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May 13, 2002
That 90% Feeling
You know that feeling, the one where you're not quite all there and you can feel it slipping from your grasp as you descend from Healthy to just plain Sick.
I think mine started on Wednesday, when I was locked up in an alternatingly cold and hot server room -- cold and hot because we had to periodically turn the A/C on to keep the computers from melting and then turn it off when the hairs on our genitals started to get rigid. I think I was too tired the next day to notice, since I left the client -- I think I'll start codenaming my clients; this one's called The Skittles -- around 5:00 a.m., stopped by Koreatown for some food on the way home, got home, showered up, and went right back to work for 8:30. Needless to say, I was a walking zombie for the rest of the day, but I scored a comp day on Friday.
I finally got some rest Thursday evening and hopped out to Fall River, MA, for the monthly Feng Shui gaming session, albeit after making an emergency run to the grocery store to buy the kittens some food. Friday, it wasn't so bad, but I started to get that runny nose with acid snot feeling. Saturday, it got a little worse. I thought it might've been allergies at first so I sucked down some Travist, and that seemed to help a bit but it put me to sleep. By the time I was on my way home to Hoboken, again by way of a stop in Koreatown for food in the middle of the night, I was beginning to feel pretty bad.
Sunday was all about the headache, the general achiness of the body, and the sore throat. And about watching Ottawa not holding onto its early lead against Toronto, forcing a Game 7.
Today, the nose is still running, the sore throat's died down, but now I'm coughing.
Some people get sick like gas barbeques. It comes, it's hot for a little while, it goes away. I get sick like a charcoal grill. It's slow to start, burns hot for awhile, and then lingers on into the night. At least I haven't been getting acute bronchitis like I did in college. One year it stayed with me through three different cycles of antibiotics and two months.
Anyway, I've lost that healthy feeling and I'm just wondering if or when it's going to get bad enough for me to just call it quits and go home.
On a side note, I discovered a new dish that I really liked in Koreatown this weekend, which is the best place to go for that late night munchies fix. They're opened 24 hours, y'see, and when the buses stop running at 1 a.m. and my only choice to get home is a cab or the PATH, well, it's an easy sell to go down to Herald Square, grab that late night Kimchi Jigae, and then hope the PATH across the Hudson. This weekend, though, feeling a little under the weather, I tried out something called Hae Mool Dol Sot Bap, which ended up being a varied assortment of seafood chunks (mussels, scallops, shrimp, etc) over rice in a hot iron pot. It was very hearty and a most excellent meal. There was also enough of it that I actually bagged something to take home with me, which hasn't happened in a long time.
Posted by KinCross at May 13, 2002 07:40 AM