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Elizzybeth:
I've got a fever, my voice has dropped about half an octave, and the wastebasket beside me is quickly filling up with tissues.  So I'm lying on the couch in my pajamas eating Chicken Noodle O's and watching The Truman Show.

It's cold and flu season in the northern hemisphere!  So I want to know, QC: what is your sick day routine? 

Do you watch particular movies (my personal favorites are Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Back to the Future)?  Eat particular foods (me: saltine crackers, Chicken Noodle O's, jello)?  Or maybe you've got a home remedy that works for you.  Basically, how do you make being sick bearable?

jmrz:
Seeing as how most medicine makes me sick, I take a small amount of aspirin to get rid of the headache and tone the fever done and I take some cold and flu stuff that I can tolerate.

Then I drink a large amount of tea while curled up in bed watching back to back episodes of whatever TV series I am currently into.

Chicken noodle soup goes down pretty well.

David_Dovey:
Yes, tea. Always tea. Black, with lemon and honey. I usually make a whole thermos and just park it next to the couch or wherever it is that I am stationing myself for the day. I also typically watch the whole Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, while drifting in and out of consciousness.

Metope:
I'm sick as well! Since I arrived in Scotland 2 months ago I've been sick 3 times (and also once back in Norway right before leaving, that's 4 colds since August), so I'm fairly experienced in this 'sick day' thing. Today I got up early, stuffed my face with paracetamol, nose spray and tissues. Ran to school with a cup of tea in my hand, sat in a room filled with turpentine and oil gasses for 8 hours before I climbed to a rooftop and got naked there for a friend's photo project. Pretty sure it was almost freezing, I could see my own breath at least. Then I went to the pub for beers, and now I'm staying up way too late, not getting enough sleep before I have to get up early for school again tomorrow. I had soup at some point I guess, so at least I did something right!

Avec:
Being sick gives me an excuse to buy/drink expensive teas while reading books I've yet to finish. As for food, I'm never really hungry while I'm sick.

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