Covid =link= — I Wrote This At 4am Sick With
I’m going to try to sleep again. Or maybe I’ll just watch the fridge hum.
Writing during a fever dream is an exercise in surrealism. Thoughts don’t arrive in a straight line; they arrive in fragments. I’ve spent the last hour wondering if the delivery driver who dropped off my contactless soup realizes he’s a literal hero, and then immediately pivoted to worrying about an email I forgot to send in 2019. The Isolation of the Hour i wrote this at 4am sick with covid
The timestamp on the clock is a threat. 4:03 AM. I’m going to try to sleep again
There is a fine line between delirium and genius, and I am tap-dancing right on it. Thoughts don’t arrive in a straight line; they
If you slept from 4am–7am, great. If you stayed awake the whole time, also fine. Your body is fighting a virus. You did not fail.
If you want to turn those delirious 4am notes into a proper blog post, here's a framework that honors the original state while making it readable for others: