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I told R that life had it in for us this week.

I have a massive galloping head cold, congestion, fever, cough, the whole shebang. Jesus, every time I cough it's like puking. SO I AM STAYING HOME. I have reached my limit. And besides they might hate me but they'd hate losing the eight million other people I'd infect way more.

R took his phone out of his pocket last night after running home in a rainstorm and realised his very expensive blackberry-style Verizon phone is toasted. Last night it wouldn't work at all; today it comes on but the keypad won't work. Most of his work is done by phone, so he's seriously wigging out, but I've lent him my phone and hopefully he can call Verizon and get their advice. He sure won't take mine.

I'd crawl back into bed but it's so humid and sticky in here, oh my GOD.

Instead R and I are sitting on the couch watching Al Green sing "Jesus is Waiting" on Soul Train, which is R's song du jour of the week. Well, other than "Respect Yourself" from the Stax set I gave him.

If you don't respect yourself
Ain't nobody gonna give a good cahoot!

We both agree that this is without a doubt the best use of "cahoot" in any song ever.

(R's mum just called him on my phone. God, for someone who practically moved out of the house at fourteen he's certainly pretty dependent on her when anything unexpected happens. All things considered he should be less of a bundle of nerves than I am, but in a crisis I feel pretty sane compared to him.)

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A ray of sunshine in a foul and unwelcome day!

torchwood_house, which is an excellent fic-rec community, approached me in July about being Featured Author for August, and I've never really done anything like this before but I was happy to agree. I held off on mentioning it until now, because they did an interview with me and I wanted to link once that was posted. Being interviewed is awesome, and not something that I've ever really done before.

If you're reading this journal and a Torchwood fan you probably don't need the rec-links to my stuff, but they rec a lot of other high-quality fics on top of the Featured Author recs, and you may enjoy the interview -- I know I had fun doing it :D Check 'em out!

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God bless R. He brought me apple juice and Dayquil.

We've set up the Wii but strangely enough the TV won't pick up the signal unless we have picture-in-picture activated. Which actually works really well, I can play video games while he watches TV, or vice versa.

But not right now. Right now I am curled up in bed, a miserable ball of snot and medication. Meanwhile, R just walked by singing about the leftover bacardi fruit salad we had:

I got some watermelon
But it ain't good no more
Smells like...rum and fungus
Takin' it out the back door!

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Dear Mum,

I am dying of the plague. I cannot overstate how little I care about your trip to the Green Business Expo in Austin. Other things I do not care about today include the new toilet you had installed, Emmy's haircut, how much you love your Wii, and why Lucky is going to Houston on Friday.

Normally I would love to hear all about this, but today, I cannot hear you over the noise of my sinuses hurting.

Yours matricidally,

Sam