Adventures in Zephux

Finally, after three months of summer classes, I am back on my full-time co-op schedule. I, unfortunately, didn’t do so hot in my classes, this was the worst semester I’ve ever had and the only one where my gpa (for the semester, not overall) was less than a 3.0. That leaves my overall at around a 3.1. The last couple days of finals I started to get really sick. I thought my neck was out, no big deal, just give it a couple days of sleeping properly and it will be fine. Sadly, it didn’t turn out that way, Friday was worse, Saturday was terrible, and Sunday I felt like death and had a super high fever. After that I thought it was about time to look into this, but since I don’t have health insurance I had to settle for having my mom and girlfriend both diagnose me. They decided it was strep. I got some antibiotic and started taking that on Sunday morning. By Sunday night I wasn’t much better, but I went to sleep with intentions of going to work on Monday anyway. By the time I had woken up I realized there was NO WAY I was going to get to work. I thought I was dying. Another scan at my throat revealed white dots (A sure sign of strep) so I called in with the excuse that I was contagious and I was because I had not been on antibiotics for at least 24 hours yet.

After suffering through Monday on the couch, Tuesday morning (this morning) finally showed up. I don’t feel like killing myself thank goodness, but I’m not completely better yet. Most of the soreness in my throat has gone away, the fever has subsided, all I’m left with is a pain in the neck and a headache like you wouldn’t believe. I have been hopped up on ibuprofen for the last few days to avoid feeling my brain, but I don’t think that will work much longer, because it seems no matter how much I take at this point it feels like my brain is going to explode. If someone walked up and put pressure at just the right place on my skull I am fairly confident that there would be some splash damage. Hopefully, by tomorrow everything will feel better but right now I thought it would make me a little less inclined to try and create that explosion if I ranted to the internet.

p.s. I took my car apart last Wednesday and installed that iPod connector (which my Zen player is currently connected to) and it works great. I was a little scared to rip up the whole center console and take out the radio on my brand new car, but all in all I’m glad I did, that FM transmitter bologna was killing me. I have $1000 speakers damnit and I want to hear everything loud and clear lol. Well worth the time, money, and effort. Now I just need an iPod (even though they are evil) so I can change songs with the nicely placed buttons on my steering wheel.  =D