"... what we learn in time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise."*

*Albert Camus, 'The Plague'

I certainly admire the fact that my body has produced so much disgusting I-don't-know-what over the last 5 days, blind me with intense migranes and that I was able to soak through not 1 set of sheets but 3... I also sit in awesome admiration as my friends' sinuses ACTUALLY look like they are pulsating in his skull and how this thing, whatever it is, reduces your body to that of a 75 year old...wreaking arthritic pain and dizzy spells that require you to need assistance getting out of the tub...

Damn pestilence. Curses to the one who brought this on, filthy bastard.