Sick

I feel like shit. Actually...I feel much better than I did over the weekend. It all started last week when I was having crazy insomnia. Tossing and turning, thoughts running through my head. Getting 1 to 2 hours of sleep a night probably caused the headaches. Then around wednesday came the coughing. Which added to the insomnia and kept me from sleeping at all. Then, finally the weekend came. I was too poor to leave the house so I planned on catching up on some sleep finally. But nooOOOooo. The coughing got worse. I tried to overcome to no avail and ended up feeling like I was perpetually hungover all weekend. Headachy and coughy and too weak to move. Guh...

So finally today I took off from school early, spent 6 of my last 10 bucks on some damn medicine and took a 4 hour nap. I feel a little better. I thought I was going to kill myself if I stayed home all weekend but it actually wasn't too terrible. Here's some of the things that have kept me sane.

(1.) Replaying Final Fantasy 8:


I haven't played a videogame in about 3 years so I thought i'd pick up one of my old favorites. It didn't really keep me as enthralled as it used to. I don't really understand videogame culture. I mean, I understand that their fun and all, but who the fuck has the thousands of dollars and neverending free time to play them nowadays??

(2.) Watching Current TV:
Have you seen this shit?! It's really a revolution in television, I think. The channel was co-founded by Al Gore and they run little mini episodes, Or "Pods" of news and art and culture from aroud the world. It's super informative and interesting and has none of the bias or stupidity of mainstream news. They take little local stories that you would never even hear about and show them to you in a really smart and funny way. Like this look at China trying to improve it's image for the olympics...


(3.) Scrabulous:
Could this be a little more addictive please? Thanks to facebook, I am now a scrabble champion! I find myself simultaneously playing against 5 or 6 strangers from all over the world and having to fight the temptation to cheat online when i'm losing. (Even though my opponents probably do! Those bastards!) When I actually played real life scrabble for the first time in about a year at a chicken and waffles dinner party last weekend I found myself bustin' out 2 letter words and bingos left and right. Amazing how sitting on your ass in front of the computer can translate to real world skills sometime.

But yeah, the real thing that's keeping me going nowadays is my mental clock counting down 3 weeks till' spring break and 3 months till' summer. I wish I could just find a hole to crawl into until then with some booze and a pillow.