Blargh

[pameladean]

Among the many things that made me speechless with admiration when I first read Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles was that, when Lymond has a headache, he thinks of a poem about the megrims. I don't have a migraine; I just have a cold. I keep trying to think of a quotation about having a cold. I did think of one. Long, long ago, coffeeem wrote a Minneapazine while she was sick, and its title was entirely appropriate to my situation. It's a little bit gross, though, so I haven't used it. I am thinking it, though.

I think this is the Wiscon head cold, and it is really nasty. I have been sick since June 1 and I am bored with it. I also infected Raphael, which is totally unfair. And it's dragonfly season.

Anyway, if I owe you email or an LJ comment, this is why you haven't gotten an answer. I hope to be less foggy in a few days.

Pamela

Puzzled note: the Spell Check, Preview, and Post buttons did not work in Opera, and I had to fire up Firefox to post this, Ghargh.

Comments

[cbackson.livejournal.com]

One of my great consolations after I developed migraines was that at least I shared them with a character of whom I'd always been enormously fond. That is, of course, once I figured out what they were; mine come with a sort of exploding-light visual effect, and the first time it happened, my first thought was that somehow everyone had missed an impending supernova.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Yuck. I hope you feel better soon.


I thought I wrote a poem about having a cold once, but I can't find it. My sneaking suspicion is that I'm actually thinking of the one about jet lag.

[anef.livejournal.com]

You know, it took Dunnett years of research to find those quotations that Lymond and Philippa throw off like fireworks.

[inlaterdays.livejournal.com]

Hope you feel better soon. I hate head colds!

[aedifica]

I hope you feel better soon! I can't think of any quotes about colds at all right now. (I just finished reading Crown Duel/Court Duel and I was impressed that the main characters all get dreadful colds at one point, since that doesn't happen super often in fiction.)

[oursin.livejournal.com]

It is indeed a very nasty cold and horribly lingering.

[csecooney.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmnnnn. LYMOND! Love him! Love him! Want to coodle his fictional head when he has fictional megrims and spouts fictional poetry.

I am VERY curious about this head cold poem. Very, Pamela. Indeed.

[wiredferret.livejournal.com]

Ogden Nash is my go-to for all complaints about colds:
http://www.westegg.com/nash/common-cold.html
http://web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/germ.html

and bonus, one about megrims:
http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2008/05/black-bile.html
Go hence, people, go hence!
Go sit on a picket fence!
Go gargle with mineral oil,
Go out and develop a boil!

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

So what was Emma's line already?? (grin)

(And yeah, we all know that her line is steathy behaviour and amused side glances...)

[lcohen]

i have that cold, too! it's very unpleasant!!!

i hope you are on the mend. me, i'm going back to bed.

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

Feel better soon.

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