Leslie's Blog

"In the great silence of my favorite month,
October (the red of maples, the bronze of oaks,
A clear-yellow leaf here and there on birches),
I celebrated the standstill of time..."
~Czeslaw Milosz

Well, for the past two days I've missed blogging quotes about my favorite time of the year but that is because I've been sick, sick, sick, sick, sick!! It started Friday night when all of a sudden my throat was scratchy and sore. Saturday morning it was still sore and scratchy and by Saturday night I was getting pretty congested. By Sunday I was miserably sick...I was completely congested, sneezing, coughing and a terrible sinus headache. I didn't even make it out of bed on Sunday until 4:00pm. Ryan kept coming to check on me and brought me soup when I felt like eating but for the majority of the day I was hopped up on Nyquil and passed out in my bed. When I woke up Monday I still felt terribly sick but I had jury duty so I had no other choice but to get up and head out for the courthouse. I sat on the hard benches of the freezing courtroom from 8:30am until 4:10pm and for the first time ever I wasn't picked to serve on the jury! I had a high juror number so I never even made it into the jury box to be questioned before they found 14 jurors. Tuesday I forced myself to go to work but I was in terrible shape and they told me not to come into work on Wednesday...I didn't argue. :-) I spent yesterday resting and while I'm still sick (and still sound very nasal-y - cute, huh?) I am at least coherent these days. :-)