I wake up and do my work through the haze of my annual cold. Two days ago I was almost completely mentally incapacitated. Now I'm just physically incapaticated. I can't speak without my raw throat burning up my words. I can't complete a thought without sneezing. I can't close an HTML tag without wiping my runny nose.
But the work must be done, for I leave for China in under two weeks. I would tell you more about that, but there's too much work to be done.
My days work on a bell curve. I wake up and I start off on work that requires little to no thought. XHTML/CSS implementations. Basic JavaScript. Repetitions of design themes decided upon months ago. As the day goes on, I switch to tasks requiring more and more mental effort. There's about a three or four hour window in the middle of the day in which I can deal with complex design decisions and JavaScript behaviour concepts that nobody's even thought about before. But eventually I have to tone things down, and by the end of the night, I'm back on the couch, bashing out implementations while waiting for the NyQuil to kick in.
I use my new MacBook Pro while on the couch. I would tell you more about that, but there's too much work to be done.