Somehow I made it through yesterday all right, got back here and promptly passed out for the next thirteen hours. I probably have caffeine to thank for some of my pep yesterday (we finally got vending machines that dispense energy drinks on campus this semester), but part of it was probably thanks to the fact that I've finally got the Composition class I'm teaching this semester back on track. This time I didn't work so hard to adapt critical teaching pedagogy to the textbook that was forced on me, and instead just did straight-up critical teaching and then brought the book's (poor) lessons into the discussion. I actually managed to fart during class in order to prove a point on what we were discussing, which I'm sure is a first for UT's English Department.
As much as I should be working on school stuff Thursdays, today I've just kind of been hanging loose here. Originally I'd planned to go out and do some stuff, but I had some massive sinus drainage yesterday and wound up bursting a blood vessel between the bottom of my nose and my upper lip. It doesn't look any different on the surface, but it's very sensitive to the touch and it makes me talk even funnier than usual. I have to go to campus tomorrow anyway to get my paycheque and attend a counseling session, so hopefully the problem will have gone away (or at least be minimized) by then.