Weird Illnesses

There's a lot of things you get by being out here. Experience, excitement, or energy for instance. You also get weird illnesses that let your face swell up the size of a watermelon and mean you can't step outside your apartment for weeks on end. Like me. Thought I might share these rather apetizing photos of me with, well, Mumps. The whole thing sounds worse than it is, particularly with modern advances in painkillers. Its just that its rather a drag. A month in the UK to get my immune system back up to speed sounds like just what I need...