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Diary of the Plague Year - Part Four
Aug. 10th, 2009 08:50 amBah.
The majority of my flu symptoms - cough, sore throat, wheeziness - disappeared last week and I was left just feeling weakened and exhausted. I assumed that would pass rapidly, and alas I was wrong. The virus has left my body almost entirely depleted of energy - the simplest exertions leave me as tired as if I had been engaging in vigorous exercise. I slept for a ridiculous amount of time over the weekend and when I was awake was able to do little other than lie still on a couch watching what passes for entertainment on the television box.
Incidentally I must say that the standard of documentary produced on the "Discovery" channel is appalling, showing little in the way of evidence based argument and relying instead on soft focus vague re-enactment footage while the same points are made over and over again by the oily voiced narrator. After every commercial break there are five minutes of recapping what has gone before, then five minutes of new vapid material, then five minutes of promising dramatic revelations to come, then another commercial break.
Plus being produced in the former colonies, every second documentary purports to be about "Biblical Revelations" of the most fatuous sort ("Did the spear of Longinus help the Nazis..." etc) and contain as much scholarly credibility as my cat's arse.
Where was I?
OH yes, lying on a couch not doing much. This reached its high point when I realised I was hungry and spent an hour unable to get the energy together to go down to my kitchen and get something.
This had better pass soon, or Finn will lose his normal happy go lucky demeanour and become crabby.
The majority of my flu symptoms - cough, sore throat, wheeziness - disappeared last week and I was left just feeling weakened and exhausted. I assumed that would pass rapidly, and alas I was wrong. The virus has left my body almost entirely depleted of energy - the simplest exertions leave me as tired as if I had been engaging in vigorous exercise. I slept for a ridiculous amount of time over the weekend and when I was awake was able to do little other than lie still on a couch watching what passes for entertainment on the television box.
Incidentally I must say that the standard of documentary produced on the "Discovery" channel is appalling, showing little in the way of evidence based argument and relying instead on soft focus vague re-enactment footage while the same points are made over and over again by the oily voiced narrator. After every commercial break there are five minutes of recapping what has gone before, then five minutes of new vapid material, then five minutes of promising dramatic revelations to come, then another commercial break.
Plus being produced in the former colonies, every second documentary purports to be about "Biblical Revelations" of the most fatuous sort ("Did the spear of Longinus help the Nazis..." etc) and contain as much scholarly credibility as my cat's arse.
Where was I?
OH yes, lying on a couch not doing much. This reached its high point when I realised I was hungry and spent an hour unable to get the energy together to go down to my kitchen and get something.
This had better pass soon, or Finn will lose his normal happy go lucky demeanour and become crabby.
