thefuckoffkid

I lost a week due to illness (see below), which means I feel like I'm behind where I should be. I'm still "in charge" and feeling like I don't belong. I've got the "faking it" down ok though. I pretend to know what I'm doing and people play along like they believe that I do.

Two new guys started with us (as foreshadowed in last month's post). One came from Europe (having studied in the US), one from the US (having previously studied in Europe, go figure). As I understood it, the second guy, who's married, was going to come out in advance of his wife who would follow him out later. Now I find out that she has family in Canada and doesn't want to live as far away as Australia. This bodes well.

Flu season in Sydney (at least, can't speak for the other cities) has been seriously bad this year. I got knocked about starting in the middle of July and felt totally shitty. TheFuckOffGirl is always amused when I'm feeling sick and miserable, because she always thinks I'm bunging it on.

Then she got sick too.

So we oscillated between:

TFOG: [lying prone in bed] "I'm so sorry. I feel awful. I can't believe I was making fun of you."

And, moments later:

TFOG: "I hate you."
Me: "I know, baby, I know."
TFOG: "You made me sick."
Me: "I know, baby, I know."

You see, several days after getting completely sick, she was meant to travel to Boston for a conference and workshop as part of the Travel Scholarship she won (as mentioned in the last entry). She did travel, taking antibiotics with her, but felt shitty for much of the time. (Don't feel too bad -- through sneaky upgrading, she travelled to Boston first class. Srsly.)

She got back on Sunday (to a mostly clean house! yes! and an almost dead plant!) and today she flew out to Kuala Lumpur. Hmph. I've spent the last couple of weeks at home sick and miserable and lonely.

I spent, amid coughing fits, Saturday at an "Ampfest" where I got to meet a bunch of rockpig guitarists and local people who make really high quality amplifiers, like Duane Ledford and Pete Reynolds, and played through them. I noodled around on one of these Crossley guitars too.

e1e and lowroller came along for the ride too, which was good of them.

Hasn't she been some fun, eh?

TFOG read up some of the debates I've been having with Professor Bitch, and agreed with my presumption that her reaction to it all would be "Why spend time arguing with idiots?"