As a fan of British television when I have the opportunity to see it, I have had the opportunity to watch a few classic British comedies in my time. One episide I remember of one of those shows, Are You Being Served? has a bit to do with the way that I feel right now. That episode, which was called “Is It Catching” (which is English slang for “Is it contagious?”), is where someone at the store where all of the characters work catches a disease, and as a result the entire department is quarentined, which causes a lot of fighting and bickering, as is to be expected.

Well, right now I don’t feel so hot, and to be honest I started feeling not so hot about Sabbath, which means that if it is one of those late winter/early spring colds that comes from frequent shifts between warm and cold and dry and wet weather, then I am likely to be sick for at least a few more days, which should allow a lot of opportunities to seek rest (yeah right!) and eat chicken noodle soup or some reasonable equivalent to it, as I tend to like a certain type of comfort food when I am not feeling particularly great.

At times, being sick can be overdetermined. As someone who is sensitive to the weather, does not often get enough sleep, and is in places where there are a lot of sick people (like work and public transportation), being exposed to illness is a given. At times it is hard to distinguish between allergies, which I suffer to a large degree as well, and colds, especially as their symptomology can share major similarities at least as far as it appears with me. I just hope it doesn’t last long and that the symptoms don’t get more severe than the nasal drip, coughing, watery eyes, ravenous thirst and hunger, and chills that I have already had over the past couple of days. We will see about that, though, I suppose.

Having a cold can be very inconvenient for a variety of reaosns. For one, having burning eyes and coughing makes things like singing and navigating a bit of a challenge. Today, for example, I was busy with work as well as with practice for an upcoming singing competition) that I hope I get the chance to blog about later this week. Suffice it to say that it is not an easy task to keep up one’s work when one is not feeling one’s best, though I try to do what I can. Maybe tomorrow I will have the chance to quarentine myself after work in my room and rest up and feel a little bit better, but for the moment I have much to do, and it is somewhat later than I would like to be getting to sleep. Nonetheless, I feel somewhat compelled to write at least a little bit on a daily basis. I beg my readers indulgence, as always.