H1, N1, Me 0

[drcuriosity]

So [revised] suspected swine flu sucks. I think I'm starting to come right, but recovery has been slow. Given that my father has been ill the last three weeks too, it's possible I picked it up going through Australia. Haven't been able to get a lot of work done recently, as my head hasn't been clear enough for it (literally and figuratively). Still. Keeping hydrated, resting, trying to eat healthy and taking what I can to alleviate the symptoms and get healthy soon. Really not liking my patchy immune system right now.

Since my brain hasn't been so good for hard thinking, I've been catching up on various media. Watched a few films (including The Usual Suspects, finally - I think it was worth watching, from what I could process). I've tried a couple of times to make headway on Iain M. Banks' The Algebraist, but it's a little too textually dense and expositiony for me to make much headway. Online reading with text size ramped up a notch. Also doing a little light reading for work - I don't have the head for code, but I figure I can always round out some theory a little a day to keep my brain from stagnating. I have a departmental seminar to prepare soon, too.

Ironic for someone needing a lot of rest, I've been having trouble sleeping well. Trying to get out of the house or at least a little physical activity each day for my constitution, but there are limits to the length of time I can spend upright.

I did finally get to have dinner with my parents the other night - first time I've seen them since they and I got back to New Zealand from our respective holidays. Topics of conversation included food, wolfwitch and how she's doing with her internship (quite well indeed - I'm proud of her), the possibility and impact of new surveillance laws, plantar fasciitis, computer hardware, hockey and Alexander. Though I wasn't able to make it to his birthday, I hear my nephew is doing well. Just two years old, and he's already showing good reasoning ability, empathy, comprehension, understanding consequences and expressing a disturbing tendency towards cleaning up after himself.

This took far too long to type. Let's hope I'm healthy soon. I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Oh, and the scholarship money for September came through. Though I didn't realise at first because they sent the notification to a different email from before. But it's there, and I don't have to worry about dipping into my savings account now. Yay.

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Try Echinacea

[angryangeltoo.livejournal.com]

I was very skeptical before I started on it, but I thought I would give it a try, it is important however to have the herbal prep one and NOT the homeopathic one as that doesn't work as it has very little of the actual herb in it.
I was very suprised when it took me through the wet summer in the UK and up until now with no colds, I useally get two total doozeys that put me under a year, but so far I have had nothing at all.

Re: Try Echinacea

[drcuriosity]

I shall have to look into it, thanks. On a side note, Echinacea can have rather pretty flowers - Jana's grandmother has some purple coneflowers growing in her garden in eastern Kentucky :-)