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Dreadful Nonsense

"I've read your blog. it's really funny. you should write a column." - Jon Ronson

A quick note about my week, and also a new thing that I want to buy more than anything else in the world, in ten easy points because numbering things makes it easier to write:

(1) I got a cold at the beginning of the week. It involved a sore throat and some coughing. Thankfully by Monday I had given up smoking for a whole day, so that made it easier to bear.

(2) We went to a 'secret' gig from Mundy on Thursday, because it's really been too long since the last time we saw him. We stood right at the front, and he smirked and lost his way through the lyrics when he saw us. We took this as a sign of appreciation of our presence.

(3) On Friday morning, I woke up, got up, had breakfast, and half an hour later began throwing up. I spent the rest of the day throwing up. While not throwing up, I lay in bed with the most seriously painful stomach cramps I've ever had in my life.

(4) This, apparently, is the Winter Vomiting Bug, and everyone who heard I was ill assured me that everyone else in Ireland has this too. That information doesn't help.

(5) I learned that stomach cramps are not stopped by valium, which is otherwise the cure of all evils.

(6) I want one of these more than anything else in the world, even if the prototype looks nothing like the original version. Although apparently there are promises that they will improve it.

(7) The vomiting bug only lasts about a day, although the stomach cramps are persisting. The best thing, though, is now I've got a hacking cough that sounds like I smoke 60 a day. The rest of my cold has cleared up.

(8) I'm going to London on Friday. As I traditionally post my flight details, here they are:

AER LINGUS EI 164 ECONOMY CLASS CONFIRMED
DEP DUBLIN FRI 29OCT04 12.10PM
ARR LONDON/HEATHROW FRI 29OCT04 1.25PM
LHR -TERMINAL 1 - TERMINAL 1

(9) Um...

(10) That's it.

Finally: New Link! To check to see if a certain someone is genuinely not reading this any more, or just saying that to get special attention, I'd like to announce my absolute pleasure at the fact that the "Switt-Swoo" comedian Spencer Brown has now started to keep a blog right here. I like it because (1) through his website he talks about himself in lower case and the third person, (2) for two years in a row used my quotes on his poster and (3) he's quite easy on the eye. Oh, and a very talented performer. Ahem.

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