I’m usually pretty peppy. But not this week. I started off with having to study all weekend for my exam. I realize that at 65 I’m a little stressed about having to write a mathematics exam. But I did something really stupid.

I haven’t eaten red strawberry liquorice Twizzlers since I was, I don’t know, 30. So of course I decide that I want to have some while I’m studying. Wow the next morning I wake up feeling like I’ve got big wad gum stuck in my intestine. I was sick all day. Chills. Went to bed completely dressed and the heating pad.

But this morning I wrote my mathematics exam. I’m pretty sure I did OK. And on the way back my stomach started to gurgle and I knew that this was not going to be an easy walk home. If you can imagine the picture of me trying to go as fast as I can to get home and hold my cheeks together at the same time, you got the picture. I just managed to get into the door at home before the explosion occurred. I am hoping that whatever this stomach bug was, that it is gone. I have two weeks off before my last course!! English!!

Higher education isn’t always an easy thing for anyone. But it’s part of my goal so in order to graduate I will study, get upset stomachs, and remember that eating junk food never ends well.