and you wonder why

today i feel: sickly
today i'm hearing: ben folds -- rockin' the suburbs
today i'm thinking: everything should not be hurting like this

I'm in the College of Liberal Arts (COLA) Media/Language Lab! It's not terribly exciting. There's a class in my classroom right now so I can't go in and get settled and, quite frankly, all the crap I was carrying was pretty ridiculously heavy. Thus, I sit. And blog. And waste valuable university technology. Mwahaha.

I have a cold. Or a sinus infection. I don't know which. What I do know is:
1. my nose is consistently runny.
2. it's very difficult to breathe.
3. my eyes don't like to open much.
4. I have a semi-constant sinus headache.
5. I am on a lot of sudafed. So everything is kind of funky right now.
I've thus decided that I'm responsible for neither my actions nor my words because I don't really know what's going on. That, I believe, is the one advantage of illness. I'm hoping that all this congestion and sickness will travel a bit further south so that I just have a dying orphan cough to deal with. I'm better with that sort of thing. This whole head cold nonsense just makes me drowsy and sniffly and irritable. If it turns into a chest cold, I'll at least be pathetic enough to evoke pity in the more gullible of my acquaintances. Again: Mwahaha.

I don't think I'm prepared for Nazi class today. But I don't really care. You can pick one of the above reasons for that.

Segun (my director) is in and out of Car-bohn-duh-lay right now. He has a production with the St Louis Black Rep coming up and is literally driving over the entire Midwest for audition stuff. It's kind of cool to get to say you're working with a Reperatory director. It's also kind of cool to get to run rehearsals a lot. I think it's good for the actors too. They have very, very short attention spans and these cannot be expressed with Segun around. I appreciate it when they don't express these around Segun. It makes the world a better place. But they do express it around me and then it's out of their systems. Thank God.

My nose is leaking and I have no Kleenexes. Kleenex? Is the plural of 'Kleenex' just 'Kleenex'? Is it like 'moose'??

That was a perfect example of my thought pattern right now. Aren't you glad you don't live with me? Don't you feel bad for the people who do?? I have class. Tschau.