Edited, midmorning: I have a 1:30 appointment with the campus nurse to see if anything more needs to be done. I think the next step would be trying Benadryl, which I'd rather not do, because it knocks me out so badly (maybe a children's sized dose wouldn't, I don't know). I will say having checked just now in the restroom, the eyelid is less swollen than it was, so maybe the two days' worth of Zyrtec is beginning to do some good, and maybe I just need to be patient and continue to take it. It does seem to have fewer "unpleasant" side effects than Claritin; the only side effect I've noticed is a dry mouth, and I can deal with that if it helps the allergies.

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I wonder if the allergic overload (I now have a rash on my face too: hawt.) is partly related to stress.

I have this one student. He has missed most of the labs. He wants to make them up. I told him he could do two, and to e-mail me and tell me which ones. So he e-mailed me back and told me to tell him. (I just should have done so, but in a fit of pique at the apparent willful helplessness, I told him he had to choose).

He chose the very lab that I said - three times - in class I WOULD not do as a make-up, because of the amount of prep-work it required on my part. (Of course he has not been in class).

The e-mail was sent at 10 pm last night. Now, I know some people don't get 'round to their e-mail until then, but of course there was no way for me to tell him "no" until this morning - and this afternoon is when he's supposed to do the labs.

Insert facepalm here.

(No, really. You're going to have to insert it. I was going to post the image of Homer facepalming with the caption "When 'D'oh' isn't enough" but Blogger's image-uploader is not working, at least as far as taking images I have stored on my hard drive, this morning)

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However, I am continuing along knitting on the two pairs of socks for my mom's birthday. I shifted over and started working on the Retro Rib socks and am almost up to the heel flap on the first one. I'm not sure I like the Kertzer sock yarn, though - it's kind of splitty and doesn't show stitch definition all that well.

I'm also almost up to the heel turn on the second simple sock. So I have a good chance of getting these done before her birthday at the end of May.