Today is the first day I have felt semi-human since Christmas day.  That is a long, long time to be a zombie.  A coughing, sneezing, shivering, sweaty, aching, miserable zombie.  Oh, it is good to be back!!  I have been wildly productive today and it feels good to be working again.  It beats what I was doing on Monday-- sleeping.  A lot.  I think I might have been conscious for six hours total.  I guess it worked, though-- along with the massive quantities of fruit, juice, Dayquil, Nyquil and vitamins.  I’m back!  (Knocking on wood that I don’t have a relapse of whatever that was.)

In my productivity, I have graded 29 writing exercises, written numerous student e-mails, posted an announcement and new assignments to Blackboard, written lecture notes for Friday’s mythology class, previewed the DVD that I’m going to show over several weeks (Power of Myth-- thanks, Rose!), done some other research regarding the mythology class, caught up on my personal e-mail (including a long exchange with Miss Jennifer, who really needs to come visit the south!), caught up on my blog reading (Jae, seriously, send her to Changes!), drank coffee-- oh! coffee!, made dinner plans for tomorrow night, made movie plans for next Thursday night (third time’s a charm?), added some books to my Amazon Store and went through some new writing guidelines and started preparing a few submissions.  Not bad for one evening’s work.

Having a wireless modem and an abundance of electrical outlets makes for a long (six hours) and productive work session at Starbuck’s!  The venti black and white mocha didn’t hurt, either (plus a bottle of water and a slice of blueberry coffee cake-- it was six hours, after all!).

Did I mention it’s nice to be back?

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