A Strange Week

This week has been one of the strangest weeks of my life.  Monday I took annual leave from work, just one day, as I was planning to watch the Superbowl on TV the night before and it would be a late one.  However struck by a cold, which refuses to go and is one of the most severe I have had in a long time, I was forced to take the following four days off work as sick leave, with prescribed bed rest from my doctor. 

The cold, it seems, is a lingering infection, viral or bacterial I don't yet know.  But throughout the week on and off I have felt, lethargic, dizzy, headachey, sick, and suffered a sore throat, ear ache and swollen glands.  My son has had the same symptoms and been put on antibiotics, he is recovering, but his hearing for the moment remains impaired.  If I am not better by tomorrow I will also be on antibiotics.

One good thing to come from our restful days is that my son has rediscovered a love of books.  Although only four, so not yet reading, my son is a bit of a car nut and has a book from the Top Gear show, called 'Where's the Stig' which is a parody of 'Where's Wally'.  In his book we have to hunt the busy (often politically incorrect) pictures for various things, including the Stig himself, from this well know British TV show.  In fact he's enjoying it so much we've ordered the following years version.  'Where's the Stig? The World Tour' and we've got Where's Wally from the library.  It's been lovely to lay in bed with my son, as buzzing as my head has been, and enjoy the simple pleasure of looking at books together.

In between hours of sleep in the middle of the day, accompanied by my laptop and propped up on pillows, I've been surfing the net and writing when mind and body felt up to the challenge.  I've progressed with Nabakov's Lolita, although not that far, as anytime I remain still I get the urge to sleep.  Once I am back on my daily routine of bus journeys to and from work I have no doubt I will sail through the book easily.  The prose is, as I said before, enchanting.

Whilst surfing I've found a site which allows me to do a lot technical articles, magazine style, which looks promising and I look forward to becoming a valuable member of the community there.  It will combine all my skills and may even boost my writing profile.

The shorts are also coming back to me, I will always love my fictional writing.  As soon as I've posted this I'm off to find a home for a new piece, as well as Big Red--I do love that guy.

Novel progress on The Ripper project been slow this week as both of us have colds and other projects have demanded our attention, not to mention work in my partners case.  But I am hopeful we will pick up the bat again in the next couple of days.