kidney bean shaped invaders

last night i was all excited to be so pepared to teach my first week of the CTR 5 class. i felt like a high schooler all ready to turn in a big project that i knew was great. you know this feeling? then, somewhere around midnight, it all went wrong. wrong as in sitting on the potty with the garbage can because you can't predict which end will blow first. sorry, there just wasn't a better way to say it. sleeping with the heating pad to try and get warm, shivering so hard you begin to wonder if it's really possible for your teeth to shatter. then you close your eye lids over your burning hot eyeballs and think - dang, the one year i miss the stupid flu shot!

needless to say, i didn't teach my class today. i had to call the primary president and bail on my very first day. i was so embarrassed - i promised her a hundred times on the phone that i really AM dependable, and really, i hardly ever get sick. she was of course fine with it, but still. hopefully i can generate the same kind of excitement for myself next week.

as a side note: i was really pleased to find this image of the influenza virus during a google search. pleased because, it shows exactly how i'm picturing my insides right now. all green and gross with little kidney bean shaped invaders swimming around. ok, i'm going back to bed now.