...that he hasn't got Glandular Fever and devises strategies to fill in the long weeks ahead if he does.
So, I led a group on last week's Year 9 camp to Gippsland - a very cold, wet, rainy, hilly place in central Victoria - last week and came back feeling like death, having coming down with some kind of strange bug during the hike. Four days later, not feeling better - feeling worse, in fact, like a soulless zombie on fire - I took myself to the doctor, who promptly proscribed something scary-sounding, referred me for a blood test and told me to take a few days off.
I'm kinda worried, because a couple of kids have had glandular fever at school lately.
So, what if I do have mono? What am I gonna do with the couple of weeks I have to take off, besides sleep? The rest of the family, with the exception of my brother, who is also invalided, are off gallivanting around Europe and my girlfriend is thousand of miles away across the pacific in Georgia, so there's not going to be much human interaction if I do have to stay at home, I suspect, as my friends won't want to be catching it.
Dang.
Worst comes to worst, I'll stagger out before I get too sick and buy myself an XBOX and spend my time kicking the crap out of polygons. Yeah, that sounds about right. I'll probably begin posting lots too.
So, yeah.
― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)
Well ok, what's your best sick-day-in-bed video game?
I'm talking like Lisa Simpson feigning illness for a couple of days just so she could finish that Crash Bandicoot parody in the Simpsons.
― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 10:13 (twenty-two years ago)
You need lots of light and cheery reading (more Wodehouse, less Dostoyevsky), books or comics, a TV, and some gaming thing. And post to ILX loads, of course. Except that I hope none of this is necessary, of course.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)
When I had mono in high school and slept and slept and it was a beautiful, wonderful thing. And I didn't have to go to school of course. And occasionally I would wake up and maybe eat something but not much. Maybe I glorify sleep too much? I don't know. But I don't remember having any energy to do anything at all basically.
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)