I woke up today with a pounding headache. My body aches and I feel as if I might be coming down with a fever. At first I figured it must be super early in the morning, like seven o’clock, for me to be feeling this way. When I looked at my mobile phone’s digital clock (the only clock I own) the actual time was twelve thirty in the afternoon. Frick! I’ll never make it to my writing group on time. It starts at two o’clock and it takes me an hour to get anywhere on the east side of Manhattan below the 80′s, although I live on the east side myself. Go figure.
I raise my head and pain tears through my brow and I’m dizzy. I lie back down. What the hell, I think to myself. My mind returns to the night before. What did I do? I clearly remember not drinking anything but water. It’s true I went to bed at four in the morning but its noon, eight hours is eight hours, right?
Perhaps it was that snotty nosed kid that kept sneezing and spraying his germs in front of me at the Guggenheim. It could also be the tap water I drank at the bar I went to afterwards. I don’t like their drinks so I decide not to waste my time or money drinking them. It could be karma coming to bite me in the ass for the late night of naughty chatting online with an old lover or mine, or a combination of my entire night.
Today my horoscope read: An unexpected obstacle stands in your path. You might try to plow through it at first, but that is a no-go, so the more quickly you can turn your attention to alternatives, the better off you’ll be.
I’ll take that as the Wednesday gospel. Leaving my house this afternoon is not happening as I opted out of meeting with my writing group today. I’m home drinking tea and sneezing all over the damn place as I sit and get some writing down, angst about how slow the editing process is going with my novel and contemplate keeping my appointment for a (free) full bikini wax later tonight at Shobha.
Just writing this last paragraph hurt my head. Think I need a nap.
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