sick!

i think i have the flu. it started yesterday afternoon with aches and stiffness and now all i want to do is sleep. i have chills (and there multiplying) and my stomach sounds like a pepper mill. spent last night in a daze watching pbs--i know PBS! there was live concerts by rod stewart and the grateful dead--at one point i thought they were playing together. ol' jerry noodling away on "maggie may"--dirty hippies doing that spinning nonsense to "hot legs." who the hell needs drugs--just let your brain boil due to fever!

i haven't felt this ill in about two years. the last time i had the flu i didn't have anywhere to live. i was staying with my then girlfriend; however her roommate didn't want me there alone. so i got the flu on a weekend when she was working and i had nowhere to go. i tried to wait out her shift at barnes and noble but i almost passed out in the poetry section. i decided to just rent a room at the local travelodge.

the travelodge loosley fit all the definitions of a hotel--it had a bed, a tv, and a bathroom. there was a red ring in the tub that made me think of janet leigh in psycho and the room smelled like cheap cigarettes--at least it had cable. i spent the night, shaking a fever from my skin and eating bad takeout pizza. . .not one of the best night of my life!

i feel a little better this morning but i do believe i'll be going back to bed. ugh. . .

am soundtrack: ray lamontange trouble; sam cooke the rhythm and the blues; joni mitchell blue; miles davis kind of blue; roxy music avalon