Puck’s Blog

Late last night while doing a combination of work and play — the AEG web server was crashing a lot so the techs were looking in on it and I was keeping track of their progress, but while I waited I played some City of Heroes. We were running through the Eden Trial with a few other Goons, and I started getting that “you’re going to get sick soon” feeling. You know the one where you can feel each of the hairs on your body as your clothes rub against them? Then a headache came in.

I immediately megadosed on Vitamin C, drank as much water as I could, and took some cold/flu medicine. Mel suggested we watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and said “I hope you can stay awake for the super romantic ending sweetie.” I didn’t think there’d be much of a problem. It was only 9pm and my sleep schedule has been pretty bad lately.

I’ve never been a morning person, but recently my body has decided to completely skip over mornings altogether. I’m happy with a 10am wakeup because of how my work, uh… works. It lets me catch up on any requests and allows me to stay up late working when the server isn’t so busy if need be. But lately my sleep/wake cycle had been creeping forward so that I was getting up after noon some days. I knew this was no good, but just couldn’t fix it.

But because of this I had no problems staying awake. Mel zonked out (she works real hours) so I got to prod her awake and give a mocking “I hope you stay awake for the super romantic ending sweetie…” She did. What a great movie.

I checked back on the techs dealing with the AEG server and they were going to watch it overnight. I could finally feel the upcoming illness and the cold & flu pills crashing down on me so I went to bed…

And woke up at 9am. What a respectable hour! Ok, respectable for me…

I’m still a little woozy and feeling that hair-folicle weirdness, but I think I’ve avoided full-on sickness. I’m going to do what I can to maintain this new schedule. Thanks, illness!