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Interesting, as the last thing I wrote here was how slowly the week was going by. Then, later that night, a cough. Then the next morning, nausea. Then more coughing and nausea. Then dizziness. Then no breathing through the nose.

Several days of being sick, and of course, I was trying to setup an appointment with my new doctor who suddenly can’t see me because she is moving out of the city. So after some self-diagnosis, I believe I came up with the flu. I had all the symptoms (and as of this writing, still do)–the soreness, the coughing, the dizziness, the emptying of two brand name tissue boxes.

So late last week, I refilled a prescription for some drug that was completely irrelevant to the flu and headed over to Walgreen’s to pick it up. That way, after buying some Day-Quil and cough medicine only to find out that my diagnosis was wrong, the trip wouldn’t be a total loss.

I also prescribed myself with staying at home, playing some videogames (like being almost done with the crazy long Godfather game and getting even dizzier playing Super Bust-a-move). As the time at home continued, so was my productivity. Thanks to my fiancee, I also finished vacuuming some over the cabinet kitchen mess and fixing the toilet. All the while, doing a fairly decent job of avoiding all phlegm-producing foods. Sheesh–even seeing the word spelled is gross.

Phlegm.

What I originally thought I was going to do this past weekend (go to see the fresh snow at Big Bear) instead became a stuck-at-home-in-front-of the-TV-watching-all-the-Blockbuster-movies-and-whatever-Christmas show-I-happened-to-record-with-my-girlfriend marathon. Who, by the way, has managed (by the skin of her teeth) to resist the virus.

During the time of staying at home, I remained unkempt, growing a trace of what may very well be a moustache. Wow. I’m almost thirty and I’ve never really had one. Am I going to follow through with it this time around?

I’ll let you know in a week.