Today is my daughter´s Nameday. Today, according to the Hungarian calendar, is the day of Johanna, or the saint-day of Johanna. I have recently discovered that there are different calendars for Namedays and saint´s days in the different countries of Eastern Europe. The Slovak calendar has a different name for the day, the Czech Republic another, and then Hungary the third. Russia then has an even more different arrangement of days.. apparently they are two weeks behind us according to their own religious calendar, and naturally their saints fall onto their own arrangement of days devoted to them.

I am ill.. sick as a dog.. wanna know why? I was attacked.. attacked by the arašídy last night, and have yet to fully recover. It was horrible. I broke into sweats during the night, got red swollen dots all over me, and could not lie still.. I felt I needed to hurl constantly, but was unable to. Then, on top of it all, I was struck by an indescribable ache of the head.. my head was literally going to explode. This whole experience was quite different from what I am used to when this happens.. I usually keep my guard well, and thus this has not happened very often.. but the whole sickness was a new kettle of fish from what I am used to after these attacks. I theorize it must have been because I was unable to rid my system of the poison, unable to hurl it out when I needed to.. and therefore it had the opportunity of torturing me for a longer period and more severely.
I am okay today, not quite well.. but okay. Weaker than I ought to be, but I am sure this will pass before long.

Easter has bored me. It usually does. This year has been no different.

Weakly,
..kH