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This is why I’m hot

I am sick. It started with a tickle in my throat on Monday. But on Tuesday morning I got a rude awakening – or, shall I say, a rude non-awakening.

During the second half of this semester in my tech writing class, we’ve been solely working on this big project. We were split into groups and we had to pretend to be architecture/engineering/construction firms. We were proposing designs to an expansion to the campus gym, a project that is really going to happen. (Real-world applicability.) My group and I had been getting together a lot, most recently Monday night, to practice for our 30-minute oral presentation that we would give on Tuesday.

So Tuesday morning, my alarm goes off at 7:30, which gives me a lot of time to prepare because class is at 8:30. I have to wear a dress shirt and slacks, borrowed from one of my teammates and my roommate, respectively (I really didn’t think I would need that stuff in college). So I allowed myself time to get prettied up. Great. But I shut off my alarm and remain in bed because I want just a few more minutes. Next thing I know, it’s 8:50. I do a double-take at the clock to make sure. Yes, for the first time in history, Jordon has overslept – and he’s sick, and it’s the worst day ever to oversleep.

I have text messages from the owner of the dress shirt asking if I’m awake and telling me I need to hurry. I get to class as fast as I can, and fortunately, I get there before we’re due for our presentation. I’m much more relaxed, and I nail it. The profs even gave me an award. Apparently they thought my presentation on technology was the best technology section out of all the presentations. That’s kind of funny because the technology plan really should be boring stuff like ventilation and phone networks and stuff, but my group leader told me just to come up with random stuff, so I talked about exercise bikes with TV screens, touchless bathrooms (the all-motion-activated bathroom is my dream), and the like.

Anyway, I’m still sick. I’ve been having a miserable week, and I didn’t even sleep last night for more than an hour. But anyway, I must depart because it’s finals week and I have a lot of stuff going on: two exams, a paper, and a project coming up in the next few days.