:::Gah:::

:::Waves and groans:::

Still alive. I'm up because I can't stand being horizontal at the moment. My symptoms are not severe, but they're just enough to take my attention away from other things: Sore (was really downright painful this morning) throat, ongoing headache, dry scratchy cough and a right ear that feels like someone stuffed it with wet cotton wool from the inside of my skull. There is sometimes shooting pain in the ear, when I burp, or hiccough, which 've been doing occasionally because of gulp air when I cough. I think I had a fever, for a while, but I think that's gone, now... (don't have a thermometer, so I can't check for sure).

In other words: I'll survive. Just don't ask me to do anything, kthankbai.