{"id":933,"date":"2010-12-11T16:13:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T20:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=933"},"modified":"2010-12-11T16:14:58","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T20:14:58","slug":"getting-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=933","title":{"rendered":"Getting Better"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recovering from pneumonia, I\u2019m finding, is a lot like Hyperbole and a Half\u2019s problems with surpassing her capacity for responsibility<\/a>. I get to the office, filled with something resembling energy and a modicum of stamina, sufficient to get me through to about lunch.\u00a0 Like Allie at the start of her productivity cycle, \u201cI will do ALL the Things!\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Do<\/a>

Do ALL the Things! (From Hyperbole and a Half)<\/p><\/div>\n

I sit at my desk, blasting through email like dynamite through a mountain, carving tunnels of solutions through problems of granite. I fight fires, I shape strategies, I sit in judgment. I do ALL the Things! And my lungs feel good, and I\u2019m not coughing any more, and I\u2019m not congested, and I\u2019m not in pain, and I\u2019m not in a pleasant drug-induced fog. I\u2019m back, baby.<\/p>\n

And then I roll a few things off the printer down the way by the microwave, and I stand up to run and get them. And there\u2019s nothing there. No gas, hold the desk a moment, and start the slow shuffle over toward the printer. I cannot tell you how irritating this is. I have been, for a long time, a lethargic bum who gets no exercise \u2013 but that was by design, my choice, not because of a lack of energy. Energy has always been there when I needed it.<\/p>\n

\"Do<\/a>

Do ALL the things? (From Hyperbole and a Half)<\/p><\/div>\n

Now, by about 3:30 in the afternoon, I return to Hyperbole and a Half<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cDo ALL the things?\u201d<\/p>\n

Ooof. I\u2019m beat.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think I can do all the Things today. Maybe tomorrow I\u2019ll do more Things.<\/p>\n

All done now.<\/p>\n

.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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