I have succumbed

Man, I feel like crap. I seem to have finally gotten the cold-which-is-not-a-cold that everyone at work had two weeks ago. I have no actual symptoms but feel like I have a fever, am exhausted, my throat is scratchy, and I'm achy. What fun. If this isn't any better in the morning I'm going to just have to suck it up and take Friday off work. There's no way I'm going to make it though an OES meeting feeling like I did last night.

The downside to this is that I've accomplished nothing so far this week. I have not fitted the borrowed black stuff for Saturday morning, I have not made gingerbread, and I have not done any laundry. I did sleep, so I guess that's something, but I've got a whole lot of little things I'm going to have to do tonight to get ready for the weekend. At least I managed to postpone the semi-date thing, that helps. I wouldn't be any fun tonight anyway.

I wish someone would bring me soup and tuck me in to bed. That's the main problem with this whole being an adult business. Mom isn't around so much to enable the pathetic wallowing when you're sick.

I did make a little progress on the Orenburg scarf last night. I'm very pleased with it. The yarn is a super soft red angora and silk blend I had in my stash, and with the heart motif, the whole thing looks very sweet and festive. Maybe I should start on the actual shawl after I'm done with my Hope sweater, I think I'm ready to tackle a really challenging lace project.

The really big news for today is that I got 4 more law school applications sent out. That makes for 8 down, and 2 reach schools to go. I'm debating about my essays for one of the remaining applications. I should probably write some extra ones for a few of their scholarship programs. More essays hardly sounds like fun to me but more scholarships sounds like a grand idea. Of course, it would help if I thought I had a chance in hell of being accepted at this school. But it doesn't hurt to try. Facing the inevitable avalanche of rejection letters isn't something I'm quite ready for at this point though. Just what I need, more people telling me I don't meet their standards and am not what they want anyway.