I *hate* being sick
October 12th, 2009 • chatter
I’ve spent the last two weeks up, down, and all around with the flu. I hate getting sick with a passion, it just makes everything suck. I finally showed symptoms when we were on our way to NYC last weekend for Zanetoberfest. My girlfriend had been sick the whole week beforehand and I was determined not to get sick or let getting sick ruin my weekend. Unfortunately, it did ruin our dinner party that Friday but then I went back to the hotel in Jersey City and kicked its ass, hardcore. Woke up the next day, feeling like a mostly new man except for the lingering symptoms which have just now gone away.
School’s still school. I’ve missed more classes than I care to admit recently, some due to the flu. We got our first book review in AMH4930-001 out of the way so now I’ve got to read Ann Braude’s Radical Spirits for the second one. I woefully dread historiographical books but since this is the only book the library had in stock, I don’t have a choice — and I’m certainly not going to buy the other one just for the review. I’ve barely cracked it but so far, it’s dry and rather boring, I do hope that Braude picks up the pace through the book. Like I told my teacher, I hate reading the history of history. Sometimes these books, while absolutely necessary to help develop and further new ideas, feel propped up by the (over)use of other authors’ materials. Apparently the last book I read by Susan Juster was aimed at and written for other historians not undergrad students. Our professor played quite a trick on us!
I’ve got to get back to work for now but here are some pictures from Zanetoberfest: Zanetoberfest 2009. I wish I had copies of all the pictures we were in!
PS – We’re “Spatens” in the vein of Roman soldiers to play on the sponsor, brewery Spaten.