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In some ways I think being healthy can be more depressing than being sick. When you're sick, you have an excuse to skip class only to lie around around the house reading forums and feeling shitty: you're sick, and it is the will of your body, nature, and nature's God that you rest and get a lot of sleep. Do that when you're healthy and you just feel unproductive and worthless.

At least that's the thought I use to justify my hardly writing a line of code this week. When my allergies faded into a full-blown cold I pretty much gave up hope of being "ready for finals" and all that jazz, and commenced doing nothing. It would've been great had I not felt, well, sick.

But now that I'm starting to feel better, I'm appreciating the sudden ease with which I can do the many things a healthy man takes for granted: sleeping through the night, going a full class period without a bathroom break, talking, breathing, etc. It's a feeling like a suddenly broken fever, or waking up late on a summer weekend when the air is still cool and the sun lights your room.

I think I will go to bed and sleep for 10 hours. I love sleeping when Jeremy's gone. It's so quiet and cool without him and his computers, I can sleep for days without interruption.