How Have you been?

I've been fine and dandy - as fine and dandy as a sick person can be. I was running a temperature on Thursday, a low-grade fever of 37.7 degrees centigrade and decided that I would break my vow of never taking a single day of medical leave before I quit MOE because of the current SARS scare. Felt it was the socially responsible thing to do. Spent that evening and the next day (Fri) sleeping a lot and reading in snatches. Finished Robert Graves' "Goodbye to All That" which is a properly British account of his experiences in the Trenches in WW1. Massive understatement throughout. It's amazing how he remembered all that he did and how he managed to capture all of it down in 1929, some eleven years after the Armistice. he probably made notes during the war and was probably a rabid letter writer as well. Perhaps one day these online notes will be given more shape than they already possess.
Anyway, I detest being ill because of the unpredictablity of it all. You can't even be sure of your bodily functions. Your sense of time drifts to become a suspended grainy concoction. You aren't even sure when you're going to get better. I'm much better now by the way and am relieved that it was a mild attack of the gastric flu. I've spent enough time in hopsitals to never want make illness a permanent state of being.