getting rained on

 I'm tired, and I hurt. 

It poured down rain today - just as I had to leave my normal building (where my office is, and where, in a NORMAL semester I'd be teaching all my classes) and drive over to the nearest parking lot to what I call the Exile Building. It's still about half a football field's walk to the building. And it was raining *extremely* hard - hard enough that driving over was slightly scary (hard to see) and once I got parked I sat for a while hoping it would let up, but then realized I should use the restroom before my two hours of class, so I went through the Chemistry building (better and more reliable bathrooms, and as it turns out, apparently at least one women's room in the other building was closed for cleaning) and then over to the building I taught in

 I was soaked to the skin even with a rainjacket on. Fortunately I had the exams I was giving deep enough in my backpack they didn't get wet.

But my dress was wet, and my feet were wet, and my hair was wet. When I got to the room I took out my ponytail holder and shook like a dog to try to get some of the water out of my hair.

Unfortunately, they've put on the AC for the year, which would be fine, except I was soaked to the kind and it wasn't that warm out to begin with. So I was chilled all through giving the exam and through the student presentations in the next class. And then, back to my car, through less heavy rain, but still rain, and I ate lunch in my car (as I have been doing on Wednesdays this semester - not enough  time to get back to my building and then BACK to the other "exile building" before lab

 So yeah. That was my view at lunch. 

Then another hour and a half or so with more presentations in another chilly room, and then back over to my office to do some hang-over grading and to tidy up the lab grades for the lab section of gen bio I taught, and pass them on to the people in charge of the lecture sections. 

By the time I got home, I was really cold. I made a cup of hot chocolate and got into long pajamas and put the heat back on (earlier in the week I had had to put the AC on - very humid and could not breathe)

I guess I'm better now but I also ache because everything tensed up while I was cold.