Okay, it was a short spree.  🙂

 I woke up this morning feeling moderately yukki.  Definitely worse than yesterday.  Which is a good thing.  My immune system is working on whatever bug this may be.  (Dr. Knol confirmed that it was NOT strep.  Perhaps it is something like the African Sleeping Sickness — always a favorite, or Lassa Fever:

There is a range of laboratory investigations that are performed to diagnose the disease and assess its course and complications. ELISA test for antigen and IgM antibodies gives 88% sensitivity and 90% specificity for the presence of the infection. Other laboratory findings in Lassa fever include lymphopenia (low white blood cell count), thrombocytopenia (low platelets), and elevated aspartate aminotransferase (AST) levels in the blood.

Hmm….  I *HAVE* had bleeding issues and flunked my liver tests….)

Anyway…..  Getting away from my fascination with virology….

I went to Mass, trying not to share my little virii with everyone (wouldn’t want the Sign of Peace to become the Sign of the Plague); grabbed a Starbucks (completely therapeutic, really); drove to Ann Arbor; taught photography; ran out of and bought more windshield wiper fluid (Ah, here’s where the big spending begins.  My brother will be ecstatic to know that my windshield wiper fluid has a drawing of a superhero on it.); went to Our Lady of Grace Bookstore at DF, where I plagued the poor boy at the counter by browsing endlessly, but ended up walking out with 3 items (“Are you [FINALLY] ready to check out?”); drove back to Troy; got a haircut (more on that after this paragraph); came home; made Charred Cheese Sandwich and tomato soup (isn’t that supposed to be Grilled Cheese Sandwich?  Yeah, yeah, rub it in, mine had char…); read half of one of the books I had purchased; got a phone call; texted two friends; got bored playing on the internet for a few minutes; danced in the living room until I couldn’t breathe any more and felt that my head was on fire; drank my 6 oz of Gatorade, and stuck the rest in the fridge — wouldn’t want to be hydrated, now would we?; decided to work on some work; decided to check out Amazon.com first; bought stuff on Amazon; thought that I should probably get to that work before it got too late and I didn’t do it; and decided I should post on my blog. 

And now you see where I am, neither getting work done, nor resting to get better.  Rather, bouncing about the house like a Ping-Pong ball, until I collapse at some point this evening.  Ah, well.  If it makes you feel any better, I’m also reading about 9 books at the same time.  Perhaps I have a little ADHD.

So…  $2-3 on wiper fluid, $5 on crack (Starbucks), $20 at OLG, $50 on Amazon, $43 for a haircut — for a grand total of approximately $121.  Amazingly, that did not appear to have any effect on my sickness whatsoever.  As a small justification, all of my purchases from OLG and Amazon had to do with Theology….  That’s a good use of money, right?  (This is where you all agree with me….)  And the haircut….  Let’s talk about that expensive haircut….

Okay, I really don’t care about my hair.  I have hacked it off, blindly, just before midnight, dry and without looking to make sure that it’s even — about 6 inches that time — gone!  It’s been the color of Tang, cinnamon, and back to it’s normal brown/black.  If I go somewhere to get it cut, instead of doing it myself, I usually head for the cheapest place I can find.  Well, not today.  I suppose that even I have to act like a girl every once in a while, particularly when I feel like I could star in a horror flick — as the monster.  So, I told the girl that as long as she cut my bangs so that I could see again, I didn’t particularly care what she did with the rest of it.

We talked as she worked, and turns out she was baptized, but hasn’t finished her sacraments, so we talked about RCIA and she may join us in the fall!  How cool is that!  She walked me out as I left and gave me a big hug and wished me a good rest of the day!  🙂  So, it was an expensive haircut (for me), but totally worth it.  I’m glad I decided to go there today.