From bedridden to backlogged

True to feeble form, I got sick AGAIN for the nth time this year, succumbing to a high fever this past Tuesday. I only made a full recovery yesterday, and so I'm back in the office today. Due to the unfortunate timing of my illness, which came on the heels of the Ateneo-La Salle game last Sunday, my mom the-doctor-without-a-medical-degree pinned the blame on overexcitement. She conveniently overlooked the fact that I had spent the previous Saturday literally sweating it out at an outdoor wedding reception in Bulacan, which she had made me attend. Thankfully, my dad remembered this and pointed it out to her. Afterwards he slipped me an antibiotic without my mom knowing (she's very anti-antibiotics), and within a few hours of popping the pill my fever broke. Who says mother always knows best, eh?

The pros of getting sick were: I got time off from work, I finished reading John Updike's Gertrude and Claudius, and I got to watch the UST-FEU and UE-DLSU games live on TV. The cons: I have a huge pile of reports on my desk begging to be checked, and I'm really behind on my blogging. I have so many things I want to write about: the Audrey Hepburn-Peter O' Toole movie How to Steal a Million (loved it!), Gertrude and Claudius (loved it!), my favorite Green Archer Bryan Ilad getting thrown out of the UE-DLSU game for throwing a sucker punch (loved it!), Erap getting convicted for plunder (ambivalent about this one), the brewing ZTE scandal (I like anything that could land Abalos in trouble), and UP fratman Cris Mendez's death from hazing (thanks to Ria Ang for suggesting that I write about it).

I don't know if I'll still be able to blog about all of those, especially since current events become stale topics when no longer... well, current. For now I'm just glad to be out of bed and back on my feet, and looking forward to a weekend of celebrating Auntie Nene's birthday and watching the UAAP Cheering Competition (no more overexcitement, Ma, I promise :p).