Mark VS The Common Cold Round Three: This Time It's Personal...

[the_mikado]

I think I'm coming down with a cold- my throat feels ready to throb, and I can tell the snot is just aching to start pouring. I'm coughing up quite a lot of mucus now and my neck feels swollen. This is especially bad as I FUCKING HATE SORE THROATS! You get no time off school, you get no sympathy, and everyone looks all wounded when you get grumpy with them because your feeling crappy. You can't even do what you do when you're feeling sick: lie on the sofa not moving and watch tv, because your throat still hurts and everyone gets pissed off with all the sniffing, so you try to go to bed, but your nose instantly blocks, meaning you can't sleep for at least five hours, and when you eventually DO wake up, your throat feels like you swallowed a porcupine the night before (possibly whilst drunk), and you have to go to school. THAT is why I fucking hate sore throats. So, treat this as a warning- if you talk to me and I'm extremely grumpy or nasty, this is why, ok?

Fucking winter.