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Tuesday

I woke this morning exhausted, the sheets soaked in sweat. This Urinary Tract Infection is a disaster. On entering the bathroom and removing my damp singlet I noticed a rash over my entire body. What a happy holiday in Spring I’m having. I’m in a completely foul mood, so all I’ll say is at least a great shave brightened my mood a little. Being sick is supposed to be like that alluded to in this excerpt from Jarome K Jarome’s ‘Ide Thoughts From an Idle Fellow’:

…I pictured to myself a glorious time--a four weeks' dolce far niente with a dash of illness in it. Not too much illness, but just illness enough--just sufficient to give it the flavor of suffering and make it poetical. I should get up late, sip chocolate, and have my breakfast in slippers and a dressing-gown. I should lie out in the garden in a hammock and read sentimental novels with a melancholy ending, until the books should fall from my listless hand, and I should recline there, dreamily gazing into the deep blue of the firmament, watching the fleecy clouds floating like white-sailed ships across its depths, and listening to the joyous song of the birds and the low rustling of the trees. Or, on becoming too weak to go out of doors, I should sit propped up with pillows at the open window of the ground-floor front, and look wasted and interesting, so that all the pretty girls would sigh as they passed by…


Razor: Klas Törnblom| Soap: Crabtree and Evelyn Nomad | After Shave: D. H. Harris Bay Rum | Hair Tonic: Pashana Bay Rum

I start my day with a Revisor

Today there will be some meetings:
-with the firefighters
-with students
-with a choir of the Lutheran church
-with members of our organization
-with the Consule of Public Affairs (Consulate General of the U.S.A. Leipzig)

stay tuned...