I've been quite sick all week, coughing and hacking and feverish. Now Steven is also sick. Although I don't mind the time off that I've had, it's left me a little blurry-minded. Sorta like being blurry-eyed, except in the mind. And the medicine I took this morning is making me a little light-headed and wobbly. The upside: my lack of appetite has caused a rapid weight-loss of five pounds this week, decidedly not just water weight since liquids are basically what I've been ingesting all week.

In other news, here's an interesting article about an island where the girls are the ones expected to propose, and they do so with fish:

"Women, not men, choose spouses on island

I think I'm going to use it as a jumping point for a short story.