wherein Liz dreams in weird Homestuck AU epics

Homestuck is now invading my dreams.

For example, a couple weeks ago I had a dream that resulted in a Dave<>Aradia fic that I am noodling around with. The rough draft is currently 3,500 words or so. It went very fast at first, but now I've hit the stage where I need to bash it heavily around the edges so it runs on story logic instead of dream logic.

And last night, I dreamed that trolls and humans had both colonized a marginal sort of planet and then the new colonies got abandoned in the muddle of a vast interstellar interspecies war. The world they were on contained a lot of vicious psychic monsters, and the two species took different approaches to dealing with them. The humans used genetic engineering to give some people specialized powers that mimicked the native animals' abilities. The trolls, who already had some psychic powers, instead of took advantage of a quirk of the hemospectrum.

( cut because you probably don't want to read my weird dreams )

Also Nicolas Cage drove a speedboat along some canals, but I don't think that was relevant to the main plot thread. *wry*

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And now to bed. After I take another Benadryl. *blows nose, curses early spring*

wherein Liz is ill

So it turns out that my sudden hayfever attack yesterday, in addition to being an unpleasant thing in its own right, was masking the onset of a nasty cold. Bleh. And I was schedule to work from noon to 9pm today, which was just not going to happen.

I had the damndest time getting anyone to cover for me, though -- RE has not been answering his phone all day, PB was down in Owego with his family for the weekend, PM did not appear to be home (and works too much already), and BW was also under the weather. What ended up happening is that I worked 12-4pm, and BW came in to close.

I then went home and slept for four hours, after which I got up because my medicine was wearing off and it hurts to sleep when I'm sick. My body is already sore and aching, and the constant pressure makes everything worse.

I suspect I will not be up to working tomorrow. I have arranged for PB to cover 4-9pm, but I am not sure what to do about the 12-4pm half of my scheduled shift. I left another message for RE, but I guess I'll call the store tomorrow morning and see what PM says.

I hate being sick. :-(