Lions, Tigers and H1N1, oh no!

It's been a little while since I've made a post, mainly because I got a confirmed case of Influenza A, meaning I had a 97% chance of having Swine Flu... so I've been pretty darn sick. In fact, the only thing I've really been doing is laying around, watching Supernatural on DVD. Nope, no homework, which is what I should have been doing, instead i watched the boob tube, and tried to remind myself, that the fact that I'm still breathing means I'm not dead yet... because sometimes that's all I had going for me, especially on Sunday, when I felt like a truck full of bricks had hit me. In fact, I was so bad on Sunday, that I had to get my friend Ryan to come over and bring me medicine, because I couldn't get out of the house. I am actually suprised that I was able to get down stairs, and open the door for him, so he could get into the apartment; that's how sick I was.

Anyways, I'm back now, so let's get to this. And when I say, this, I really mean, that I'm hoping that this post will motivate me to go edit a paper, because it's due in about 4 hours, and I'm just not digging it, don't really want to rewrite it at this point, but don't know what else to do, to make it work. That's right! I'm now using my blog as a means of distraction from writing an essay. Oh Facebook, have you too forsaken me, that I have to go write a blog, because you can no longer keep me entertained? And the same goes for you too Free Cell, why are you too easy on the easy mode, but too challenging on the medium mode... and don't even get me started on hard (that's what she said!), because that mode should actually be called Im-freaking-possible.

So, onto work related stuff, my students had their first paper due today. I was nice, and accepted one late from a dude in my 8am class who happened to find me in the hall (because he wasn't in class, d'uh). And I told him to never show up like that again, but I took it this time. Sadly, I thought that cat was gonna be one of my interesting students, because he did creative writing outside of class, but it doesn't appear like that is going to be the case. And on top of that, his paper was like a page and a half, when it was suppose to be three pages... so, he's not going to get a great grade - it might be passing, but we'll have to wait and see.

And since I've been sick, I changed the due date to today (Monday), but I have one dude who didn't get that, for whatever reason, and even though I said in class that I had pushed back the due date (from Friday), and he was ready on Friday to turn it in, he hadn't made his edits from his peer review, and was not ready to turn the essay in. But I actually talked to him after class, and told him to get it into my email boss by noon on Tuesday, and I'd still accept it from him. I guess I did this for him because he seems like a nice guy, and he's been to class, I think, every day. So I gave him a pass until tomorrow... hopefully he doesn't make me regret that I gave him a slide, and he actually gets it to me. I'll guess we'll see... and when I say we, I mean me, because I doubt I mention it on the blog again... so we can assume he probably got it turned in if I don't say anything about it again, because I'll bitch about it, if he takes my present and then screws me over.

Anything else new? Well, I'm glad you ask, but nothing is really coming to mind. I must be boring. I've just started to eat solid foods again, after being sick for over a week. And, if anyone needs to lose about 15 pounds in a hurry, I have to recommend getting the flu, because I bet I've lost at least that much. Just between Sunday and Monday (I don't think I've mentioned yet, that I went to the doctor on monday, sorry), I lost about five pounds, and what I thought I was going to weight and what I did weight when I got on the scale was a pleasant surprise for me. In fact, I'm pretty sure that this is the new weigh loss program for me: get the flu every year, and lose that fifteen you put on with all that birthday cake and beer that you ate throughout the year. Yeah! Why not? I'm going to write that book... "eating your way to a more successful you! Just Get the Flu!"