So I'm up at 4:37, watching a ROSEANNE marathon, listening to Sondheim, sipping ice water, and eating orange sherbert . . . WHY?!? >> No, I'm not writing an essay for Comp at the last second and I'm not that avid a Roseanne Barr fan so HERE's the story . . . I've been suffering a significantly sore throat for the past week. This 'ailment' continues to this point b/c of the seemingly endless cycle of my excessive coughing opening more sores to continue irritating my throat. Agh! (ooo,even that hurt) Okay, so, fast forward to 3 in the morning, THIS morning . . . (are you ready? ok, here we go) >> I woke up b/c of the pain. I couldn't swallow w/o writhing in pain (hell, I can barely manage that now). Then, I went into my bathroom w/ a flashlight to look at my throat . . . and found the area around (and including) my right tonsil swollen. So, I dash off to the hospital (after getting dressed in slacks w/ color coordinated socks and a tucked-in sweater) and appeal the case to my mother, who's a night-shift nurse there. I gave myself a treatment and convinced my mom not to make me go to the ER, a disaster-waiting-to-happen for somebody w/ a severe bleeding disorder (and an already partially swollen throat, for that matter). So, in about an hour (the time now being 4:57), I should see if the swellling has ceased at least. But, stubborn/insane as always, I'm going to school (on only two hours of sleep) . . . t's only pain . . . I can ignore pain . . . breathing, though . . . pretty damn important . . . So, I'm up at 5:01, watching a ROSEANNE marathon, listening to more Sondheim, sipping ice water, and eating slightly melted orange sherbert . . . >> and, oh yea, gotta fill out that fall play application, don't I? (I reeeally don't wanna, but . . . ugh! . . . ooo, gotta stop doing that) -------------------------------------------------------------- excerpt from THE FROGS (Lane/Shevelove/Sondheim) <DIONSYSUS> (traveling down the River Styx to Hades) Charon, by the by, I've heard tell there's been a bit of a frog problem out here. [. . . CHARON NAMES VARIOUS, DANGEROUS SPECIES OF FROG IN THE RIVER STYX . . .] <CHARON> Not to mention the Big-Bully Bush-Frog that makes preemptive strikes and then forgets why it attacked in the first place! -------------------------------------------------------------- | 
