Sick at Last
Yep, I’ve just had two days off work – it hasn’t been the on-the-toilet type of sickness I was expecting to get, instead it’s been the ‘I feel really hung-over but I haven’t drunk anything’, and ‘I feel fine as long as I am in a horizontal position’ type of thing.
Yes, I took this photo in Manila - and it's true!Mid morning I fell back asleep and had one of those dreams where you wake up and you can’t open your eyes. They are always vivid for me and I feel like I start to panic a bit. – I’ve had these dreams fairly regularly in my life (since I’ve had my night and day contacts??) and I’ve been able to instill more of a sense of “don’t worry, it’s just a dream” type of sensation into them. But with this one, I tried to ply my eyes open with my hands, walk to the bathroom and put eyedrops in (did my contacts stick to my eyeballs and to my eyelids?) and I even ducked under the covers to try and open my eyes (was the daylight just too bright for them?). Then thankfully the doorbell rang , it was 11am and I opened my eyes straight away.
I’m not sure if the doorbell was a blessing or more of a added burden to my dreams, the fact I felt really ill either sitting or standing and my pretty constant headache – it was the pest control guy who proceeded to spray pest control stuff throughout our bathrooms. I am sure this is pretty unhealthy – it stank like chemicals and was stronger than any other bug stray stuff I had smelt before. I don’t think it did much good anyway.
On Thursday I felt like my body could do some food so I cooked up some pasta and tomato sauce – it made me feel a little better, but I ended up going straight back to bed. I wanted to do some Tagalog practice, but my brain couldn’t function particularly well with a gurgling stomach and still a sore head. So I just laid there – and it was nice – I usually feel guilty just laying around – I don’t know why – it’s like I’m just wasting time or something. But today it’s all I felt like doing and it was probably just the best thing for me at the moment.
By Friday afternoon I felt a little better and read a little – something light; and I even watched Oprah.
What I’m reading:
I’m not sure if the doorbell was a blessing or more of a added burden to my dreams, the fact I felt really ill either sitting or standing and my pretty constant headache – it was the pest control guy who proceeded to spray pest control stuff throughout our bathrooms. I am sure this is pretty unhealthy – it stank like chemicals and was stronger than any other bug stray stuff I had smelt before. I don’t think it did much good anyway.
On Thursday I felt like my body could do some food so I cooked up some pasta and tomato sauce – it made me feel a little better, but I ended up going straight back to bed. I wanted to do some Tagalog practice, but my brain couldn’t function particularly well with a gurgling stomach and still a sore head. So I just laid there – and it was nice – I usually feel guilty just laying around – I don’t know why – it’s like I’m just wasting time or something. But today it’s all I felt like doing and it was probably just the best thing for me at the moment.
By Friday afternoon I felt a little better and read a little – something light; and I even watched Oprah.
What I’m reading:
- The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs – I’ve only read the first couple of chapters, but it’s really good so far – a little academic.
- There’s no Toilet Paper on the Road Less Travelled edited by Doug Lansky (leant to me by I at work) – Bill Bryson’s inclusions are definitely the funniest. And I haven’t even read much of Bill Bryson!
- The Filipino Saga by Cortes, Boncan and Jose – a social history of the Philippines, initially leant to me by Macel at work.
I’ve recently finished:
- Tree by F Sionil Jose – a pretty famous Filipino author
- Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures: A True Story from Hell on Earth – leant to me by Sally and Natalie – one of those books you can read over the course of a weekend and really made me think about a future job with the US. I’m of course more interested in development work rather than war and post-war conflict situations, but good nonetheless.
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