AliceFraser

Fever Dreams

Added 2016-05-27 04:14:15 +0000 UTC

The last few days have been a strange floating bubble feeling. All of the joys and stresses of this job packed into 36 hours: a corporate gig entertaining a group of incredibly disparate people at the end of a three day conference (no swearing please, and nothing political, we split along party lines); and writing an article about 8 trees that hate you for SBS Comedy; and doing a heart-wrenching podcast with novelist Dean Mayes about the surgery he has to get today; and talking with the director of the Monash Law revue about how to get the best out of his cast; and Gig logistics and festival hopes and where in the world I'll be in september; and meetings for projects that may or may not completely evaporate into air, thin air.... All on the clock. I feel like I'm in a surreal futuristic movie where the editor who was meant to be on narrative continuity was having a nervous breakdown. The other reason that I've had the last few days in a bit of a bubble - woke up with an ear infection which has felt like being hit with a brick. I rarely get sick so it has the value of novelty! HAHAHAhahahahahaha. Hah. Ow. The worry was flying from Melbourne to Sydney yesterday for the corporate gig and then to the UK today (in an hour!), because the first thing google tells you is that your eardrum will explode and you'll have tinnitus forever if you fly. So I have been full of the fear that my head will explode, and also full of antibiotics, pseudoephedrine, decongestants, antihistamines that the doctor prescribed and I definitely have never taken this many drugs in my life. It focuses the mind. Or does it. Maybe I'm immensely scattered? But I feel like I've been getting things done. It could all be a dream. It feels like a dream.