Let's see.
- I rarely get sick, but when my nose is 75% clogged, I can hardly focus on anything but trying to breathe clearly.
- The other morning I went to work with -- well, seriously not enough sleep. I had forgotten just how terrible it is when it's a constant physical fight to stay awake.
- I had never lived without air conditioning until this summer. Then I endured a few weeks of 100-degree-ish weather, complete with humidity. I was sitting in my room sweating on every surface of skin that was in contact with something. Now I have a window a/c unit and am entirely spoiled by a remote control for it. I guess I do still occasionally stop to realize that it's a million times more livable now that I have it, but usually I don't have much of a second thought.
- The Internet. ... holy crap. I've never been unable to access the Internet at my place of residence for this long of a period of time until this past week. It is truly frustrating to realize you cannot manage your email, get the weather, find something on a map, look up random information, listen obsessively to songs on YouTube, sit around logged on to three chat services, blah blah blah. Such things only begin to feel essential to daily life when you can't get to them on demand. But, here I am, writing a blog post, because the minute I've got it back, I spend all night on the Internet just like every other day before it wasn't there.
- People. If something goes wrong in a relationship, one day it's beautiful and then it's cracked. And you want to try everything you can think of to fix it, as the many good times flash by mentally and threaten to become bittersweet. ...That's one part of why I worry so much.
