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I have a bad cough, a high fever, congestion that you wouldn't believe, and I've been vomiting up all the mucous that is draining into my stomach from my sinuses. If I try to sleep sitting up, I get horribly nauseated from all the mucous in my stomach. If I sleep lying down, I can't breathe. So I can't sleep. My parents went ahead and gave me a Z-pack because there is an at least 110% chance I'll get a secondary bacterial infection anyway. Pseudoephedrine keeps me awake, NyQuil makes me sleepy, so I'm somewhere in-between.
Didn't go to school/lab today. Probably won't tomorrow unless I make a most dramatic turn-around. AND the lab went out to lunch for a birthday today, so of course today is one of the days I'm home sick. FML.
Remember Cougar Con? Remember that secret Cougar Message Board that was theorized? I think
omegadonut found it. For the sake of context, Smogon is a message board for competitive Pokemon players. I think that's all that need be said.
I should lie down before I pass out.
Didn't go to school/lab today. Probably won't tomorrow unless I make a most dramatic turn-around. AND the lab went out to lunch for a birthday today, so of course today is one of the days I'm home sick. FML.
Remember Cougar Con? Remember that secret Cougar Message Board that was theorized? I think
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I should lie down before I pass out.
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Date: 2010-04-07 06:28 am (UTC)I'm guessing Arizona is also heating up now. Would that make the situation better or worse? (I do worse at hot weathers...)
FEEEEELLL BETTER!!!
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Date: 2010-04-07 05:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-04-07 09:14 am (UTC)Contaminating your lab colleagues does not make for a happy lab environment. I know you're a student and all with a work ethic but QUARANTINE yourself! :D
And hey, sick days are supposed to be fun days? Right? Right? Right?
I hope you get some sleep eventually, babe! *hugs* Get well soon.
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Date: 2010-04-07 05:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-04-07 05:57 pm (UTC)It's only going to get worse as you go to graduate school, but dude...your labmates present and future will thank you for quarantining yourself when you're sick. You have no idea how many colds and coughs I've gotten from sick labmates, and I'm always annoyed when they insist on working, and getting everybody else sick too.
Working hard while you're sick will only make the recovery process take longer. Relax, sleep, eat, fluids, all that.
Hey, have you decided where you're going to grad school yet?
(no subject)
Date: 2010-04-07 06:10 pm (UTC)And I didn't wear vampire fangs to my interviews. I was dressed nicely, polite, didn't say "That's what she said" once, didn't do anything blatantly stupid. As far as I remember. I was on my toes.
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Date: 2010-04-07 06:57 pm (UTC)Hrm, could be funding situation? I'm not in ACCESS, so I don't really know. Whatever the reason, now is not the time to be thinking about what you possibly did wrong or maybe how you've fallen short. Now is the time to ensure that you GET IN.
Okay, here's what you do when you're waitlisted:
Contact the people in charge of admissions. Let them know that you're still really interested in UCLA, and tell them they should contact you if a slot opens up. Make sure they know who you are, how interested you are, and that you're at the forefront of their minds if something opens up. Don't just sit there and wait for them to contact you, you have to go to them and let them know that you are still really interested. :/
That's how you get in from waitlists.
GO.
GO NOW.
(no subject)
Date: 2010-04-07 07:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-04-07 07:52 pm (UTC)In that case...good luck. :3
(no subject)
Date: 2010-04-07 10:31 am (UTC)So, yeah, all the conventional wisdom: stay in bed or on the couch, keep warm, drink lots of juice or water, try not to despair.
(no subject)
Date: 2010-04-07 05:54 pm (UTC)I keep telling myself when I feel bad for not getting right up and going to class since I'm not vomiting at the moment that one of my classmates is pregnant, and I don't want to get her sick. I partially feel bad because this semester I've taken time off for a grad school interview, research review, research presentation, jury summons, and now illness... it just seems too convenient for any professor to buy.
(no subject)
Date: 2010-04-07 09:04 pm (UTC)If you're afraid the professor won't believe you, hork some of your sputum into a vial, seal it well, and present it as evidence when you go back.
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Date: 2010-04-07 03:50 pm (UTC)But no, really. Yikes! Please get better soon.
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Date: 2010-04-07 05:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-04-08 12:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-04-07 11:08 pm (UTC)I hope you didn't go in today, and suggest that, unless you're down to the slightest sniffle, you don't go in tomorrow either. At your age, of course, I would have disregarded this advice, but I would have been foolish to do so.
And Vicky will be pissed if you work yourself into an invalid before that acceptance letter comes.