oh so Mono-riffic!

so, i'm back on sick leave from work for a hardcore relapse of mono. i started feeling sick about six weeks ago (a few days before my birthday!), but didn't get diagnosed as having mono until exactly one month ago. i was released back to work on April 10th but after a week back i started to slowly relapse with my sympomts of extreme fatigue and pain...

so i get to sit at home, in too much pain to do anything but just well enough to get REALLY SKULL SHATTERINGLY bored. i drove to the drugstore earlier today, and i'm just really glad that it wasn't any further away than it was.

being so disconnected with every day life-- work, my friends, is starting to make me feel like i don't exist. i spend every day waiting for-- tomorrow. Not that tomorrow May 1st specifically means anything. i'm waiting for EVERY tomorrow because every "tomorrow" is a day closer to hopefully feeling better. luckily i like my current apartment better than my last apartment; bigger, warmer, more charm and personality than the white box above the laundramat i lived in for three years. but i have too much of a headache to read any of my million and some books. so i watch a lot of TV... and i don't even have cable.

i've gotten to the point where i can't even remember what it feels like to be well.

oh, and mono is supposed to be the "kissing disease", right? yeah, well if that's the case i don't know HOW i got it...

there this girl in the dorms my second year in college, and mono ruined her entire first semester. but she had already paid for the room, so she stayed... her room was the place to watch Jeopardy and play Trivial Pursuit before dinner.

in the meanwhile i'm online all day, trying REALLY HARD to stay off e-bay.

moles out of mountainhills

i just want to say how grateful i am that the most heated debates and controversies on the Bootblack Forum usually involve "Kiwi vs. Lincoln!"...

Another list that i am on has become something not unlike war in the Balkans... multiple sides where everyone is right yet no one is wrong. Everybody believes in their viewpoint to the death, but for anyone on the outside, if you haven’t been paying attention to every military action from the very beginning, you have NO CLUE who are the armies, what are the borders, nor who is winning (if anyone...). It gets to the point where it feels like the people involved continue fighting the war only because they have forgotten what it was like to NOT fight the war.

i don’t bring this up to criticize their Balkans War. It’s their fight and they feel they need it. More power to them just try not to shoot the UN troops in the process... i’m just so grateful how... Canada... the Bootblack Community tends to be...

i have had the privilege of meeting MANY of you as well as many of your loved ones. i had the honor of meeting Master Barry at last year’s IML Bootblack Party. His passing is felt by all of us because he too was part of our family.

Maybe i’m getting all touchy-feely because it’s been over a week since i’ve had human contact above and beyond dragging my sorry ass to the grocery store for yet more apple juice... but my life is constantly filled with reminders of how much i love the Bootblack Community. As i kept saying all weekend at SWLC... if i weren’t already a bootblack, HOT DAMN i’d want to be one!


(p.s.. is anyone else freakishly disturbed by the “King” character from the Burger King commercials? yeah, i need to get out of the house...)

out of the mouths of babes

so, how many girls do you know can say "dammit, i cut my ear shaving"?

cleaning up my mowhawk is one of the few things right now that i can manage while i suffer and recover from mono. i'm about two weeks into it right now, even though i was diagnosed just a few days ago. actually i'm glad that my extreme and sudden fatigue has a cause above and beyond just getting suddenly lazy... so i've been doing stuff around the house-- mending clothes, hanging pictures, writing blogs...

as long as i stay off of ebay, i think that i'll be OK...