Quote of the Day: "The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play." - Arnold Toynbee
I'm baaaaack! No, not from the dead, but from the seriously bitten by the latest bug to be going around. Ugh! Did ya miss me? <g>
This whatever it is bug has been circulating around where I work. It's terrible. Everyone has caught it. They need to close the whole place for a week and fumigate or something. Yesterday, I was talking to a co-worker, who's about a day behind me in the recovery department, and he said he went to the doctor. Nodding the whole time, the doctor listened to his list of symptoms - scratchy cough, aches and pains, bad headache (the worst!), horrible metallic taste in his mouth, loss of appetite - then confirmed, "Something going around." He'd obviously heard that same list of symptoms far too many times, so I guess it not just a Winebow company thing. If you're sick and you have those symptoms, you've got it. Welcome to the club, we miserable ones do love our company. Ibuprofen anyone?
At least my cats were happy. They had a warm body to lay on for three solid days and nights. Of course they had to move when I shifted position. They weren't happy about that, but I don't think they were looking this particular gift horse in the mouth.
I'm looking for a ray of sunshine here ... the one good thing about this is a total loss of appetite. I want to eat. I made chicken soup. I made noodles with butter. Two spoonfuls and that's it. I'm done. The only thing I've been able to manage is rice pudding. I had a craving for it and figured, what the heck, I'm not eating anything else. Even had to force that down, but it didn't take as much effort. Now you know I'm sick, if I have to force down rice pudding. I just love rice pudding. Maybe I'll lose some weight if my appetite stays away a bit longer.
I've been trying to get caught up with some of my Blog reading, so far the only two I've managed are Meryl Yourish and Burningbird. The above quote is a hat tip to BB for her essay on fun. It's great - check it out! I loved the bit about the red Doberman - really cute!
Seems many bloggers are talking about fun these days - that and TubCat (I'm not going to go there! Poor kitty). Some years ago someone asked me what I like to do for fun. I told her that I consider anything that's not work -fun. I further explained that my definition of work is anything I don't want to do. So from that you can conclude that - in my world, anyway - work = what I don't want to do and fun = anything I do want to do.
I've always held, however that work and fun are not mutually exclusive. In fact throwing in a little fun with an unpleasant chore can make it seem a lot less unpleasant. I like my current job. In fact, I love what I'm doing. I'm a web designer for the aforementioned Winebow. It's always fun. But the people I work with make it even more fun. They're a great bunch and we all get along for the most part. Someone is always teasing and the teasee takes it in stride. Someone always has a joke to pass around. Someone will invariably do something silly. I think that's the key. We all seem to have a large silly quotient and we're not embarrassed to display it.
I think far too many adults feel it's no longer okay for them to be silly. They suppress their natural silliness and that's not healthy. I say we need a National Silliness Day. Perhaps instead of having April Fools Day be a day that you make someone else a fool, lets proclaim this April Fools Day - be a fool yourself day. Go ahead let your hair down. Set your inner child free and do something silly. Don't wait for April Fools Day - do it today!
Posted by Cyberkat at February 7, 2002 7:52 AM | TrackBack