Snippitts of Illusions

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i'm tired. i've had a cold. a fairly indecent bad cold in fact, since thursday.
good news should be, that i'm nearly over it.
and i figure three, four more days tops i will be.
bad news is, i think i have a brand spanking new infection.
i won't bore you, or gross you out with the reasons why i have to suspect this, only that i do.
it was not at all cool on friday -that's when i clued in to this possibility- it was an annoyance on saturday, and i didn't even notice it yesterday, mostly due to the fact that i was asleep all day.
that's a problem too, i litterally slept all day.
i needed the rest, so that's not terrible, though waking up late in the evening and realizing that i probably won't get hardly any sleep this night and that i have a ton of shit to do the next day didn't make me feel good about life.
as for my infection, it bothered me little, small irratant is all, though i have to buck up and call the doctor, and i really don't want to.
he'll look at it and say yep, it's infected again, then prescribe me some incredibly overpriced anti-biotics to take for a week or two.
i'll do this, and it'll probably clear up.
why did this happen though?
well, a couple of things maybe: one i had a bit of the stomach flu last two weeks ago, and that wasn't pleasant, the fact that the wounds weren't still completely healed, and trying to keep that area completely clean while spending gross (and i mean that in every sense of the word) amounts of time on the toliet isn't easy. a second contributing factor may have been me trying to do a backwards fall in our "stage combat training" for macbeth. I know i hurt something then, because after i did it something hurt.
at anyrate, in the next day or two i'm going to be calling the doc, and he's going to look at my ass, then give me horse pills.
and i'm none too happy about this fact.
right now however my goal is to get through today.
if i can do that, i'll be allright.
maybe.

today is halloween, i was going to dress up, i really was.
and then i got sick over the weekend and it just didn't happen.
so i'm not dressed up... at least not as anything recognizable.
i do look a little like a bumb.
that's not cool.
but such is life.

pulled over this morning (yeah, the past few days have been terrific), the cop pulled me over because my brake light was out.
wow, he must have been having a slow morning.
or just thought i looked like a moron begging for a ticket.
and i must have been.
couldn't find a current insurance card, and i couldn't find my stinking registration, and when i found it, half of it was missing.
i got a fixit for the light, and a citation for the insurance, both will cost me next to nothing as long as i bring proof that they've been taken care of.

now as the day progresses at a snails pace, young'uns are coming into the store dressed in thier finest costumes.
the effect is quite frankly humorous, as the little kids look out of sorts in their costumes, which at times are ill fitted and look discomforting.
it makes me chuckle.
sometimes it makes me laugh.
the youngest of them especcially, trying to understand this strange ritual and tradition of halloween, they are either confused, over enthusiastic, or completely indifferent to the ordeal.
ahh to be young again.

posted by F.G. Shaw @ 10:33 AM