I've been sick with a flu virus twice in three weeks.

I was really sick for a week, felt great for a week, then have been super sick for a week. I'm not sure if the virus was hanging around inside me, without me knowing it, or if I somehow re-infected myself, but here I am, recovering from the flu for the second time this winter break. Yep.

*Well, I am over the flu, but got an ear infection Friday, which I kind've ignored at first, and then it became excruciatingly painful right after all the doctor offices and urgent care facilities closed. Trips to the emergency room are always fun, but the doctor said it was one of the worst ear infections he had seen, and prescribed me plenty of meds to take. Gotta love that tylenol-codeine mixture.

On the one hand, this has been a bummer, since winter break is when I can see most of my friends from high school, and what not. On the other hand, if it means I won't get sick for another semester, I'm down. I would rather be sick while on break than be sick while needing to work and be on top of a busy schedule.

In other news, you should watch some (or all) of this video, and either be impressed by and jealous of these skilled and disciplined people, or be glad that you're not out doing those crazy dangerous things (or both, probably). 

Also, what's with those people in flying squirrel suits? Is that a thing now? Apparently so, because Wikipedia says the sport is actually 'wingsuit flying.' 

It seems as though the first attempt at a form of wingsuit flying was done by a French tailor in 1912, who jumped off the Eiffel Tower to try out his suit. It may be fortunate that he died of a heart attack on his way down, because he hit the ground with his head. There was not much head left, after that. 

About a century later, these wingsuits are much safer and pretty cool looking, but with how terrified I am of heights, there is no way I'd do more than watch videos of other people doing it.

So, that's basically what I do when I'm sick: watch people do crazy dangerous things on YouTube, binge-watch The Beverly Hillbillies, and read the fully unabridged The Count of Monte Cristo. 

(1,243 pages, ladies and gentlemen. Don't get me wrong, I've definitely read this classic before, and even a mostly-unabridged version, but not the full thing yet, so that's what I started doing the other day, when I was too tired to be on my computer.) 

Good stuff.

Probably going to sleep through the day,

The Purple Writer