*sigh* truth be told, i'm not feeling much better than i have all week. i'm fine as long as i'm lying down, but as soon as i stand and move around, whatever's taken residence in my lungs starts throwing furniture around the room and i start coughing. the pain in my lungs is mostly gone, but my head still aches and i feel just a bit on the woozy side most of the time. so no school for me again tomorrow. which, i guess, makes the administration a bit wary, since ian called and asked me to bring in a doctor's note. best i can do is the receipt from urgent care, since i'm between doctors. hopefully that's ok - if not, guess i'll...i have no idea. like being sick wasn't bad enough.
medicine's made me all wonky - tired, but unable to fall asleep. it's whatever that sudafedish stuff is. i'm not sure the medicine is working - the phlegm's reduced, but the other stuff lingers. i suppose it takes a bit of time to work, much longer than i wish. not like i like being out of my classroom, since it mostly means i'm going to be buried in grading for a while (yeah, so what else is new). but no use being miserable at school, especially if this illness is something that's going around (which i read in some email i looked at today on my school account).
so how does one spend their days when they have bronchitis? sleep as much as possible, eat some breakfast so there's something in your stomach besides the four pills you take in the morning, check school email and personal, lie in bed for a while finishing off take the canolli by sarah vowell, wander to the comfy chair to finish off newsradio, doze off through lunch, drink lots of fluids, finish watching ZooTV, begin watching my name is earl, get a quick burst of nesting energy and sweep up your entertainment room, watch more earl, get some dinner, take more pills, watch more earl, drink more fluids, call for a sub, call andy to make sure all is well tomorrow, miss call from ian asking for a note, hope to fall asleep to veronica mars, realize it's not going to happen, so you wander in, answer some email and update your blog. fun, no?
not sure what's being celebrated in norwood tonight, but someone has fireworks and has been setting them off periodically for some unbeknownst reason. the upcoming autumnal equinox, perhaps? never heard of blowing things up to celebrate the sun's crossing the equator and ushering in fall, but i wasn' t here last year at this time, so what do i know?
feeling a wee bit melancholy at the moment - as with most stuff this week, i'm blaming the drugs. no reason to be emotional - not that that has stopped me before. 'tis that time of the year. maybe i should blow some stuff up - might make me feel better. right now, i'd settle for this stupid bronchitis to be gone.
all right, enough. going to go lie down, hope sleep comes to take me away. and that the medicine doesn't screw up my dreams, too.
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UGH. Bronchitis is the WORST. What a way to start off the school year, too. How weird that your administration would ask for a doctor's note. Like you're in 6th grade or something.
Rest much, read much and take hot, steamy baths. :)
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