Still monoed.

[dhole]

The thing about mono is that sometimes it's hard to tell whether I'm tired because a) I have a disease that makes me tired, or b) I am a naturally indolent person who is in terrible physical shape because I have a disease that makes me tired. If it's a, then I should lie down and watch some cartoons or something, if it's b, I should push a little

Comments

[green_knight]

Mono sounds like absolutely utterly no fun at all - I hope that you will soon get better and that you learn to read your body's signal quickly and reliably.

[lilairen]

I am familiar with that problem, though not from the mono end. (And I have it kind of inverted: having a near-lifelong condition treated that has fatigue-related consequences forces me to come to terms with the fact that I may not be a lazy waste of protein after all.)

[mrissa]

I'm sorry the mono is still such a mess. I'm glad you can take it easy on yourself for the time being and not beat yourself up too much. Also glad to see the story making it into print.

[carbonel]

I enjoyed the story, and belated congratulations on the sale.

(On a very minor note, I wish you'd used "mishegoss" instead of talking around it, especially since you glossed it in the next paragraph.)

I hope you feel better and with more energy soon.

[dhole]

Thanks. That was actually something I was back and forth about, but I decided not to use any Yiddish, for a couple of reasons. First off, if I was going to use some Yiddish, it would have been hard to know where to draw the line--some of the conversations were entirely in Yiddish, and there would have been bits and pieces in the others. "America Thief" isn't exactly the same as "America Gonif," but it's a bit more readily accessible. The other thing was that I was sort of trying to get the Yiddish flavor across by word choice and sentence structure rather than putting actual Yiddish in. I can't exactly explain why that's right for the story and character, but I think it is.

[anonymous]

Refuah shelama. Happy to see your recent publications and the positive reviews. Hazak, hazak.