I always forget about how much NaBloPoMo sucks, and it’s not because of all the writing. It’s because it takes place in November, and November is the worst month of the year. Always.
In November, every single thing I have to worry about in my life piles up together: papers (mine), grading my students’ papers, bills, working, the holidays, research, blogging . . . and then I got sick, and stayed sick for the entire month (I still have a cough and runny nose). Also, remember how I joined a gym in September? How I thought that was a good idea? Well, before November I’d been a grand total of four times, so I thought I would use NaBloPoMo as a sort of tally-keeper, to keep me honest and motivate me. But after I got sick, that idea went down the crapper, and the journal I’d been using to shame myself basically turned into a list of everything that was wrong in my life, and a chronicle of just exactly how much I hate to exercise.
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1: Woke up late, phone died, went to Mexican breakfast with Lindsay. Couldn’t have worked out because it would have ruined my breakfast.
2: Woke up on time, finished The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, wanted coffee and omelette from Ike’s, plus I had to be in at 11:15 instead of 12:30, so no time for exercise!
3: Class, and then I started dying.
4: Am instructed not to leave the house for three to five days, but almost immediately go to Jamba Juice anyway because I am hungry.
5: Not sleeping well, have watched a shit ton of The Nanny and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
6: Sick.
7: Sick.
8: Sick.
9: Thought I was better. Went for Mexican breakfast. Had extreme vertigo from as yet undiagnosed sinus infection. Came home and napped. Ditched class.
10: First day back. School.
11: Veteran’s Day. Also: new symptom. Excruciating headache. Was prefaced by not being able to see anything because of strange white lights. Alison thinks I had a migraine.
12: School, doctor. I fall in love with doctor. Doctor admonishes me for writing on my forms that I do not exercise. Tell him I was just being honest.
13: Sinus headache. Do not take medicine yet because doctor told me to wait and see if it was viral or bacterial.
14: Too much homework. Sinus headache.
15: Blogging, homework. Sinus headache. When I sneeze or cough or put my head upside down, my face0 explodes.
16: Headache finally gone, because I started my antibiotics. Wrote a twenty page paper in three and a half hours.
17: School.
18: School.
19: School.
20: Catching up on missed homework that I put off while sick.
21: Had to write Bones recap and do more homework.
22: Attempted to read an entire book in one day as a catch-up. Failed. Also, no exercise.
23: School; Farscape Rewatch blogging.
24: School; work at Barnes & Noble until close.
25: Student conferences, then packing, then driving to Phoenix. Then sister made me see New Moon again and bribed me with fatty Italian food.
26: Thanksgiving Day. No exercise allowed.
27: Celebrated Mom’s birthday. No exercise allowed.
28: Attended the UA v. ASU game. All day event. Plus, it was still Thanksgiving. No exercise allowed.
29: Attempted to read an entire book in one day as a catch-up. Failed. Also, no exercise.
30: Too much schoolwork. Bosco ate the couch. Going to kill self.
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Ugh. Just thinking about all of that again is stressful, plus it makes me think about how I paid money to not exercise for an entire month. I mean, how do you people do it? Exercise is AWFUL.
