
Not much to report from yesterday: I started feeling really ill about midday, so Phil dropped me home (via the store so I could get cold & flu medication, and ibuprofen, and cough lozenges). I slept all afternoon, most of the evening, and on and off all night.
In the morning I had a hot bath (fabulous), and dosed myself up. Feeling much better, I managed to put a whole day's work in: probably good, since I have to present to the chemistry group's meeting tomorrow.
Before I forget them all, it's probably time I started writing about some of the things in the USA that are amusing, puzzling or downright mysterious. In no particular order:
- The cheddar cheese is orange. It's scary.
- Everything is cheap. This is good. I wanted tea, which they didn't have in the lab. It cost me $1.67 for a cup of hot water and three teabags.
- Here, it is legal to advertise prescription medicines on TV. There are many of these ads. They have to list the side effects, so it can sound scary.
- ORANGE cheese.
- In bars, they want TWO forms of ID. Apparently only one must be photographic.
- Words are all different. Shitty means drunk. They pronounce Nissan "knee-sahn".
- You can do self-check out at the supermarket.
- The cheese is ORANGE!
Hehehe -funny pic, looks like only half of you woke up ;-)
ReplyDeleteHope you feel better, cold and flu drugs are good
Clogging appears to be essentially riverdance to hip hop music?
Just as well you're feeling better - that loks even worse than orange cheese! Captain
ReplyDeleteGee.... you poor thing Annette.... and regarding the orange cheese... that explains why the cheddar cheese you get at subway is orange. i have always stayed clear of it coz it looked bad.
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