Since being promoted to a portal mod, I've been taken out of the world twice for a week each time by sickness. Right now I'm on what I hope is the tail end of a head and throat cold, where I've coughed my throat raw, and my left ear is plugged to the point of having a constant ringing in it. My right ear got unclogged after 62 1/2 hours a little bit ago with the help of an abnormally hot shower, so now it's just the left one. The plan is to spend as much time as possible with my head laid down flat to the right, and if it's still clogged on Monday then I'll go to a walk-in clinic and see about getting something for it, because the last thing I need right now is for it to turn into a full-blown ear infection.

If I'm still sick when I wake up, that'll make a full week. I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to this cold just being gone already.