Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired

I try not to complain about this, but I a freakin sick again. I am so tired of feeling a little under the weather, but this time I really did it. I was can't-get-out-of-bed, exhausted-but-can't-sleep, generally feeling terrible sick. And it's my own fault for not just taking better care of myself when I was feeling a little sick.

And then on top of that, I get little to no sympathy because I don't have the swine flu. I swear, if there is one more way that swine flu can annoy the crap out of me, swine flu will find a way...

Flu
Weak, tired.
Coughing, aching, sleeping.
Plain old flu symptoms.
Unremarkable

H1N1, the remix

Apparently, no matter what country I am in, I will continue to hear about the swine flu until my ears bleed. Diagnose that symptom, medical community.

Airports are scary,
Bathrooms are too.
Wash your hand frequently
To ward off Swine flu.

H[aiku]1N1

[Editor's note: I just found this one in my drafts, it is from when I was in England.]

Here is one thing I will not miss about England: talk of the swine flu. I think the constant discussion of basic mutated cold germs and how to avoid them is worse than getting the actual flu.

Germs hang in the air.
Suspect sneezers and the young.
Wash hands well. Swine flu.

Hot Hand, Cold Hand

It took me a while to notice this, but the sinks here have two spouts, one for hot water and one for cold. This seems to be logical except that when you are washing your hands, you really have to pick a horse and ride it as far as water temperature goes.

Now the weather is not usually hot here, it's warm at best and you don't really want to be dunking your hands in cold water for 20-30 seconds. You sure as heck can't hold that up with the hot water. And according to the British health authorities, you can't really skimp on the time either because anything less will ensure a case of the swine flu.

So I have developed a system to turn on both spouts and rotate hands which, if I'm honest, it's not fool proof. It usually ends up in burning my left hand a little. So I guess I can add "comfortable handwashing" to the list of things I am looking forward to when I get back. And "no longer talking about the swine flu."

Haiku about English sinks:

Left hand burnt and the
Right hand growing icicles.
What happened to warm?