tea and sympathy......

ok, so i gave up on my nap when i could not get comfortable......lying (laying?) down is overrated when one's sinus passages are blocked and one's face is swollen and one's throat is sore......i had been advised by those who claim to know that exercise was all that i needed to get over this malady.....so i walked 62 minutes on the treadmill....and felt fatigued enough for a good long slumber......but it seems that i breathe better sitting or standing up.........i hope that i am rested enough for tonight's baseball game.......i went to bed early on in last night's game.......i think i saw 5 or 6 innings....but the baseball is quickly runningout.....and i want to see all that i can while it is still televised.....in these parts few sporting games can be seen for free, with the exception of uk basketball and......nascar.....and golf.....curiously, golf is sometimes televised on all three major channels.......go figure......so it either brings in enough of an audience to pay the bills for these stations, or it is cheaper than any available filler......and since i do not consider golf worth my time.......i usually read on those occassions....speaking of reading.....i finished on beauty......with mixed thoughts.....it was the sort of book where i was more impressed by the prose than the plot.......it may be that the plot was too potentially painful.....a spouse's midlife crisis that involved betrayal with more than one unsuitable.......as if there can be suitable partners for one's adulterous affairs.......either way...it was painful to read about these events...imagining what i would feel like being the wife sitting home knowing it was going on.....or not sitting home......don't want to divulge too much of the plot.....though i will also say that the comparisons made to howard's end by critis were, in my humble opinion, curious with the exception of one specific plot line......and even that was only a minor similarity rather than a bold and blatant one....even if the author says so herself.......if she intended for it to be another howard's end than i don't consider it a successful attempt.......but back to the prose......there was numerous passages of description that were lilting and palpable and so evocative that i envied her gift ......maybe when she moves on from midlife crises to something like relationship dysfunction i will be willing to own that she has melded prose and plot to perfection..............enough for now.....i must hold my head over steaming liquid and find good drugs for what ails me...........