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I'm feeling achey even though I slept in today. I think I might be getting sick again.

Teachers on my list -- how do you keep from getting sick all the time? I don't think I've been sick this often in years.

I'm taking my vitamins... I guess I could start taking a zinc supplement, and other immune system boosters...

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The acheyness went away, mostly, and my temperature is normal. Maybe I'd just been sitting in the same position for too long.

( lice stuff )

BTW, if you're paranoid about catching lice and you're spending time around me or someone else who has lice, here's a few tips which may or may not help:

• Find a shampoo and/or conditioner that contains tea tree oil. I've been using the Nature's Gate stuff, and they are also non-medicated dandruff treatments. This is a fairly widely accepted herbal remedy, but that doesn't mean it is perfectly effective against lice.
  
• Dye your hair early. If you dye your hair regularly anyway, dye it a little more often for a while. Rumor has it that hair dye will kill them.
  
• Use styling products. Usually to treat your hair right, styling products are the enemy, but in this case, its quite the opposite. It is widely accepted that lice dislike dirty heads. The styling gel, hairspray, etc. will make them less likely to choose your head.
  
• If you have long hair, wear it up when around anyone who might have an infestation.
  

I'm watching Pirates in french. I can follow it without difficulty, but it probably helps that I've watched it many times before in English. Still. It's nice to be able to watch it and hear so many phrases and realize I understand most of them. I'm hoping many more of my DVDs have french tracks so I can do a lot more of this over the summer. If I do it enough, and look up words I don't understand, I may regain a lot of my french.