Sick! Ugh!

I don't get sick often. I'd say basically once a year. I've known people who seem to be sick every couple months, or at least a few times a year.

It often tends to be around the same time of year with some people. I rarely get sick in "cold season", but I get sick at weird times, and often inexplicably, except this time I'm pretty sure I got it from my boss. He had a runny nose at work the last couple days.

The thing I hate about getting sick is in my case, most times, I just wake up one morning and feel like crap. This morning I woke up with an unusually sore throat, but figured that might just have been from sleeping with my mouth agape, sucking in lots of air in a dry room and thus drying out my throat. My throat did feel better about 2 hours later.

But then the second way to 'get sick' reared it's ugly head. Have you ever been going about your business when all of a sudden, it's as if someone hits some secret "slow motion" button on the back of your head... you just suddenly feel really lethargic and tired, but you can actually FEEL the transition, as your body switches into germ killing mode and diverts all your energy to that? That's what happened to me today.

I had felt absolutely fine last night. I was out playing board games, I got home at 1:30am and felt fine, despite a fairly long day. I woke up this morning with the throat as I said but that didn't worry me too much as I've had that happen before and it usually just takes drinking some water and not talking or getting too physically active for a couple hours and it's fine. But this time I developed a runny nose and now a headache as well. I went for lunch about an hour ago and I feel a little better now, not totally horrible but I have no desire to really do much of anything, which is the opposite of how I've felt for weeks now. I've been suffering some pretty intense ADD/OCD lately. Work is still underutilizing me which is annoying the fuck out of me, and I have no idea if that's likely to change in the next week or month or what. I have talked to the department head but there's no real way to know how soon a change will occur. But that OCD/ADD thing revolves around my hyperactive/starving brain, and it seems whenever it's tired (either due to sleep deprivation, a really good workout, or being sick), that's the only time I am not itching to be running around saving the world like normal. I still want to be doing things, but that 'climbing up the walls' feeling is gone.

Anyways... I only JUST got my internet back and while I'm quite happy about that, I realize I should not spend too much time on here when I should be resting. More later.