November 5, 2002

Today is the day to pay your charm school tuition.

How To Spend Your First Sick Day Home Alone in Your New Apartment

• Wake up after hitting snooze alarm three times
• Drink some cold water
• Get in shower
• Marvel that previously-water is still cold even as it's thrown up.
• Leave shower still with shampoo in hair because of dizzy spell
• Crawl back into bed wearing towels
• Sneeze
  
• Go back to bed.
• After hitting snooze alarm three times, call work, blabbering in tearful voice about incapability of going to office.
• Sleep for two and a half hours.
• Move to couch.
• Blow nose
• Stare at ceiling for hour.
• Groan
• Watch "Coming to America" for first time.
• Fall asleep in front of "Coming to America"
• Work on rattling, hacking cough
• Talk to friends who concur on necessity of going to doctor's
• Talk to mother, who disagrees
• Watch tape of "Sex and the City," episodes 1-4, first season.
• Watch several hours of Fox programming
• Accept Amazon package including cd's by Spoon, Peter Gabriel and Handsome Boy Modeling School
• Eat soup lovingly prepared by roommate
• Wonder if sudden disinterest in food will lead to sudden weight loss.
• Sweat
• Watch Justin Timberlake on 20/20
• Realize that even while sick, still need to update stupid website.
• Sneeze
• Blow nose
• Take shower, more successfully this time
• Return to bed.