On Being Sick

Is it PMS? A hangover? Covid? (Maybe it's Maybelline.)

The other day I had a fever. It wasn’t Covid, according to numerous tests. I had recently come home from what turned out to be a string of (joyful and deeply satisfying) superspreader events.

Leaving the house these days is a superspreader event. Or a shooting. Given the options (and all the fun I’d had!), I was pleased.

My fever was accompanied by a fee…