Sick me...

I just got home from the doctors. My head teacher insisted on taking me this afternoon, only after I taught my five scheduled classes, naturally. Since my voice is still touch and go, I've started teaching my kids the ASL finger-spelling alphabet in the hopes of using kinesthetic teaching to help with spelling. They are all very quick learners - Grades 4 and 6 already have the full alphabet and Kindergarten is up to the letter "e" after only 10 minutes. They also have the filthiest hands I've ever seen - which may explain why I am sick.

Right, so the doctors: one room with the exam char separated by a fold out screen. I felt like I'd just walked into a Norman Rockwell painting. The exam chair was hooked up to a brown contraption with all sorts of wires and cords and stuff sticking out. One of these cords was attached to a metal thing that was put up my nose (!!!) to spray something, which was then sucked out (yuk!) by another of the ...probes? I don't know. And the doctor was wearing one of those old-school metal circles on a headband things! I've never actually seen one in real life and was pretty surprised to be faced with one here. Anyway, he decided that I had.... a cold. I've been told to "rest" and stay away from cold wind.

Oh, and take 37 brightly coloured pills over the next 2 days. And the pharmacist gave me one of those health drinks that makes your spinal column tingle....

The best part of the outing, however, was when we parked the car. It was one of those parking garages that doesn't use up any space. So... you park the car on a shelf thing and then key in your license plate, then a platform comes down and picks up your "car shelf" and then, well, shelves it somewhere. Then, when you want your car back, you key in your license plate and it appears magically before you - pointing the other way so that you can just drive straight out!!

Yes, yes, the car parking technology today was better than the health care. Whatever. It was cool.