All day long at work I felt ill. My throat was scratchy and I was exhausted. In hopes of fighting off sickness, I chain-sucked Halls Multi-Blend with Vitamin C, Echinacea, and Zinc. Then I looked at the back of the package and noticed that it said to take only 4 drops daily. Oops. Imagining myself dying of a Zinc overdose, I stopped. And I developed a tic in my eye today. It’s been spasming like crazy. Tonight I drug my butt home and pigged out on a less than satisfying burrito from Burritoville – feed a cold, right? – and was laying in bed thinking I’d fall asleep super early and wake up well-rested and ready to go. That’s when my roommate came in my room. For either of us to enter the room of the other, the apartment has to be on fire or someone has to be dying. She looked pathetic. “Rachelle, I’m SO sick!” All I could think of was how cursed I am now and how this was a sign of my fully developing a sickness and how I wanted her to step away from the door. Get out! And how after she left I was going to blow my fan out the door to rid my room of her nasty germs. .. but, she’s got the flu. and she can’t eat.. and I have cold symptoms.. that could very well just be my allergies.. Going to turn the fan on now to divert the germs and going to try to sleep and hope that the rest heals my body and doesn’t just ensure that I’ll wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to sleep any more.

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