I R SICK.
Seriously.  I have a good old fashioned head cold.  Stuffed up, sneezing, coughing, aching, and generally feeling like hammered shit.  Fever last night, but none today, so that's good.

And I know where I got this cold from, too.  My neighbor and friend, Kim, has a ten month old named Sarah.  I'm sure I've talked about her before.  Well, last week I was over there for most of Wednesday, and little Sarah was sickly - with a cold.  She was also running a very mild temperature.  Even so, I couldn't NOT pick her up and play with her and give her cuddles, and thus, I caught her cold.  

Am I miserable in the 'when do I see the doctor' sense? No, just a common cold, but I am pretty miserable. Rick has been the soul of compassion - letting me sleep this morning when he got up, and buying me lots of goodly medicines to help combat this cold, and he's making bacon grilled cheeses for dinner right now.  Even before I got sick, on Friday, he bought me the Sims 2.  How can I do anything but love and be eternally indebted to this man. 

Ok, that's the current.  Now for recent.  School -

I still hate math, but after some tutoring from a friend, I feel much better able to deal with it.  I really love my history teacher and the way she teaches the class.  It's not the leftist 'white people ruled all' shit that I expected to get from a California school.  She actually gives you both, or all sides of the issue.  We've also had some great after-class discussions.

I have yet to start on my PowerPoint work - because the fucking bookstore doesn't have the textbook in!!  Apparently, it never ordered any!  However, I am not alone in this - there are several hundred students in the same predicament, and the instructor is well aware of the problem.  We aren't being penalized for not getting any work done yet.

Now, on to my Library Studies class.  On Thursday, the 4th of September, I attended the orientation for this class, and at that time, was told the textbook could only be obtained through a website called 'IUniverse'.  Knowing we would need them in short order, I paid for 2nd-day air.  The book cost 18.95.  The shipping cost 23.00. The website took the money out of my account the very same day.  Today is the 14th of September.  I still don't have my book.  Nor can I find anything on the website to allow me to track the progress of the book.  And it was only AFTER I had paid for the book and gotten the receipt that they bothered to inform me that it would take 2 business days to print, bind, and then ship my book.  Can you see where I'm going with this?  I'm too sickly to work myself up into a really big rant, but suffice it to say that while I'm less 45 dollars, I have no textbook, and no means of seeking redress for the issue.  I should've had my book 6 days ago.    Yes, I have already made a scathing post about this issue on the class discussion board, and had others respond that they are in a similar situation.  The instructor has yet to reply to the thread, or address this in any way save to say that a copy of the book is on hold at the school library.  1.  A SINGLE book.  That can only be checked out for 2 hours at a time.  ONE book.  And there are 50+ students in the class.   1 book.  2 hours at a time.  I'm so livid I want to take this woman's entrails out and feed them to her ere she dies.

You know what, though?  I'm back in school, and back in the class room.  I didn't realize how much I'd missed being in the classroom until I went back.  And I DID know how much I missed learning while I was on my involuntary education sabbatical, so it's doubly lovely to be learning again.  

I'm going to eat nummy cheesy-bacony dinner of goodness that Master has prepared for me, and then I'm going to do some laundry.