it is absolutely amazing how my health nosedives in perfect symmetry with the temperature.
the fuss of settling in to my new schedule sort of allowed me to escape the fact that it was SEPTEMBER, and when people commented on the idiocy of the thirty-degree weather i would brush them off and tell them not to hurry winter. i sort of missed the whole hey-asshole-it's-fall bulletin. when the temperature dropped a few degrees and i started wearing my hoodie at work, i think my brain fought off the inevitable. my eyes started to itch and my nose started to run and my skin started to itch and my lungs started to fill with goo, and i grudgingly admitted that it was time for a change in the seasons and people said oh, isn't it ragweed season? (side note: i don't know if it is, nor am i allergic, according to the test of death, to ragweed), and i said no, i'm just sick ten months of the year and this is the first one. when my voice started lapsing, i blamed it on two months of shouting over a kennel full of barking dogs. when i started waking up to rainy days, i felt oddly pleased with them (much the way i have been uncharacteristically looking forward to the dark horrid winter so that i can hibernate with my writing) and blamed them on tropical storm remnants. when i woke up in the middle of the night last night with the blinds bashing around wildly in the wind, i was comfortably burrowed under my comforter and thought it was wonderfully fresh air and promptly went back to sleep. when i woke up this morning and rolled over the cat to turn off the alarm and crawled back in bed, i realized it was goddamn fucking freezing cold and, son of a bitch, somehow fall had sneaked up behind and goosed me, and not in the good way.
consequently, the sniffles that had been confined to the morning have started to spill over into the day, the inhalers are not opening my lungs, and i am so damn cold i could chill your beer in my very own hands, which incidentally i can barely feel half the time (this does come in handy when i want the heat turned up in the store - you should see how fast they go for the thermostat when i start sticking cold fingers down their necks). it is time to stock up on the kleenex and the cough drops.
blah.