After an extended blog-hiatus, here I am again, now reporting live from St. Clair, Michigan. Unfortunately, I'm reporting live from my couch after having come down with mono on my way home from Berlin. According to a friend of mine from small group, mono seems to be "in fashion" in Berlin at the moment--a few of her friends have had it in the past few weeks. Still not sure where exactly I picked up the so-called "kissing disease" (I certainly haven't been kissing anyone, so that can't be it), but if it's "going around" Berlin (I swear, that city really is like a small town sometimes), that definitely raises the chances I could have caught it somewhere random. Like the U-Bahn. Gross.
Wherever I might have caught it, now I am rendered mono-ified on the couch at my parents house. So far, I feel surprisingly un-tired (the most common symptom), but maybe it's heading my way. As of now, all I have is a shrunken swallowing capacity thanks to my swollen glands. Boo.