The flu is gone. It's time to get back to work.
I only wish my brain worked that way. You see, being sick completely wrecked my self-imposed work regimen. I didn't write; I couldn't.
What I could do is lie there and watch junk TV while all those fissures in my brain smoothed themselves out. I had a solid week of nothing but the worst of the worst -- COPS. Las Vegas Jailhouse. Operation Repo. Even, heaven help me, World's Dumbest.
And I loved it. I loved every glorious empty moment of it. I didn't have to create, or critique, or even consider. All I had to do was watch. Slime mold should learn to me as passive as I. I was flatlined. Coroners gathered at my door. Undertakers made measurements. Crows stood on one foot, ready to snatch up a tender eyeball at an instant's notice.
That is my natural state. Mouth slightly open. TV flashing. Eyes blank and staring. Nominal heartbeat and respiration, just enough to keep the TV remote in play.
Top of the food chain, Ma!
But now that my traitor body has fought off the invaders, I can no longer claim fever and fatigue keep me from the keyboard. So here I am, fingers poised, ready to create Deathless Prose and Salable Manuscript.
I get as far as 'The' before some little voice whispers 'Hey, isn't 30 Rock on about now?'
It's a long slog back to productivity.
But here goes...
I only wish my brain worked that way. You see, being sick completely wrecked my self-imposed work regimen. I didn't write; I couldn't.
What I could do is lie there and watch junk TV while all those fissures in my brain smoothed themselves out. I had a solid week of nothing but the worst of the worst -- COPS. Las Vegas Jailhouse. Operation Repo. Even, heaven help me, World's Dumbest.
And I loved it. I loved every glorious empty moment of it. I didn't have to create, or critique, or even consider. All I had to do was watch. Slime mold should learn to me as passive as I. I was flatlined. Coroners gathered at my door. Undertakers made measurements. Crows stood on one foot, ready to snatch up a tender eyeball at an instant's notice.
That is my natural state. Mouth slightly open. TV flashing. Eyes blank and staring. Nominal heartbeat and respiration, just enough to keep the TV remote in play.
Top of the food chain, Ma!
But now that my traitor body has fought off the invaders, I can no longer claim fever and fatigue keep me from the keyboard. So here I am, fingers poised, ready to create Deathless Prose and Salable Manuscript.
I get as far as 'The' before some little voice whispers 'Hey, isn't 30 Rock on about now?'
It's a long slog back to productivity.
But here goes...
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