Life Less Literary

Can’t sleep can’t sleep can’t sleep la la la. I’ve just got over two weeks of what seemed like asthma, something I have hardly suffered like this from since I was a child (except when we went to France two years ago). I went to the doctor’s today and she said it was probably some form of hayfever combined with a mild asthma attack - next time it happens I’m to try anti-histamines, and if that doesn’t work then I go back to her for an inhaler. So now, I’m over that, but it’s been replaced by a common-or-garden cold - not a severe one, but my nose is streaming and my chest, while much better than the last couple of weeks, is still not on top form. Shame because I want to go cycling and stuff, but I feel too breathless.

Anyway, I don’t think that’s the cause of my sleeplessness. It’s probably partly down to the fact that I slept too much yesterday, but also because I’m excited and I want to get on with things - learning more Movable Type, for starters, and the whole XML->XSLT->SVG thing too. I’m also very (very) tempted to get a Safari subscription so that I can read and reference a whole bunch of O’Reilly books every month (I’m not too keen on the idea of reading on screen, or printing out reams of stuff, but there’s just so much there that I want to get hold of, and I’m spending so much on computer books at the moment that the $5 per month basic subscription fee seems like a drop in the ocean).