Recovery

I thought that I escaped illness from my nonstop activity of the past couple weeks, but it finally caught up with me today...or so I assume. I woke up not feeling all that great. Not sick, just slow and lethargic. I dragged myself to church for Easter service thinking I had at least arrived before it had started. By my watch I was a couple minutes early, but the service had already started, so I had to be escorted to a seat at the front. Terrific. I felt like I was capable of toppling over, and now I had to be before everyone in the event that it happened.

I made it through church but felt just as sluggish, if not more, after it was done. A sandwich from cold cuts didn't seem substantial enough for lunch, so I lugged myself to a nearby place for brunch. The food must have given me a slight boost--or maybe it was the coffee--because I rallied briefly before dozing off during the first basketball game of the afternoon.

I knitted a little after awakening, but as the afternoon progressed, all I felt like doing was sleeping and then sleeping some more. I even had close to eight hours the previous evening, so it's not as though I was lacking sleep. Still, I felt heavy and weary. I slept more often than not, rousing myself from time to time when I heard the basketball scores from the TV.

Having slept off and on for four or five hours in the afternoon, I regained enough energy and focus to knit for awhile. I'm ready to have the scarf done, if just because I'd like to be able to use it before the weather warms up until next fall or winter. I'm getting closer to the end of the third skein, but if I'd wager I'm at least a week from finishing the scarf.

Today's laying about does break one streak that needed to be broken. This is the first day since March 4 that I have not been in a movie theater. Whether it was going to the festival or playing catch-up, I've been visiting the cinema for almost three weeks solid. There's still something else I need to see, but I didn't feel up to it. It's not like I'm without stuff to watch. I was sent a screener since I'm interviewing the director in person this week, but as much as I like his films, I don't want to watch his latest tonight. Considering that I need to overnight it to another critic tomorrow, I guess I don't have much choice in the matter unless I watch it at work, an option that sounds more attractive as the minutes pass.

Not the greatest way to spend Easter, but if I feel back to normal tomorrow, I suppose I can't complain. And hey, my NCAA Tournament bracket is still a viable contender to win after the first weekend. There's a silver lining.