Coughing Up Phlegm

I got pretty sick last week. While the timing was not good - when is it ever a good time to get sick? - I found myself more willing than usual to do dirty work.

When I wasn’t coughing up chunks of lung and stomach tissue, I somehow found myself taking a strange glee in the unearthing of technical debt, the debugging of weird edge cases, the discovery of strange (or just downright rotten) smells,and other nutritious but distasteful types of work. Maybe it was just that I felt so gross, even the tasks I normally dislike could make me feel better.

Or maybe it just takes a sick mind to really make sense of the code I write.