Charlie Hatton About This
About Me
Email Me

Bookmark
 FeedBurnerEmailTwitterFacebookAmazon
Charlie Hatton
Brookline, MA



All Quotes
HomeAboutArchiveBestShopEmail

  |  

Howdy, friendly reading person!
I'm on a bit of a hiatus right now, but only to work on other projects -- one incredibly exciting example being the newly-released kids' science book series Things That Make You Go Yuck!
If you're a science and/or silliness fan, give it a gander! See you soon!

Hey, Boss — I Lied. I’ll Be Back in February. Maybe.

Well, this blows.

I hurt. All over. The aches from my illness are bleeding over into the creaky back from the soft mattresses we’re sleeping on over Christmas break, and I’m feeling the pinch.

(And if you think there’s just a smidgen of hopeful optimism left in me, know that I just included ‘bleeding’ and ‘pinch’ in a sentence about how I feel, when I really didn’t have to.

The glass is not ‘half full’. It’s all empty, broken on the floor, and shards of it are poking into my delicate between-toe meat. That is how I feel right now.)

I don’t know what this is — I don’t think it’s the flu, or anything dramatic like that… but I’m not ruling it out, either. I’m coughing, stuffy, achy, and feverish. It’s like the after-effects of a weekend at Denis Leary’s, or a bong party at the Barbi Twins’ place.

Okay, that doesn’t make any damned sense, does it? Well, tough. Just the fact that I can get fingers to keyboard right now is amazing enough to me, and at the same time, it’s wearing me the hell out. I’ll be back in some form — liquid, given how it feels right now — tomorrow, and back to my old self as soon as I can shake this wretched beast. Oh, and I’ll be home tomorrow — sweet, sweet home — so I should be in better spirits. And quite possibly pickled in spirits, which always makes for some interesting reading, no?

Anyway, take care of yourselves, and I’ll see you again when I get back home. Right now, it’s 10pm, and I’m going to bed. Wish me ten hours of sleep and a miracle cure for the trip back tomorrow, okay? That’d be the best Christmas gift I got all year. Toodles!

Permalink  |  9 Comments



9 Responses to “Hey, Boss — I Lied. I’ll Be Back in February. Maybe.”

  1. Jeff A says:

    Sorry you feel like poo, hopefully you will recover faster than I am. I got sick 2 weeks ago and some of it is still hanging on!

  2. Lara says:

    Hey Charlie! Feel better dude! I caught the crud just as I was leaving to drive from Arizona to Tennessee and Im STILL (a full week later) feeling like crap! Whatever it is it SUCKS! Anyhow, now that I’m STARTING to feel human again, when Dad asked if we all were interested in eating Brats for dinner one night, I suggested making your Brats recipe. I’ll do my best to make them right…and I’ll let you know after Wednesday’s dinner how they turned out!

  3. chasmyn says:

    Don’t forget to sterilize your keyboard after you type so that when you’re feeling better the germies aren’t lying in wait.

  4. nefarious says:

    Here’s to hoping you feel better and manage to get pickled, inebriated, looped, boozed, swacked, blotto, oiled, tanked, fried, crocked, slewed, zonked, lushed, lit, loaded, canned, gassed and generally $#!T-faced before your next bloggin effort. Even if you aren’t feeling better you won’t care

    -nef

  5. tj says:

    *puts on hazmat suit*

    don’t get anything on me! you’re oozing…

  6. The Hearn says:

    Try to avoid dying. I’m fighting a minor illness myself, but I think I might live.

  7. Miss Lyndsay says:

    i dont know why, but sometimes I enjoy being sick and having the luxury of blaming my bitching,sleeping, lack of movement, to said illness.

    Sometimes – it is something that can be good.

  8. Joe says:

    Get better soon man…and if you didn’t get a chance, go check out Dave Barry’s chat on washingtonpost.com.

    Maybe you can laugh your way back to health!

