Sick...bleh

So the reason I haven't posted in a while is because I have been ill. It started on Tuesday, I went to work but was feeling like crap the whole day, so finally around 2 my editor gave me permission to just head back home because I was useless at the office. I got back around 3:30 and pretty much collapsed into bed for the rest of the day. I got up for a bit at dinner time, but went right back to sleep. When I woke up Wednesday morning, I was feeling worse than the day before so I emailed my editor to say I wasn't coming in, and then went back to sleep. I got out of bed for a bit around 1 and had some milk and ibuprofen but after that I'm sure you can all guess what I did, sleep! I began to feel a bit better around dinner time, and so I got up, I think I had reached my sleep quota anyway. 


Around that time Sari, the girl from WJC I intern with, emailed me about going to an event on Thursday where the President, yes that would be Obama, would be speaking. Needless to say, I jumped on that bandwagon real quick even though it would mean an early morning for me after being sick for a while. I was lucky enough to email the contact person for the event right before she left the office for the day so I could still get registered. Phew :) I stayed up for Cereal night (prepared and provided by our RD) which was delicious but then headed back up to bed. 


So I'm sitting at the Export-Import Bank of the US conference and its 8:00 in the morning, which meant I left my apartment at a grizzly 6:30 am to get here in time. Even though the speakers Sari and I are hear to report on aren't speaking until 11, we had to arrive around 7:00 am in order to get through Secret Service Security. So, I'll report more later on what I saw, who I met, and what Obama looks like in person, come back to find out!