Stupid cold. I’m beginning to think I’m not going to get over it until winter break because that’ll be the first opportunity I’ll have to just sleep all day without worrying about grades/grading/homework/lesson plans/etc. So far, my “cold” or whatever it is has gone through all sorts of stages of annoying. First, I had a fever and fatigue and a sore throat for about a week and a half, and then the fever finally died down just in time for my nose to become a faucet and for me to start coughing and sneezing all the time. Still tired, now I’ve got the fever back, I cough sporadically, I sneeze a lot, I blow my nose enough to compete in an Olympic event (if there were such an event as excessive nose blowing), and my throat tickles. I’m not really all that tired despite the fact that I slept like shit last night (and pretty much every other night this week, but being a chronic insomniac, this isn’t unusual), so I doubt it’s mono or Pfeiffer’s disease or however you want to call it. My students think I have mono, but then again, they probably would just as likely say I’ve got Tourrette’s syndrome and ADHD. The point is, they’re not doctors; they’re just being silly.

And speaking about students, I still have three classes’ worth of grading to do plus three tests to write in addition to the usual coming-up-with-lesson-plans ordeal which defines every Sunday afternoon. At some point, I should eat, but with absolutely nothing sounding good (bad taste buds + cold = no taste buds), I’ve kind of resigned myself to just munching on fruit and drinking whatever’s at hand (excepting toilet water and the usual household cleaning products). Blech. At any rate, back to grading and blowing my nose. I’m gonna go through a lot of hand sanitizer today.