Rough morning... I feel like going to bed and starting over....

Yesterday at work I started feeling really sick.  I could feel a cold coming on and my stomach was killing me.  I sneezed probably 100 times at work, and I'm not even joking.  The commute was successful and I made it home.  When I got home Scott gave me some medicine, and warned me it would knock me out.  I felt like it was working and didn't feel tired until all of a sudden I was on the couch and fell asleep around 8:30.  I woke up and hurried to bed and fell right to sleep.  I continued to sleep until about 6:30 am when I woke up. 

I decided to get up and get ready since that usually makes me feel better.  I got ready and headed off to work (thought about calling in sick but didn't want to waste vacation days).  I got to the subway station and saw waited for the train.  I initially got onto the C train, but the A came, so I decided to switch trains.  Right when I got on the train, I sat down and smelled something funny.  I soon realized that it smelled like something was burning, and decided to get off the next stop and get on the C when it got there.  While I waited for the C, I noticed MTA workers and a police officer trying to figure out what was causing the smell.  The C came, and as I was getting on they announced that the A train was no longer in service, so everyone from that train packed on...  It seemed like forever on the train, I ended up getting to my transfer stop 15 minutes later than usual.  I transferred to my train and was freaking out because it was looking like I was going to be late.  I get to the stop right by my office and get off having to climb the monstrous escalator while I felt I didn't have any energy.  I made it to work and clocked in at 9:34 which is "late" for work since work starts at 9:30, but they give us until 9:37 to not be considered late, which saved me.  I clocked in "on time! barely."  Now the story doesn't end here. 

I start working, and doing the usual morning routine and at about 10:15 I decided to eat my breakfast that I had packed--lemon yogurt. This sounded really good to me, because it was cold, and I thought it would feel good on my throat.  I started eating it and it was really good until I noticed a clump in the yogurt I was eating.  I then looked down at my yogurt and realized there was mold in it!  I throw the container into my garbage and start spitting it out.  I start freaking out, I yelled, "yuck, I'm going to be sick!" Then I ran into the bathroom.  I started to wash out my mouth, scrubbing my tongue to get it out.  I run into the kitchen and grab half of a bagel to take a few bites to get the taste out of my mouth.  I come back to my pod and explain what happened to the 2 people who sit next to me.  They just look at me like, "and the problem is..."  No sympathy whatsoever. 

So not only am I sick, tired, was almost late, now I have consumed moldy yogurt... I'm ready to call a do over...

It's not even 11:00 am yet.

Yes I'm still Mrs. Stevenson even though I have a raspy, manly voice...

I lost my voice by the end of each of the class periods I taught today. It was not much fun. At the beginning of the class I apologized for my manly, rough voice. They were nice to me and quieted down without me having to talk too loud. It's funny looking back now because I sounded ridiculous---well I still do...

Can a teacher teach with no voice?

Today my voice has been going in and out today...It's a good thing that I had a guest speaker for my classes today! I hope my voice is not completely gone tomorrow. Can you teach a lesson through pantomime? I might be signing as a last result...It's too bad I didn't get a very good grade in sign language. Wish me luck tomorrow!

It's no fun being sick while teaching...

I got sick yesterday and I had to teach three periods today. My ears are plugged up so I could not tell while teaching how loud I was talking. I feel like I was yelling all day. My throat hurt so bad by the end of the day from talking so much. Luckily it was a late start day so classes were only 50 minutes. Hopefully tomorrow goes better. We did do a textiles lab today where I burned fabrics for the class--they liked that, except it stunk really bad. It's no fun being stick while teaching...