Blue Wednesday
March 22, 2006 – 9:00 am | by nerd's eye viewWelcome to Nerd's Eye View. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Want to know more about this site? See the Meet the Nerd page. And thanks for reading!
Yesterday in class I kept the hacking and sneezing to a minimum, but later in the evening I broke out in to a blazing fever. Off I went to bed to toss and turn the better part of the night, alternating between being clammy and cold and roasting hot. Today I’m dullwitted and parched and exhausted but too uncomfortable to sleep much. I have the flu.
This sucks mightily. I had to beg out of our date with the Wirtschaftskammer, though thankfully J. took care of all of it, even running home with the papers for me to sign, then delivering them right back again to be processed. Now I’m a licenced freelancer in Austria. Nerd’s Eye View is global, baby.
I also have to beg off from work tomorrow and I’m not sure what’s to become of my weekend plans with the Irish. Hopefully, this is just one of those temporary visitors that leaves you feeling sapped after 48 hours and just fine after 72. I have enough to do without being so listless that I can barely think straight.
In the meantime, I am not making jokes about bird flu, I am crawling in and out of bed, I am channel hopping though movies I’ve seen or those I’d rather not even know about at all, and I’m wondering just how many painkillers I can take in a sitting. And is it okay to wash down ibuprofen with whiskey?
I find a certain superstitiousness about sickness here that borders on medieval, but today, I’m not complaining. I’m so worn out that the rule that one shouldn’t leave the house until 24 hours after a fever has broken seems a-okay to me right now. Now, I must go toss back a few more paracetemols and find out if there are any counter indications for mixing them with schnapps.
3 Responses to “Blue Wednesday”
By Lies on Mar 22, 2006 | Reply
Don’t worry about the counter indications. “do not mix with alcohol” is standard. It will just make you sleep. What you actually need is a cocktail of hot lemmon juice with strong alcohol and one aspirine. If someone can cook that up for you, you’ll feel a whole lot better tomorrow.
By gatorfalcon on Mar 25, 2006 | Reply
I could use one of those. Not quite the flu, but a head cold/sinus infection in the “I want to rip off my face to vacuum that crap out of me” phase.
By Marilyn on Mar 26, 2006 | Reply
Aw jeez…you were doing all that battle with Expedia while you had (have?) the FLU?! Yuk. Hope you’re feeling better.