Friday Friday Friday! It’s Friday, everyone, which means one of two things: 1) you’re psyching yourself up for the weekend ahead, looking for awesome things to do, excited to make some summer memories and then after a couple more drinks forget them, or 2) are woefully sick with some disgusting bug and feel like you want to die, like half the BCU staff. Luckily for the latter group, the sun is apparently feeling under the weather too, because it’s hiding behind some clouds (ha! Get it?! Meteorologist jokes!). So this week’s Three Things You Have to Do This Weekend are for you sickies, or for those of us in the ole southern California who seriously can not catch a break with warm weather this summer.

1) Catch up on your fantasy football knowledge

If you’re stuck inside all day, it’s the perfect opportunity to bust out your laptop in bed and brush up on the top stats, injury reports, and predictions for your 2010 draft. Bleacher Report has our favorite list of tips and strategies, but there are tons of sites on the internet right now that will help you improve your game. Your friends might give you a hard time about not going out this weekend, but when your fantasy team decimates theirs without even really trying, they’ll be wishing they’d spent a weekend in bed with salmonella too.

2) Make yourself (or have someone who likes you a little bit make you) some chicken noodle soup

Ever since Vitamin Water was deemed little more than “non-carbonated soda” and Airborne was forced to admit it was basically a placebo pill with a few hundred grams of Vitamin C, people have been like, oh dear god, how ever am I supposed to get better ever? I am going to die here, alone in my bed, watching Dragonball-Z, I know it. But here’s the real “miracle cure”: drink as much water as you can, eat food packed with Vitamin C like oranges and bell peppers (or take supplements if your throat feels like someone slipped barbed wire in there), and have someone whip up this simple, yet delicious Chicken Noodle Soup recipe for you from the Food Network. You’ll be ready for Labor Day destruction of your liver in no time.

3) Try hot yoga

Don’t worry — I’m not talking about a Bikram’s Yoga class — the kind in the overwhelmingly hot, miserable, cramped room full of people who consider patchouli oil a viable replacement for deodorant… I’m talking more about a vinyasa yoga class in a climate controlled room, where the temperature is at a warm, but bearable 90 degrees. It might sounds miserable, and the first ten minutes might have you pleading for death to come, but trust us when we say that after an hour long class, you will feel like a million bucks (or a thousand, or maybe a hundred, depending on how bad you felt going in). However, it should be noted that if you’re still contagious, you shouldn’t be going into a closed room full of mouth breathers.

Hope you feel better readers! And to all of you who aren’t sick, and are in beautiful warm weather somewhere looking for something to do — shut your ugly mouth and figure it out. We hate you*.

* Just kidding kind of.