July 13, 2012
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Things I Realized This Week While Staying Home Sick
Saturday I saw a truly awesome Norwegian thriller/action movie called Headhunters and while I enjoyed the movie very much I left with a severe headache. Was I dehydrated? What gives? The next day I woke up with fluid in my left ear and realized the headache was merely a harbinger of things to come, mainly a sinus infection.
When I first moved to San Francisco I got sinus infections all the time because the flora out here is completely different from central Texas. I haven’t had a sinus infection in a long time and this one seemed to make up for it. Sunday I had a mild fever–which is a body’s way of trying to kill the bacteria by way of raising the temperature, but as I run a low body temperature on a regular basis (96.8) my fever of 98.6 hardly seems impressive enough to even scare the bacteria a little bit.
So I stayed home Monday. And then Tuesday which also brought the onset of boredom (how many times can I watch Boondock Saints and Girlfight in rep?). Felt worse Tuesday night. Tried going to work on Wednesday only to leave by 10:20 to go see my doctor and get a prescription for antibiotics. Getting home (3 buses) completely wore me out and I slept through the afternoon, adding The Call of Cthulhu to the movie watching rotation which I found I had a Pavlovian sleep response to. Thursday I slept until 11am and of course stayed home. Today, Friday, I am back at work about to take my third dose of antibiotics.
Spending this much time lying on my futon watching movies and feeling generally unwell enough to attempt writing I learned a few things.
And here they are:
- Trader Joe’s chai is really yummy and comforting when you’re ill.
- Boondock Saints has that actor (Norman Reedus) from The Walking Dead in it.
- I officially have a crush on Norman Reedus.
- Movies from the 90s have a definite feel to them.
- Girlfight is one really good movie. This I already knew, but now I want to own it.
- I completely identify with the protagonist in Girlfight. Not because I box, but because I want someone who’ll be a glutton for punishment (loca) and scale the walls I put up.
- I can still carry on cogent Twitter conversation whilst ill.
- I can write haiku poems while ill. And I kinda prefer tweeting a movie that way.
- But being slightly ill can lead to me reversing the haiku rhyme scheme to 7-5-7 (dork).
- Eugene Mirman gives the best commencement speeches
- Thomas Lennon (actor from Reno 911) is related to John Lennon.
- My home implodes when I am sick. I can’t wait to clean it.
- The Luke Skywalker puppet I’m working on just looks like a blonde guy in a karate outfit. Obviously he needs a light saber.
- Leftovers can totally save you when you have no desire to leave the house.
- It’s best not to leave your house when sick. Otherwise it feels like Life it totally rejecting you.
-M
- Trader Joe’s chai is really yummy and comforting when you’re ill.
