drama queen, i am
thank you acetaminophen. thank you pseudoephedrine hydrochloride. thank you chlorpheniramine maleate. thank you thank you.
yesterday i had to run 800m during a small, yet brisk and profound, drizzle courtesy of jakarta's bad weather™. (i did it in 5 minutes 11 seconds. now i can come up to people and tell them "hello, my name is harum and i run 12 km/h. pleasure meeting you" har har!) afterwards, i had to shoot-tha-hoop and score as many points as possible in a minute. and then i had to do all the simple gymnastics whathaveyou (forward roll, reverse roll [which almost broke my innocent neck, thank you very muchly]). honestly, i'm telling you, there is nothing natural about bending your body and rolling it around. gosh, it was such a tiring day for us. all 180++ of us twelfth graders. all those hassle merely for p.e. scores! to graduate from high school! RAHH.
anyway, apparently my system didn't really agree with running in the rain, as exotic as it may sound. i slept little last night, after a myriad of randomly lovely msn conversations, and had to be at school by 7 this morning. i woke up late, of course, and very nearly went back to sleep, but ahh i had to wake up because today was the day of the english oral test! i got up and realized that i didn't feel very well. my head ached a little and my nose refused to function properly.
"oh," quoth i, "this better not affect my verbal ability."
it didn't. the test itself went quite well. the guy who tested my group was a filipino-american with small eyes, crew cut hair and a crisp blue shirt. he drank water by the barrelful and was very talkative and friendly, although intimidating. of course, by intimidating, i meant that he looked like somebody who has the heart to give really, really bad grades.
after the test, though, it was a whole different story. once i got out of the class, my immunity gave in completely. i had to strain to simply crack open my eyelids and i sneezed and sneezed between syllables. my breath came in slow, abbreviated gasps and the air coming out of my nose felt hot. hands trembled and whole body ached. my head hurt in places i didn't know it could. miserable, i was. pissy, too.
"wow, harum," quoth a friend, "you don't look very well."
a rocket scientist, that one is. he offered to drive me home but i loved him too much to leave my germs in his car so i decided to just germ up my own. i went home, where i took acetaminophen mixed with 30ml pseudoephedrine hydrochloride and some chlorpheniramine maleate. also conveniently known as decolgen. fell asleep. woke up. and here i am! feeling much, much better. it's hard to believe that less than six hours ago i felt so overwhelmed by agony! :D
okay. the moral of this story is... well, don't get sick. everyone gets sick at this time of year and being sick is just so not nice. here's hoping that everyone is feeling good and complacent-yet-not-smug. :)
