I didn’t go to work today because I didn’t think I’d be able to stand for more than 20 minutes at a time and there’s precious little space for a lounge chair in the kitchen.
In the grand scheme of things that decision probably saved lives since the restuarant mostly feeds avaricious health care workers who’d spread the flu to their patients who would then die like flies near a bug zapper.
You see? I care about the people.
Instead, I’m sitting at Epic with all the college kids studying for their finals. Here I sneeze and cough a lot and that’s a passive aggressive way of ruining their post-final drinking binges. If I’m not having any fun, no one is going to have any fun!
This is not an enlightened way of approaching the world but I’m having a tough time breathing right now and enlightened approaches to harmonius living is not in my current deck of cards.
I need more cards. Maybe some magician cards. A marked deck. Some trick cards that make not being able to breathe more palatable. Maybe a way of turning hypoxia into a game for the binge drinking college kids about to finish their finals and come down with the flu at the same time.
1 small onion diced
1/2 BULB garlic, not clove of garlic
1 whole lemon, quartered
3 or 4 sticks cinnamon
honey to taste, cuz you’re gonna need it
1 qt water
Put it all in a pan and bring to a boil, immediately turn down to simmer for 15 minutes. Strain. Drink it while it’s hot, all of it. No need to hold your nose, since you can’t breathe anyway. You can probably get all the stuff at Time Market, since you’re so close.
Wouldn’t tell you about it if it didn’t work.
And they were glad not to be infected at work.
slacker….. if this is your way of getting a vacation,….. j/k. hope you feel better Balotti..