I figured it was coming, after having gone hiking in the rain for four days straight, and living in the dorms again with a bunch of other people in cold weather. Guys, I have some kind of weird multitype illness... a sore throat, a runny nose, a headache, I'm super tired, and I had a fever earlier today until I took some Ibuprofen.
Yesterday was just a plain old sick day - I wasn't feeling quite so bad, but I didn't go to the gym, and then I sort of staggered through classes. Clare and I went to dinner at the Keller, using a sort of meal exchange thing, and got the Kartause burger.
Ironic, Austrians make better burgers and fries than any Americans' that I've tasted yet. I still feel like the Austrian Mensa people are making fun of our food, though. Today we had hot dogs stuffed with cheese, wrapped and fried in bacon, and fried potato wedges. I'm not sure whether that's just how they eat, or they're trying to accommodate us, but it's kind of gross at times.
Today I was even more zombie-ish than usual and didn't even mind that I had no notable social interactions at all. Clare and I went into one of the tea kitchens, Clare was a doll and made me soup, and I ate some yogurt I got at the Spar. (My debit card is here and working now!)
Tonight we did something scary - we booked tickets for a train to Hallstatt, Austria, and a hostel. I'm frankly not sure how any of it will work out, so hopefully we can muddle through it once we get off the train in Hallstatt.
Hallstatt is the place Mrs. Hull was telling me to visit, and please send a postcard from - it's a little Catholic town on a lake, pretty much pinned up against the mountains. You have to take a ferry to get to it from the train station, and it's so small that it digs up its dead every 30 years or so and puts them in an ossuary (a bone collection) which you can view for a small fee.
Clare's been really social and inviting people, so maybe we can get someone to come with us who has more of a clue what they're doing than we do!
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