So my cold/flu finally receded on Friday. Despite the cold, last week ended up being alright, mainly because it was pretty quiet and I could just focus on writing. I had a few important realizations about the book, but I think I’ll tell you about them a bit later in the week.


Today the kid is home sick, she got whatever I had. She’s got a bit of a fever and is very congested. Poor thing is just lying on the couch watching cartoons and demanding a steady stream of gummy bears. I am happy to oblige, what else can I do? The timing isn’t very good for me, since I was hoping to put in a full day of writing today. The rest of this week is pretty packed. Tomorrow we’re doing some shooting for the peep documentary (full report after it’s done, I promise). Then on Wednesday I’ve got a Broken Pencil meeting that should take up quite a bit of the day. Then Thursday I’m speaking at a Walrus magazine fundraiser lunch organized around my article about how we’re learning to love surveillance. On the bill with me is the sci fi writer Robert Sawyer. We usually have pretty divergent points of view so it should make for an entertaining conversation.


As you can see, things are busy so losing a day of my work week really sucks. But I’ll be stoic and hopefully earn points with W. Speaking of W., she tried but failed to post to the blog, responding to my post complaining about how she can’t say no to E. so I always have to be the bad guy (pretty ironic considering I’ve already fed her about 30 gummi bears, but she’s sick okay…) Anyway, for some weird reason I got her comment on the blog in my email but it didn’t appear on the actual blog. I will post it again and let everyone know when it’s up there, complete with detailed analysis. This is, after all, a bit of a breakthrough moment…the first indication that W. is actually reading this thing.


In the meantime, wish me luck dealing with the needs of a fluish two year old while earning points with W. If anyone has advice finding the right balance between stoic acceptance and the need to be rewarded for my amazing sacrifice on behalf of the family, I’m all ears.