Randominity

Well, this weekend sucked.

It started as a cough the evening of Valentine's Day (I texted the NK insistently to let him know I might be getting sick and that he could bail out if he wanted to; he refused). I felt fine, just had this stupid nagging cough, which is unlike me when I get a cold. Usually I have a sore throat and general malaise. So, I hoped, maybe it was nothing, maybe if I inhaled enough vitamins and water I would be okay.

Well, toward the end of the night I started shivering, right about the time the NK had to go, so the timing was perfect, although we were both a little concerned. Friday morning I woke up feeling like shit. I took some NyQuil, texted in sick, and crawled back into bed. The NK went to his convention in LA and called me like 8 times because he was lonely and stuck in traffic and worried he'd miss his 8-o'clock game. Each time I had just enough energy to rouse from unconsciousness, nod and "mmm-hmm" and then pass back out again. I tried to have a shower because I'd been breaking out into feverish sweats all day, and after 10 minutes I had to hustle out of there and dry myself in record time because I felt like I was going to pass out. I literally stumbled into bed and fell asleep damp and naked on top of my towel. Awesome.

Saturday was no better. The NK developed a cough, and I still felt like shit. All the DayQuil in the world, all the Halls' and all the Vick's Vaporub, all the soup and tea and 1000mg Vitamin C could not prevent me from wishing I could be in a coma. The NK called me and called me and missed me, and I felt guilty about the fact that assuredly he'd be as sick as I felt in just a couple more days.

Sunday morning, the Nerd King called me and asked me to kill him. So, that day was today. I actually started feeling a little bit more human (a snot-dripping, sneezing, groaning, hacking, headachey, weak and smelly human). I actually had a shower and didn't feel like passing out at the end of it! \o/ I am still really congested and have a headache and my throat hurts from the coughing and by the way, still coughing, and I don't like to be standing for too long at any one time. But I don't wish I were dead anymore.

I'm totally calling in sick again today, though. I feel guilty about it, but seriously. I am a mess. And my cats run away from me when I blow my nose or sneeze. So I'm constantly getting kicked in the gut from their departures when two seconds earlier they were happily purring in my lap. Ugh. My stupid congested head.

All this means I got in a lot of Perfect World gameplay this weekend (the_willow, I keep trying to add you when I'm on, but I think I was playing at odd hours due to my illness so we're like ships passing in the night). I leveled up Asmodea (Elf Priest) to level 14, and have decided that she's going to be my main now that she's at the highest level of all my characters. She's even getting her third-level armor right now! I'm excited to take on the next couple of quests in her queue. She's also the only character I have that's officially a member of the LongWang guild made up of Penny Arcade forum gamers. I am so thrilled that so many people have latched on to this game and are enjoying it. Almost every day one or two more people post "okay, you've won me over. I'm downloading it now." Eeeee \o/.

I don't know how I can go back to enjoying any other game play after playing an Elf Priest, though. I mean, SHE CAN FLY. What beats flying?! Nothing! Everywhere I have to go, I'm like "no problem! I can get there as the crow flies!" and then I take like a billion screencaps of the scenery below! Don't want to fight that mob? I'll just fly over it. :P In contrast, I tried levelling up my Warrior (from 8 to 9) and while she's "fine" to play, I'm like "ugh, now I have to run all the way over there." Also, I've used up all my healing potions! This is why I dislike playing warriors :(.

[Added later: Oh thank god for Auto-save. I lost a bit of this post, but if I'd lost the whole thing I would have been SCREAMING MAD.] Why you illin', IJ?

*copies to clipboard, crosses fingers, posts*