The City Has a Fever
Jul. 17th, 2006 03:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
d_aulnoyThis might be funnier if you're Russian.
In Russia, the default setting for the human body lies at 36.7 degress Celsius: when you go up to 37.1, you are officially sick, and fully justified in taking a sick day.
In terms of Farenheit, this translates, respectively, to 98 degrees as healthy, and 99 as sick.
I am currently massively amused by the fact that, by Russian standards? The city, the entire city, is sick, and thus justified in spending the day in bed, rereading old novels, and being fed Chinese takeout on the condition that it also has some of the soup that comes with it.
Get to it!
In Russia, the default setting for the human body lies at 36.7 degress Celsius: when you go up to 37.1, you are officially sick, and fully justified in taking a sick day.
In terms of Farenheit, this translates, respectively, to 98 degrees as healthy, and 99 as sick.
I am currently massively amused by the fact that, by Russian standards? The city, the entire city, is sick, and thus justified in spending the day in bed, rereading old novels, and being fed Chinese takeout on the condition that it also has some of the soup that comes with it.
Get to it!