I know it's not allergies because it's been raining and there's no pollen in the air.

I know it's not a cold because I already had one of those this month.

I know it's not the flu because I had a flu shot a few weeks ago.

I don't know why I'm extremely tired, have sinus difficulties, and am mildly achy, still.

I was getting bummed about how bad I've felt in October and how it's kept me out of work until someone reminded me that I basically didn't take a single sick day for my first six years of doing this job. I'm not trying to catch up on them, but I'm not going to make myself sicker, either.

I largely just wish it would go away. There's stuff I want to write about. And I wish I had something smarter to say to Justin.

Update: Wow. Last night, I could hardly get to sleep because I couldn't lie down for more than a few minutes before the sinus drainage made me sit up and cough it out. I finally got to sleep with the help of nyquil, but when I woke up this morning, I had to breathe very delicately to avoid triggering a nasty coughing spell before I was ready for it. When I was ready, I saw shades of green that I did not like.

So I called the doctor, and I got antibiotics to kill what's making it green, and prescription antihistamines to dry up the drainage. I don't like taking antibiotics, but if this is going to keep me down for so long, I guess I really have to.

The antihistamine is a reformulated version of a product that used to contain phenylpropanolamine, a substance that the FDA now recommends everyone avoid to due to increased risk of stroke. I thought to myself, "if Apple does something else big before I can work for a day or two without coughing up a lung, I'm going to have a stroke anyway, so what do I care?"

(OK, I care, but still.)