I can't believe this has happened. I have now been blighted by flu or cold or something since Thursday and my word count is dying!
Too long at the laptop and I get an excruciating headache and sore eyes...too long away from the laptop and I have guilt.
This is not unfolding as I had imagined, I will persevere though and just write like a demon when I feel better.
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72,510 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 05 05
Poor you! Sounds like flu. Take some analgesic, go to bed, put your head down and rest. You can think through plot lines and things like that, maybe even have a notepad beside you and jot down a few ideas, but this is not the time to try concentrated writing. Get better first and then take a charge at it.
17,821 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 06 15
..join the club , been under the weather myself , and have a sick baby too! (which really puts you out of the writing mood believe me!)I've managed to lose about a day (those old 1667 words) so going to have to aim at 2k a day to hopefully get myself back on top of things, nothing worse than being in the red when it comes to the word bank!
72,510 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 06 33
Being sick yourself is bad enough, but a sick baby really absorbs your time. Don't worry. Set yourself some extra words to do over the weekend, and I hope you are both better by then.
21,094 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 08 10
Luas_Dublin, you have my admiration!
I hope you feel better soon, and baby too.
57,224 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 11 36
I'm busily empathizing with all other be-sniffled types. Flu is running rampant where I work and half the team working today were utterly zombified. The other half were keeping away from the infected. It was like something out of Monty Python, kept expecting the guy with the cart and the bell to show up yelling "Bring out your dead!".
I was planning to do some more nano-ing tonight, but everything hurts and I'm running at around 30 sph (sneezes per hour), so it's a hot whiskey and then bed for me. I'll get up early in the a.m. and try to hammer some more words out before work.
As Mamo said, sometimes you just have to take care of your body, the words'll take care of themselves when you're able to sit at a computer and tap 'em out.
21,015 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 12 49
Oh the guilt! I am not sick but I still have less words than you guys... I did however have a sick baby yesterday. But now I have a glass of wine in front of me, earphones on and the most important thing... time... so I am going to catch up.
*get well soon*
72,510 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 14 54
I was planning to do some more nano-ing tonight, but everything hurts and I'm running at around 30 sph (sneezes per hour), so it's a hot whiskey and then bed for me. I'll get up early in the a.m. and try to hammer some more words out before work.
As Mamo said, sometimes you just have to take care of your body, the words'll take care of themselves when you're able to sit at a computer and tap 'em out.
Orla, you are doing so spectacularly well as things stand that I think that, even if you were not sick, you could afford to take a day off - you are almost 25% of the way to your 50K and it is only day 4! Well done!
More seriously, there is no point in pushing yourself when you are that sick. Go to bed (with or without the hot whiskey, as takes your fancy) and give yourself time to recover.
Before I retired anyone coming to work where I was incubating flu, with it or just over it was likely to be sent home, since contact with the virus triggers an extreme allergic reaction and they saw it happen more than once. My tongue swells up. Not funny. So, if anyone has 'flu PLEASE DON'T COME TO MEET UPS!
Sorry to fuss about this, but I have enough on my plate just now and don;t feel like ending up in A&E.
Rant over.
40,400 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 15 18
Everyone feel better! I know how hard it can be to want to push yourself past where you're capable of going. In the last two months, I've taken so many trips and seen so many incredible sights, but I've gotten strongly sick twice now because of how hard I've pushed. Sometimes you just need to take a step back and take a breather.
Everyone Take A Mental Health Day!
Sometimes, it helps me feel better to write in a notepad (and when I can't use my computer in class and I have a good idea!). The feel of the pen scratching across the paper gives me a warm fuzzy feeling ^_^
/Hands out tea and OJ,
Remember, one day of relaxing and breaking from NaNo will mean you're back up to your full speed one day sooner!
36,169 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 15 45
I'm recovering from cancer and the operation on my eye area is irritating me and gets in the way of my concentration. My asthma is also flaring up so I'm forcing myself to keep up my word count. I fell way behind day one, but with the help of painkilers I'm back almost on track. Several sessions a few hundred words at a time are all adding up.
----------Mind your golf
72,510 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 15 50
Well done! You are keeping up to speed well, despite everything. Keep it up!
19,604 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 16 04
All of you who are sick, fair play to you for at least attempting to write! I know what it's like, I was sick last week, felt like death warmed up.
