As I nurse my cold

Right now I am typing at work, but I will be leaving after lunch.


Not because I am on leave though, but because I am sick. I just returned from the doctor who diagnosed it as cold and dismissed my earlier flu jab to have anything to do with it.


Frankly, it is getting rather disconcerting. My joint aches are killing me (the doctor says joint aches are not necessarily due to flu viruses; a cold virus can have the same effect). I am perspiring profusely but I am feeling cold. My nose is stuffed and my head hurts like crazy.


And it is all very disconcerting because I am leaving for China on Sunday. And, I will be there for a month.

...


I don't usually succumb to the cold virus so I am unusually curious about this bout.

All I can think of is Wed, when I had attended class without my sweatshirt in my so-proclaimed chilly room, which is a rare event because I usually will bring the swetshirt out wherever I go.

Maybe I was trying to train myself to be strong; to be able to battle the cold.

Oh well.


...

I kind of toyed with the idea of not flying off to China should I not get better by tomorrow.

But I really want to go! Despite the fact that my mum thinks poorly of the activity and the university...I really want to go.

I guess to a certain activity, I need a break from work.

For the past week when my boss has not been around, I have been volunteered to do work that is not within my scope. Not that that is not possible--my boss has already asked me to do a lot of things beyond the stated scope--it irritates me because of the way I have been asked to do it.

Anyhow, not that it bothers me...I see it as a means to extend my repetoire of writing styles.

And even as I am disgruntled about the abuse of authority, I do understand that this is part and package of worklife. Some day, some giant will just decide to exploit you for his own benefits.

Can you do anything about it?

Nothing, I reckon.

But you can do something with it.

...Train yourself up.

And maybe the first time I will end up like today, sick because the training was too harsh...
But eventually the body will develop resistance, I am sure.

And it doesn't get to us anymore.