With the wheezes and the sneezes...

I know I've been kind of bad with detailed updates, but sometimes random facts are fun to know too.  In truth, it's hard to find enough time in a day to do all I need to do, much less catalog what's going on in my life.  It's bad, I know, and I'm trying!  

Anyway, you aren't missing out on much of anything because nothing too exciting happened this week.  However, nothing too exciting could happen this week thanks to la petite grippe that has circulating around France and which found a nice home chez my immune system.  I started getting sick last week, but it had the decency to wait until the weekend to take on full swing, and now I'm pretty much in the recovery stages.  (I hope!)  

Just to make sure that I'm en pleine forme for the start of vacances ce week-end, Laurence told me it would be a good idea to see the doctor this week.  Another thing to add to my list of French experiences!  

I tried to be good and research any terms I would need to describe my flu symptoms, and also my general health.  However, I am in France, and I am not well-versed in health lingo.  Thus, I present the following scene:  (Those of you who took Adv. Con and Comp can probably predict the faux-ami...)

Chez le Medicin, a play in one act:

Docteur: Do you take any pilules?

Moi: Oui, I take desip... do you want me to write it down?

(Docteur hands over pad of paper, and looks over perplexed as I write down 3 long names)

Docteur: "Tout ca?!"  (All of this?!)

Moi: Well yes, the first two are for this... and the other one for...

It was then that I realized that, in fact, pilule refers to only one very specific type of pill. Anything else is simply medicaments.  In retrospect, with all of the related vocabulary from Annie Ernaux's "l'Evenement" that I read last spring, I probably should have known that, but hey, at least now I have a funny story to tell?