Sleep! Sweet Glorious Sleep! or Bubba Ho-Tep was Worth it!

Well to bring you up to speed, I eventually DID get to sleep there Wednesday night, at about 4:30 am ish. It helped that's for sure. Thursday was a little odd as I felt better from the bit of sleep and decided to try to see what I could do. I know that exercise and relaxation were two things that I was not really getting so I did a VERY mild workout at the gym. And by VERY mild I mean that I just did a 25 minute leisurely peddle on the bikes. Then I went to my Tai Chi class for the opening chi-gong relaxation part. I did not stay for the forms part as it is more engaging. Getting home I felt like I could sleep for a while but I was invited to see Bubba Ho-Tep with Jay if I was feeling better. The show was at 9pm, so I knew that I wouldn't have a late evening. I ended up going and it was awesome! Great movie that was totally different from anything you'll see in a while. Part Army of Darkness, part lament of old age, part Elvis/fame satire, part commentary of the life of Elvis, part criticism on what fame does to you, part zombie movie, part criticism on how old people are treated... I could go on. I think that a lot of people in the theatre were expecting more Army of Darkness then they got, but they seemed to enjoy it all the same. Oh yeah, and Bruce Campbell was AMAZING as Elvis. He deserved the Oscar right there baby! I saw one of my profs there but could only talk to him for a brief moment as I wanted to get home to bed. I ended up sleeping for almost 11.5 hours! I would wake up briefly every 3 or so hours because my throat was sore so I would get some water and gargle and fall right back asleep. I figure it's cause I'm about out of the special mouthwash I was prescribed that my throat was bugging me so. My mom went to the pharmacist and they recommended some regular mouthwash that they said should help out. If it doesn't they offered to call the doctor so that I wouldn't have to go down there again and wait in the walk in clinic just to get a renewed prescription.
I was partly guilted into going back to work next week but I did it on my terms. I took some shifts at the cross dock, which are a lot less strenuous. The first 2, Sunday and Monday are literally only about 3o minutes of actual work, the rest of the time you could sleep if you wanted to. Well, Monday that is not so easy and the boss of the place is there and he always makes you do busy work. If he tries that this Monday, I will say, "Look, glassie (he's got a glass eye) I've got fucking mono and I need rest. I did what NEEDED to be done, now I am going to sleep for the rest of the time, so bugger off!" I don't have any other shifts till Thursday and I figure that I should be better by then and if not, I'll just phone in sick or make the other guy do most of the work... But who knows, if I don't feel like I can do any of this, then I'll phone in sick and say fuck it all!
What I really need to do now is try to work on my paper for the Guy Maddin class that is due on Wednesday. It's only worth 25% of the final grade but I still want to do good. I told him that I have mono and it might be all over the place and he thought that would make it really interesting to read. I like Guy Maddin, he's the good kind of bonkos.
Feeling better, but not all the way...