I've been in Sick Bay for the past few days and haven't posted much in the past month or so due to the constraints of work (a stressful bore), an on-line, technical editing course (interesting, but time-consuming), and my own writing projects (perpetually stalled).
The upside of having a cold or flu is being bedridden.
For me, that means reading and/or watching movies while drifting in and out of sleep. When I was sick with a case of flu between Christmas and New Years I spent four days watching television in the living room and was finally booted off the couch by my family who wanted their living space back.
Being sick is like a mini-vacation because office work never enters my mind.
Coincidentally, I had been given a feature film script to read and comment on by a friend. Just days before, a coworker lent me a novel "The Secret Life of Bees." With sinuses too inflamed to set glasses on (and thereby removing television watching from my agenda), I substituted two of my own pieces of work and settled beneath a comfy duvet.
I had enough reading material to keep my mind off the mean virus coursing its itchy, scratchy, ouchy way into my ears, nose, and throat.
Days later, I'm still under the weather and now nursing the Kid back from his fever of 103.1, and looking forward to going into the office tomorrow if only for a change of scenery.
While I have been sworn to secrecy about the comedy script, I can tell you that it's one of the funnest things I've worked on in a while.
I had no idea that working with another writer could be such a blast.
Collaboration, it seems, means something very different to an artist than the concept of "team work" means to other technical writers.
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