Feeling Like Crap . . .

I'd dearly love to say that everything is sunshine and bunnies right now, but I hate being dishonest.

I did go to see The Police with Mr. TBH (who is now Mr. Tall, Brunette and Handsome, by the way) and I got to meet his new girlfriend. We actually hit it off quite well and she was very kind to me and paid for dinner and many drinks.

The show was amazing. We even ended up getting better seats, because Mr. TBH's girlfriend had a couple of extra ones in her section. I had a grand time.

Unfortunately, the evening ended on a bit of a sour note, because the many drinks turned out to be more than I could handle and I ended up having to be packed away in a cab and sent to my parents' house. My parents received me with grace and a few stern lectures and took me to the MARTA station the next morning so I could retrieve my car.

Mr. TBH hasn't communicated with me since. I'm doing everything I can not to let that devour me, but it isn't easy. I'm increasingly inclined to think that he isn't deliberately shunning me as much as he is too busy or away from his phone to respond to the texts I've sent. I'm sincerely hoping that's the case.

At his (and his girlfriend's) urging, I went to see the film Control last night, about the life and times of the late Ian Curtis and Joy Division. It's an amazing film, but requires more patience, I think, than the average moviegoer really has. But the cinematography is such that even the slow parts are beautiful to look at.

Today, I ended up calling in sick from work because I have a hideously sore throat and my stomach still seems to be recovering from the bender on Saturday. So I'm in constant physical pain and trying to find ways to distract myself from it.

The job, by the way, is going okay, but a little frustrating in ways. I'm still trying to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing, and I'm a little stymied by things like not being able to find files and such. On the plus side, they've just installed a new server and bought a new scanner, so certain tasks will wind up becoming much easier in future.

I am way behind on the novel and have been trying to play catch up today, but it's hard to write happy love scenes when I'm in a constant state of hurt.

So that's how it is. I'm going to drink some more fluids and see if I can get my wordcount up a bit more.

Today I took pleasure in watching dogwood leaves falling past my window.

Today I learned what the Release Candidate Viewer for Second Life looks like.

Another site to get addicted to . . . but for a good cause!

http://www.freerice.com/

Basically, you guess the meaning of a word and if you guess it correctly, little banner ad sponsors make a donation towards buying rice for the United Nations World Food Program. You keep guessing and adding up grains and testing the limits of your vocabulary knowledge.

Sometimes I guessed correctly not because I knew the word, but I know enough about root words to puzzle it out. If you're an English geek like me, check it out!