Eric has been pretty sick and home from work this week, as you may know.  I find myself vacillating between feeling terribly that Eric has the flu and feeling fortunate that he is recovering well and that it hasn’t gotten worse; between being struck with the ridiculousness that we have spent much of an entire three days locked in the same 700 sq ft and being struck with the great fortune that we can both do our jobs from home; between thinking it’s somewhat third world that my office is my bedroom is our den and thinking that we are so fortunate to have such a lovely place to live; between being annoyed at having to stay 3ft from the person I love most and want to hug and kiss and make feel better and being so grateful that I have someone I love so much and actually enjoy being cooped up with.  Overall, I think we are just very fortunate people, even in an unfortunate week of sickness.