The Mongolian Death Cold

As the title of this post suggests, I've been sick the past couple of days. After managing to avoid most of the nasties circlulating around Stockholm for the past few months, not to mention my sneezing, coughing officemates, my lack of sleep finally caught up with me toward the end of last week. I'm mostly better now, but instead of spending the weekend exploring as I'd planned, I spent it in bed, drinking tea and gargling with baking soda (not at the same time).

The one good thing to come from this, though, is that I have finally managed to catch up on my backlog of blog posts (does that make them backblogs?). Aside from the two new posts for this month (which you can see below, or click here: 2/5, 2/9), old entries I finally got around to posting are: 10/18, 11/15, 11/21, 12/2, 12/6, 12/10, 12/16, 12/20, 1/10, 1/18, 1/25, and 1/28. Note: dates have been formatted for the European-impaired. In case of trouble, please contact the management for assistance. Thank you.

In case you're wondering, all the posts are dated according to when I initially wrote them (except for a handful of edits, which are clearly indicated as such). Whether or not I write well is a judgment I will leave to others, but I can say without reservation that I don't write quickly. So my habit had been to jot down short sentence fragments and notes whenever I had an idea, thinking that I would eventually get around to cleaning them up into something resembling coherent English.

Well, it turns out "eventually" means "the next time I'm stuck in bed." Yes, I know, this probably makes me a Bad Blogger. The whole point is to document things as they happen, or at most shortly thereafter. But for better or worse, at least they're done now. Enjoy!