It sucks being sick

I did really well resisting Mason's cold for well over a week (yes, he was sick for a long while!), but it finally clubbed me over the head the other night and since then I've more or less been living on the couch, sucking down echinacea tea and orange juice and sleeping. Finally today I'm back at work, more out of necessity than anything else; I still feel like crap.

And I actually managed to stay 'with it' sufficiently to participate in a debate in class last night. I don't think I won, but that has more to do with my opponent's novel approach to the case than my inability to concentrate.

*cough cough sniffle sniffle*

So anyway, what's new with me?

School slackens not a whit. In fact, big group projects are just coming over the horizon, headed straight at me. Papers and individual projects likewise. My only solace: Three more weeks, give or take, and I'll be done with this. My whole attitude toward this last semester has pretty much been thus. On those rare occasions when I've tried to take a macro view and look at everything I'm trying to accomplish this fall, it's sent me into a fetal position crying for my mommy. Consequently, I've purposely kept my focus only on the step immediately ahead. But now I can start to look up a little. I mean, I've gotta buy a robe and hood for graduation, ferchrissakes!

I also feel like I'm slowly emerging from a very dark period of extreme fiscal scarcity. I celebrated the fact that I could actually afford a cup of coffee this morning by, predictably, buying a cup of coffee. Still not in the clear by any means, and I still owe money to almost more people that I can remember, but I should be able to start paying them back within a few weeks. Gonna be a skimpy Christmas, though.

My NaNo novel is weeping uncontrollably in the corner, crying out, "Don't you love me anymore? You never write, you never call!" I'm still working on it, but I'm badly behind, mostly because I've been too sick to focus on being awake, much less writing. Unless I can get some serious catchup time this weekend, I doubt I'll make it.