sick of being sick

i've had this flingin' flangin' nasty virus since last tuesday night, and it is not going away. first came the burning throat which made me think it was strep. then my voice just up and left thursday night, so i finally sought medical help friday morning. turns out it's not strep (hooray!) but it is viral (boooo), so there's no magic medicine to make it disappear. instead i have lots of cough drops, some grody medicine which i believe is called an expectorant (ew ew ew) which actually has helped but makes me want to gag when i take it so it's really a toss-up as to how helpful it is, and a pile of tissues. i spent the day yesterday on the couch watching 'friends' on dvd and made it through all of the ross-and-rachel drama and am now up to the episode where they play the apartment game and switch apartments. that's about two seasons' worth, which is about 48 episodes, each is 20 minutes long, so that's a grand total of....16 hours of 'friends' in one day! really, that's ridiculous. so it's no wonder, then, that by the time i got off of the couch and actually went to bed, i had a raging headache, and i was extremely dizzy and nauseated. and the coughing only got worse throughout the day which ended with me having a complete coughing spasm. it was NOT a pleasant evening, and i hope i never repeat a day like that ever again.

today will be different! today i will be positive and actually leave my building (heck, even leaving my apartment will be a step up) and work on school projects and clean my apartment a little and i will not - I WILL NOT - watch a single episode of 'friends' on dvd. the day already started better than yesterday did...the duty phone didn't ring before i woke up so i slept until 10:30. fabulous. now it's 11:02, which is the perfect time to really start a good day.

i'm out like the fat kid in dodgeball!