okay, other people have talked about their illnesses in their blogs, so please indulge me for a bit.

I am sick. I am so damn sick. I was up most of the night last night coughing with the tail end of this truly evil cold. My voice sounds like either an 80-year-old woman from Chicago who has smoked 2 packs a day since she was 16, or else like some kind of creature that lives in a damp mildewy cave. When I swept my kitchen floor this morning, I got winded and dizzy from the effort. I can't eat, or rather, I can't enjoy eating. Anything vaguely crunchy scares me (sore throat) so I've existed on yogurt, and Spaghettios, and macaroni for the past couple days.

I'm starving right now but have nothing to eat and the vending machines here only sell crunchy food.

I have a doctor's appointment, but the earliest they could get me in was 3:15 Wednesday. That is in case I have bronchitis (it's happened before with bad colds; I have a low level case of asthma and I have to be really careful about anything that is respiratory in nature).

The good news is I have only one more class today, at 10 am. And it's student-presentation week, so I don't even have to talk.
After the class, I am going home (cancelling office hours) and I am going to read through all the student papers I will receive at the end of class.

The other good news is that when I was too sick to do anything else yesterday, I got both my other final exams written. So except for grading this week, I'm done.

I also began a striped scarf out of Lion Brand Kool Wool. I'll post some guidelines on it later when it's clearer how much of the yarn it's going to take.