Procrastination

I'm supposed to be revising my B.A. thesis (which is turning into this gigantic, headache-y, quasi-ridiculous mess), writing up an outline, and writing up 6 pages of my final paper. I'm also supposed to be going to class today. However, given my achy muscles, sniffly nose, and feverish skin, I think I'll be staying in my dorm today so that I can recover/rest before going to the Opera tonight. Boo on you, allergies, boo on you.

What I hate most about feeling under the weather is that I lose all ability to hold a cogent conversation with people. Allergies and class also don't go well together - I feel like I spurt half-thoughts and stupid things. And because I sleep a lot when I'm feeling sick, I feel like I have been kept in a terrible form of self-imposed isolation for the past 3 days. Aside from my physical ills, I suppose I'm going through a bout of homesickness. Rather, people-sickness - when abroad, I tend to miss people way more than I do the random comforts/familiarities of home. I just wish I were awake enough so that I could indulge in little things like gchatting, skypeing, or emailing the people I love.

That said, I think the worst of my allergies is almost over. One of my friends in my program brought a bunch of Claritin with her... even though she doesn't have allergies. Lucky girl for not having allergies; extraordinarily lucky me that she brought Claritin to Paris! This is an especially fortuitous event because the French are waaaay more stringent about selling over-the-counter drugs.

As in... they don't.

So if I wanted any sort of allergy medicine, I'd have to pay about 25 euro to see a doctor (not terrible, but I'd like to hold onto my euro) so that I could get a prescription for Claritin/Zyrtec/some other allergy medicine I'd be able to buy in bulk from Costco. Meh!

Also, my sister is coming to visit this weekend! We have vague, action-packed plans for the next few days, so I'm pretty darn excited. Speaking of which, I'll need to plan this weekend right after posting this...

Krakow re-cap to come later today. Expect plenty of snowy pictures and a lot of beer =)

xoxo,
D

3:44 PM Update: I just named my B.A. "Collecting, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz and Walter Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood around 1900." Good God, can I sound any more pretentious? More importantly, I need a *way* catchier title...