millenium Falcony, if you ask me) who is married to the badass warrior woman, Zoe. I particularly enjoyed his initial scene in the series, where he is playing with plastic toy dinosaurs while sitting in the cockpit. He’s making the dinosaurs fight and says, “Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!” I guess I like sillies, and for the first few hours of this series, these are few and far between.

There’s lots more to say about life, television, and illness, but I wanted to launch the new (and probably dynamic) design of the blog with words rather than more pictures. I’m mostly expressing myself visually these days, and I don’t want anyone to worry I’ve gone mute (as if you’d think something like that!).