The morning was usual – a saturday morning massage, pancakes, picked up a sick kid at the amusement park and dropped him off at home – and then I began to feel achey.  We went to visit friends but by 5 I was running a fever.  Cancelled my plans to see Dara Barnat and Sabine Huyhn reading at the Little Prince, to see my friend, to do everything –  and began making a list of people with whom I’ve been in contact for the past days. 

I was shivering and running cold and hot and coughing and sneezing.  Took all the medications I could find and then took a COVID test.  It was negative.

So I’m simply sick.