I've sort of known that I was getting a cold for a few days.

Monday I had a little tickle in my throat. Tuesday after teaching only two 90 minute classes I felt like I'd been run over by a train of students. Wednesday at the film premier of "Midnight in Paris," I got really cold and then came home and promptly drank two mugs of tea. I woke up Thursday with a full blown cold.

The kind of cold that you feel in your nose, in your sinuses, your head and your ears. <em>Awesome.</em>

For good reason, yesterday, I got a late start on my way to school, I had return home to grab something I'd forgotten, I rode a super crowded but to school, I got off the bus only to be yelled at by the police guards who surround our school campus--hello police academy and Mladost police station. I was late, late,late and told them in English that I didn't understand them, flashed my ID angrily and kept walking quickly.

I figured that if they needed something else from me that could catch-up with me. Then I promptly wanted to start crying and alternately was glad that my students didn't see me get snappy with a police man because really I am not that person. There was really no need for me to respond in rapid fire English knowing full well that these men don't speak English.<!--more-->
That's when I realized: Hey, you're not having a bad day. You're sick. You have a cold. This thought was followed promptly by this one: Actually, you've been under the weather all week.

How do I know? Well because I haven't written a real blog post in a whole week because every time I sat down to write, it seemed to impossible to get my ideas in order.

Remember that blog post about <a href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/2011/11/07/um-what-is-this/" target="_blank">a billboard message in Mladost</a>? Well, I swear that I googled the phrase and got nothing well, my dAd schooled me because he googled the phrase and found a really lovey-dovey kissy-kissy youtube video. He's apparently better at the internet than I am (and in one respect he definitely is: he's<a href="http://wallawallalocal.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"> back at blogging again</a>! Oh and if you've ever wondered about my childhood home? It's the second one in his <a href="http://wallawallalocal.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/a-beautiful-fall-walk-to-shady-lawn/" target="_blank">most recent post on autumn in Walla Walla</a>).

But it hasn't been all bad this week. Even though it's the end of the semester and students and teachers alike are slightly crazed, I got a new computer at work yesterday. Sometimes a girl has to be thankful for the little things. Oh and sometimes she finds a penny under her giant old computer and a shocking amount of dust.

Now I must go to school and organize my life.