I actually called in sick to work today. First time I’ve done that in, well…forever. I’ve gone home early; I’ve come in late, but I’ve never called off a day entire.<\/p>\n
So I’m feeling pretty bad. Congested, cold, loss of appetite–the whole nine yards. My parents are gone to the mountains for the weekend and I’m holding down the fort alone. I plan to veg out and convalesce. I went out earlier in the 96 degree heat, just in the interest of getting out of the house, and it about did me in. I did rent a couple of movies, though: Jeux D’Enfants<\/i><\/a>, this nice-looking French film, and The Aviator<\/i><\/a>, which I hadn’t seen before but watched first. Bad idea. My mind is in a muggy state, being half-congested, and Scorsese paints such a convincing portrait of a Hughes as a germophobic, eccentric recluse that I felt myself getting drawn into the characterization, all vegged-out on the couch by myself watching the screen. Very surreal. I’m not germophobic, but I might consider myself at least slightly eccentric, certainly a “recluse” tonight (though not of my own volition), and I most definitely have a passion for aircraft, so…it was a little much, the movie. I need to read a book or watch something upbeat to take the edge off. I made myself eat some leftovers earlier, so at least I’m good on that front. I’m going to go lie down again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I actually called in sick to work today. First time I’ve done that in, well…forever. I’ve gone home early; I’ve come in late, but I’ve never called off a day entire. So I’m feeling pretty bad. Congested, cold, loss of appetite–the whole nine yards. My parents are gone to the mountains for the weekend and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}