If this is resting and allowing yourself to be ill then I am not sure if I enjoyed it or not to be honest. I have had a nice lazy weekend where I haven't lifted a finger but it just isn't my way, my biggest pain was abandoning my daily work and not having ticks in my diary because I now have a huge backlog of things that need doing including a looming deadline to have my interview with Georgie Rose submitted to the local paper. I also have an EP review to write and a podcast to record among other things and I am still not at full fitness so I will just have to pace myself as far as work is concerned and prioritise the important jobs. Although I haven't been publishing them I have, to a fashion, kept up to date with the daily blog by keeping notes, writing pointers and just typing them up as and when I get the time. In amongst all this I have started to make notes for a new episode of Moonage Daydream, one of the most difficult things on my work list as far as time is concerned.
The antibiotics have kicked in and thankfully I seem to have been spared the side effects, in fact I seem to be suffering the opposite of the threatened runny bum problem as I have hardly needed to go to the toilet at all. My appetite has reduced and I feel as if I have lost weight but as I don't weigh myself I couldn't say for sure, but if I can lose my belly it will have been worth being ill. On another note, I haven't at the time of writing this blog (Monday night at nine o'clock) smoked since Friday morning when I coughed and spluttered my way through the last cigarette in the packet. Cigarettes taste different at the moment, as does food, thanks to either the chest infection or the antibiotics so I haven't bothered. As I slept all day Saturday and didn't go anywhere apart from walking Jack on Sunday the urge just didn't materialise.
Although I went back to work today at Crown Court I wasn't totally there in spirit and had to leave the courtroom on several occasions to allow for a coughing fit. I also felt as if I could fall asleep at any time during open court, so no real change there. Because of my early night on Friday I missed Eastenders so had to watch it on YouTube before tonight's episode but apart from that I just took it easy and still didn't do any work. It is all very well resting and taking it easy but being ill at the weekend does make you feel a little bit cheated. I am trying to get back into the swing of things but will be taking another week off from going to gigs (Mark 'literally' Del still has chance to catch up). Being poorly at the weekend it like going for a shit on your lunch break, you just don't want to do it.
Due to illness there is no edition of The Sunday Alternative this week.
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