Officially Unwell - Woopie!

[motodraconis]

For the past week I've not been 100%. Tired, aching all over, clogged nose, permenant pounding headache and swollen agonising neck.
Course, I put this down to stress, took mega-strength painkillers and went to work anyway, and put down my curious lack of energy to get on with outside-of-work art projects as being crap and slack. (Attempted sketching last week, the result was appalling, but I thought it was just me being rubbish.)
Tried working on personal projects on Saturday, this in some ways was amusing. Other-Half has been working on building a futuristic mega-cool motorcycle.
How did I use my 3 hour window of not feeling like utter shit to work on art?

Um, I built a toilet.

Not sure what this says about me, it was a damn fine toilet though, even if it did finish me off, and I was then so ill I ended up sleeping for the whole of Sunday and still woke up feeling like shit Monday morning.
Just been to the Doc, he says I have some kind of viral infection, has given me pills for possible bacterial complications and told me to take at least 3 days off work, maybe 6. (I'm always too guilty to take time off work unless specifically told to do so by a doctor.)

So there it is, officially unwell. I'm going back to bed now.

Comments

Get well soon. . .

[djtomservo.livejournal.com]

. . .and hey look at it as an opportunity to catch up on sleep! We just passed alpha, betas in 2 weeks, so no sleep for us for a while(:-D

Put like that....

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

...I'm owed about a month of solid sleep!
Bah, I hate being ill, not being able to do anything remotely usefull really pisses me off. At the moment I can't seem to stay concious for more than 2 hours tops, it's really tedious.
Been watchin' the LJ progress of your characters, cool stuff, makes me itch to make a proper start on my new beasties, but... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Crawls back to sleep for another 6 hours, grumble!

Re: Put like that....

[djtomservo.livejournal.com]

Hehe, well i'm glad i can be some sort of positive inspiro to someone(: Since I'm switching to HL2, which won't be available till at the earliest late sept, early oct if Valve isn't lying, I might just do some renders of stuff for now since i've got all the characters and sets for the first episode done now. Maybe I'll just render up a trailer, I can see that taking me a few months. . .anyway point is cool new stuff coming soon stay tuned (if you're awake long enough:-)

[velvetfur.livejournal.com]

"Other-Half has been working on building a futuristic mega-cool motorcycle"

Sounds cool - pictures? I've had one of those unspecific viral infections so I can sympathise with how crappy you feel, hope you get well soon :)

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

Heh! I keep trying to persude Other-Half to get his website up properly and post up some of his pics, but he's dead sensitive about his work and won't show anything until it's totally finshed. (Which could take ages.) :-)

Damn vague viruses, when I was a kid you knew where you stood with them, a few days of snot and snuffle and then you'd be done. Nowadays they seem to be all about being knackered and falling over, these damned modern viruses, no sense of tradition!

[velvetfur.livejournal.com]

I agree, it's a cop-out, they're not doing their job properly!

[ingaborg.livejournal.com]

Any progress on the novel? It looked like being pretty damn good...

[ingaborg.livejournal.com]

Doh! Sorry! And I hope you are feeling better now...I so AM Tangent Woman...

Novel?

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

Do you refer to the fabled (and somewhat optimistically labeled,) SpaceGoth Megatoon? I dunno, novel sounds far too posh and intellectual, I can't help thinking you've posted your comment in the wrong journal by mistake.

SpaceGoth is still in the concept, (note making stage) I've a few odds and ends I need to tie off first, and um... work of course. :-)

Re: Novel?

[ingaborg.livejournal.com]

No, I was thinking of a certain man with green hair...but SpaceGoth sounds great too!

Re: Novel?

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

I gave up on that years ago. I did try (actually bloody hard,) but it was taking me all day to type up a single page of A4. I was unemployed at the time, so I had a bit of time to spare to work on it, but even so, it was taking soooo damn long to create I had to go for the "sensible" option of using my time more fruitfully to get a job or even (nooo!) sporadic socialising.
A graphic novel is something I might actually manage, it's still slow and eats up probably more time than is sensible, but it ain't as deathly slow (for me) as a full blown written novel. (More fun to work on too.)

Re: Novel?

[ingaborg.livejournal.com]

The bit you let me read was awfully good. I don't suppose you could rework it as a series of short stories? I do understand though, there are so many projects of mine which are currently in abeyance due to time pressures...