Day 28: Down and Out in Denver
So I’m sick. Hopefully as sick as I’m going to get, to feel better already in the morning, etc, but right at the moment I’ve got a sore throat and a bit of a headache and some minor sinus action and I’m spaced out on cold medicine.
I’ve managed to squeak by with an apparently ridiculously robust immune system up to this point, so really I’m thankful that it took four weeks for it to happen, but I would have preferred it not to happen at all or to at least wait until I got home and could be a zombie in my own house instead of moping around in someone else’s.
I have a hard time getting out from the immediacy of the situation when I’m feeling blech-o like this — like some part of my brain is in charge of constantly distracting me and reminding me that OH HEY YOU DON’T FEEL WELL HEY HEY HEY or something — and so I should probably try not to go on at tedious length about not feeling well and just read a book or something.
The tail end of the trip looks like this: Denver meetup tomorrow evening; fly to NYC the next day (since the only way from Denver to Portland is via JFK or Boston); karaoke wrapup meetup in NYC that night (since Denver->NYC->PDX in one day would be torture); and then home to Portland the next night on a direct flight.
I hope I’m not a zombie for these last two meetups. Denver I can be low-energy and make it work, as long as I can at least be social; NYC karaoke party isn’t really something you can smile wanly through though, I don’t think, so I sure hope I’m close to 100% by then.
This has been a fantastic trip, I hope I can end it on a slightly better note than the one I’m sounding right at the moment.
