Hacking Snot

I've been blowing and hacking up snot like a geyser since returning from D.C., and I dare say my body hasn't been this sore since my return to Germany in 2002... Hell, I didn't walk as much in London last summer as I did this past weekend.

I think my battered, already flailing immune system just went on strike on or about the eight-hundredth lap around the mall, screeching, "Enough already!" - which was fine by me. As horrible as I have felt the last two days, I actually welcomed the opportunity to lay in bed and feign death...
Even if it was my birthday...

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yamai wa ki kara
"sickness is a thing of the spirit"
--Japanese Proverb