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What did you do this week?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
I got sick, of course! Timing was absolutely awful. My partner and I went out for my birthday on the 7th, then on the 8th (my actual birthday, plus mother's day), she got so sick that we called off attending further celebrations for her mom's birthday, mother's day, my grandma's 80th birthday... the last one stings a bit, since we had some family members who had flown in for the occasion that I would have liked to see more. Then I got sick with something completely different on Wednesday and missed my brother's birthday dinner!
If I had to guess she had norovirus, which is going around. I've never had norovirus - don't know if I'm lucky, but there have been a few times I shared a household with people who were quite sick with it and I was completely fine. In one case, of seven people sharing a vacation house I was the only one who didn't get it. My mother also reports never having caught it too, so I wonder if it could be a genetic quirk!
My thing was more of a chest/head cold with a cough, sore throat, et cetera (tested daily for covid, always negative). I'm mostly better now aside from the sneezing: I suppose I should count my blessings* that I didn't shit myself on my birthday, or that nobody caught covid, but still kind of a lame week overall. With the two of us out sick a lot of stuff got put off, and I feel like next week is also going to be kind of miserable with everything rescheduled on top of the stuff we had to do anyway. Oh well.
* pun not intended
Carried a group report across the finish line on a 4loko (non-US folks, it's a malt liquor drink, the can I had was 14% alcohol at 20 oz/600ml). I didn't intend this, I thought we were just reading the report, signing off on it, and whatnot, so I'd popped it open at 9, and wound up working on it until 11:30 with my classmates, tracking down missing citations, dropping a couple (both were in one paragraph we just cut, it didn't interrupt the flow). I can't tell my classmates about this, because I don't want them to think I was drunk when i did it, but I also low-key was. It was frustrating, but we got it in, and it's a good paper aside from the mistakes we had. The content was great, but the citations and minor details needed a ton of work.
I went on a drive with my brother to get used to driving at night on Wednesday, which is just driving tbh. It's about building confidence more than anything. We took a longer road with more twists and turns than I expected, but he wasn't stomping the floor on his side of my car, so I did alright.
The rest has been studying for my coming finals on Monday, which I'll be doing through the weekend as well.