Side-effects of Claritin – Drowsiness, Dry Mouth, Light-Headedness, Increased Sensitivity to Light, Distemper … (well, not all of those are because of the Claritin).
by krisis
health
LOL … if you caught that long drawn out post about me dying or something, don’t worry. I’m so out of it that i totally forgot that this was my first day taking my allergy medication. Every year the first day i take it i’m convinced i’m about to slip into a coma, and then i’m fine the next day. So, i’m fine. Sorry for the drama.
My right tonsil is the approximate size and shape of a golf ball right now. I have to swallow crookedly to get around it. I’m not entirely sure how this happened (oh, other than the several hours i spent walking around in the rain last night), but it’s starting to really bother me a great deal. My tonsils, apparently, are so very abused from all the strep throat i had as a child that the slightest chill or post-nasal drip sends them ballooning out of control. And it sucks. I’d love to get them taken out, but apparently my recovery time could be horrendous seeing as how huge they are. Yum.
As an example of the insanity the studio has driven me to, that last post was really only 6 hours into my ordeal, although now it’s ending at exactly 8 hours after i first entered the room. Aside from walking Bill & Laurel to the front doors of the building, i have been inside this room or down the hall at the water fountain for the entire time. No eating, no fresh air, no break.
So, what did i get done? Both mixing labs mentioned below, plus a midi-mockup of Tori Amos’s “Concertina” that sounds incredibly shoddy. I skipped one project because it was plainly awful and i couldn’t get the computer to play any sounds at all by that point. I honestly made my best effort to get all the assignments for this class done, seeing as i managed to miss it for everything from funerals, to being collapsed on the bathroom floor, to my week home with pneumonia. Ironically, scrambling to do all of this catchup work has left me much more competent than i was to begin with in the studio, so even if my professor is kind enough to give me a C i’ll have come away with many more skills than i ever intended to.
Of course, that C assumes he accepts every one of my projects late, lets me take the make up test for one i missed, and that i can somehow manage to pass the final despite not knowing anything on it. yeah… it does look a bit bleak, doesn’t it? Oh well… i’m outta here.
I think i secured two B’s today … in Literature i’ve been very aggressive in discussion ever since returning from my sick leave and today she returned one of my (rather shoddy) essays marked with an A. Seeing as she’s given me nothing but A’s on my essays and i always chat in class, doesn’t it seem rather pointless to give me a C just because of my spotty attendance (which was obviously largely due to continuing illness)? As it is i still do more reading and participating than half the class, even if i only come half of the time! Also, i got 2 points off of a perfect score in my final foray into Public Speaking, which assures me a B since both of my other speeches were B’s. Interestingly, even though i’m working my ass off to secure my precious precious B’s, i don’t have any class nearly as challenging or stressful as Philosophy was last term … in other words, i at least feel as though i have a basic understanding of all of my subject matter. Acting and Aural should both be A’s, so now i just have to play catch-up with recording class and hope for the best. (Although, it’s not entirely comforting that hoping seems to have as much weight as attendance at this point…)