Item: 1 bottle of 8-hour cough gelcaps

I was originally planning on being out of town this weekend, otherwise I might have tried to get tickets for Coachella or the LA Times Festival of Books.  It probably wouldn't have mattered, though, since I'm not having much fun regardless of location -- still trying to lie low and shake the last of this cough.  Some people get ear infections, some people get sinus infections, I get coughs.  And coughs, and coughs.

This is kind of a miserable state, to be honest.  I don't want any adventure.  I just want to have a lot of blankets and stop worrying about what's wrong with me and not hear any news.  Is it total egotism or just heightened awareness that when I'm sick, the entire world seems like a deeply sick place?