Ugh. I'm sick AND have to do homework. :(

Do you know how much freakin homework I have? The rest of my family went out to this fair this morning and I had to stay home coz I had mountains of homework. I hate half yearlys. The tests aren't that bad, its just the assignments that I hate. :(

AND I'm sick atm. Last night my throat was killing me, and this morning my throat is worse and I've got a headache and I keep sneezing. :( This definitely makes my 'worst weekends ever' list. :(

And I'm really cold as well. Atm I've got my school jacket on (its one of the warmest jackets I have) and a blanket wrapped around me.

Hey! Maybe its swine flu... I'm gonna google it.

While that is loading, I got this in a FW email.

SAGITTARIUS - The Happy-Go-Lucky One (Nov 22 -Dec 21)
Good-natured optimist. Doesn't want togrow up (Peter Pan Syndrome). Indulgesself. Boastful. Likesluxuries and gambling. Social and outgoing. Doesn't like responsibilities.Often fantasizes. Impatient. Fun to be around. Having lots of friends.Flirtatious. Doesn't like rules. Sometimes hypocritical. Dislikes being confined - tight spaces or even tight clothes. Doesn't like being doubted. Beautiful inside and out.

lol

Ok, symptoms of swine flu.

What are the signs and symptoms of this virus in people?
The symptoms of this new H1N1 flu virus in people are similar to the symptoms of seasonal flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. A significant number of people who have been infected with this virus also have reported diarrhea and vomiting. Also, like seasonal flu, severe illnesses and death has occurred as a result of illness associated with this virus.
From- http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/qa.htm

I've probably just got a normal cold.

Oh! That reminds me! I love this article. It was in our reading English test.

Teenage Sleep
All parents of teenagers have seen the changes that happen with puberty - the growth spurts, the mood changes, and also, the unlimited ability to sleep in on weekends. But this altered sleep pattern is not the teenageers being bone-lazy or anti-social - no, instead, it is their changing biology, lurking deep inside their brains.
How much you sleep depends on your age. Newborn babies will sleep, in a series of naps, for 16-18 hours per day. By age 5, this is down to about 11 hours, and continues to drop with age - until puberty and adolescence start. Then sleeping time increases again. Puberty lasts to about 17.5 years in boys, and 16 years in girls, as measured by the end of bone growth. But adolescence continues for a few more years.
Adolescence is that awkward time between childhood and adulthood. During adolescence, the natural circadian rhythm is mightily interfered with. First, there is a distressing delay in the onset of sleep, probably due to the later release of melatonin. I remember lying in bed as a teenager, listening to my parents' chiming clock mark away the night, before I would eventually drop off to sleep. Sometimes I would hear it run through 10 sets of quarter hours - two-and-a-half hours - before I finally fell asleep. So when the teenager says that they are not tired at 11 pm, they are usually being truthful. The second biological change is that adolescents need more sleep - between 9 and 10 hours every night. Indeed, one marker of the end of adolescence is the switch to the shorter and earlier adult sleep hours. This happens, on average, at 19.5 years in women, and 20.9 years in men.
This all means that the teenage years are very messy, in terms of sleep. They can't get to sleep early, and they need more sleep.
For adolescents, an early bedtime is, in most cases, simply biologically impossible. Adolescents need 9-10 hours of sleep, but often have to start school early - even earlier if they do sports. I am still getting up at 4.30 am to drive my daughter to rowing training. You can see the effects of this sleep deprivation when an adolescent switches over from holidays to regular school. When school term starts, they will sleep for two hours fewer on weeknights, and try desperately to make it up on the weekends. The result is that your average high-school student is sleep-walking through their school day, in a semi-permanent state of sleep deprivation.

Well, thats half of the article anyway.