Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Misc: Sick again, but now well

The reason it's been awhile, for the two of you who may have noticed, is that I spent the last bit of February and almost all of March on a bad bacterial infection.

Oh, those halcyon days when I got the flu on Saturday and was back at work by Wednesday. This damn infection had me out of work for two full weeks, twelve days of which were spent with temperatures over 100. I had two five-day courses of Zithromax, which shook me by the guts, and experienced ramifications which I will spare you except to say that they fascinated my gynecologist, and your gynecologist is someone you pretty much always want to bore stupid unless you're at the same cocktail party or something. That GYN appointment, by the way, was such a surrealist satire of a Woody Allen movie I'm trying to figure out a way to turn it into an article. It might as well be good for something.

We were supposed to go to California in the middle of March, but even if I had been able to totter onto a plane, I had hosed through all my paid leave being sick, so we had to reschedule for May. I'm almost back up to speed except that I'm still sleeping ten hours a night and I haven't been able to make it back to hapkido class, in which I ironically earned an orange belt the very night before I got sick.

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