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sherryillkI feel miserable, I'm tired, I'm stuffed up (and remarkably, I have a runny nose which to me is a conundrum in itself), I'm coughing up a lung ever five seconds and I really wish I were at home being pampered by my parents.
Obviously, it's the first time I've gotten sick while being at college. I really want someone to baby me now and I really wish this wasn't during my MolecCell final week. I'm barely awake to study so I can't even conceive how I'm going to get a passable grade this week.
As it is, the electron transport chain is wickedly difficult and way more confusing than I thought it was. I'm getting the point where I'm losing my protons and electrons... I know it starts off with NADH, if you want to start with complex I, the NADH-CoQ reductase (it's a reductase, right???), which for every 2 electrons passed onto to CoQ to make CoQH2 passes 4 protons from the matrix to the inner membrane space. Or was it the other way around....? It's so confusing and I swear my textbook doesn't help at all (it's like graduate level biochem and I'm just a little sophomore trying to read it -- I don't know why since my prof told us it was graduate level biochem and way difficult as it is but I tried and now I'm more confused than ever). Thankfully, everything else makes sense. At least I think I understand glycolysis (always the easiest of them all), the Kreb Cycle (yay for citrate!), and oxidative phosphorlyation (thank god for the familiar ATPases!). Pyruvate dehydrogenase is a bit iffy because I've always thought of it was part of the Kreb Cycle but it really isn't so I have to kinda seperate it in my mind. It's simply pyruvate converted to acetyl CoA to feed into the Kreb Cycle. It's so elementary and short that it seems like it should be part of the Kreb Cycle, you know?
Anyway, enough bio talk! It's 2 AM, I slept from 9 PM to midnight so I'm desperately trying to study now with some sleep in me.
I got sick yesterday and was basically out. I got through one lecture, which was good, but it was also bad because I meant to go through at least two. It wasn't happening. Today, was hell. Absolute hell. I can't imagine how tomorrow will be since I have lab and it might top today's hell but I really doubt it.
My lowest point in the day? After room selection, we were waiting at the corner at the bus stop and it starts to rain. If I wasn't going to get sicker before, that would have clenched it then. It was pretty hard too, which might explain why I have a terrible little headache right in between my eyes right now.
I need cough drops. It's an evil dry cough (which is bad according to Masha) and I'm scared that it'll go the way of all my other coughs the last couple of years -- linger for several months before finally letting go. It's bad enough that I have allergies which make me cough anyway but it seems like when I get sick like this, the coughing just says with me forever and forever.
I really want to skip tomorrow. But I can't. God, I wish I were at home, as a little kid where I could stay at home from school and my parents would run around crazy, trying to make me feel better when really they can't cure my illness but try anyway. :(
I miss those days... :(
In other news, I'm going to try and read "Kafka on the Shore," by Murakami, the English version since obviously I can't read Japanese (it was originally published in Japanese, right?) this weekend after my exam and it's less than two weeks before Kimeru's CD and DVD are out -- both of which, I'm buy. And I'm getting 5566's VCD + CD release as well so I'm happy about that. I really do love 5566. My only consolation for all of this is stuff. I'm getting a lot of stuff. Yay.
I'd trade it all for getting better though. Preferably tomorrow. I wake up and I'm good. I doubt it though. I'm not resting my body enough, I don't get enough sleep, I barely eat and when I do, it's not very balanced, I'm not keeping myself hydrated (I'm so dry right now but I really don't want to drink or eat anything right now), it's cold outside and wet, and I was left standing in the rain for twenty minutes today. Yeah, I'm so taking care of myself.
And I've run out of tissues too...
:(
Obviously, it's the first time I've gotten sick while being at college. I really want someone to baby me now and I really wish this wasn't during my MolecCell final week. I'm barely awake to study so I can't even conceive how I'm going to get a passable grade this week.
As it is, the electron transport chain is wickedly difficult and way more confusing than I thought it was. I'm getting the point where I'm losing my protons and electrons... I know it starts off with NADH, if you want to start with complex I, the NADH-CoQ reductase (it's a reductase, right???), which for every 2 electrons passed onto to CoQ to make CoQH2 passes 4 protons from the matrix to the inner membrane space. Or was it the other way around....? It's so confusing and I swear my textbook doesn't help at all (it's like graduate level biochem and I'm just a little sophomore trying to read it -- I don't know why since my prof told us it was graduate level biochem and way difficult as it is but I tried and now I'm more confused than ever). Thankfully, everything else makes sense. At least I think I understand glycolysis (always the easiest of them all), the Kreb Cycle (yay for citrate!), and oxidative phosphorlyation (thank god for the familiar ATPases!). Pyruvate dehydrogenase is a bit iffy because I've always thought of it was part of the Kreb Cycle but it really isn't so I have to kinda seperate it in my mind. It's simply pyruvate converted to acetyl CoA to feed into the Kreb Cycle. It's so elementary and short that it seems like it should be part of the Kreb Cycle, you know?
Anyway, enough bio talk! It's 2 AM, I slept from 9 PM to midnight so I'm desperately trying to study now with some sleep in me.
I got sick yesterday and was basically out. I got through one lecture, which was good, but it was also bad because I meant to go through at least two. It wasn't happening. Today, was hell. Absolute hell. I can't imagine how tomorrow will be since I have lab and it might top today's hell but I really doubt it.
My lowest point in the day? After room selection, we were waiting at the corner at the bus stop and it starts to rain. If I wasn't going to get sicker before, that would have clenched it then. It was pretty hard too, which might explain why I have a terrible little headache right in between my eyes right now.
I need cough drops. It's an evil dry cough (which is bad according to Masha) and I'm scared that it'll go the way of all my other coughs the last couple of years -- linger for several months before finally letting go. It's bad enough that I have allergies which make me cough anyway but it seems like when I get sick like this, the coughing just says with me forever and forever.
I really want to skip tomorrow. But I can't. God, I wish I were at home, as a little kid where I could stay at home from school and my parents would run around crazy, trying to make me feel better when really they can't cure my illness but try anyway. :(
I miss those days... :(
In other news, I'm going to try and read "Kafka on the Shore," by Murakami, the English version since obviously I can't read Japanese (it was originally published in Japanese, right?) this weekend after my exam and it's less than two weeks before Kimeru's CD and DVD are out -- both of which, I'm buy. And I'm getting 5566's VCD + CD release as well so I'm happy about that. I really do love 5566. My only consolation for all of this is stuff. I'm getting a lot of stuff. Yay.
I'd trade it all for getting better though. Preferably tomorrow. I wake up and I'm good. I doubt it though. I'm not resting my body enough, I don't get enough sleep, I barely eat and when I do, it's not very balanced, I'm not keeping myself hydrated (I'm so dry right now but I really don't want to drink or eat anything right now), it's cold outside and wet, and I was left standing in the rain for twenty minutes today. Yeah, I'm so taking care of myself.
And I've run out of tissues too...
:(
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on 2006-04-04 08:20 am (UTC)Allergies in New York City? Where does the pollen come from? ;)
So.. what got you sick this time? A lot of people back from spring break are sick here as well.. :\ Which is not a good sign for me. I'm already shuddering from the cough I had last year. Stupid walking pneumonia. ><
Anyway, get well soon. *hugs*
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on 2006-04-04 01:12 pm (UTC)