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I got a cold for the first time in years this week. It hit me like a truck on Tuesday morning and since then it’s been hanging around like Mike Huckabee. I did feel significantly better on Wednesday though. I got eight hours of sleep the night before. I was supposed to have to work in the morning, and I tried to get someone to cover my shift, but nobody could. At around midnight Tuesday, one of my supervisors emailed me telling me that I don’t have to come in and I should get some rest, even if nobody took my shift. I thought that was really cool, and the extra sleep definitely helped me feel a lot better.

Having a cold has been weird. At times I find it’s the most infuriating thing in the world. Other times, I feel like it’s just a weird experience, some funny way of interpreting an otherwise normal reality. Right now I feel pretty much ok. I just wish I could stop sniffling.

As a complete coincidence, I’ve eaten dinner with chopsticks for the past five nights. Sunday was Chinese food, Monday and Tuesday were leftover Chinese food, Wednesday was ramen (closest thing I had to chicken soup… I was throwing everything I had at my cold in an attempt to get it to go away as quickly as possible) and today I went to Oh Bento, the Japanese restaurant on campus. I’m really not sure what to think about that place. I haven’t eaten too much Japanese food, but it really strikes me as not very Japanese. (the Korean music videos on the TV probably don’t help.) Some of the lighter/more authentic stuff doesn’t seem quite as good as Korean Express, but the fried stuff seems a lot better. I haven’t been to KE since Oh Bento opened… maybe I’ll go back there next time I’m eating dinner on campus.

Tomorrow is International Fiesta, which I’ll probably write about after it happens. There’s some dinner thing that people can partake in before the show. I’m hoping there’s something there that is supposed to be eaten with chopsticks so I can continue my streak!