Yay, after a week, bronchitis is no longer contagious. In theory. But if I were you. I’d stay as far away from me as possible.

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Quotation from Thornton Wilder

So many journeys may the sun and moon
Make us again count o’er ere love be done!
But, woe is me, you are so sick of late,
So far from cheer and from your former state,
That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust,
Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must:
For women’s fear and love holds quantity;
In neither aught, or in extremity.
Quotation from Wm. Shakespeare, Hamlet

I am sick. I’ve been in bed all weekend. Since we’re both sick, I don’t get any sympathy.

The sick grapes on the chair by the bed lie prone; at the window
The tassel of the blind swings gently, tapping the pane,
As a little wind comes in.
The room is the hollow rind of a fruit, a gourd
Scooped out and dry, where a spider,
Folded in its legs as in a bed,
Lies on the dust, watching where is nothing to see but twilight and walls.
Poem by D.H. Lawrence, Malade

Thank heavens for pizza and percocet.

New flu has spread widely, cannot be contained (Rueters)
Nail stuck in nose for years finally dislodged (NY Daily News)

The onset of misinformation is abrupt and is characterized by fever, headache, joint and muscle aches, sore throat, and weakness, followed by diarrhea, vomiting, and stomach pain. A rash, red eyes, hiccups and internal and external bleeding may also be observed.

Bank of America Chief Says Bernanke, Paulson Barred Disclosure of Merrill Lynch Woes Because of Fears for Financial System (Reuters) What else haven’t they told us?

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
Quotation from Marquis de Sade, L’Histoire de Juliette, ou les Prospérités du Vice

Last year, somebody found a used toothbrush in
Paris Hilton’s trash and sold it on eBay for $305.00.
Remember, when you share someone’s toothbrush,
you’re brushing with everyone they’ve slept with too!

Bidding War for Paris Hilton’s Garbage (Washington Post)

“A bunch of germs were whooping it up in the Bronchial Saloon.
The bacillus handling the larynx was jazzing a gag-time tune,
While back of the tongue in a solo game sat Dangerous Ah Kerchoo.
And watching his luck was his light of love, the malady known as Flu.”
Quoted from Cal Beacock, The Pundit (Reader’s Digest)