Colds suck. Not so much because they're inherently bad, but because they aren't bad enough to stop work, but they're bad enough to make working strikingly unpleasant. Talking all day when you have a cold doesn't really help make it more pleasant. Luckily, colds are bad enough that you're allowed to whine in your blog to people who don't really care :) .

I should be in bed right now, but if I do that then my sleeping pattern will be thrown off (I'm trying very hard to sleep from 2am to 10am every day (though someone has been phoning at 9am for the last two days, and I've been getting to bed somewhat late, so I've only been getting 4 or 5 hours of sleep... grrr)) and I'll go back to entirely sleepless nights.

I still have all of my christmas shopping to do, including the grocery shopping for having the family in for dinner on Sunday. Need to do all of that tomorrow, but if it's anything like today we'll start as soon as I get up and go until midnight... doesn't leave a lot of shopping time.

May be forced to do another all-chocolate christmas. That's pleasant in the moment, but hell on one's skin eventually. Still, I could so go for a huge box of chocolates right now.