Saturday, May 06, 2006
(5:50 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
The Sick Lifestyle: A Chronicle
Being sick is a nice change of pace from my normal hectic lifestyle. For instance, on Thursday, all I had to do was sleep, run to the bathroom, and watch The Simpsons. Friday, I got by with eating some cereal, sleeping, making some comments on the confession, sleeping, and reading ten pages of Augustine (out of the forty I had left in the De Trinitate). When Anthony and Hayley got home that night, I talked to Anthony while he was trying to watch Seinfeld. Today was the busiest -- I tried to make some coffee only to find that the cat had pissed on my coffee beans, I read twenty-five pages of Augustine (leaving five more, for those keeping score -- no guarantee they'll be finished by the time I go to bed), slept for around four hours in the mid-afternoon, and watched YouTube videos of people beating old Nintendo games really fast.Although my disease is stomach based -- beginning with a "both-ends" scenario, then settling in at the lower end (albeit not without occasional vomit scares!) -- I really want a burrito. A nice chorizo burrito. The last time I went to the burrito place down the block, I ordered one of those, and the guy came out and said to me, "Sir, I am sorry -- the chorizo, it is finished!" I went for the chicken instead -- big mistake. From what Ben Wolfson is saying lately, I probably should have gone for the carnitas.
Instead, I had oatmeal. I'm not entirely satisfied.
Overall, though, it's a good way to round out a semester -- especially a semester when you still have a quarter-based class with a few sessions left and a paper to write, as well as two incompletes and a book review to finish.
(By the way, I really wish that when Blogger caught HTML errors, it would actually highlight them, instead of just saying that there's an error of this particular type and making you look through for it. This disease seems to have affected my typing.)
