achís y achú

I am coming out to play after several weeks of not posting anything, except for my constant tweets. I spent a couple of weeks fighting this nasty virus that I got, and that had me wishing for better times. I say to myself everyday, "I am health", but that didn't work during my festival of mucous. I spent all my evenings in bed bleeding my DVR to death: I even started watching House, MD (I know, Jason, I know...) and find myself after all this time actually enjoying this show. And it is not so much the stories or the special effects: I am utterly fascinated by Hugh Laurie; he is a god if you ask me. Plus, knowing I wasn't as sick as the characters made me feel good... very morbid of me.

I even thought of the sneeze sounds in Spanish and in English. It seems that in Mexico we favor a brutal ¡achú!, when in Spain a demure ¡achís! is the way to go, when in English achoo! and atisshoo! do the trick.

And how about that literary a-tissue, or atisú in Spanish? Those were clearly not the sounds I was making; there were two words for them: abundant and disgusting.