Blue Aliens| Curiosities | State of October Report

The final days of the month were marred by my succumbing to what I must believe was a genetically-engineered flu virus.  It began last week when practically all of the team situated on the opposite side of the office went missing due to illness.  A friend of mine on the team came back to work and discovered the huge bag of peanut M&Ms I had on my desk to encourage socialization with all of my fairer coworkers (indeed, it worked well for this… even better than my alien action figure!)

Being the glutunous, addictive bastard that he is, he was constantly at my desk, dipping his pale, clammy hand in my M&M’s, ensuring I would contract whatever virus was incubating in the detritus of partially-digested candy souring in his rotten gut.  And I’m sure he scared away some of the fairer coworkers while he was at it.

Despite the unusual virility of this bug, I am happy to report that I think I have survived it.  I think.  I have to be cautious, as I thought I was over it Wednesday and it came back with a vengeance Thursday.

Some good did come out of my week of laying around on the futon, a fevered, writhing mass of tissue covered with sweat and cats:  I discovered that the universally-panned “Speed Racer” (by the Wachowski brothers, of Matrix fame) is actually one of the best movies I’ve seen in a while.

I’ve also decided to participate in NaNoWriMo this year.  My username is (creatively enough) clusterlizard if you wish to add me as a buddy (assuming you can get into the site which must be running on a dialup connection in some dork’s basement, splitting the limited bandwidth with his WoW sessions).  I’ve really wanted to do something with the Blue Aliens and thought this might be a good way to actually get it done.