It has not been a good week so far.
Beginning on Monday afternoon, I felt it in my throat; by the evening, I felt that distinct soreness tightening around my vocal chords. By Tuesday it was unpleasant to talk without the aid of cough drops, and while I powered through the school day, my body was wiped by Tuesday afternoon.
I laid down for a bit on Tuesday afternoon, but we have been having furnace trouble lately. So instead of napping I was making trips back and forth to the laundry room to check whether the gas was flowing in our furnace. I would have curled up in a blanket and forgot about it, but we had people coming over to our house on Tuesday evening for a new church group that was starting up. We were forced to apologize and hand out blankets to our guests, because the house never managed to get above 65 for more than a few minutes. I left it running all night, but we woke up to 61 degrees on the thermostat. I do not know what we will find when we go home. Our landlord brushed off earlier complaints about it, but the recent arctic cold seems to have exacerbated the problem. Perhaps he will be hearing from us again.
And today I am back at school - I took off enough days already, and this is just a sinus-related illness. No fever, no flu. Just need to tough it out. I am doing a lab today - a synthesis and combustion reaction. Yes, involving fire. I am asking for trouble - hopefully I can stay vigilant. The first period went fine...but there are only 12 students in that class!!
-alan
Beginning on Monday afternoon, I felt it in my throat; by the evening, I felt that distinct soreness tightening around my vocal chords. By Tuesday it was unpleasant to talk without the aid of cough drops, and while I powered through the school day, my body was wiped by Tuesday afternoon.
I laid down for a bit on Tuesday afternoon, but we have been having furnace trouble lately. So instead of napping I was making trips back and forth to the laundry room to check whether the gas was flowing in our furnace. I would have curled up in a blanket and forgot about it, but we had people coming over to our house on Tuesday evening for a new church group that was starting up. We were forced to apologize and hand out blankets to our guests, because the house never managed to get above 65 for more than a few minutes. I left it running all night, but we woke up to 61 degrees on the thermostat. I do not know what we will find when we go home. Our landlord brushed off earlier complaints about it, but the recent arctic cold seems to have exacerbated the problem. Perhaps he will be hearing from us again.
And today I am back at school - I took off enough days already, and this is just a sinus-related illness. No fever, no flu. Just need to tough it out. I am doing a lab today - a synthesis and combustion reaction. Yes, involving fire. I am asking for trouble - hopefully I can stay vigilant. The first period went fine...but there are only 12 students in that class!!
-alan
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ugh...sorry about the furnace! Nasty.
Move science experiment to home and have students fix furnace? play with fire AND fix furnace at same time?
Seriously, though, we have a space heater in the basement we're not using. If you want to borrow it, let us know. We'll be at the opera from 7-10ish, but you can text Eric prior to that.
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