Orange is a flavour and a colour
Friday, 9. May 2008, 01:57:09
I can say that in all seriousness.
Taking a shower at school is always a mistake - I took one today with the idea that taking a cold temperature shower might lower my fever a bit. Or at least relieve the icky hot scratchy fever-ness of fevers. But no - I forgot that the showers here only have one temperature setting, no matter where the knob is. They start out pleasantly cool and then by the end of the shower the water is scalding hot and there's nothing you can do about it, and you just have to put up with it anyway because you've still got soap and hair conditioner on. Didn't help with the fever any.
English essay due tomorrow. I finally got the second theology essay done this morning, a full twenty four hours after I was supposed to get it done. It turns out the sleepiness was just a precursor to my allergies going haywire. The toxic mold in my room doesn't help. Opening the window doesn't help because yesterday there was lots of lawn work done in the Quad. So, still definitely allergic to inside and outside, except now sometimes I get strangely short of breath. It's sort of like that feeling you get when you hold your breath just a little too long underwater, and let the air out of your lungs because you know there's no oxygen in it so there's no point making the effort to hold it in anyway.
Other things I accomplished today that were not my paper:
Calling L--- to tell her I finished my paper
Finding out I got an A in philosophy
Turning in some library books
Forgetting that Chicken Finger Thursday means that there are Chicken Fingers on Thursdays
Getting distracted by a blog which is, in part, about the non-misogynistic performance of butch gender identity
Returning the 5th grade science poster to the Observatory
Breathing
Unfortunately there was no way I could go to the final project presentation thingy with free pizza last night. Not enough breathing, too much coughing. I was really looking forward to seeing some of the presentations, too. H---- had told me about some of her ideas for a presentation when I saw her in Saxby's on Tuesday and it looked awesomely interesting and funny.
Sunday I go back to Texas. I have settled on one large suitcase, one duffel bag, one small suitcase, and my green canvas bag. Everything else is going to fit into ten storage boxes or be, in the words of J-- (remember - J-- is not Joe!), purged. I think the bold really makes it better; purged isn't nearly as dramatic as purged. I have a plan for Sunday; it goes like this:
Go to Texas
Say Hi to Mister Bones
Sleep
Shower
Eat
Sleep
Play with Mister Bones
Sleep
Maybe some more sleeping. There might not be enough sleeping in that. Also a visit to my allergist, the Apple store, and my hairstylist. Love the jewfro, but it's just too hot in Texas to be practical. Even if I were to keep it, it needs some shaping. It looks weird in the back and around my ears. The photo is of me with a not-really-an-allergy-mask allergy mask the other day. They didn't have allergy masks at CVS or the hardware store on 35th st, and this was close enough. It actually helped a lot for the time I wore it. I am aware that the jewfro doesn't actually look like a jewfro in the photo - I had slept on it and it got all crushed. Also when I'm stressed I have this habit of pulling the curls out of my hair, and they tend to loosen up a lot into waves. Right now, because I took a shower, I am totally rocking the jewfro. Hah! Anyway, about the allergy mask - I was letting my air conditioner dry out (after Lysoling the mold) and had my window open. It was kind of heinous, especially since I'm now immune to my antihistamine. Yay Alien Blood!
Taking a shower at school is always a mistake - I took one today with the idea that taking a cold temperature shower might lower my fever a bit. Or at least relieve the icky hot scratchy fever-ness of fevers. But no - I forgot that the showers here only have one temperature setting, no matter where the knob is. They start out pleasantly cool and then by the end of the shower the water is scalding hot and there's nothing you can do about it, and you just have to put up with it anyway because you've still got soap and hair conditioner on. Didn't help with the fever any.
English essay due tomorrow. I finally got the second theology essay done this morning, a full twenty four hours after I was supposed to get it done. It turns out the sleepiness was just a precursor to my allergies going haywire. The toxic mold in my room doesn't help. Opening the window doesn't help because yesterday there was lots of lawn work done in the Quad. So, still definitely allergic to inside and outside, except now sometimes I get strangely short of breath. It's sort of like that feeling you get when you hold your breath just a little too long underwater, and let the air out of your lungs because you know there's no oxygen in it so there's no point making the effort to hold it in anyway.
Other things I accomplished today that were not my paper:
Calling L--- to tell her I finished my paper
Finding out I got an A in philosophy
Turning in some library books
Forgetting that Chicken Finger Thursday means that there are Chicken Fingers on Thursdays
Getting distracted by a blog which is, in part, about the non-misogynistic performance of butch gender identity
Returning the 5th grade science poster to the Observatory
Breathing
Unfortunately there was no way I could go to the final project presentation thingy with free pizza last night. Not enough breathing, too much coughing. I was really looking forward to seeing some of the presentations, too. H---- had told me about some of her ideas for a presentation when I saw her in Saxby's on Tuesday and it looked awesomely interesting and funny.Sunday I go back to Texas. I have settled on one large suitcase, one duffel bag, one small suitcase, and my green canvas bag. Everything else is going to fit into ten storage boxes or be, in the words of J-- (remember - J-- is not Joe!), purged. I think the bold really makes it better; purged isn't nearly as dramatic as purged. I have a plan for Sunday; it goes like this:
Go to Texas
Say Hi to Mister Bones
Sleep
Shower
Eat
Sleep
Play with Mister Bones
Sleep
Maybe some more sleeping. There might not be enough sleeping in that. Also a visit to my allergist, the Apple store, and my hairstylist. Love the jewfro, but it's just too hot in Texas to be practical. Even if I were to keep it, it needs some shaping. It looks weird in the back and around my ears. The photo is of me with a not-really-an-allergy-mask allergy mask the other day. They didn't have allergy masks at CVS or the hardware store on 35th st, and this was close enough. It actually helped a lot for the time I wore it. I am aware that the jewfro doesn't actually look like a jewfro in the photo - I had slept on it and it got all crushed. Also when I'm stressed I have this habit of pulling the curls out of my hair, and they tend to loosen up a lot into waves. Right now, because I took a shower, I am totally rocking the jewfro. Hah! Anyway, about the allergy mask - I was letting my air conditioner dry out (after Lysoling the mold) and had my window open. It was kind of heinous, especially since I'm now immune to my antihistamine. Yay Alien Blood!
