under the weather

I'm sick. I woke up on Sunday morning with a sore throat and a general feeling of lethargy. By late afternoon it was a full-fledged head cold. The timing of this was not great, as I had 3 "first" classes to attend on Monday and Tuesday (my 4th class met for the first time before I got sick). I'm sure I've made a great impression on my profs and fellow students. At Monday night's class I wasn't very smart, in that I didn't have any Kleenex with me, so I grabbed a strip of toilet paper from the women's washroom and used that to dab at my nose all night. Of course, I was sitting right beside the prof (not planned, she came in last and the room was set up with 4 tables in a square...I just happened to be at the corner where she chose to sit too). And of course, my nose was dripping and clogging up way more than that weak little strip of no-name TP was designed for. It wasn't pretty. But, I didn't get accepted to grad school for naught...I learned my lesson, and for my two Tuesday morning classes I carried around my own personal (and large) box of Kleenex. And a little garbage bag too. Didn't want to leave my germs on someone else's future seat or writing surface! It was still a pretty sad situation, but whilst back at home, I managed to entertain myself by:
a) becoming addicted to Facebook Scrabble, and,
b) watching season 3 of The Office. The whole season. In 3 days. Wow.

By Wednesday I was starting to become more cough-y and less stuff-y. Miraculously, I slept like a baby on Wednesday night (had been waking up a lot every night from inability to breathe through stupid clogged up nose). Woke up this morning, but as I am alone here for the week (Chris is up north) and I have no classes today, I didn't speak to anyone all morning. I finally made a phone call around lunchtime and upon leaving a message, realized that I sound like a 12 year old boy on the verge of puberty (if I'm lucky that's what I sound like). So I've spent the day croaking to a few people on the phone and at Shoppers Drug Mart and at the post office. And now I'm off to bed. Wonder what I'll sound like tomorrow?