I seem to have caught the bug that's floating around right now (just in time for reading week too!) and have been curled up at home the past few days with cups of hot water, my trusty herbal cough syrup, and my laptop. My immune system is normally pretty strong and I usually rarely ever catch a cold, so imagine my surprise when I went to bed last Monday night (granted, I did sleep at 3AM) and woke up Tuesday morning with the sorest throat that I've had since goodness knows when. It's been a very long time since the last time I got sick, and lo' and behold, my sickness came right before my midterms! Needless to say, I probably bombed all of them (I would be extremely surprised if I did half-decent to be quite honest) because I was feeling absolutely shitty the day of. I had three midterms that day, so really, who wouldn't feel shitty even without the cold? At least I've been happily forgetting about it by doing some therapeutic online shopping, writing, and video gaming (I must have gamed almost 12 hours between yesterday evening and tonight). My bank account may be slightly lighter, but at least I'm loads happier and way further into Radiant Dawn than I would have been otherwise. My only regret is that because it is reading week right now, I had really wanted to go out and have some fun with friends (and maybe take to actually documenting those adventures, because what else do I have a blog for?) but now I'm just stuck all by my lonesome at home.

Story of the day: "Theft" by Katherine Anne Porter. I was researching short stories that I could use for a stylistic analysis in my term paper for ENGL322 and came across an article discussing some stylistic features of this story and was lucky enough to find an online version of it in Google books preview. It's actually quite a brilliantly good short story and really puts a perspective on the material and what we desire out of what we possess in life. I do hope my professor will permit me to use this as my analysis topic for my paper because it is a little bit on the short side (only seven pages) and we were supposed to find a story that's 10-12 pages long but I'm sick and too lazy and who's actually going to count the pages if I can produce quality content with what I have?