Monday, December 11, 2006 | by nathan

Freedom Flu

Today was, for all intents and purposes, the last day of the worst semester of my entire life. When I was 22 and a big ol’ pussy, I dropped out of Yale in the middle of a semester that was, in many ways, easier than this one. Okay, yes, at the time I had just discovered pot, and I was living in very, very close quarters with a guy who had broken my heart into a million tiny little pieces, and then used the pieces to create a mosaic of Celine Dion’s face.

But this semester I have felt, every Monday and Wednesday, that I was going to have a panic attack upon waking every morning. So there’s that.

Well - now it’s all over. And what do I have? I have the flu. The motherfucking flu.

I’m not sure it’s the flu; but I do know that last Thursday I got my very first flu shot, and since Friday precisely at noon I have felt like hammered horse crap. But you know what? As shitty as I feel, however, I could not be happier that my time working for the world’s biggest douche bag is over.