Well, according to our lovely health minister, it'll only be 8 months till everyone's gotten the swine flu vaccine!
----------Cups of tea ingested: 37
Boxes of sushi eaten: 4
Bags of tuc crackers eaten: 1/4
Pasta salad eaten: too much
Fun had: a lot :D
40,400 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 17 20
Way to go keeping up your word count like that despite such discomfort!
It makes me realize I have absolutely NO excuse to be falling behind - Thanks for sharing your strength with us Par =)
57,224 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 22 14
Don't worry Mamo - I can't make it to a meet-up til the 21st - should be all clear by then.
I have a pretty nice word-cushion alright, but I worry that if I don't keep up my twice-daily sessions I may lose the run of my plot.
Such as it is.
And par5score2 - you make me feel like a wuss for whining about the flu - take care of yourself! You're an inspiration to all of us to keep going no matter what. You're one determined lady!
Off to get some words in now, with the curtains open to I can catch the sunrise.
Hope everyone feels better soon.
27,834 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 06 36
Wow, I'm so impressed by all the flu-bedevilled people who are still working on that word count. Very well done.
Of course you get flu the month after handing in an MA thesis, by the way, blalygamal - it's in the rules, didn't you read them?
----------Co-ML for Dublin
36,169 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 15 44
Of course you get flu the month after handing in an MA thesis, by the way, blalygamal - it's in the rules, didn't you read them?
I got flu the month BEFORE I was due to hand in mine. Anyway have managed to keep up. Still roughly 1k bhind where I wanted to be as I have an operation due Nov 16th. That will lose me at least two days.
----------Mind your golf
Mind your golf
27,834 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 21 43
I got both flu shots - swine and human - last week, one in each arm, and spent a few days with two very sore arms, trying to find a comfortable way to sleep.
It doesn't mean I won't get the flu, but hopefully at least means that I'll get a less vicious version.
----------Co-ML for Dublin
50,261 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 12 48
Feel horrible myself, I've got some kind of dose. Its really hitting me today. I just want to curl up in bed and sleep. Maybe I'll dream up a few new plot points.
36,169 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2009 - 13 33
My eye area has been realy acting up. It's healing so it gets very itchy and keeps wanting to close. Not much use when trying to type.
----------It has really slowed me down as has my overall lack of mental energy, probably due to the painkillers.
Still, getting something written and still hope to finish on time, even with the op coming up next week
Mind your golf
72,510 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2009 - 14 10
It has really slowed me down as has my overall lack of mental energy, probably due to the painkillers.
Still, getting something written and still hope to finish on time, even with the op coming up next week
I think you are really doing extraordinarily well, considering all you have to deal with!
33,125 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2009 - 14 20
It has really slowed me down as has my overall lack of mental energy, probably due to the painkillers.
Still, getting something written and still hope to finish on time, even with the op coming up next week
I really admire you, I don't know where you find the energy to do all of this and I think you are doing really great.
*sending you a lot of hugs*
xxxx
36,169 / 50,000
Nov 19, 2009 - 10 52
Thanks for the support everyone. The op went well and I'm now writing again. A bit behind but back to 2K per day and sometimes a little more. Within range to finish.
----------Mind your golf
29,803 / 50,000
Nov 20, 2009 - 09 34
Good for you! I logged on to ask how your op went, and stunned to hear you're keeping ahead of the goal despite everything.
I hope you all feel much better now. It would be worse if we caught something later on.
Get the panic and malnutrition over with early and let's keep going.
There's something going around all right. I missed days with a food bug, such bad timing, but I kept jotting quick notes on bits of paper, and am gradually catching up again. Some of the ideas even made sense later! The horrible thing about being sick is that you start to brood over what you've written. I was tempted to rewrite, but I inserted two page breaks and ignored the impulse. I've trained myself to go to the end and key in something new, no looking back, no editing.
Stay healthy,
6,076 / 50,000
Nov 23, 2009 - 15 45
Of course here it is, the last week of NaNo... I'm already behind as it is, and I'm starting to come down with something (with no money to get medicine for it)! I swear the universe must not want me to finish this year or something because it's always one thing or another lately.
----------"Angst: it's what's for dinner." - Crispini
2 liters of cola killed: I lost count, too many to remember
cups of tea consumed: 5 (cola is more enjoyable and cheaper too!)