Left school early again today. I haven’t missed teaching any of my actual lessons but I suspect it still doesn’t look great that I keep running off… but gosh I’m a mess. I keep taking the Codral and it keeps not fixing me :( I FEEL SO DISILLUSIONED. Although today it moved from “no effect” to “Claire gets kind of high”. One of my fellow student teachers says she hallucinated a heap of cats the one time she took Codral, haha. I did not hallucinate, but I did keep spacing out in the middle of sentences while I was teaching.

This cold is totally not running to schedule. I am meant to have been in the Asthma Phase since noon :( HURRY UP!!

I sent myself home from school at 10:30am today on account of I have the plague. I should probably have not bothered to go (I don’t have any classes to teach on Tuesdays), but I think it makes me look kind of hardcore? Claire showed up and stayed until she virtually PASSED OUT. She believes in education THAT MUCH.

But so then I came home and watched She’s the Man from my couch and actually did pass out. And then I ate like 40 slices of my sister’s birthday cake. For the healing properties of chocolate and cream.

Oh viruses. I feel like such a sickness-veteran these days. What is wrong with my immune system, I don’t know. It is a big slacker? Last winter, I got sick in four distinct instances from August to October. This year I’ve been supercareful to get vitamins and not to breathe in public, and I haven’t had anything very bad (possibly also related to my having had a flu shot? which, incidentally, is the least painful injection I’ve had in years; everyone should get one!) since May… so as it’s now September that’s technically an entire Winter without a bug? I am awesome!! But streak is over :(

I can map out the timeline of Claire Gets Plague so well now. Two days of scratchy throat with possible fever on second day. Two days of all-out cold. Two days of asthma. Currently in day three. I have taken Codral but it is doing nothing. The power of the plague is too strong!!

The good part? Getting sick on a Sunday afternoon means you can expect to be better again by the weekend. Timing, you guys. It is key!

Sick sick sick.