Home sick

I thought I'd shouted my throat a little raw talking over the music Saturday night.

I thought taking a nap had dehydrated me and given me the worst migraine I'd ever had.

But this morning I awoke with no headache, lowered body temperature (ranging from 3 to 6 degrees below human average), and waves of nausea which clearly have nothing to do with the headache I don't have. I'm also coughing occasionally, and my throat is sore. The only logical conclusion? I'm sick, and so I've stayed home.

The nausea mostly kicks in when I try to eat or drink, but I'm not tempting fate with dehydration, so nauseated I will be.

It's not terrible, but an hour drive, and being stuck in Toronto if it got worse? No thanks. I don't want to throw up in pyat's car, and I don't want to be stuck for an eight hour day in an office while nauseous and ill. So I'll work from home.

Well, shit

Um. I just sat down on the corner of my futon bed. And it broke.

Um. Yeah. That's just great.

I know my mother will be pissy at me about it, but it's not like I've done anything to it that should have broken it -- even if it had primarily been being used as a couch, the same thing could have happened. All I did was sit down on it. A bit hard. But nonetheless, I don't jump up and down on it, and I don't have sex on it. It shouldn't be breaking!

Argh. What now?

futon

My futon is reassembled with a brand new part to replace the broken part. That was way more physical work than I should have to do when I'm home sick, but I don't feel any worse for it.

Lots of water, and chicken soup with matzoh balls for dinner. Mmm!

The trouble with politics

Occasionally I go on short forays into the land of politics in an attempt to scout the terrain.

cos pointed out to me that to make democracy work for you, you must identify the party which lies closest to your own ideals, and then join it. Then, you should work from within to bring about change in the direction which seems right to you.

I think the problem is that while I have a relatively firm grasp on my ideas regarding social policy, I don't know enough about financial policy, military policy, foreign policy, etc. to know what to believe in those respects.

Until I understand those things better, I don't think I can really make any decisions about which party is close enough to my ideals. But where to start? It's enough to make my head spin.