2024 Week 45: Annual Covid Brain Cleanout

I had been looking forward to this week, because for the first time in months, my room would be totally bunny-free and I can finally deep-clean it and enjoy having it to myself. Alas, I ended up getting sick and spent all week alternately sleeping and coughing. I'm 95% sure it was Covid, although I didn't test for it, because of its particularly body-ravaging flavour. It's either that or my body responds this way to any common bug now. I hope not - good game.

It's not such a bad thing, being sick. I drew (above), read a lot of Goethe (now 60% through Faust Part 2), watched cartoons and cooked. 

During this whole week of nothing I made peace with getting old - something I've been fighting for at least a few years. I had equated getting older with being boring and married and middle-class. You know: being fussy about the things you eat and paying for a "nicer" hotel and flying full-service instead of budget and tut-tutting over young people from your snug garret of domestic felicity.

But over the course of the week - maybe as the disease ravaged my brain cells - I started feeling okay about being old and boring. Leave youth to the young! I decided. Let me have my comfortable pyjamas, my zinc supplements, my happy marriage and the joyful knowledge that I have made it to middle-age - whew, I am safe! I do not need to go through the heartbreak of realising that the world is a piece of shit or figure out how to set boundaries. Plus, I will only be around for a limited period of climate change. Hooray!

MON: slept; Haybeon went home, sent Jill home

TUE: more sleeping; made chicken stew, watched Only Connect & Uzumaki, also booked flights to Baguio!

WED: air fried salmon heads (which were a waste of time and effort), watched Inside Out 2 and ordered 5 waffles on GrabFood

THU: cleaned my room, tred to figure out this Trump thing, then gave up and made quesadillas

FRI: walked to Bishan Park and ate Filet O Fish, went home and continued sleeping

SAT: roasted zucchini, canned sardines and mushroom soup for lunch, went to town for SWF which wiped me out

SUN: took bus to Bishan North and went home and slept some more