Sickness Stalls the Senses...

Today's unfortunately lacklustre itinerary:

9:00am -- Wake up (full of snot and coughing uncontrolably...)
9:15am -- Go to a doctor's office (under the supervision of my Korean boss's husband).
9:30am -- Have my temperature and blood pressure taken. Sit in the foreign doctor's office with numerous other sick persons. Total waiting time: 12 minutes.
9:45am -- Receive prognosis: I have asthma and (if my pocket translator serves me correctly) fluid in my lungs. I must return to this doctor again on Monday. Fee charged: a whopping $3.
9:50am -- Receive requisite needle in the bum (the result of any and every visit to a Korean doctor (or so say the other ex-pat's in Mokpo)).
9:55am -- Go to my first Korean pharmacist to pick up a melange of 7 pills to be take 3 times a day for the following 3 days. Fee charged: Another whopping $3.
10:04am -- Go to a dermatologist's office to assess the grossness that are my hands right now.
10:05am -- See the doctor who tells me that I have an infection and suggests that the cats in my midst might be negatively affecting my epidermis. "Rubbish," I think, "Pure RUBBISH!!!"
10:07am -- Receive a prescription and a bill (another $3).
10:10am -- Have my prescription filled at another Korean pharmacy (this time it was $3.50)
10:30am -- I arrive back at my apartment ready for my 1st nap of the day.
1:00pm -- I wake up coughing, and full of mucus. I eat lunch, download a movie, and walk to the supermarket to buy some more Kleenex and other essentials.
3:00pm -- Return home for nap #2.
5:00pm -- I wake up and eat some dinner, channel-surf until 9:00pm after which I watch another movie, watch the fireworks over the Mokpo Harbour (out the window of my 7th-floor apartment), and fall asleep before midnight alone in my apartment (Jessica decided to go out and be social).

Certainly not my most exciting New Year's ever, but perhaps a smart way to spend the weekend if I am to survive the next 2 months of intensive English language school. The public schools are now having their 2-month vacation so our Hagwon is running extra classes, inducting new students, and generally running FULL STEAM AHEAD until March. Needless to say, life in Tracyville is sadly simple: eat, sleep, work (sigh!).