Wednesday, October 16 2002
I’m sick and it is yucky! I have a cold and it is raging through my body like a ravage beast! I was a dandy healthy girl when I went to bed Sunday night. When I woke up Monday morning my cold was already at stage three of a normal cold. I never got a sore throat, stuffy nose – you know the warnings of a cold … noooo, I just woke up Monday morning and I sure was sick. I have to say, this cold ranks up there at being one of the worst ones I have ever had. And to top things off, yesterday I began to develop a cold sore on my lip, YUCKY. The only way to get rid of it fast is to kill it before it breaks through the skin. I have been putting my $13 dollar per .07 ounce tube of Abreva on it constantly and now at day 2 … well part of my lip turned white and it hasn’t broken through the skin yet … but I am not seeing signs of regression either. In better news, today I feel better. It is technically day three of the cold, but really it is day 6, since the first three days of my cold got lost and I just woke up in the midst of a terrible cold. I think someone switched bodies with me or something. Anyways, today I woke up and my nose was not stuffy and I experienced the feeling of hunger for the first time in three days. I still have stuff in me because I am coughing up stuff … but I think that my cold is either on its way out, or it is just taking a nap. Please be gone, PLEASE!
I have a midterm tomorrow and my studying plans for Monday and Tuesday were basically shot because despite the vast amounts of Theraflu and Robitussin that I was taking, comprehending anything more than 2 +2 = 4 was hard. Last night, I did manage to study 4 of the 12 chapters that my test covers but I kept spacing out and forgetting what I was doing. Then I thought I had everything down, and then I would get confused about something really basic, I was definitely feeling goofy. On Monday I almost forgot to get off the bus to go to class because I remembered that I left the coffee maker on and I was trying to think of a way to turn it off telepathically. I ended up stopping in the computer lab and telling Julie to tell Courtney that I left it on. On Monday I was sitting in my politics class, looking at an article that was in my binder, thinking “wow, this article would have been good for my politics paper, wonder why I have this article about politics for this class”. Oh wait, this is Politics! Seriously, my brain has been dead. Glad I’m not the only one that is crazy though .. Todd is sick too (we both woke up with mysterious sicknesses on Monday and were both not sick on Sunday) – weird, anyways – Todd told me that he was driving to school and forgot where he was going and didn’t realize that he had driven to Oakland like he was coming here. He turned around in S. Oakland though … good thing he didn’t get the whole way here and be like, “wait, what am I doing here at 8am?” That would have been pretty funny though.
Besides being sick and trying to super-cram for a midterm, my life is pretty boring. Courtney ate maggots the other day – they were in her crackers … yummy. I am keeping my stuff far away from her cupboard. I told my mom about it and she said that she should check all of her food because a few weeks ago some moths got into her food cupboard and laid little moth eggs. Well the moth eggs hatched into larvae and they were in everything – all the chips, crackers, pasta, and cereal. They keep envelopes in that cupboard too and they were all through the envelopes, eating the glue! GROSS. Oh yeah, my contacts finally came so I am not wearing my glasses anymore, yay – I have peripheral vision again! I went grocery shopping with Todd on Sunday night and he got mad at me because it took me too long to pick out butter. Sorry, I am a very selective shopper and I don’t just throw things into the cart as I walk down the aisles. So, I am not going to go grocery shopping with him anymore. I will just go by myself so I can take all the time I want to pick out groceries.
And looking to the future, I will be spending all day today and probably into the night studying for my Financial Institutions midterm that is tomorrow. Directly following the midterm, I must begin studying for my Corporate Finance midterm on Monday. It is going to be very hard because it is a lot of calculations/word problem type things, and they are all so completely different. I understand the concepts, I just have to practice doing problems. That will take up my entire weekend. On Saturday night I am going to see Todd’s choir concert, then I will most likely return and study more. Then after Monday, I have to start studying for my Quantitative Methods test, which is just a whole bunch more calculations/word problems … arghh. I am not too worried about that test even though I haven’t done any of the practice problems or studied at all yet. I got a 96 on my first test, so as long as I use the same study methods that I did for the last test, and hope that I understand everything .. I should be fine. After that I think it will probably be November, meaning I have a bunch of papers due and two presentations. After that, I might have about three days to once again cram for finals. And most likely I will be scheduled for another cold right around that time to completely fuck up my schedule. I sound like a big whiney baby, I know. But its all good because I feel not sick anymore, and I am going to kick major ass on my tests (hopefully). But its time to study now, bye!