I didn’t write last night. 4 days in and I’ve already dropped the ball!

I got sick, so Chelsea took the kids out for dinner and I lay around watching old clips from David Letterman, and not writing.

It’s one of those beautiful winter days–clear sky, bright sun. And Cold. It was 0 degrees on our porch at 9AM.

Chelsea makes fun of me but sometimes I just read Wikipedia articles. For whatever reason, sometimes I like to read the Wikipedia plot-lines for movies I just watched. For some action movies, I have to do this because I can’t follow it. I read the Wiki for Licorice Pizza because I wanted to know how much these characters were related to real people.

I like fiction that is set in the real world, which has its characters interact with real people. Although who remembers William Holden?

This morning all the mucus in my head settled deep into my sinuses and my chest. I couldn’t talk until I coughed up a tennis ball of phlegm.

Why is the mucus called phlegm when it comes out of the mouth but snot when it comes out of the nose? It’s the same gunk, right? What about sputum?

According to Wikipedia, the human body makes a quart of phlegm a day. Mucus becomes phlegm when it’s doing its job collecting viruses, bacteria, sloughed-off cells; phlegm becomes sputum when it’s out of the mouth. Asteroids to meteors to meteorites.

THE MORE YOU KNOW

I don’t understand how Juniper gets a runny nose and a cranky attitude for one day, and I get a full-blown cold that lasts for 4 days. And likely I will get a secondary sinus infection that will last, in some discomfortable way, until right before the next viral load gets dumped in our household.

I mean, maybe, it’s just the magic of breastfeeding (“just” the “magic”…), that gives her growing imune system the boost from mom’s immune system, and gives mom’s immune system a heads up? Something else to Wiki.

Every time I get sick I get a sinus infection.