Woody Cavenaugh

I've been home sick these past two days, and I hate it. Mostly because when I'm sick it gets hard to keep my dreams and my reality separate. So this was my day.

Sara made me get up and get ready for work. Then she made me get unready and go back to bed. While I was up I got a headache from coughing, so once she left, I took a dose of Tylanol PM and went back to bed. I figured sleep was the best thing.

I am not sure how many times she called me from work exactly but the message I think I got was that Tylanol was a bad thing, and sleeping was wrong. It was just as well I guess. In my dreams everything sucked.

I dreamed I was a loser in college. Not like me or Earl Hicky (My Name is Earl) loser, more like Charlie Brown loser. People kept me around because it gave them something to be amused by, and I stayed around because bad friends were better than no friends at all. In my dreams, everyone was either laughing at me or being mad at me or both. Cameron was mad at me because I was too sick to go to fencing and she had to do it all by herself. Some frenchman who was good at tying bows onto chairs was mad at me because I tried to tie one back that had come undone, but failed entirely. Apparently tying bows on chairs is hard work and best left to the French. This girl who I wanted to impress kept me around because I was amusing. I took a course in wine and tried to impress her by taking her to a restaurant and ordering wine, but when I got there I didn't recognize anything, and then the bow incident happened, and we were asked to leave. While walking down the sidewalking, a car hit a puddle and covered me in mud. Over my only cloths suitable for eating in a restaurant. Instead of allowing me to go home with my dignaty intact, she had me join her and her friends were they went to an entirely different restaurant and she regailed them all with sad but true tales of my own misfortune. That time when the phone rang again and Sara was upset that I was asleep, I made it a goal to stay awake.

I went into the kitchen and had my morning coffee (twice microwaved) once de-buged. I hate gnats in my coffee. I wanted to watch a movie to help stay awake, but I wanted to watch a pirate movie and we didn't have any. How is it that I don't have any movies with pirates in them???? I checked my email and asked Kimi to just leave me a list of the stuff she hadn't done in PlanView yet so I could maybe come on Sunday and do it before the lady from PlanView came back. She replied that she didn't know what I was talking about. That is good news, in my dreams, we weren't ready to go live in PlanView yet and I was dreading trying to get all he homework done while sick. I don't remember where were are in PLanView right now, but I am glad that we are up and running, and I have no homework to catch up on.

I almost fell asleep on the couch but the cats came around me and patiently waited for me to sleep so they could eat my lips and eyeballs. I think I may hate cats. Either way, I woke up really quick and put on a pot of coffee so I could stay awake.

While awake, I realized that the house looked really bad, so I tried to do a couple of things so Sara wouldn't be mad when she got home. I think she was planning to bring me food. I haven't eaten yet, so if she does bring food, I will be able to eat it all, and she won't have another reason to be mad with me.

I think I did dishes, because that is the sound I hear. Or at least it is the sound I think I hear. It may be the cats roaring, or my stomach growling. At any rate Sara is here, and I'd better try to be good and well, and awake. I need coffee. I also need movies with Pirates in them so when I am sick again, I can have something to watch. I still don't know how I made it to this age without having a movie with Pirates in it.

Hmmmm...egg drop soup...