Sick and tired of being sick and tired

Looks like a good news, bad news situation after seeing the doc today (they were nice enough to squeeze me in because there is evidently something going around and there were no appointments to be had). The good news is that I do not have a respiratory infection......the bad news is that I am not doing very well in spite of the good news. The doctor thinks its viral and told me to call if things worsen. How come things always worsen before and after the doctor visit? I had no fever and no wheezing there, but once I got home my temp spiked to 101.8 and I have felt like the apartment has been alternating temperatures between a turkish bath and the ice cream section of the local grocery store. Even typing this I am shaking worse than Lindsay Lohan 3 days sober. This after foolishly thinking my fever had broken following a night spent sweating heavier than Roger Clemens in front of congress. Its a good thing I sleep face up or I might have drowned.

I wish I had something substantive to add to the posting, but nothing much happens when you spend the vast majority of the day in a recumbent position alternately trying to focus your eyes long enough to read and letting them glaze over while people buy, renovate, flip, or decorate a home on TV. Since we now have cable, here is how I waste away my little bit of free time. Feel free to scoff openly, I am not proud of myself.

Celebrity rehab with Dr. Drew: I don't know if it is compelling TV, but it is definitely stretching the outer bounds of what constitutes celebrity. I didn't know being an ultimate fighting champion or a porn star constituted celebrity. Evidently so.

Millionaire matchmaker: further proof that rich men will, despite what they say, always choose a young bimbette over the better match and that young bimbettes are okay with this arrangement.

Property Ladder: No matter how little you know about home repair and how far over budget you ascend, someone will evidently buy the dump you renovated for a tidy profit as long as you don't get too greedy, because people are generally quite lazy (myself included).

Property Virgins: I know what you are thinking, "A show about abstinence pledgees on a mission from God buying real estate.......what time is that on?!?" Unfortunately, the focus is rarely if ever on the sexual proclivities of the potential home buyers. However, it is interesting watching people buy their first property. Might be as close as I get.

1 degree from hallucinations. I really hope this stops tomorrow.