Well, I'm finally feeling a little better. It took sleeping from three-thirty yesterday until six-thirty today with a half hour for "dinner" (one bowl of mashed potatoes and.... well, that's all) but now I'm feeling better. I can't believe I didn't think of sleeping sooner. I mean, they say that the body recuperates while it sleeps, much more so than when awake. So I just let my body take care of itself, and that was that! Well, for the most part. My nose is still stuffed. It's not running nearly as much as it was yesterday, or the day before.

The phone line was down for much of the day yesterday, and the phone company was trying to convince me that it must have been a physical problem. I was quite sure it had something to do with the fact that their billing system hadn't acknowledged my payment. Grr. This morning, lo and behold, the phone is working fine. I'm quite sure nobody has come out here.