Still sick but must go to work

Can't afford not to. Somehow, in the last 24 hours, my nose decided it needed more attention and so got congested. So now it's throat and sniffles. Head doesn't feel as bad as it did this weekend. I've been coughing so much and so hard that my abdominal muscles hurt though, interestingly, I haven't coughed once since I woke up.

::cough:: (I shouldn't have said anything.)

Spanky's sitting on my lap, purring, apparently convinced that I should stay put. He doesn't get a vote because if I don't go to work, he doesn't get fed. If he understood this basic calculus, he'd be pushing me out the door in my pajamas.

Man, I hate being sick.

Still sick. Not going to work.

Got all the way to the freeway and had such a bad coughing fit that I almost brought up breakfast. I'm home. I've called the doctor.

Spanky's on my lap. Perhaps his message to me earlier was, "You're too sick to leave and I'm going to sit on you so that you can't move."

PS--Is it me, or does it seem wildly inappropriate for a doctor's office voicemail to tell you that they'll call you back "at our earliest convenience?" Their convenience? I'm coughing up my esophagus and you'll call me when it's convenient for you? ::headesk::

I may be sick...

But I can still laugh. bhagwanx posted another dramatic prairie dog remix and it made my otherwise sniffly, coughing, painful day.

Report from the doctor

I am ill. (We knew this.) I'm ill enough to need medication and yet another day home from work. She gave me a note to provide to my supervisor.

I hate this.

On the other hand, she loves my sense of humor. So I guess there's an upside.

Me, I'm back to bed.

Sound Mosaic, formerly known as SLGC, RIP

Well, it's official. I just got word that due to a lack of sufficient membership and funds, the chorus must fold. It's been a struggle the last couple of years. We fought the good fight, I think, given the extraordinarily limited resources we had. It was clear to me, however, after this past fall, that every member of the chorus was going to have to fight so hard for the group's existence that the fun would be gone. And when singing becomes a chore, then what, honestly, is the point? I'm saddened by the group's end. It had a good run and served the GLBT community well and proudly. It also was a vibrant part of the larger Seattle cultural community, too. It's the end of an era, I think.

There was some thought, during group discussions about rebranding, that perhaps part of the challenge the chorus faced was that it had been created specifically as a GLBT organization and that the community's need for such a group, as well as the group's focus, had begun to shift as times changed and social views about GLBT people and issues evolved. That's certainly possible. I suspect there's more to it than that but, frankly, I'm too congested and feeling too lousy to analyze it more than this.

Please, SLGC/Sound Mosaic people, please keep in touch! I don't want to lose you just because we've lost the chorus.

SLGC: You'll be remembered well and fondly. Thank you for everything--the joy, the music, the friendship and memories--you contributed to my last three years in Seattle.