GAH!!!

My ears are so freaking plugged up!

The horrid congestion in my sinuses (part allergies from when it was warm, part drastic weather change yesterday to rainy and 45 degrees) has made its way through my eustacian tubes and settled mostly in my left ear. Every sound is amplified about ten times over normal, every sound wave dances an extra three or four steps on my eardrum. I just want to shove something in my ear to release the pressure!

And I have no time this week to go to student health. We have another molecular bio job candidate (I'd rather be stubbing out cigarettes in my eyeballs -- or maybe my left ear), several Ph.D. and masters defenses, and officer elections for Society for Conservation Biology -- for which some unidentified but soon-to-be-maimed individual nominated ME for treasurer.

Someone please shoot me . . . .