the trouble with head colds

So you get up, you continue to feel terrible, you recall that your supervising manager-type person said "take a sick day if you need one", you e-mail that you're not coming in, and you go back to bed.

That's all fine and well, and you sleep for another two and a half, three hours, but here's the problem:  first of all, you eventually reach a point where you're through sleeping so there's no way to get comfortable, but you try anyway, and you're too warm, so you throw off your blanket, and within a minute you're shivering, so you pull up your blanket, and within a minute you're overheated; and secondly, by the time you do get up, you've of course missed your breakfast and you're getting close to missing your morning snack, and when you cut your daily calories pretty fine to start with, that's just setting yourself up for even more sluggishness and lethargy.

I did drag some clothes on and migrate to the couch.  Soon I will in fact eat something.  What I'd really like best, though, would be for the pressure in my ears to go away.  Any time.

debate

GAAAAAAAAH, I can't not watch this stuff, but it hurts me.