oh joy...
I'm lying down with a nice combination of laryngitis and sinusitis. I've been sick since Friday but of course couldn't stay home; the fact that I work in kindergarten of course didn't help my throat any. I went to work until Tuesday (singing in the morning circle with my kids was hilarious as I couldn't hold a tune to save my life, my voice cracking all over the place, LOL) and then stayed home because at least another teacher could take my group from Wednesday on. I practically begged my doctor to give me something so I could go to work, but she firmly told me to leave it at that. My voice was already pretty damaged at that point. The doc said that if I didn't stay home *now* I'd probably have no voice at all anymore by the time the weekend rolled around, and then I could look forward to staying home for roughly ten days or something. So I gave in. I'm feeling better now - it's my second day on sick leave - and at least I seem to have a little bit of my brain back, which always counts for something, no? Eh.

Because of this combination of too little sleep, being overworked and underpaid, sickness, AND planning my mother's move to Munich, I'm also the worst possible exchange participant in like, ever. I think I'll have to send feet-long apologies when I finally get my two outstanding fics in. I can't believe I am this bad :( I have time on my hands now, but not the mental capacity to concentrate for a longer stretch of time. I need to pound through editing one fic, which I shall do today no matter what, and tomorrow I'll work on the other fic I need to beat into submission - wish me luck for it!