Dec. 7th, 2011

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It appears to have been food poisoning. Came home Monday after work feeling achy/flu-ish, so I dosed myself with a Dayquil generic and crashed out on the futon in the living room for several hours. Woke up around 8:30 PM feeling not much better and definitely not hungry, but made myself have some tea. Within the hour I was tossing my cookies. I was up and down much of the night.

Stayed home Tuesday, missed taiko - you know I hate missing taiko - and tried to go to work this morning. Made it in, made it through about two hours and discovered I could barely write legibly and decided to call it quits.

Managed some tea and toast, crashed out in front of the TV again and have some vague recollection of a dream in which Queen Elizabeth I/Helen Mirren was commanding a sea battle against Khan Singh in the hijacked Reliant. Thank you, HBO, I'm reasonably sure that was your fault.

On the up-side, my family consulted my Amazon wishlist and I got some awesome books in the mail for my birthday. OK, I'd ordered Eric Rath's Japanese Foodways a week or so ago myself, but the Fambly got me Himiko and Japan's Elusive Chiefdom of Yamatai, (history, this has been on the list for years), Selling Songs and Smiles: The Sex Trade in Heian and Kamakura Japan, which I've been dying to read and the omnibus edition of The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox. I'd read Barry Hughart's delightful Bridge of Birds on [livejournal.com profile] kproche and [livejournal.com profile] bovil's recommendations and loved it, but publishing woes meant that there were only two more books in the series and those hard to find.

Also on the upside, when I emailed Shannon-sensei to tell him I wasn't going to make class, he said he wanted to use me on o-daiko for "Jisshin" in our recital at the end of January. Considering that I'm not particularly happy with the solo as it stands, that was a nice surprise.

 Continuing the hallucinatory theme of the day, I found the second half of "Picnic at Hanging Rock" and "The Last Wave" playing back to back on cable, but at least that was Peter Weir's thing back in the 70s. Plain pasta with a little butter is staying put and filling the empty reasonably well and I'm starting to feel rehydrated again.

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