MESSED UP

I haven't had a proper night's sleep in over two days. I think I maybe kinda messed up right now. I say I think because I'm not even sure if I'm feeling exactly how messed up I am.

This cough of mine won't seem to go away. Today, I filled a prescription for some codeine-filled cough medicine. It will knock me out and suppress my cough. I am hoping it will allow me to sleep properly. I need to sleep.

Hey, do you know that codeine makes you constipated? Yep. They recommend you hit the fibre hard if you're going to be on codeine for a while. It's also habit-forming. Yep, another good thing.

In about half an hour, I'm going to take the recommended dosage and wait for it to hit me. Let's hope I can finally get a decent night of sleep.

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THE WINDS OF CHANGE

Can you feel them blowing?

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CHECKING IN

So I've been working basically all evening and here I find myself at nearly 2am. I didn't sleep much last night. My cough kept me up for most of the night and when it finally settled down, I found that I couldn't fall asleep. Do you know the sun comes up at around 5:30am? I sat in my desk chair and looked out the window. I watched as the sky went from dark, to grey, and finally to blue. It was beautiful.

Then I managed to feel tired enough to get maybe four hours of sleep in. I've gone through the whole day with only a half hour nap. Yay me!

Which brings me here to the present. It's weird, I don't feel tired in the normal sense. I do feel like my mind is trying to separate from my body, trying to lift away. It's pretty interesting. I have to be awake at 8:30am tomorrow, but I'm going to see how this plays out for a little while longer.

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THREE DAY WEEKEND

UPDATE: I have further realized that one of my classes was cancelled on Thursday, so I'm done by 11am tomorrow. I could go to Vegas for a few days and not miss any class.

I just realized this "morning" I have no commitments at school this Friday. I usually have a tutorial to teach that day, but it's been cancelled. So, I don't have to be anywhere on Friday.

I'll probably sleep in, that's a given. I'm also tempted to take the day off, go shopping and have lunch with friends outside of UBC. It would a be fun day no doubt. What I'm forgetting of course is that it's the end of term, and I have a presentation and a big assignment due next week. Given that I haven't done the reading so that I can write my presentation, the wise course of action would probably be to work all day Friday. That's probably what I'll do. I may just go see a movie on Friday night instead.

Hey, have you ever been kinda tired enough to nap, but you're also awake enough to do work and you can't decide what to do? Yeah, that's where I'm at right now.

I think I'll drink some Coke and keep going.

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TOP FIVE THINGS I'VE DISCOVERED SINCE I'VE BEEN SICK

5. Phlegm can be chunky and smooth, just like peanut butter

4. If you drink enough cough medicine, you can wake up on your lawn

3. Dried up tissues can be used to make a decorative kettle cozy

2. If you drink coloured water, your mucus will come out the same colour too

And the number one thing I've discovered since I've been sick is...

1. For some medicine, the terms "orally" and "rectally" are interchangeable

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SUNDAY

Cool breeze on my back
Nasty cough still lingering
Lots of work on desk

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