Good Morning Phoenix...

Today is the day! That I must work my ass off and *hope* my illness does not come back and kick my ass for doing things prematurely. Thing is, I've kinda had a ridiculous virus since Tuesday morning. Swine? Who knows, I never made it to the doctor, but by the severity of the symptoms and how I was feeling I wouldn't be surprised. I legit thought I had been backed over by a semi truck on Tuesday and was an extremely ineffective teacher as a result. Luckily, the kids were just dinking around in the computer lab. I didn't really notice how horrible I felt until the drive to school, at 6:45, and was like holy crap. So, long story short, I had a 103 degree fever Tuesday-Friday, where it bumped down to 101.8 Friday, and then 100.8 Saturday, and today I'm officially under 100!!! 99.8. The biggest challenge in the beginning was sitting still, since I'm normally so hyperactive. At first, yes, I was ready to sit there, and do nothing. In fact, I slept 20 out of 24 hours on Wednesday when I called in. Then the coughing and mucous show took over. I'll spare you the details, but it has made for some horrible sleep, which is why I'm up at 7am on a Sunday. I was tired of waking up all night to cough. A deep, extremely painful, cough. Oh and heat flashes! Cut me a break! I didn't know it was possible to feel so effing miserable. Other than food poisoning and malaria, I don't have any recollection of such horrible sick time. So all this boils down to this: I got jack shit done this week. 0 zip nada. Nothing. Missed a couple meetings even. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. 5 days. DAMN. So I have a crazy MTLD who won't leave me the eff alone who I'm seriously pissed off at because he's got no awareness of what a sick person needs -- the exact opposite of what he does ALL the time-hound you. And just the thought of him stresses me out even more. Which is probably why it's taking me so long to recover. And then I have 50 Galileo writing tests to grade, lesson plans to write for the week, a project for my ASU class, and another project for that class (that I'm completely confused over). And my poor roommate probably hates me because of my incessant coughing. But on the bright side (because there must always be a bright side), I'm still alive. :) On Friday I'll be packing my stuff and gettin on a plane for Vegas (hope this cold goes away!!!) Next Wednesday through Sunday my sis will be here! The weekend after that I'm going to Napa, CA!!! So YAAAAY. I have plenty of celebrations. On a scholastic note, each of my class periods improved at least 5% on the last test, with one class improving 12%!!I also got an A in my last class at ASU, bringing my GPA up a little from that asshole first semester. But for now, I have a headache, and have papers to grade. So I think I'm going to do that. And maybe take a nap!