whining.

this week is shaping up to be a peach. [and, by a peach, i mean kind of awful.]

the environmental moot court brief is due this week. i have a ton of work left to do on it...specifically, because i haven't started it yet. i should have started it today, but i'm sick. i have had a cold creeping up on me since Tuesday. i'm surprised. usually i only get sick every few months. i had a really nasty flu a little over a month ago, during intersession week. but, that bug that's flying around the law school is making another round. i guess since it was the flu i had, i didn't have the antibodies against the cold. therefore, i've got a cold.

i'm coughing, sniffling, and sneezing. i haven't had a functional singing voice since maybe last Tuesday. i squeaked through one week of the karaoke competition [last Wednesday] in less-than-full voice; i really don't want to have to risk that again.

even worse, on the school front, this cold has been making me lethargic. i feel sluggish, and no sleep seems to be enough. i've been staying in bed until eleven, twelve, one. i wasn't up very late last night, but i was asleep until almost two this afternoon. i'm still feeling really icky, though, and doing much else than sitting around is kind of taxing. i need to feel better than this so i can focus on researching and writing that moot court brief.

dresses!

there were so many heinous dresses at the Oscars tonight. Jessica Alba and Penelope Cruz's dresses that prominently featured roadkill stitched onto their boobies. Kristen Chenoweth's "wedding dress" with all the puffs on the skirt. Diablo Cody's leopard-print drape. Cameron Diaz's powder pink origami tablecloth. i was afraid there would not be a single dress that was so pretty, so gorgeous, so tasteful that i would actually deem it Oscar-worthy.

but no. Helen Mirren. you win. her dress was gorgeous...a dark red satin number, shape-showing but not skintight. it didn't have fluffs or bows or extra layers of fabric dangling from odd places. the only accoutrement, the Swarovski crystal sleeves, fit perfectly with the dress. they're tasteful and not gaudy. i'm in love.