no cure for the common cold?

[chrissie_m]

Apparently some evil force has scooped out my brain and filled my skull with soggy wet cotton wool. This is the only explanation for 1. my inability to concentrate or focus or basically think at all and 2. the amount of fluid constantly draining through my nostrils at inconvenient and embarrassing moments. (In the middle of solemnly explaining to a

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[katie_m]

The Cold-Eeze zinc tablets totally worked for me last week. And maybe it would've been an easy cold anyway, I dunno, but hey, the placebo effect is a powerful thing.

[chrissie_m]

Huh. I'll have to look out for those the next time. Cause no time to go to drugstores this week: packing today, school tomorrow, home! on Friday, and grading all weekend, and a nasty meeting about 'course delivery changes' on Monday that will probably wipe out my hopes of future employment.

By the time I get to a drugstore, the stupid cold will be almost all gone. I hope. But zinc, huh? Maybe I shouldn't have dissed progress so quickly.

[troyswann]

*hands tissue*

I know your pain.

[chrissie_m]

Only one tissue? Dude, I'm going through boxes!

I know you know my pain. And hey, at least I don't have grading this week! Would have been even more miserable to have caught the stupid cold last week, when I still had papers to mark. Like you did.

What I wouldn't give for Vegas or Phoenix or someplace hot right now.

[kitzen_kat]

I didn't even notice the white goblin. :-) Maybe it's just on the front page.

You need Vicks Vapour Rub to rub on your chest and to put in hot water to inhale. Or to come here for a holiday where it's warm.