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Fri, Aug 21, 2009

Sluggish

Posted at 6:54 am MDT to Miscellaneous

After a couple of weeks where I was full of energy and getting very little sleep, this week has been the opposite. I've been sleeping a lot (8 hours a night is a lot for me) and dozing off at odd moments, and generally feeling a bit off. I suspect allergies are part of it: I've been sneezing more than usual.

I really did not need my employees trying to poison me on top of everything else.

Last night was the Colorado Rational Users' Group meeting that our company sponsors. I arrived a little late because of traffic, and very hungry, and found that the food we were providing was pre-made sandwiches with cheese in them. And I'm pretty sure I don't trust the bread they were made with to not have malt in it. I picked out the cheese as well as I could (it was sort of smooshed into the bread and meat) but by the end of the evening my skin and eyes were feeling tight and itchy and I was having mild dizzy spells.

This morning, I was still itchy and my fingers were a little swollen. I don't like to think about what the lining of my esophagus was doing at that point. I have taken some Advil to try to knock down the inflammation before I try to swallow my breakfast.

Fridays at the office tend to be very quiet. This may not be a good thing: when you're not feeling well to begin with, a slow day stretches out forever.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do about food at the next CRUG. I may be on another gig, with different travel conditions, by then, so maybe I'll just have to make a point of bringing my own food. Or return to what I did a few times last year when I was working from home and bring my own food to the meeting.

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