Friday, October 14, 2011

Please God, Please Buddha, Please Taoist God, Please Don't Let Me Be Sick This Weekend!

Nobody likes to get sick. You feel crappy, you have no energy, and then there are the unsavory symptoms like sneezing and coughing and sometimes (gasp) a trip to the doctor for antibiotics if it's bad enough. I'm right there with you on that one, I hate being sick.

What I hate more than being sick though, is being sick at a time when you are too busy to get sick. This weekend is one of those times. I am on duty this weekend which means that after class today (Saturday) I will go with the kids to bowling activity, watch them bowl for a while, throw a couple of gutter balls perhaps, and then usher them all back onto the bus back to school. Rest for a few hours and then get them back on a bus to go to the night market from 6-10 tonight. Not too bad, just a long day.

The bad part is that tomorrow is not a normal Sunday: tomorrow is Parent's Day. A normal duty weekend I would have to show up at 1 and be in charge of children for a few hours. Tomorrow however, I need to be at school in nice formal dress at 9:30 and we are not going to leave until 4:30 or 5. Not to mention I need to have countless conferences with parents and be the face of the math department since I'm chair this year. And then I teach again on Monday.

This weekend is going to be a marathon to say the least. A marathon without the added evil of a soar throat which is exactly what I woke up with this morning. I am praying to whatever deity will listen to me right now to just make this a common cold or even better, maybe just a soar throat from over-use (I was yelling a lot last night because we played Cranium at the Family Mart).

What I'm most nervous about though, is strep. I got strep throat at exactly this time last year and I am having a mini panic attack as I type this that it is a creepy deja vu thing going on this year. This weekend is just not the time to get strep throat! I have no time to rest and I need to be presentable and personable tomorrow!

Ugh, please God, please Buddha, please Taoist god, please don't let this be strep!!! :( I'll keep you posted...

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