Usually when I feel a cold coming on, I will try and eat chicken soup. But not the kind my mom makes – which is great, don’t get me wrong. I prefer to kick germ ass with something considerably stronger, like hot and sour soup or tom ka gai, which is ginger coconut chicken soup. They’re both fiery and fierce, make my eyes water and burn my mouth, and that’s the whole point of eating it: to sweat out the germs.
However, I still ended up with a cold. Actually, I’ve been under the weather since Sunday, and by Tuesday it had turned into a full-fledged bug. I went home early, stayed home yesterday and today was my day off (but I wouldn’t have gone in anyways.) Normally I’m a lousy patient because I hate not being able to do anything. I feel like that, if I’m off for that long, I should at least get some work done. And yes, that’s counterproductive, as I’ve learned. On Tuesday, there was some work done on the network at the library, and since then there have been several major issues. Knowing about them is one thing, and being able to do anything about it is a whole other matter. I did what I could from here, armed only with my work laptop and Blackberry, and actually snuck in yesterday afternoon because I couldn’t find the instructions to talk someone through a certain procedure [1. Which ended up not working anyways. ] However, there were many things I couldn’t do, and the emails and phone calls are backing up. Even if I needed another sick day, I would feel like I had to go in and fix things.
The other thing stressing me out is that I’ve been trying to set up a test server for a new system at work for almost three months, and have had nothing but bad luck with it. Last week I was at a conference for other libraries who use the system, and had success installing it on a virtual machine on my laptop [2. Translation: a pretend computer on my computer. ] and am itching to actually get it up and running. The operating system is installed, but I couldn’t access it from home, which only increased my frustration yesterday.
However, it hasn’t been all stress and frustration, which are not conducive to recovery.
- I reread the three books in The Losers, the graphic novels on which the movie is based. I really, really want to see it!
- I wrote a blog post here and one for Toronto Thumbs.
- I finally got to see the movies Gamer (expectedly crappy and unexpectedly amusing) and Terminator Salvation (crappy and loud but with lots of shiny machines!). I also watched Gangster Exchange, which was surprisingly charming and reminded me of Bon Cop, Bad Cop if it had been about Japanese and Serbian gangsters.
- I was also able to get caught up on several blogs I’d been neglecting in my feed reader.
- Much quality time was spent as a human pillow for the cat.
- And, of course, naps whenever I wanted!