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What I like about LiveJournal: I can go for months without posting, and then make a whiny self-pitying post about being sick and I'll still get a half-dozen "get well soon!" comments. <3 to you all.
I'm feeling a little better right now than I was yesterday, but I'm going to take![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kagetsume's advice and call in today anyway, in large part because I woke up at 4AM, miserable and unable to sleep. I may be currently human under the influence of oatmeal, tea, and acetaminophen, but I don't expect that to get me though eight hours of work on four hours of sleep. X.X Thankfully, we've got a good stockpile of my favorite tea, Hot Cinnamon Spice, on hand. I only drink tea when I'm sick, but Lut started drinking it at work and bought a huge box. Unfortunately, it's a black tea, not herbal, so it's not exactly ideal for drinking while sick, but it's better than diet soda. We've got a few herbal teas around, I'll drink some of them too.
So, been moping around the house whimpering for most of today. And reading John Ringo's Ghost, which is an interesting book. Lut read it years ago online and I'd put it on my Amazon wishlist; I think John or my brother got for me some months ago. I've read several other books by Ringo and generally enjoyed his work. Ghost is ... different. It's sort of conservative male male military fantasy. I don't mean "fantasy" in the genre sense: although Ringo is published by Baen and most of his books are military science fiction, Ghost is military adventure fiction. No, I mean fantasy in the sense of "Oh, come on, that would not happen." Which, oddly, is not so much my response to the military-adventure stuff (which generally feels solid and well-researched) as to the actions and responses of certain characters. It's just very ... conservative male fantasy. "The world does not work this way, you only wish that it did".
For a certain value of "conservative", anyway. Definitely not the "family values" style. Ghost isn't actually a single book: it's three novellas starring the same main character. The second novella really threw me by turning into, well ... a BDSM romp.
( TMI alert! About sex. You have been warned! )
Anyway, it's been a pleasant distraction from being sick. I haven't finished Ghost yet; just started on the third novella.
Which I still am. *coughcough*
Sigh.
I'm feeling a little better right now than I was yesterday, but I'm going to take
kagetsume's advice and call in today anyway, in large part because I woke up at 4AM, miserable and unable to sleep. I may be currently human under the influence of oatmeal, tea, and acetaminophen, but I don't expect that to get me though eight hours of work on four hours of sleep. X.X Thankfully, we've got a good stockpile of my favorite tea, Hot Cinnamon Spice, on hand. I only drink tea when I'm sick, but Lut started drinking it at work and bought a huge box. Unfortunately, it's a black tea, not herbal, so it's not exactly ideal for drinking while sick, but it's better than diet soda. We've got a few herbal teas around, I'll drink some of them too.So, been moping around the house whimpering for most of today. And reading John Ringo's Ghost, which is an interesting book. Lut read it years ago online and I'd put it on my Amazon wishlist; I think John or my brother got for me some months ago. I've read several other books by Ringo and generally enjoyed his work. Ghost is ... different. It's sort of conservative male male military fantasy. I don't mean "fantasy" in the genre sense: although Ringo is published by Baen and most of his books are military science fiction, Ghost is military adventure fiction. No, I mean fantasy in the sense of "Oh, come on, that would not happen." Which, oddly, is not so much my response to the military-adventure stuff (which generally feels solid and well-researched) as to the actions and responses of certain characters. It's just very ... conservative male fantasy. "The world does not work this way, you only wish that it did".
For a certain value of "conservative", anyway. Definitely not the "family values" style. Ghost isn't actually a single book: it's three novellas starring the same main character. The second novella really threw me by turning into, well ... a BDSM romp.
( TMI alert! About sex. You have been warned! )
Anyway, it's been a pleasant distraction from being sick. I haven't finished Ghost yet; just started on the third novella.
Which I still am. *coughcough*
Sigh.
