...as I know because unfortunately, it showed up to join the party just as I was thinking I might be recovering from my weirdly tolerable cold. :(
Ugh, it was so obviously the flu, in hindsight. And yet I felt so betrayed when it proved itself to be just that. In my defense, I'd only had the flu once before, and I didn't even remember that until my mother told me, although I should have; turns out that was the time I threw up on my homeroom teacher. I guess maybe that memorable beginning kind of overshadowed the rest.
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...as I know because unfortunately, it showed up to join the party just as I was thinking I might be recovering from my weirdly tolerable cold. :(
Ugh, it was so obviously the flu, in hindsight. And yet I felt so betrayed when it proved itself to be just that. In my defense, I'd only had the flu once before, and I didn't even remember that until my mother told me, although I should have; turns out that was the time I threw up on my homeroom teacher. I guess maybe that memorable beginning kind of overshadowed the rest.