:: anne in the attic ::

Create Your Own Countdown

:: Sunday, March 12, 2006 ::

A couple of mornings ago, after much of Spring's growth had begun to trust in the sun, there came a chilling frost.... And the sidewalk in front of my house looked like this (at left), dusted in snow. In mid-March. I noticed something amiss when the alarm went off for work because the house was uncharacteristically dark. It's usually never dark in the daytime because there are skylights, but they were blanketed in snow that diffused the light. So I grabbed my camera and ran outside in my pj's and boots to get some photos at the buttcrack of dawn. And then I went to work and trudged around in it until it melted later in the afternoon.

The weather has been kind of dicey lately-- teasing us in so many ways. I've been shamelessly wearing my classic fur hat with ear flaps. I gave up the whole looking-like-a-dork thing when that first icy chill came in January and a freezing wind sliced right through to my scalp. Well, so yesterday at work the sun shone and it snowed no more, so I (like a schmuck!) was lulled into the visible warmth and did NOT don the furry cap. I did notice at times that I was kind of chilly, but didn't realize until later that I'd actually caught a chill and could not get my core temperature back up before something slipped through my defenses.

So this morning I woke up with a sore throat and a fever on the day of one of our choir gigs and could not sing. And tonight, one of my favorite bands, Girlyman, is playing a somewhat unadvertised, intimate gig (now--as I write this!) right around the corner from my house, at Sam Bond's Garage. And I'm too sick to go out. This thing carries quite a headache, too. I'm still somewhat in denial and hoping my body will beat it back tonight while I sleep, but I doubt it. Well, this has been a scintillating blog entry, hasn't it? Good night, all.

:: Anne 9:56 PM [smartass remarks] ::
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