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Yes, I promise, I’m still alive.

My lack of motivation to post has dug in about as deeply as my cough, though, which has led to the longest run of silence here since I started my blog.

Oops.

Pneumonia isn’t THAT big a deal. Really. The word freaks people out, but the reality is doable.

Although I still have it, and that’s more than a little irritating.

Anyway.

How are you? How have things been going? How are the kids? The wife/husband? Seen any good movies lately?

Right.

What have I been up to? Well. Other than hacking up a lung, I’ve been busy with work and the occasional hockey game (which I’ll be writing about later today) and doing a little bit of reorganizing/decorating/throwing massive amounts of stuff into the garbage around my house to slough a little dead weight off of my life.

I’d like to be working on the OTHER dead weight, too, but if I so much as move my arms too quickly, I’m coughing.

Charming.

But man, am I restless. Is it being sick? Is it that my birthday is coming up?

Is it that I’m CRAZY??

I’m not sure.

But enough about me. How are YOU?

1. All that personal space you wanted on the bus/elevator/sidewalk? One cough, and people scurry like mice.

2. If your loved one is considering buying one of those expensive “Ocean Sound” simulators to help them sleep, just let them put their head on your chest. Also works for “Storm Sound” and “Cement Truck In Full Mix” simulators.

3. Who can get enough of illnesses with a silent “p”?

4. SARS jokes galore for April Fool’s.

5. It’s like the honour student version of a cold. Extra points for take home antibiotics!

6. If you swallow a goldfish in a college prank, that fish could well live happily in your lung for a year.

7. You can stand outside in the rain in bare feet with no coat or hat on, shivering, and when some old woman goes to yell at you as they walk by, you can yell: “NO, I WON’T! I ALREADY HAVE IT! SO THERE!”

8. People who come to hand you assignments at work tell you kindly that you should be home in bed.

9. You drink enough tea and juice to become the living embodiment of 1/3 of a continental breakfast.

10. You get fodder for a list that will probably make your mother wring her hands involuntarily while struggling to laugh.

Well, I finally forced myself to see a doctor yesterday, and lo and behold… I have pneumonia.

That would explain the ocean waves in my lungs and the death rattle in my throat, not to mention the fever and exhaustion I was experiencing all last week (and still!)

It’s a little frustrating, since my life marches on regardless, but at least I’ve got the drugs I need to settle it out. I’ll do my best to take it easy when I can. I might take a couple days off later in the week… we’ll see.

Anyway, still kind of lame at this blogging thing right now.

(And for those of you who just said, “It ain’t just right now!”, heh.)