Well, this sure isn't the way to spend my time off after Christmas - sick at home with some kind of bug! Odd thing is, aside from nasal and chest congestion, and an overall tired feeling, I don't feel all that bad. I'm hoping that this is as bad as it will get. I was supposed to help out at The Bear Search and Rescue Foundation's booth at The New York National Boat Show this afternoon, but there's no way that I could schlep into the city from Queens feeling like this. I'm supposed to help out tomorrow and during the rest of the week, too. Not sure what's going to happen with that, although I really want to go. On the positive side, if I'm too sick to enjoy my scheduled vacation day tomorrow, I'll use a sick day instead of wasting a vacation day.

This is weird. My intestines are making all sorts of weird noises, and pretty loud ones, at that. Nothing else is happening, just a lot of noise. Strange. Of course, I don't want them to do anything outside of normal intestinal stuff. No thank you!

The more I live in New York City, the more I want to leave it. Of course, spending eight days in Walt Disney World doesn't help things. Don't get me wrong. I grew up loving this city, and I still do. However, living here wears on a person. It's a dirty city. If you don't believe it, just take a good look at virtually any street, subway station or bus in any part of the city, "outer boroughs" included. I'm seriously thinking of taking my camera and shooting a roll of film as "a study in dirt." It is, as my five year old niece would say, "dis-gusting." After being in Orlando-Kissimee, where everything is clean and green, it's really hard to come back to this.

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Geez, just what I need to know!

The comedy stuff is going well. So far, I've done two five-minute spots at Stand-up NY, and have been asked to come back for two more in December. Not bad!