Thursday, January 16th, 2014.
As it turns out, walking in the rain for about an hour and a half is hazardous to your health.
I've been dealing with a huge fever today. Felt horrible waking up and barely made it to the mess hall by myself, and Mamiya and Irako, being the excellent people they are, instantly knew what was going on and recommended that I take the day off, and I told them that I'd go back to bed after the paperwork was done and I sent the ship girls on their daily mission.
Being sick's nothing new, but it doesn't mean I like it. I remember back in the elementary school and middle school days, kids my age always loved getting sick because that meant having a legitimate reason to skip school and not have to do anything productive. I was one of those people too, until I got to high school and found out the hard way that being sick isn't necessarily something you wanted to be if you could help it. And it's been applied to every single place I've gone and worked at. There's just so much fucking work that needs to be done that you can't even afford to be sick. You get to the point where you know that there's work to be done, and you being sick is just going to get in your own way. Funny how perception on stuff changes over time.
My temperature this morning when I checked was around 105 degrees Fahrenheit, or 40.6 degrees Celsius since we're in Japan and we don't use the motherfuckin' Fahrenheit shit. I really struggled on today's reports and paperwork - my memories of this morning are super blurry because of the fever. I remember Ooyodo and Samidare frequently bringing me lots and lots of cold tea, but I told them that in order to break a fever, I would need hot tea, so they brought me that instead. I don't really remember much else, to be honest.
I remember Ooyodo telling me that at some point this morning I just flat out fell asleep with my head on my desk. Probably explains why I wasn't able to get through all the paperwork today, so I'll have to procrastinate until tomorrow. Gotta focus on breaking the fever first, then dealing with anything else is easy. I asked Ooyodo to formulate mission plans just for today because obviously with the state I was in earlier today, I probably would've told the ship girls to go out there and get themselves blown up or something ridiculously stupid, and I do remember getting outta my office to go back to my bedroom to swaddle myself up in thick clothes and get in bed.
Thankfully, I was able to break the fever by the time I woke up, which was like barely an hour before the time of me writing this, so that's good, it means I at least get to work tomorrow, but I dunno what else I'll need to deal with. Typically for me, after a fever comes an incessant cough that lasts for about two weeks without any medicines or cough drops. Gonna look forward to that, and no, that so totally wasn't meant to be sarcastic at all. Honest.
Right now my head still throbs and I'm still a bit dizzy - whenever I get fevers, I end up feeling a bit woozy like I've gotten tipsy from drinking, weird stuff - but I plan to go back to sleep after finishing the journal entry for today. Surprisingly, shortly after I woke up about an hour ago, Murakumo came into my office with some of my more important papers and the post-action mission report of today's mission. She also brought me a tray of hot tea and even two slices of the cake that I had made for her. I asked her why she brought me the cake that I made for her, and she said that she felt bad for causing me to get sick just from trying to get ingredients to make her a cake, and that she would feel even worse if she didn't at least share some of it with me.
I mean, cake is food, and food is - well, food, so it's not like I'm going to refuse.
I better finish this fast, I can feel my drowsiness creeping dangerously back up on me again.
Murakumo was really nice to me today. Maybe it's 'cause she feels bad for me getting sick and all. Maybe she isn't such an asshole all the time. Maybe, but who knows.
I'm also really looking forward to meeting the new ship girls tomorrow, but then again that also depends on what kind of a health state I'm in. I don't wanna have to meet them coughing my ass off and wondering if they from that point on think I'm some kinda binge smoker or chain smoker.
The other girls paid me a visit too, soon after Murakumo came along. Since ship girls can't get sick the way humans do, it wasn't like I needed to worry about them catching my fever or something. I guess it's an enviable thing, never having to worry about getting sick, but for them, maybe it's not envy that they would feel. For now, they've left, but I get the feeling some of them may come back tonight. Dunno if I'll already be asleep by then. Batsubyou somehow found his way to me and sat at my feet like he's asking me if I was okay. I don't know what he wants. That cat is still the weirdest cat I've ever met.
Seriously, what do you want from me, cat, I'm not gonna say you're fine too.
I'm going to sleep. It's 'bout that time...