when you are engulfed in flames

alone in bed, laughing so loudly you scare the cat, $16

There is a nasty little virus making the rounds. I got this information the hard way, the viral way. I won't go into gory details, but toilet proximity and a good book are the key to persevering and the eventual defeat of this invisible miscreant.

David Sedaris has done it again, with his new book, When You Are Engulfed in Flames. Here's a bite of David's sage like wisdom "...which is a bit like trying to convince someone to find you attractive and it doesn't it work. I've tried it."

And now glamorous photographs from my boudoir -- a.k.a. the sickbed (ground zero for fevered, sweaty... yeah, pretty much just sweat and fever.)