shit 4 September 2008
I felt quite shit today – think it’s the flu-like symptoms I was told to expect from the diseases I asked for yesterday. As it happens, I am still replete re yellow fever and a few other nasties which I haven’t mentioned till now. I avoided rabies yesterday, though, as I didn’t like it at all the last time I ‘had it’. As it happens, after I got back from the last African trip I had a letter to say there was a tiny problem with a batch of a rabies vaccine made in the same laboratory close to the time of the one I’d had and they needed to either re-innoculate me (why? i was back in no rabies land?) or get my signature to say I was happy not to sue (or somesuch) – I gave the signature.
However, it was a good day because I got to grips more fully with the last of the novels I have to read as judge of the Costa awards this year. I had worried for a while. I have enjoyed reading some great books and am delighted to be introduced to such good authors that I will certainly read again, but today was a kind of breakthrough and I started to see the wood for the trees. Now I am in love with too much…
And reading, because it is one of the great things in life, made me happy and helped with the tropicals. Huzzah for bukes!
