Silver Lining
So one of my 3 days off this fair was a total bust with what essentially amounts to food poisoning. For most of the day I could only watch DS9, NewsRadio, or West Wing – everything else seemed to either make things worse or offer no comfort. So when I didn’t have my head in the toilet I was laying in bed watching TV or reading. Later in the day hunger finally caught up with me, what with having not eaten all day and instead spent the time voiding myself. There was thankfully some leftover pizza and caffeine-free Pepsi in the fridge. After the family came home and the kid went to bed I spent a few hours reading the new Star Trek novel, Greater Than The Sum which actually got pretty interesting about half way through.
So as I went to sleep I was overcome with an odd feeling, not nostalgia or familiarity exactly but something in between – like finding an old blanket you had forgotten about when the weather first gets cold. Eventually it occurred to me that this was how I used to spend days off, without the profuse vomiting of course. Since sharing my living space days off were usually focused on cleaning, watching the kid, or doing things I couldn’t or wouldn’t normally get to do for whatever reason when the family was home like monopolizing the TV with a single-player game on the Wii. But just laying down, watching some DS9, reading a new Star Trek book, and eating pizza making up an entire day – that was how I used to relax. I had nearly forgotten.
I remembered thinking a few times throughout the day that it had been a complete waste of a day, but perhaps not.
