Every day, I've kept track of the latest figures on SARS from the WHO.

Um, nooo.... The other WHO. The World Health Organization. I have an Excel spreadsheet that keeps track of new cases, deaths and trends etc.

Well the good news is, that finally it seems to be slowing:

Which means that it should hopefully burn itself out before too long. I still think we'll have around 10,000 case by the end of this month with about 1000 dead, but it could have been a lot worse. Another virological bullet dodged for the human race...

As for me, today I have a bunch of work to do. I slept eventually last night, after taking some Valerian and a bunch of pain pills. I need to go back to Benadryl. I know it gave me a hangover, a nosebleed and an enlarged prostate, but it sure as hell knocked me out for the night...

I wouldn't mind if I wasn't tired, but I am dog tired by the end of the day. Then I can't sleep.

Just hope I don't sit next to a guy selling soap on my next plane trip...

Didn't have any wine last night, but I think I will tonight. R. is going over to K's. for her training. I have some book reviews to do so I need to get creative :>

West Wing wasn't on last night - I guess the John Goodman episode was the finale. No ER tonight either, right? I couldn't help but feel a stab of guilt watching ER last week. I hope others did too. Most people have no concept that half the world lives like that, nor that our actions in the West are responsible for creating the conditions that allow these countries to fall into civil war, experience terrible famines, lose millions to AIDS and even more easily treatable diseases. Did you know, we, in North America and Europe, each consume 50 times more resources than the average chinese, 100 times the average african?

I did it again didn't I? Turned a potentially funny and uplifting entry into a friggin guilt trip. Please accept my apologies for the inconvenience :> I'll try and write tonight, after I've got a bottle of Merlot in me, my head tends to get mellower :}

I cooked my famous Spaghetti Bolognese last night, but ran out of spaghetti so I had to use Fetuccine. Still good though. R. was late because she went over to her mom's to give her some more money. At least they're moved in now. They still need to do the floors, ceilings, walls etc but they have heat, light and running water, so that's good. I could fill up a ten diaries talking about R's mom and her husband, but that would just make me even more annoyed than I appear to be this morning, so I won't even go there...

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