Updates from a Sick Bed

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Phoebe 10874 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.phoebenorth.com%2F2012%2F02%2F26%2Fupdates-from-a-sick-bed%2FUpdates+from+a+Sick+Bed2012-02-26+20%3A39%3A18Phoebehttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.phoebenorth.com%2F%3Fp%3D1087

. . . and we’re back!

I’ve been sick the past few days, since returning from vacation. I’ve spent a lot of time in bed watching anime, reading metafilter, and viewing every single episode of the Nostalgia Chick that I could find. Because I will have to entrench myself in work soon (edits!), I wanted to pop in and say hello.

Hello!

The ocean was beautiful, as expected. Because whatever illness I had was germinating, part of me wanted to just enfold myself in the warmth of the sun and not think about the winter that waited for me back home. I read many books (check out my goodreads, as usual, for bookish updates), saw sights, took pictures of birds and alligators.

We made a pitstop in Gainesville, just long enough to get pizza and bumperstickers from Satchel’s before hopping on the road again. It made my heart hurt a little to drive through downtown, passing my old route home from the library but to know that the little apartment there on the second floor of a pink house was no longer mine. I didn’t expect that–it was a feeling I usually only associate with driving by my childhood home in New Jersey. But I suppose that Gainesville, Florida was really the last place I let myself get settled, put down roots.

Sometimes I feel torn in two directions. I’m fundamentally a homebody. I love my bed, my cat, my routine. But I’ve also seen so little of the world. A few islands and one foreign country. Most (but not all) of the East Coast. Vegas. Indiana. There’s so much I need to see and do. I need to give myself permission, I think, to make that a priority. I need to push myself out of my comfort zone, see new things, meet new people.

But first, I suppose, I should push myself out of bed and take a friggin’ shower.