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

HomeAboutArchiveBestShopEmail © 2003-15 Charlie Hatton All Rights Reserved
Highlights
Me on Film 'n' Stage:
  Drinkstorm Studios


Me on Science (silly):
  Secondhand SCIENCE


Me on Science (real):
  Meta Science News


Me on ZuG (RIP):
  Zolton's FB Pranks
  Zolton Does Amazon


Favorite Posts:
30 Facts: Alton Brown
A Commute Dreary
A Hallmark Moment
Blue's Clues Explained
Eight Your 5-Hole?
El Classo de Espanol
Good News for Goofballs
Grammar, Charlie-Style
Grammar, Revisitated
How I Feel About Hippos
How I Feel About Pinatas
How I Feel About Pirates
Life Is Like...
Life Is Also Like...
Smartass 101
Twelve Simple Rules
Unreal Reality Shows
V-Day for Dummies
Wheel of Misfortune
Zolton, Interview Demon

Me, Elsewhere

Features
Standup Comedy Clips

Selected Clips:
  09/10/05: Com. Studio
  04/30/05: Goodfellaz
  04/09/05: Com. Studio
  01/28/05: Com. Studio
  12/11/04: Emerald Isle
  09/06/04: Connection

Boston Comedy Clubs

 My 100 Things Posts

Selected Things:
  #6: My Stitches
  #7: My Name
  #11: My Spelling Bee
  #35: My Spring Break
  #36: My Skydives
  #53: My Memory
  #55: My Quote
  #78: My Pencil
  #91: My Family
  #100: My Poor Knee

More Features:

List of Lists
33 Faces of Me
Cliche-O-Matic
Punchline Fever
Simpsons Quotes
Quantum Terminology

Favorites
Banterist
...Bleeding Obvious
By Ken Levine
Defective Yeti
DeJENNerate
Divorced Dad of Two
Gallivanting Monkey
Junk Drawer
Life... Weirder
Little. Red. Boat.
Mighty Geek
Mitchieville
PCPPP
Scaryduck
Scott's Tip of the Day
Something Authorly
TGNP
Unlikely Explanations

Archives
Full Archive

Category Archives:

(Stupid) Computers
100Things
A Doofus Is Me
Articles 'n' Zines
Audience Participation
Awkward Conversations
Bits About Blogging
Bitter Old Man Rants
Blasts from My Past
Cars 'n' Drivers
Dog Drivel
Eek!Cards
Foodstuff Fluff
Fun with Words!
Googlicious!
Grooming Gaffes
Just Life
Loopy Lists
Making Fun of Jerks
Marketing Weenies
Married and a Moron
Miscellaneous Nonsense
Potty Talk / Yes, I'm a Pig
Sleep, and Lack Thereof
Standup
Tales from the Stage
Tasty Beverages
The Happy Homeowner
TV & Movies & Games, O My!
Uncategorized
Vacations 'n' Holidays
Weird for the Sake of Weird
Whither the Weather
Wicked Pissah Bahstan
Wide World o' Sports
Work, Work, Work
Zug

Heroes
Alas Smith and Jones
Berkeley Breathed
Bill Hicks
Dave Barry
Dexter's Laboratory
Douglas Adams
Evening at the Improv
Fawlty Towers
George Alec Effinger
Grover
Jake Johannsen
Married... With Children
Monty Python
Nick Bakay
Peter King
Ren and Stimpy
Rob Neyer
Sluggy Freelance
The Simpsons
The State

Plugs, Shameless
100 Best Humor Blogs | Healthy Moms Magazine

HumorSource

 

Feeds and More
Subscribe via FeedBurner

[Subscribe]

RDF
RSS 2.0
Atom
Credits
Site Hosting:
Solid Solutions

Powered by:
MovableType

Title Banner Photo:
Shirley Harshenin

Creative Commons License
  This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons License

Performancing Metrics

Page copy protected against web site content infringement by Copyscape

Valid XHTML 1.0

Valid CSS!

© 2003-15 Charlie Hatton
All Rights Reserved