Okay, I’ve had it. I’m done with being sick. No more. Stupid flu virus being all replicative and infectious, making me all achy and broken and tired. Enough already. I can’t imagine having a nasty strain of flu and a below average immune system, though. I mean, my immune system isn’t necessarily the best that exists, but it’s pretty decent overall. I don’t get very sick that often, and I like to think I recover reasonably quickly, but this is for the birds. My stomach hurt when I woke up this morning and after talking with Emma I realized that it was actually the muscles that hurt from all of the coughing I’ve been doing the past few days. Sheesh.

I’ve managed to get in to work for at least three-quarter days all week, which makes me pleased with myself. It’s not the ten hour days I had promised, but six to eight hours when sick? That’s not too bad, right? Plus, I’m making a little progress, which is the most important thing. Oh! And my radioactivity finally came in on Thursday, so I can actually start doing those experiments now! Huzzah!

I haven’t seen my boss much this week, largely due to our asynchronous schedules. I’ve been coming in early in the morning and staying as long as I can, which is usually about 2 or 3 when I’m too exhausted to think straight any longer. He doesn’t come in until 1 or 2 (or 3 or…), so we keep missing each other. I’ve talked with him on the phone a couple times and have left him notes/email, so I hope he doesn’t think I’ve disappeared completely off of the face of the earth. My hope is that by Tuesday I’ll be just about recovered. Emma took about a week and a half to get over her illness, so I’m hoping for something about the same. She did have a course of Tamiflu which I did not get (’cause I was stupid and not thinking straight), but my immune system is a bit better than hers overall. *shrug* We’ll see.

Nothing else terribly exciting to report at the moment. I’ve basically been working or sleeping (or trying to sleep) for this past week. Good times. The lesson from this, dear readers, is that if your wife is diagnosed with the flu and you get sick a few days later, go to the doctor and get the Tamiflu. You probably have the same bug that she has.