Please hold

The spaghetti carbonara on Tuesday? Recent stress? Malaria? Malaria prevention pills? Stomach flu? Food poisoning? SARS? Avian flu? Regular ole flu?

Who knows? Take your pick!

When I was a teenager, my mother took me to a Chinese herbal doctor in L.A., who took my pulse for a minute and then calmly and accurately diagnosed me with a weak stomach. How do they know such things?

Have taken the past two days off from school (and life) to recover from one or possibly several of the above... your patience is appreciated. Mine (with rice gruel) is wearing thin...