Day 2: Ugggghhhh

This title is the one single word I can think to describe how I feel right now. Well, how I've been feeling all day. Not sure if it's jet lag or what, but I've been having massive troubles sleeping here in Israel. It takes me over an hour to get to sleep whenever I try, and I always wake up a couple of hours before I need to. Today was no exception - I woke up at 1:30am and could. not. get to sleep afterwards. My cold had kicked in with a particularly unpleasant punch through the few hours I'd gotten to sleep, so I felt pretty terrible. I went outside at 4 and talked to Jodi and Shua, and was excused from going out to the site today. So I've spent the majority of the day in bed. It's about 3:45 right now, and honestly everything up until now feels like a haze. I seem to remember Josh coming to check up on me a few times, and Mary asking if I needed anything, and sitting in my bed at some point with Jodi standing in front of me, and trying to answer questions, and drinking something hot, and somebody coming in to change towels, and two men carrying a dresser out of the room while Christina and Mr. Bennick and Juliette hid behind my bed. And there was sooo much bright sunlight that hurt my eyes whenever anyone came in. And there was waking up and going to the dining hall for lunch, and not being able to breathe because of how hot it was outside. And soup that was warm and felt like it probably tasted good. And somehow now I'm back in my bed, and a little more awake, and I'm listening to a video of Caleb Mann's senior song and it's making me feel like maybe there's meaning to this awful thing called existence. I feel terrible for missing out on working, and it's only the second day. But seriously, going to the site today would probably have been the worst idea imaginable. I hope to be better tomorrow; I'd hate to miss the first day of actually working in our squares. My square was excavated a few years ago, and we're going to start this year by going through the plaster floor and getting further to the time period we want (at least, I think that's the plan). Uggghhhh. I have to go die now, please pardon me until next time.