Still sick. Last night I didn’t wake up in a cold sweat, though, so I think (hope) I’m getting better. I’m hoping tomorrow will be a return to health. I didn’t go to Star Wars. Yesterday I spent most of the day in bed, but that made me feel sicker, so today I think I’ll avoid that. I have a job interview tomorrow. And I’m volunteering at the Provo MTC.

Last night I started reading Lewis Thomas’s The Lives of a Cell. I was pleasantly surprised to see how many biological terms I recognized. Ah, I’ve neglected science too much in the past year. Since none of my classes were science-related (except for Physical Science fall semester), I’ve tended to focus almost entirely on languages and literature and history and computers. Which are all worthy causes, of course, but I do miss science. I think I’m finally going to start reading Euclid’s Elements.

Yesterday afternoon I started E. Nesbit’s The Story of the Treasure Seekers and finished it by evening. I liked it. I liked Five Children and It more, but Treasure Seekers still has that 19th-century British feel to it. Reminds me of Agatha Christie for some reason. Sherlock Holmes, too. And of course Lewis and Tolkien and Chesterton. I really haven’t been doing much reading lately. But that’s because I need to focus on Thailand. I haven’t studied Thai at all the past few days (mostly because of my illness).

Wow, the 18th (the day we’re getting broadband Internet) is almost here. That went by rather fast. I need to get a router. I originally planned on putting together a Linux box for the purpose, and the idea still holds great appeal for me, but I’ll be leaving this summer and it would be easier for my family to have a hardware-based router. At least theoretically. I don’t want to spend more money, but I’ve heard routers are pretty cheap nowadays, and it would be a good long-term investment.