I went to a conference the week before last, which was good, but means that I have been playing catch-up ever since, especially in terms of grading; this time of the semester is kind of unremitting in terms of assignments coming one right after another, which means I need to stay on top of them at all costs. This meant that after taking a red-eye home from California, there was no point I could really catch up on sleep, and so I've been running on fumes all week.
Monday morning I woke up not feeling very good, but I attributed it to staying up yet another late night grading. But then, immediately after piling the kids into the car, I went into the bathroom and realized that I was a bit nauseous. I didn't think I would actually throw up...
...but boy I sure did.
I made it to the couch, called off my morning conferences and afternoon classes, and then staggered into bed. This was probably around 7:30am; I woke up around 2pm, ate some applesauce, and went back to sleep, waking up when the family got home a little earlier than normal around 4pm because the older one had thrown up at daycare. I was up for a couple hours, but by bedtime was back asleep, now on the couch, and then transferred into bed shortly thereafter. Then I slept until 7:30am when my wife left with the younger one for school.
So Tuesday I had to stay home with the older one; I was mostly feeling better by that point, except that my appetite still hadn't returned to normal. But that was about twenty hours of sleep in twenty-four hours. I am ultimately kind of thankful I got sick, I think, because it gave me the flexibility to sleep and finally catch up post-conference... but man I would not have guessed that I was that tired!
Anyway thankfully the semester is almost over.
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