i am too stupid to maintain homeostasis
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posted by tom / May 10, 2005 / 
| PROBLEM: | The bedroom is slightly too warm on Sunday night. |
| SOLUTION: | I put a fan in the window. |
| PROBLEM: | The frigid room resulting from the fan has given me a persistent sore throat and the beginnings of a cold. |
| SOLUTION: | Some spicy food will chase away those symptoms! Hot and sour soup and Szechuan tofu are duly ordered from the bulletproof chinese joint around the corner. |
| PROBLEM: | The Chinese food was not very good, nor was it very spicy. I'm beginning to think that the soup was just mushrooms floating in canola oil. It's causing some, er, intestinal distress. Also, I'm now experiencing waves of sweating. Slow release peppers? Food poisoning? Malaria? |
| SOLUTION: | "A little beer should put out that fire!" |
| PROBLEM: | The phrase "a little beer" proves to be insufficiently specific. |
| SOLUTION: | Jon challenges our waitress to a pushup competition for a free round of shots, and wins. (It's unclear how this was supposed to resolve the stated problem, but at the time it definitely seemed like a step in the right direction.) |
| PROBLEM: | Eventual arrival of morning. I'm hungover, still sick, and my stomach is strongly on record as unhappy with how things have been going lately. |
| SOLUTION: | Go into work half an hour late. Whine about it on my blog. |
I think I'm finally on the mend, but this whole saga has been pretty discouraging. I can now easily imagine a chain of events wherein I start out trying to buy a pack of gum and end up losing most of my blood.
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