Blargharghargh. It's What All The Ill Kids Are Saying.

Colds. The single most pointless and irritating things EVER.

I mean, come on, if you're determined, whoever you are, to take away three days of my life from me, can't you at least knock me out when you do it? Jeez. Meanwhile, everybody looks you up and down and thinks: It's just a cold. What is she, a total wuss? So, you're sitting there, or lying there, (depending on how paralysed it's rendered you), with your temperature going up and down like a yo-yo, being unable to laugh because it triggers a 20-minute coughing fit and coughing and spluttering every time you speak, so that the only thing that comes out is somewhere along the lines of blargharghargh. Which sums up your condition pretty well, seeing as there are often no words to describe just how crappy you feel. I'm fully expecting it to be a new entry in the next edition of the OED, thus:

Blargharghargh, adj.
I. The condition of feeling so unwell and discombobulated that there are no other words to describe it.
Generally used when one has the feeling that use of any other words may cause others to underestimate just how crappy one feels.
2008 A.REEVES: "How do I feel? I feel blargharghargh!"

So, for the last few days, I've been sufferring from this "just-a-cold" which has had me bed-ridden, and feeling ever so blargharghargh. I have also, in the eyes if many, been highly unproductive and have dedicated my rest-time to watching the entirety of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 7 in just under two days. (Personally, I think that it was an incredibly productive use of time. I now feel inspired to kick some evil ass.)

My problem is that when I'm well, I stress about most things. When I'm ill, I get stressed about being ill because it renders me incapable of doing all the other things that I've been stressing about. Stress, as we know boys and girls, is NOT conducive to a healthy immune system. Personally, my immune system is shot to shreds. Maybe it's because I've realised that I'm about six weeks away from finishing my last stint in education. Maybe it's this fact combined with the fact that I'm not really sure I have a clue what I'm doing. It is in times like this that I formulate a theory to help myself feel better. I tell myself that most successful people in this world don't actually have a clue what they're doing. I don't think Buffy really had any idea what she was doing, and she averted a mega-apocalypse. Seriously, I just watched her.

So, I now prepare put my head down, work my arse off, try to remember a million things that until September I knew absolutely nothing about (the education system at it's best) and then, hopefully, and with much, much difficulty, turn these skills into a job. Or rather, a career. Career. Scary word. Maybe I had better work out what I'm doing pretty soon... Does anyone know an easy way to learn politics? Or even better... a FUN way to learn politics?

Didn't think so.