Friday, March 27, 2009

What I learned this week

No matter how many times you tell your students, your coworkers, and yourself "it's just allergies," a cold is still a cold.

(Or maybe it's a touch of the flu.)

Even though I can make a dinner out of some mini-snickers and saltine crackers, I can't turn a nasty cold into seasonal allergies. What I *can* do is get through a week of lectures and quizzes by the always-entertaining (for my students) continuous ingestion of dayquil (i.e., CRACK) during waking hours followed by a nyquil nightcap.


Am I just lucky, or is anyone else suffering because their students brought back MORE germs after spring break?

4 comments:

Science Bear said...

I have been stuck with some sort of residual cold for the last three weeks. A faculty member in my department has suffered the same fate for more than 2 months... uggghhhh.

Hope you feel better!

Unbalanced Reaction said...

2 months? Oh my chemistry gods.... and to think I'm complaining after just a week of this!

Fia said...

Would you mind posting the recipe? Mini skickers... mmmmh

Jennie said...

My "allergies" flared up during my plane ride and I was sick during my entire trip to dissertation town.