camwyn | Department went to lunch.

All 6 of us. Boss (chapter CFO) took us to a little place in Fairfield, some kind of a teahouse. Someone converted an ordinary relatively little house into a really little restaurant that serves Republic of Tea products (the kitchen's right near the bathroom, I saw the containers) and lunches. Not bad - had mush. barley soup, crab cake sandwich on whole wheat - but gotta say... my throat hurts. I mean really hurts. The last time it felt like this, it was a prelude to strep. I've had strep twice and I'd be much happier if this were unrelated, but when my throat hurts and there's post-nasal drip but nothing running out the front of my nose, and no respiratory symptoms, that's not one of Mom's head colds. That's something else, and so far that's been strep twice.

I drank six cups of honey lemon ginseng green tea (two of them with extra honey) at lunch. They helped - while I was drinking them. I must drink more. Sad part is, I don't feel the least bit affected by caffeine OR ginseng OR sugar right now.

I'm going home after I finish the two batches of donation data entry that I have at the moment. If I don't feel better by 6, I'm gonna call the karate instructor and apologize; I don't think I'm contagious, but I'd rather not wipe out my entire class if I am. I feel like a schmuck for missing it, I missed last week's too. (Of course, last week was the snowstorm that left my car perpendicular to oncoming traffic when I tried to go from 15 PM to 0 MPH, so last week may have been canceled.) I'm very tired right now, despite all that tea. Must finish batches, must go home, must work on termpaper, must take nap.

feck.