"What you mean, 'miss'?"

[cosmolinguist]

Last night I decided that my brain was probably just floating in my snot-filled skull ... or at least I would've had I not been distracted by my headache halfway through the thought. I stopped trying to complete the analogy, and felt a little better.

That's how sick I am: thinking hurts.

I watched EastEnders and Coronation Street¹ with Andrew's parents last night (well, "watched" inasmuch as my body was oriented toward the TV and my eyes were open, more or less) rather than read my new Neal Stephenson book; the thought of all that holding-a-book and moving-my-eyes stuff was too much to bear.

I'm drinking some of that lemony stuff that's supposed to make your cold or flu better. Paracetamol is so tasty.

Andrew's mom² got that for me yesterday. She bought ice cream for me, too. It's nice to have a mom around when I'm sick, even if it isn't mine. (Especially since mine, rather than giving me ice cream, would probably pester me about taking NyQuil. I hate that stuff. My dad agrees; he says it makes his fingers tingly and numb. I'd rather just be sick!)

The infamous dead parrot sketch starts with John Cleese saying, "Excuse me, miss?" and Michael Palin looking up and saying, "What you mean, 'miss'?" and Cleese saying, "Oh, I'm sorry, I have a cold." Everybody laughs there.

But I'm beginning to think that line isn't just silly nonsense: having a cold messes up your brain. I'm exhausted but I can't sleep, I spend my time wondering if it's worth blowing my nose again already of if that'll just make it hurt, I have to concentrate to walk without falling over because of the fluid in my ears ... I can't be bothered trying to discern the gender of a shopkeeper! I'm sorry, I have a cold.

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¹ If you don't know what those are, be glad.

² A couple of days ago, when I used this evil word, he did that "I don't have a mom! She's my mum" thing again. But this time, she was actually in the room, she said, "I don't mind being a 'mom,' " which made me smile. She's cool.

Comments

[irkthepurist.livejournal.com]

sarah has become mildly hooked on corrie and thankfully not on eastenders. corrie is certainly the lesser of the two evils...

[cosmolinguist]

I don't know enough about either to have an opinion, which is how I like it. But I remember Sarah saying that she liked the bad TV because it reminded her of home, so I can see her getting hooked on such things. :-)

[irkthepurist.livejournal.com]

ah this is very true... she's definitely missing her "law and order" but claimed corrie was barely worth of "the l and part of the a"...

[cosmolinguist]

I at least have the good sense to only like shows I can buy on DVD here. :-) (Mostly just The West Wing, but maybe CSI someday, and I just saw an ad on TV last night telling me that the first three series of The X-Files are being released on this side of the ocean... hmm...)

Just last night, Andrew and his family were telling me how Corrie's better than EastEnders.

[irkthepurist.livejournal.com]

botulism is better than eastenders quite frankly

"shut it you SLAG!" "MUPPET!" "i'm off down the vic!" "chirpy cockney barman patter" "he's a GEEZER" "DON'T LEAVE ME!" "I NEVER LOVED YOU!" "what do you mean HE'S NOT MY CHILD?" drum beat - end of episode

i've never worked out the appeal of "the west wing" but is that because i've only started to try and watch it beyond series one? sarah won't let me watch CSI. it's a matter of high principle for her - "law and order" or nothing

[cosmolinguist]

Botulism. That made me laugh, and laughing is dangerous for me today, because it makes me cough (some of my other ailments have improved slightly, and been replaced by naxty coughing).

The West Wing is something that you do have to work at a bit in order to enjoy. Andrew used to say the same thing about it that you are, but now that he's seen the first half of the first series I think he at least gets why I like it, even though he doesn't like it as much himself (for which I don't blame him; the second half is better). CSI is the only one of those people-being-murdered type shows that I can stand; the lawyerly stuff and the Murder She Wrote type stuff (both of which my parents like) drive me crazy.

In fact, I used to have to be quick about turning off the TV, or at least turning the channel, as soon as The West Wing was over, because L&O came on after it, and if my roommate heard that stupid introduction, she'd get all excited and want to watch it, and then I'd have to suffer through it. But she'd forget it was on otherwise, so it was to my advantage to be quick with the remote. :-) I hate Law & Order. Don't tell Sarah, though; she seems a nice person and I'd hate for her to have a vendetta against me.

[irkthepurist.livejournal.com]

worry not - i won't tell sarah. she hates CSI as much as you obviously hate "law and order" - i've not watched CSI myself(and am now not allowed to), much preferring stuff like "monk" cos i'm much more of a style over substance person and gritty realism be damned, but found "law and order" odd. the "SUV" one or whatever it's called - richard belzer? - was odd because the one from "homicide: life on the street" seemed completely at sea without the extreme angst and misery of his old series, but seemed to cling to ice t for all it was worth. i liked the sort of sometimes we win and sometimes we lose side of it all, but otherwise it was all a bit unremittingly grim and also a little crass at times so could it all fit tidily into an hour. but i certainly didn't hate it... i should sit down and watch CSI sometime

i tend to use botulism as my in stock word of choice for a kind of "could be worse, could be..." style sentence because the word in itself just pleases me greatly. far more than i suspect botulism itself would (sometimes on a whim i use gout, only because i've found that similarly amusing since my housemate's cleaner thought i had it when i badly twisted my ankle one time)

i guess "the west wing" is added to "the sopranos" in the "must sit down and watch from the start" list of things to do... which is rather sizeable at the moment

[hilker.livejournal.com]

CSI is very much a style-over-substance show. The main reason to watch it is for the Three Kings-style cutaways illustrating forensic points as the investigators explain them. The show’s writing is rarely better than decent (although it’s better than the writing on the spinoff series set in Miami and New York).

[irkthepurist.livejournal.com]

my boss absolutely swears by it, but i've still not dared dabble (and besides i imagine the retribution will be swift and terrible if my girlfriend finds out i've been unfaithful to her beloved "law and order)

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah, it's nothing worth risking your relationship over, but it is a good show. Well, the original is, anyway; the Miami version is boring and I didn't realise there was another spinoff. I don't know if that's due to the fact that I've been out of the country for four months or that I never pay attention to TV, as both are true.

I can't remember the last time I talked about television this much. :-)

[paninogirl.livejournal.com]

Get well soon, sexy geek!

[cosmolinguist]

Thanks, dear. I do feel a bit better today. Not well yet, but able to drink coffee and string two words together, and sometimes even breathe! That's something.

[karaksindru.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Feel better soon, my love.

Also: Curse you for linkning E2 in your profile ... I spent 15 minutes there before I realized what I had done... :P

[cosmolinguist]

I feel better ... sorta. All the snot migrated to my chest, which means I'm coughing a lot but my ears, nose and throat are much better.

And what are you doing actually looking at my profile, anyway? It's just nonsensen. And it's not my fault that it's the only place that mentioned the definition of tesseract that I needed. :-)