Drugged Up

Wow, I seriously have not been in a blogging mood for the past week and a half. I had read some really interesting articles on the use of gesturing as a form of learning as well as various inspirational pieces that I originally planned on writing about, but when it came time to type, I just didn't feel the desire.

It could be that we had a massive influx of visitors come to Austin the past month that took up a lot of time and energy or even the severe allergies that finally hit me (Austin is known to be allergy central). Either way, I've actually been thinking a lot about things but just don't want to share them at this point.

With that massive sidebar aside, today was actually a really interesting day. Not interesting in the fact that I got to do awesome stuff (in fact it was quite slow), but interesting as in I will never ever do what I did again for the rest of my life.
As I mentioned earlier, allergies have been owning me, and last night I pretty much woke up every hour and a half because my nose became blocked up or my throat was worn bloody from breathing through my mouth. Going into work, my nose went into overdrive to make up for the lack of snot production by dripping non-stop for the first period.

One of my co-workers noticed me constantly blowing my nose and asked if I got sick over Easter. I informed her of my severe allergies to all living plant-life and she instantly sympathized. When she asked if I took any benadryll, I told her that that stuff usually never works. She immediately pushed me to try the pills that she uses, and mentions that taking four of them always does the trick for her.

Now, I've taken all kinds of over the counter allergy medication before, and I knew that the typical dose was 1-2 pills, and they usually had severe drowsiness as a side effect. But she was incredibly adamant about it, citing her friend as a source, and before I could say anything, she ran out to her car to get some for me. I guess I was just really blessed that she cared that much, or I was too tired to think clearly, but I just ended up downing all four pills w/ some swigs of water.

As you can imagine, the next 6 hours were a hazy blur. It was a good thing there wasn't much going on that day (most of the kids were under control) cuz I had no mental facility going on at all. I was also pretty sure I was slurring my speech. I remember trying desperately to stay awake by reading articles on Google Reader, and scouring google news for interesting things to keep my focus, but my body felt like it was tingling. Every now and then I would rest my head on my arm for a couple seconds and then I would jerk awake to find that 5 minutes had passed.

It wasn't until the beginning of 7th period (around 3pm) that the drowsiness finally started to wear off and I could walk with some semblance of control.

Next time anyone claims to know better than the instructions on the box, ignore them and follow the directions.