When I got my shots required to travel to Liberia, I heard some small print at the end of Nurse Jane's spiel, most of it old news. "Arms will blah blah blah for a couple days, take off blah blah blah, in order to blah blah soreness be sure to blah blah blah, blah blah blah flu-like symptoms, not a blah blah." WAIT! Flu-like symptoms?? From what? Turns out yellow fever immunization can cause flu-like symptoms 5-10 days after the injection. I know this to be true, because the past two days I have been experiencing those blah blah blah. No vomiting, no contagiousness, but plenty soreness, tiredness, and this hilarious stomach twitch.
Since most of my time has been spent in the mental equivalent of a San Francisco fog, I don't have much to talk about, things have been either forgetable, or I just forgot anyway.
My one thing is something called "Intelligence Squared". Hosted and organized by National Public Radio, 4 guests come on, all experts in the topic, which changes every time. The one I just heard had the topic of "George W. Bush Is the Worst President in the Last 50 years". A stimulating 50-odd minutes, but the most striking thing was how any discussion on such topics, such broadly sweeping discussions, no matter how organized, swing through the areas of ethics, economics, logic, history, and other diverse fields. In case you wonder, more people were persuaded that Bush is not the worst president of the last 50 years.
That's all I have for now. Back to being a slug-a-bed!
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