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It’s been a week since I was horribly ill with a throat infection-cum-avian flu-mononucleosis-hybrid (well, I exaggerate a bit). The memories of public vomiting and my hospital visit are so fresh that I have yet to start taking my health for granted again. I promised that I’d record my experience here, so it’s time to deliver.

Last Friday:

This Friday:

Noah’s ark can float down Park for all I care. I’m glad the lack of air conditioning in my apartment isn’t a problem for now.

Have you heard of the new Coca-Cola drink, Blak? Cade brought it to my apartment yesterday morning. He insists it’s been widely advertised, but it was the first I’d ever heard of it. I was trying to think of what must have been added to warrant a new name with a cool tilde-like flourish, and decided it must be 1) chocolate syrup, 2) soy sauce, or 3) chocolate syrup and soy sauce. Alas, coffee is the new ingredient!

I’ve antiqued this photo in an attempt to imagine what my grandchildren might think if they stumble upon it in a dusty, faded album someday. You know, besides, “Granny had real teeth?!”

I got in from work this afternoon and there was a hummingbird in my bedroom!

It was buzzing and darting around so quickly that I couldn’t get a good look at it, until…it stopped to rest.

The mechanical bear from the second picture lives outside an Upper West Side toy store. It propels its iridescent bubbles down Columbus Avenue, and yes, it actually dips the wand into bubble fluid in a metal bowl and then brings the wand to its mouth. Brilliant, I say!

*Here’s a fun game. Try to figure out which captions go with which pictures. Hint: go from top to bottom. I’m too tired and incompetent to line them up and do this for you.
Never passing up a chance to take things literally, I gave Megan the camera and told her to press the silver button.