Misery... Slightly Assuaged

[cat_i_th_adage]

So last night the runny nose of the cold was pretty bad. We don't often get real-life drips going on. The rest of the coldiness was pretty bad too. I couldn't sleep, and spent much of the wee hours watching a Japanese zombie slasher thing. It wasn't bad. At around six in the morning I managed to drop off into a fitful and uncomfortable doze. I was still feeling miserable in the morning, however, as well as being exceedingly short on sleep, and was reduced to wailing: "Make him go away... when a friend called at noon. Who does he think he is anyway, calling and being friendly at lunchtime. Bah. Then the extant flatmate disappeared after saying "Feel better!" in an anxious voice and I was left alone to feel miserable again.

At some point, I took stock and realised much of my discomfort was from dehydration and I curled up in my flatmates room with a kettle of warm water and settled down to watch slightly dodgy anime. (One of the characters had a nosebleed at the thought of the anime's hero in a thong. I don't think I can bring myself to give more details.)

All that warm water going through my system seems to have helped, and the nasal flow has confounded the prospectors. There's a bit of an itch in my lungs but I am determinedly not coughing because I don't want to start something that won't finish for a while.

I no longer feel that death is preferable.

Yayy me!