Friday, August 18, 2006

Sick Day

So I woke up Tuesday with a sore throat. Major league sore throat. And it hasn't stopped. No fever, no cough, no congestion. Just sore throat. At first I thought it was the allergy shot the day before, or that K and I had begun our rides the day before, or any number of small things, but it's Friday and still here. So went to the doctor, and they're running a throat culture. As it is now though I have those rubber tasting throat lozenges, I've gone through a liter of 7UP, and I go ta prescription for some lydocaine mouth wash the consistency of honey... not sure how I'm supposed "swish and gargle" this stuff but uh.... okay how? I've been diluting it with water, and they don't have directions on the bottle except, "swish, gargle. 10 ML."
Fun stuff. Doc says it's probably viral and will go away.

So I went into the department only briefly, took care of a little business, and headed home. Slept. Need to get more 7UP. Drank tea. Gargled salt water. All that jazz.

Tomorrow is the first long ride with K (40 miles). This morning was supposed to be a "pace" day, so I figured we'd be at 9 or 10 miles per hour. At about mile 5 we were still maintaining an average speed of 11 or 12, and he wasn't falling back at all. When we stopped he asked, "Am I going to slow? What is speed?" When I told him it was better than our "brisk" pace on Wednesday, his comment was, "My God. I thought we were slow today." This is good news. We might finish the 40 in under four hours then. That would be nice. He told me to "bring a camera." I told him the picture will be bad. His response: "Yes, but the day will be good." Interesting point. Be prepared for pictures.

Labor prof. seems to have some topics that are right up my alley for me to talk with him about. He has a list on his syllabus of "interesting topics that will not be covered." Among them, "labor unions, immigration, intranational migration" three things that I'm interested in. He's also very big into research on schools and "developing human capital." It's all very empirical, which I think is a good start for this first paper. I'm looking forward to working with him. Or at least... having him look at a paper and tell me, "Do it again. Not good enough."

Miss the squirrel.
Saw a comedian today who was talking about the success rate of animals who cross roads. "The question shouldn't be why the chicken crossed the road. Because you never see dead chickens on the road. No no... the real question... why did the squirrel cross the raod? Ever seen them? They can make it too, but they're too insecure. They run out, then run back, then run out again."
*Sigh*... pobre ardilla.
But this little squirrel is going to Harvard. Because she's smarter and more hard working than I am ;) . But I still miss her. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

4 comments:

Arely said...

and she is NOT insecure!!

Arely said...

Yo también te extraño!

quijotefan83 said...

Good point. But squirrel's crossing the street are ;)

Fr. David said...

Ooh, I know about the Tuesday illness thing. Come to think of it, Ardilla dejó su comentario amable en ese mismo puesto en mi blog.

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