aiya

OMIGOD. I'm a wreck. It was supposed to be an ideal wedding in the Berkshires of our old roommates - and while we had great fun catching up with old friends and the wedding was perfect and beautiful yada yada...

The big drama was that I suffered a systemic allergic reaction & contracted a bacterial infection from bug bites. By night time of the wedding, I was getting the chills, vomited and all I wanted to do was sleep. Then my right forehead & eye swelled up so much (YES I got bit there) that I looked REALLY Asian. Eventually it got so bad people started shying away from me as if I were scary boxer chic.

I also had a huge bite that had spread all over the underside of my left thigh. We thought it was funny when my friend slapped me so hard it hurt more than itch, which was preferable. When the itching became unbearable, I would beg him to "slap me please", and then everyone would crack up. Two days later, it didn't seem so funny (especially when I had to explain the bruises to the doctor) when the redness kept spreading, became very warm to the touch (indicative of an infection), and I was still running a fever.

I popped benadryl until it knocked me out for the flight to Cali, and to my great chagrin, I missed the in-flight movie "Hitch." (damn! the one time I actually want to see the movie!). Apparently I've gotten soft from living in the city. sigh.

And to top it off (unfortunately not a wine glass), I got to sit through ten hours of presentations yesterday inside a dark, cold conference room - brutal.