"What are the odds of getting sick on a Saturday? A thousand to one!" - Homer Simpson
Started on Wednesday, middle of the night.
Whatever it is, maybe a little norovirus or something like it, and you know the symptoms that come with that.
But what happens is that the schedule that you've got for Thursday and the schedule that you've got for Friday get decimated.
I've never been the guy who has a lot of time off work for being unwell (or really any close). I avulsed my right AC joint in my shoulder some years ago. I was told I needed 6 weeks in a sling, and I had 2 days at home doing admin before I went back to work.
That's what happens when you're self-employed, and you're self-employed because that's what you're like, but what happened over the last two days, Thursday and Friday.
Is that time when you're trying to work, when it's really difficult to work, and that's a metaphor for when that happens, when you're not sick, when you're just tired or uninspired or can't be arsed.
It reminds me of Newton Faulkner's extraordinary album, Hand Built by Robots, which she re-recorded 5 years ago in an acoustic fashion, and the song is uncomfortably slow.
As I was doing the 6 or 7 teams calls, I had on Thursday, I was just having to explain to people that I was running at about 30%, but 30% is better than 0%. And the alternative is to lie around, trying to watch television that you don't want to watch, or trying to sleep when you can't sleep, or being in the bathroom ( yuck).
It's all well and good to just down tools and not do anything, but the days pass so slowly, and everything that you have in the book has to go somewhere else, and so while it's not in any way appropriate for me to be in a meeting with someone else, or to see a patient.
There's plenty to be getting on with.
Anyway, waffling on about being unwell on your blog, so that you have something to write about, is one thing, but sharing a link to New Newton Faulkner, singing uncomfortably slow acoustically, is something entirely different and beautiful, so enjoy this for the next time you're slower than you thought you would be.
Blog Post Number - 4405
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