Bwah. I'm still somewhat ill. I do seem to be recovering, however. The cold is almost entirely gone. All that remains is the stuffy nose. And I've been coughing slightly violently for the past few days. It's not all that bad, but it's getting to remind me of the really bad cough I had a couple summers ago. I would cough violently, and it would irritate my throat so much that I'd cough again... So I'd start coughing and it'd keep gettting worse. It went on for at least three months. Not so fun. This doesn't seem too bad though.

I did some homework last night, which was something of a relief. I read about 80 pages in A Farewell to Arms and I typed up the t.o.k. essay that was a day late. And I found some of my computer science assignments, and some other work I did, so it's not quite as bad as it could be. Still, I'll have a lot to do this weekend.

Since I'm testing out of spanish this year, I get to do the IB oral section of the test next week. Our whole class does. But, I get to do mine on Monday. I'm doing it on "suicide and how it affects the family." Quite an uplifting topic if I do say so myself. But, there are a couple problems with it. One: researching it will not only be emotionally disturbing, but will be rather difficult, as there aren't so many useless statistics about how suicide affects the families of the victims. Mostly there are just facts that x number of people commit suicide each year, valentine's day is the most popular day for suicide, such-and-such place has the highest suicide rate. Two: talking about it will be emotionally disturbing. It's hard enough for me to talk about something in English. Much less "suicide". And doing it in Spanish is going to be hell. Ah, well, at least I'll have a more profound topic than "cookies." Mmm, cookies...

I may or may not continue with this odd streak of capitalization. Makes me feel artificially smarter. But is that good or bad? If I think I'm smarter than I really am, I'm MORE likely to do something stupid. Like, for example, jumping off a cliff. Or sticking my finger into the electrical socket.