Well, I had the tab up earlier to write this but closed it and forgot until just now when I was about to go to sleep. I've apparently been getting sick the last few days, beginning with a mouth sore on the roof of my mouth and the swelling of the gums on the top right side. Today I also woke up with a sore throat that lingered all day and a cough has begun to make itself known.
I would love to know what caused this because I've actually been pretty healthy lately. I guess there's nothing I can do about it now but rest as much as possible (which, admittedly, will be very little this weekend given that I'm planning to drive to DC tomorrow and then back on Sunday).
Nothing terribly exciting happened today. I woke up and went to class, during which I read one of my in-class writing assignments. The prompt for this one was food. I didn't like it much when I wrote it but liked it somewhat better when I read it aloud today. Other people seemed to more-or-less like it, so I guess that's a plus. Lunch was not particularly good -- just a chicken patty with some ham and cheese on it. I tried eating potatoes but even when I cut them up into really small pieces, I had trouble chewing them well. My solution was to get some ice cream.
Dinner was similarly disappointing. Usually on Valentine's Day, Sodexo makes nice steaks and there's a cupcake bar. Not this year, my friends. There was some kind of pasta with tomato sauce and meat (more like a casserole than spaghetti), tempura chicken with some kind of spicy sauce (yeah, not going there when my mouth feels the way it does), and then the usuals: pizza, sandwich station, and grilled cheese/cheeseburger/quesadilla. I went for some pepperoni pizza.
After dinner I headed to the local library to pick up some materials I had requested from another library. I also ended up getting to YA books I've been meaning to read for a long time, so I came home with five in all. I went to the grocery store after the library to pick up some throat lozenges and an air freshener (I usually get the vanilla, but I got peach this time), and I looked at notebooks and binders (for taking notes on books about libraries and holding my rejection letters from literary magazines) but determined they were too expensive. I also saw some cheap gummies so I got those, too.
When I got home, I put some stuff away, including some Valentine's spoils from Mom and Dad (including a copy of the Globe Magazine from Boston, which had an article about Terry Francona in it). I did some web surfing and skyped with my boyfriend. Then I decided I needed some orange juice but, having tried drinking orange juice at lunch, I knew the acid would only make my throat and mouth hurt more. To fix this, I added some peach schnapps to my orange juice. Yum! Then I had another strawberry lozenge. Before I decided to finally go to sleep, I read a bit of one of the YA novels I picked up, called Betwixt. I got about thirty-five pages in or so and I'm excited to keep reading. Depending on how quickly I read, I'll give updates on my thoughts. It's interesting so far and the writing itself is rather spectacular, but I'm not sure how I feel about switching between characters each chapter. It's not a POV switch because it's told in third person, but the focus switches and that's enough to be annoying for me.
Tomorrow, I'll be writing earlier in the day so I don't have to worry about it once I arrive in DC. I'm also planning to knock out a bunch of homework so I don't have a lot to do this weekend. At 1:30 I have an HRA meeting. I've been putting off the reading for that because last semester, when we had reading to do, I had always forgotten what I had read by the time the meeting came around which was really frustrating. Frankly, when I've got a ton of stuff for school to read, I'm less motivated to read and remember what I read for my job. The text we read last semester had a lot to do with leadership styles and this is something I'm not very good at thinking consciously about. I guess I'm a good leader, though, because I wouldn't be in the position I am if I wasn't. If that makes any sense.
Now I am going to go to sleep because I need it and I want it.
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