That's my current situation. Thanks to a very cold Thanksgiving weekend and a warm cat, I am unable to breathe and unable to stand up straight. My throat is irritated from my continually dripping nose and I can't open my mouth without some form of phlegm interfering (I know you wanted to know that). Four days in a row of this and five days away from my exam, I can guarantee you wouldn't want to be in the same room as me today. I am grouchy, I am sick and I am miserable.

To top it off I got my first virus in the eight years I've had computers. Thanks to my wonderful mother and my stupid laziness to check each mail, my computer was infected with the stupid ass Feliz Navidad virus two nights ago. It took me several hours to even realize the stupid thing was in my machine. Yesterday, I woke up to realize I was unable to run any executables. This stupid virus changes the association of .exe files for your computer. Nicely enough, that's the one file type association that cannot be edited or deleted. So, in my very unconscious state, I kept trying to find a solution and decided that, short of manually updating my registry, I had no choice but to reinstall NT on my machine. I'm sure there must have been other options but I really couldn't think of one, mostly cause I am pretty much unable to think in my current state. Even if I had had the balls to screw with the registry, regedit is an executable and therefore wouldn't run. Neither would DOS. I'm telling you, it wasn't funny. To add to my fun, I couldn't find my copy of NT. Much to the chagrin of my backache, I started going thru all my boxes and came up empty.

Thanks to this joyful situation, I was up till after 3am last night, reinstalling NT, reinstalling Windows Office, and reinstalling all sorts of other programs without which I seem to be unable to function. Jake, rightfully so, kept yelling at me about how I should just install Linux and get all my troubles over with. I must tell you, if it hadn't meant reformatting my entire drive, I very well might have done that. If I haven't said so before, let me say it loud and clear now, I hate Microsoft products. They suck! As soon as I get a decent amount of time off, I am freeing my life off any of those.

Life is just not at its best for me right this minute.

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