Normal service has been suspended due to illness. I will get back to CPD23 when I have the brainpower for extensive coherent thought.
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| Too many of these... |
However, here are some observations on more than a week off work:
1. It's very dull being ill for more than a few days. Do not attempt to watch daytime television if you're not used to it, this will make you feel worse.
2. Instead, make sure you are provided with a number of dvd boxsets and work your way through them. For minimal annoyance make sure you've got at least a whole season of whatever you want to watch otherwise this may also make you feel worse.
2. Some people you think wouldn't really care if you were ill will surprise you by being sympathetic and helpful and offering to visit. Conversely, some other people will appear to ignore your illness completely. You may never understand why.
3. The traditional list of items to take to an invalid (fruit, sweets, puzzle book, etc.) will turn out to be exactly what you want. Make sure there is space on your table for a jigsaw.
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| ...not enough of these. |
4. Although a pineapple might seem a nice gift when it's given to you, it will seem less so when your visitor has gone home and you've realise you now have to cut up the aforementioned fruit.
5. Having a power cut is bad news. A sudden drop in water pressure is also bad news. Try to avoid these household emergencies if you can.
6. Since you're not going out of the house and may be lacking in concentration, your conversational repertoire will be limited (even with the internet, see aforementioned lack of concentration). This will lead you to feel you're annoying people on twitter with your ramblings or worry that you're giving the impression that you're just trying to get attention and sympathy. To counteract this you could write a blog post to entertain yourself when you're feeling more cheerful and then feel extra worried about the same thing!
Hopefully I'll be back at work soon...
"Static on the line" - Tom Palmer
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