{"id":66,"date":"2005-03-25T16:47:47","date_gmt":"2005-03-26T00:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/66"},"modified":"2005-03-25T16:52:27","modified_gmt":"2005-03-26T00:52:27","slug":"keep-your-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/66","title":{"rendered":"Keep your distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was fun.  Tuesday: midterm.  Wednesday: midterm.  Thursday: presentation.  Awesome.  I haven&#8217;t had that much fun in a while.  I didn&#8217;t really get any sleep on Tuesday night, and very little on Wednesday, so I&#8217;m blaming that on my current situation: I&#8217;m sick.  It was weird.  I was trying to study for my physics midterm, fell asleep for just 1-2 hours, got up and felt like utter crap. And I don&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m sick in a <em>I have to blow my nose every 10 minutes<\/em> kinda way.  I&#8217;m sick in a <em>my throat&#8217;s swollen, it hurts to swallow, have a dry cough &#8211; which also hurts, still have to blow my nose, can&#8217;t speak very loud, sometimes have a killer headache, and last night I woke up at 6:30am gasping for breath because I was choking on my own saliva<\/em> kinda way.  I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m contagious, so if you see me, I suggest you run &#8211; faster than usual.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get sick very often, but when I do, it seems to hit me really hard.  At the advice of a friend, I&#8217;m cutting up ginger root and making tea with it.  I was surprised to discover the taste was rather pleasant &#8211; but it hasn&#8217;t done much to help my throat, so far.  I hope this just cooperates and goes away so I can enjoy my long weekend a bit more&#8230; I don&#8217;t even feel like making anything because it&#8217;s so much effort to eat!<\/p>\n<p>The midterms were pretty bad (definitely failed the physics one), but at least the presentation went ok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was fun. Tuesday: midterm. Wednesday: midterm. Thursday: presentation. Awesome. I haven&#8217;t had that much fun in a while. I didn&#8217;t really get any sleep on Tuesday night, and very little on Wednesday, so I&#8217;m blaming that on my current situation: I&#8217;m sick. It was weird. I was trying to study for my physics&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/66\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keep your distance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4jEMb-14","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}