Colds.

Mother is back. Hurrah. She has a cold. Boo. Let us assume I have total sympathy for Mother so that I can instantly turn the topic around to me and how much I don't want to catch this cold. I do generally behave in a pretty appalling way around people with colds. I'm not actually typing this with chopsticks at present, but I shall be washing my hands about 27 times today and opening doors with my elbows. This started when I became obsessed with the idea that I might come down with a cold during my finals, and I succeeded in not doing so by treating those with colds as lepers, so it became policy. I sort of think it's not unreasonable behaviour to try and avoid catching colds. But it does seem to upset the people with colds. I'm trying to make up for it by offering to brew hot chocolate lots and doing all the shopping and the like, but I still feel pretty much the beast. I just think I'm a bit too exhausted to handle this particular cold at present.

(I've stopped being a grown up again. Now they're back. It was nice pretending. It's easier this way. It's just very...circular. I don't think the desire to recognise that things have not really moved on since 1988 is a practical philosophy in the long term. It's momentarily comforting. Realising this a decade ago would've been a great thing.)

Now I'm going to have some garlic for breakfast.

Colds.

Mother is back. Hurrah. She has a cold. Boo. Let us assume I have total sympathy for Mother so that I can instantly turn the topic around to me and how much I don't want to catch this cold. I do generally behave in a pretty appalling way around people with colds. I'm not actually typing this with chopsticks at present, but I shall be washing my hands about 27 times today and opening doors with my elbows. This started when I became obsessed with the idea that I might come down with a cold during my finals, and I succeeded in not doing so by treating those with colds as lepers, so it became policy. I sort of think it's not unreasonable behaviour to try and avoid catching colds. But it does seem to upset the people with colds. I'm trying to make up for it by offering to brew hot chocolate lots and doing all the shopping and the like, but I still feel pretty much the beast. I just think I'm a bit too exhausted to handle this particular cold at present.

(I've stopped being a grown up again. Now they're back. It was nice pretending. It's easier this way. It's just very...circular. I don't think the desire to recognise that things have not really moved on since 1988 is a practical philosophy in the long term. It's momentarily comforting. Realising this a decade ago would've been a great thing.)

Now I'm going to have some garlic for breakfast.