I drank a venti chai latte from Starbucks at 9:45 tonight so that I can stay up until 1 a.m. or so on a work night and write, because my son is sick and I'll be staying home with him tomorrow.
I hate to see him suffering -- he's had a fever, cough, sore throat and congestion -- but there is an upside to the break from work: more time to write at home. The downside, besides the obvious that my son is sick, is that I'll have a lot of catching up to do when I get back to the office on Wednesday.
Fortunately, my 4-year-old's fever seems to be gone. Now, if we could just get rid of the hacking cough and regain his ability to breathe. One more day at home and he ought to be germ-free enough to go back to preschool.
And then I'll be back in the office, cleaning out my e-mail inbox, getting back to news articles that I'm in the middle of researching, and planning for my next round of deadlines. It's a vicious circle.
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