Out Sick

Hey all.

No Moby Dick this week, as I have been felled by a terrible illness. Nah, I’ve got a cold, but it’s prrrrrrobably COVID? I don’t know, I ran out tests ages ago and don’t know where I could even buy one these days. And, in any case, I don’t want to leave the house, due to the aforemenetioned illness. Kind of a catch-22 of the “post”-pandemic era, huh.

Being sick always makes me a bit anxious. I used to pretend to be sick as a kid, to get out of going to school. Partly out of social anxiety and partly because going to school sucked and I just wanted to stay at home and play computer games. You know how it is. So there’s some part me that’s always suspicious of my own judgment when I have to call out sick.

But not this time! This one’s a real nasty piece of business. Knocked me on my ass for two days, even had to order out for groceries. Though it is funny how I can like… sit in my chair for an hour, and be like “oh I feel fine” then I stand up and immediately want to crawl back into bed.

Getting sick is something I kinda vaguely hope for, when I’m feeling overwhelmed and tired, but I forget that it does have its downsides. Especially since I now work a job that I can do from home, so the standard for being unable to “go in” is much higher. It’s only when I really get knocked out, mentally and/or physically, that I can justify it.

I’d always like to start writing more on this blog. Doing some real blog-y type of shit, as well as writing about different things. Part of me wants to like… make my own website for it, but I dunno, wordpress has all the tools I’d want, basically. The only reason to do it myself is to prove that I can, and I already know that I can.

One idea that I had ages and ages ago recently came back to my mind: making an audio book of Moby Dick, and putting it up in videos over footage of me playing video games. Probably like… Dark Souls or something. There was a video, now long since lost, where someone did like a boss rush mode in some Kirby game, and they just… did a dramatic reading of Beowulf over it. I loved that, and I think Moby Dick would be great for it, since it feels so good to read aloud.

Well, maybe some day. It would be fun to figure out audio and video editing and whatnot. I did an audio book project a long time ago, for a family member, and it turned out… okay. Not great, but okay.

Anyway, I’m just rambling at this point. Until next time, shipm- *hack* *cough* *cough* -ates….