Like an old man

This Eurofever that clasped hold of me in London has been hard to shake. None of my usual routine things, such as plenty of liquids and megahot baths has yet warded off the peskiness that it is. The bug has gestated over the past week, transforming from it's sore throat/ears to a general goodgey malaise to its weekend iteration which saw me in coughing fits as I lay down to sleep and hacking up of the gross stuff in the morning.

I took Friday off work (well did a stint of work-at-home) after my morning coughing fit managed to strain a muscle in my side (around my rib) making movement difficult, coughing, laughing or sneezing painful. I polished off Scrubs season 4 (review soon) while also getting some reading done

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Book: QI:The Book Of General Ignorance
Purchased: November 12, 2006
Cost: £9
Pages: 304
Start reading date: November 19, 2006
Finished reading: November 23, 2006
Total days taken to read the book: 5
Average reading speed: 61 pages/day

The QI: Book Of General Ignorance is a book of trivial facts which most people get wrong. Well, it's not always what most people get wrong, but rather more nitpicky answers to things people usually think are right (tallest mountain in the world vs. highest mountain depends on measuring from seabed to peak or base of mountain to peak) as well as a lot of interesting things (like Robin Hood's tights were originally red) which allowed me to play Cliff Claven annoy Aden for a few days in a row. A fun read from John Lloyd and his "Interesting Questions" team (they have a game show called IQ in the UK as well), with a British slant naturally but there was a surprising number of Canadian and Australian tidbits amongst the UK and US chunks as well.

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Saturday I kept my keester on the couch from roughly 8:30 am to 9:30 pm, erecting myself only to get more tea or food, warm up my hot pad, or got for a pee. In that time I managed to plow my way through Season 2 of Lost, which I will review later, but have to say is in the top three of most addictive hour-long shows ever (Battlestar Galactica and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer are the other two... I'm sure 24 comes in right after, but I've never watched it, so I can't really say). I need to catch up on Season 3, desperately.

Yesterday, after my morning hackfest, I made my way uptown to join Aden and her family for a big double birthday celebration for her grandfather and grandmother (84 and 83 respectively). I was in miserable condition, but had a great time nonetheless (the healthy slab of roast beast certainly helped as did the just-like-grandma-makes slice of apple pie, yum!). Last night I had my worst coughing fit yet, and it took a good 20 - 25 minutes to calm down from it. Slept like a log though. Sore throat this morning and that generally goodgey feeling all around, but I've actually been okay since sitting down at work.

I need to ask Joan more about that chocolate thing cause it didn't work for me...