Dinky Disasters

I’ve been rather ill with some kind of ick-cold from hell; it started Monday, which was particularly unfortunate because that was my “push” day for library time and an essay due Tuesday.  I got much worse Tuesday, so much so that I basically stayed in my room for the duration of the day, only emerging to make Ramen for myself and use the bathroom.  The internet was down as well, which was sad because I’d been entertaining myself with little movie clips between naps – having no ability to read or comprehend anything anyway. 

Today I am feeling marginally better, and I haven’t coughed out any more bits of myself so all to the good.  That said, it isn’t like I could start doing back-flips – still rather achy and my head feels like it is stuffed with wool, but that’s a big improvement and – apparently – I am not “as pale as death” today either.  Huzzah.  I would put myself at about 75-80% about.  Not great, not on death’s door, over all a “Meh.”

Also, apparently, today the water pipes here at CMRS decided to start flooding the store beneath us in the same building and I guess (I was asleep because I did not wake for breakfast this morning) some students were a little flippant to the workers in that store and didn’t alert the proper authorities to the problem.  So said authorities might not think much of us at the moment, as indicated by a lovely e-mail we got from Dr. Philpott this evening which more or less said: start acting like you aren’t a bunch of selfish brats in the smooth English perfection that makes it sound like he said nothing of the sort.  Some of the bathrooms and showers were out for various portions of the day while they tried to locate the leak and turned off water and so on – half the building, or maybe it is down to a quarter now I don’t know is still without water.  They’ll keep trying to sort it out tomorrow I am sure.

I won’t be here for that, because I will be at the library, once again, for the duration of the day trying to complete the research for a paper due the following day because I lost so much time this week to being ill.  Even though it was only a total of two days (last half of Monday, all of Tuesday, and half of today) when you only have 1 week to read and write – and 2 classes to read and write for – and a seminar to be reading for, and a colloquium to be reading for – 2 days is a HUGE chunk of your usable time.

Before all this calamity came in, I had used some “spare” time to make a little video of one of my mini-trips last month when we visited Iffley church, enjoy.