October’s been a lousy month for the ol’ bod. In the first week I came down with a really awful cold that has recently decided to attempt to make a long-term stay as bronchitis — though the antibiotics I’ve been prescribed should vanquish the bug in a week or so. It’s been awful, with random coughing attacks that have just left me miserable. I find it tough to talk for more than a minute without hacking, which is quite problematic to say the least.

More crazily, though, is that my knees just hate me. My left knee has been acting up a bit — I probably tweaked it a bit walking fast through traffic on campus. More freaky is the fact that sometime while I was sleeping Friday I must have screwed up my right knee pretty badly, because Saturday walking on it was painful. (No, I don’t sleepwalk.) Sunday was close to impossible, as putting any weight on the knee just flared it up beyond belief. So, I stayed off the knee as much as possible for a couple days. It’s doing better now, but it’s definitely a little unnerving feeling pain and popping in the ACL region of the knee.

Finally, my hair has gotten much thinner. Perhaps it’s the stress of three classes and a full-time job. It may be my shampoo frying my hair, causing it to fall out. Perhaps genetics — yes, baldness runs on my mother’s side — are gaining the upper hand. I think others are noticing, too — I’ve been carded once in three weeks, mostly at places I never go to, so it’s not like they just knew I was over 21. I wasn’t carded at all during the Cleveland trip, for example.

I really hope November’s better.