sick, too

attitude sometimes is the best weapon against getting sick. I held it off through thanksgiving, revels rehearsals, the revels run-through, a couple of mid-week dinners with a friend, a major work deadline in time for a in-house demo to a VP, and the annual foggy bottom winter gig in takoma park.

so now that i have nothing hanging over me that i *have* to be healthy for, i finally got sick.

bleh.

i so hate my sinuses.

good observation...

Something powerful has been lost in the process, though: the knowledge that the Christmas season is a temporary triumph over the darkness of winter, rather than a surrender to false bonhomie or commerce.

The result is a reversal of C.S. Lewis's "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," where the evil White Witch has cast a terrible spell upon the country of Narnia so that it is "Always winter and never Christmas." For Americans, once September arrives we're subjected to months and months where it's always Christmas and never winter [...]

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( accuracy update on Abbots Bromley Horn Dance )