entering the whirlpool

Apparently I need more than 8 hours of sleep with this project. And today when I was very tired, and then got a headache, and started feeling sick to my stomach as well, I decided to be sensible and go home. And I slept for a while, and my head hurts less, but my insides are still kind of eeh, and despite drinking things I still feel dehydrated. Which at this point I ought not to be. Possibly I am vilely ill, but if so I don't know where I got it from, since these symptoms don't sound like anything other people have had recently. Of course it's probably a bad sign that I feel like I'd rather be sick because that means I can stay home and sleep all day. Sigh.

So instead we have a thing I started at work for no particular reason:

( storyish fragment, in weird-for-me voice... )