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[lethargic_man]

I'm beginning to suspect my cold is actually more like flu. I slept appallingly last night—could not at all get warm enough—and today feel cold too and fell atrocious (though lack of sleep could explain part of that). I must take my temperature when I get home tonight. I would have done so before going to work, but I didn't have time—I'm presenting a course this week.

I suspect the sensible thing to do would be for me to spend the next week at home, but I'm damned if I'm not going to go to Limmud tomorrow. And besides, if I can't get warm enough here at work, I'm never going to do so in my flat.

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[liv]

Eek, hope you feel better. Would it make any sense at all to miss the pre-Limmud shabbat and get plenty of bed-rest, and then come up on Sunday to improve your chances of being fit for some of Limmud?

In any case I look forward to seeing you next week!

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

I'd prefer to come up to Coventry and get the rest there, if necessary...

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

I've just taken my temperature, and it's 99.6°F—equivalent, I would imagine, to about 100½° for someone with a standard normal body temperature. I coming anyway, though: First, if I didn't, I'd have the stress of how to get to Coventry on Sunday.

Secondly, I'm going to be warmer there than here: bluepork took me to Homebase this week, and installed for me the boards and loft insulation I got to go in front of the Georgian glass, yet this place is still bloody freezing; I still have to sit like an old granny with a jumper draped over my lap to keep warm. And the heater in my room is broken, so the only way I could keep my bedroom warm is to leave the door open and use the heater in the corridor.

Thirdly, who knows how long the symptoms will last? I started to get minor symptoms—gravelly voice—on Friday, and got full-scale symptoms from Sunday, so if it's only a week-long flu, it might start getting better soon. OTOH, if it's a two-week flu, I'm going to be lumped with it for the whole of Limmud.

You could, of course, argue I should stay at home so as not to infect everyone, and maybe I should, but (a) I've paid a lot of money to go to Limmud, and haven't insured myself against this kind of probability, and (b) I know I'd be absolutely miserable sitting at home knowing I was missing Limmud, so I'm going to do what I want, rather than what's strictly speaking right, and hope I've passed the peak of my infectability.

[snjstar.livejournal.com]

Are you going to get the heating in your room fixed?

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

At some point, probably at the same time I get the dodgy light fitting in the lounge fixed, and the dead light fitting in the kitchen, and the dead light fitting and heater in the bathroom, and the duff heater in my bedroom, and the broken bottom element in my oven.

But before I pour any more money into this pile^* of cack, I should get back to my residents association about their plan for selling on the whole building to property developers, so it can be demolished and replaced with somewhere fit for human habitation...

* Pun intended.