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This time, as much as I wanted to call a timeout, I couldn’t. There was no time.

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Somehow, the peanut butter will be awful.

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Let me start by saying: I shouldn’t have the flu, OK, this is not how this is supposed to work. I got the flu shot. I always get the flu shot.

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My euphoria was short-lived, however, when I realized that I would actually have to put the duvet cover on my new comforter. This is probably the least favorite chore for everybody but to me, it’s an impossible task. I tried for an hour to get that comforter into the diva duvet but the two weren’t having it.

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Terrified of spending the evening vomiting in some stranger’s apartment, I hop on a bus to L.A. and spend the night convalescing at my parents house.