I’ve developed a bit of a summer cold. This is due to a few reasons, but we’ve got a source for some better medical advice this time around.

Between the bouts of rain, it’s been very humid. We don’t have an air conditioner, so our fans keep us relatively cool in the day as long as we stay in front of them. The walk to the subway station is scorching, but the station itself is cool. The hot again, cool again weather, as well as the rapid cooling when I go to work and sit in the air conditioner all day means my body is always sweating or freezing.

Yoshi has been whining a lot in the mornings. He can’t be let out to walk a lot, so he wakes us up extra early. Sleepless, hot nights, then early morning classes. I haven’t had a good sleep since the morning intensive classes started back up this month.

Also, my healthy diet has been hard to keep with since my wife has been busy a lot of nights with late night art classes. Too much instant food, not enough home cooking. It messes with your help.

I can feel a cold coming on. I know what the symptoms will be in a few days. I’ve had the same raspy voice I always get, the headaches due to lack of sleep, the excess phlegm. Luckily for me, I had a day to rest due to Korean Independence Day. No school today meant I got to take a nap during the hottest part of the day and rest my voice.

We went over to the pharmacy that gave me the proper medicine last time I was sick. We didn’t bother visiting a doctor. I’d have to wait to get really sick, then show up and get over prescribed with lots extra strength medicine. I’d rather stop from getting sick and remove the need for the extra pills altogether.

The pharmacy we went to is near one of the poorer apartment complexes. I don’t know if he gives the same advice to everyone that stops by, but he’s told my wife a few times what foods compliment the medicines to help ease my symptoms. That sort of advice is really nice. He told me to take a rest today and eat lots of comfort foods. I guess I need energy to fight off the cold.  Sit around and eat food? Take a rest? Well, if you insist!

Tomorrow is going to be an extra busy day. Several of my students are going abroad to study next week, and they are trying to squeeze in several more cram classes on essay writing and debate with me. I think I got enough rest today to show up without being a drug addled zombie.