After a week and a half of feeling non-specifically rotten, I finally gave up.

Went in at the normal time to the school, but really apparent even by nine thirty that I wasn't going to make it all day. I still had the huge headache, running a temperature and I had stomach cramps. Told a co-worker around 11am that I couldn't continue and went home. I say went home but actually I have a one and half hour drive home so I had to weave my way through traffic feeling really rough for an hour or so.

Went to bed but couldn't sleep so I surfed the Internet doing research for my film script. God bless the wireless Internet. Finally fell asleep around 4pm just in time for the kids to come home from school and wake me up. (sigh)

Got some good ideas for the script. While I'm home alone over Christmas I'm going to write the script. The kids are going to their mum's house in Cornwall, and Mia is going to Finland to visit her folks. So I'll be in blissful isolation for a whole week. Should be enough time to thrash out a first draft, and frankly I'm really excited about the story as it's shaping up really nicely.

More about that tomorrow.