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Friday be upon thee.

And part of me is so glad to see this week coming to an end. It started very well. I was working on coding and editing as much as I could, and making good progress at that — the Summary is, yet again, even larger. My new favorite question (that's in the "Small Choices" group) is this one:

I didn't think I'd have to use a variable to track whether Romanus likes rain or not, but alas, one of the banters with Alessa mentions it, and thus another small choice is added to the Summary. 

In any case, as I said, the week was going amazing until, of course, it wasn't. I woke up at around 3 am Tuesday shivering, in a cold sweat, my head feeling as if it was split in two. And as I dragged myself out of bed (fumbling not to bother both the dog and the cat curled in my legs), I breathed in deep — and the piercing pain from my swollen amygdalas told me what I most feared: I had caught the flu. 

And, my friends, what a flu it was. I don't know if the virus strains are more aggressive or, because it was my first time catching the flu since before covid, and my immune system was pretty much flying on easy mode, but whatever the reason, this was the most aggressive flu of my life. I was bedridden the whole of Tuesday and wasn't doing much better until well into the morning of Wednesday. 

But then, it slowly started to get better. The good news is that, while intense, it wasn't very dragged out. By Thursday, I was able to go back to living my life, and that included working on the Rose. The bad news is that I was out of commission for 2 days. 

Which is such bad timing! But Thursday, I hit the 20-page goal, and today I edited and coded 24 more. We're now at 167 pages to the end! The goal for next week is to keep hitting (and going over) 20 pages a day.

And that's it! It seems the heavens listened to my request after all because it is so much colder now than before. Of course, it had to be when I really needed last week's nice warm weather. 😭 May this serve as some sort of lesson, although I'm unsure of what exactly that lesson's supposed to be.  

Catch you next Friday! Keep warm and healthy! ♡