Sick sick sick

[ellen_datlow]

I thought I was having an allergic attack at Robert's apt Friday afternoon when my nose started running but it turned out to be another damned cold. Two in two months and I think this one is a winner! I tried to get to sleep early for my 3:45 am Hour of the Wolf wake up call but couldn't, and by the time I was on the air I was sniffing away. At least my cough didn't begin then. I got home 8am and slept till 11:30 am.

Oddly (and happily) my taste buds aren't affected and I attended a seder with the best potato kugel and great leg of lamb and was again... trying to control my runny nose throughout dinner. I had to skip brunch today because I felt so lousy. Slept till noon, which I'm sure didn't hurt.

Theater tonight was an agony--trying not to cough by sucking the leftover fisherman's friends I had in my purse. I hope I didn't contaminate everyone in the theater. Saw Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, which has a great opening act with six women having dinner--among the dinner guests are some famous ones like Isabel Bird, world traveler and the female Pope who was only discovered to be female when she gave birth during a procession. The problem is that the opening act doesn't really match up with the other two acts, which takes place in the 70s and involves a London employment agency called Top Girls, a woman working her way up to management, her sister back home, and her niece. I saw this when it first came out vaguely remember being wowed by it. Not so much this time, although the actors were very good--Marisa Tomei, Mary Beth Hurt, and Martha Plimpton were the names I recognized.

Comments

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Feel better, my friend! I was sick last week and it was No Fun.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Thanks...