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September 20, 2006
Home. Sick.
I think I've made it pretty clear here that I've been burning the candle at both ends. Recently, however, I also added a wick in the middle, and now it's all caught up with me.
I started feeling kind of odd on Monday, but ignored it because I really don't have time right now to pay attention to these things. Plus, I suspected it might be a hesitancy to participate in the acting classes I'm auditing, and I didn't want to let myself run away from the stuff I need to work on. I'm not letting the fear win.
Then, rehearsal Monday night was long and tedious. (First runs always are, when everyone is struggling to figure out how all of the separate pieces fit together and trying to remember their lines and, ugh. They're just painful and everybody knows that.) It was also really cold in the theatre, and I let my core temp drop too far without realizing it, I think. I had enough clothes with me, I was just warm when I got there and never put enough back on.
So yesterday, when I woke up, I didn't really have a functioning brain, which made my classes interesting when I was trying to explain things. (Because it was TLAPD, I had eye patches for the speakers who slipped the best use of pirate dialect or lingo into their in-class assignments. That was fun.) But I felt kinda off all day.
Then I walked in the rain (without a coat because I'm smart like that) all the way to the costume shop to get re-measured for Salesman. My last measurements there were taken in the spring of 2005. Since then, we discovered, I've lost 1.5 inches in my waist, 1.5 inches in my hips and .5 inches in my bust. Yay!!! And I'm not planning on stopping here. I've got another 15-20 lbs to go to get where I want to be.
I walked all the way back to my office after the fitting, yawning all the way. Once there, I sat and stared at things until I realized I wasn't going to get any more work done. So I packed up and came home. I only left the house again to go to rehearsal where I led the vocal warmups. Then I toddled home again and lay for a while on the couch, staring at things. This whole time, my nose was beginning to run more and more, and then I started sneezing. A lot. So I took an anti-lung junk med and some anti-lung swelling meds and some Airborne and I went to bed. Where I gave myself a little reiki treatment. I fell asleep in the middle of it, but when I woke up in the middle of the night, my nose was clear and my sinuses were clear and my lungs were clear. They were all also clear this morning at 10:40 when I finally woke up (no teaching today, thank goodness), but now things are starting to get active again.
I'm feeling more mentally alert than I have in a couple of days, and it's wonderful to know that I don't have to be anywhere until tomorrow morning, if I don't want to be. I'm hoping that'll take care of the dripping nasties. There are things I need to do today that involve my office at school, but I'm hoping I can talk Dave into running in there for me. (Though he doesn't know where my office is, much less how to finesse the cranky lock.) So today is going to be about resting, working my lines, creating a lesson plan for tomorrow and resting some more.
Also maybe cleaning the living room. And my office. And the kitchen. And sorting some laundry. And cleaning the bathroom.
Ugh. I want a day off that's off, dammit, not one where I feel the need to fix shit.
Posted by sally at September 20, 2006 12:15 PM
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