Boone Blackouts & Sickly Scholars

I am sick. I have a lovely viral sore throat thing. I woke up many times during the night last night in pain, desperately desiring calming cough drops. But I didn't have any. This morning I had my physics final...that's right...PHYSICS IS OVER!! I don't really remember what I thought about the test. I don't really care either. It's over. That's all that matters to me. After Physics I had to do what is called Peer Teaching for my How Children Move class. I basically had to teach a 8 minute lesson to my class, pretending that my peers were kindergarteners. Needless to say I was nervous. The fact that I was feeling ill and didn't have a voice wasn't of much help. So I did that and did suprisingly well. Yet again, rushing relief. I love it when things like that are over with. What I don't love is wanting to celebrate but you can't because you are sick.
So I go and get my car to detour to Walmart to get some cough drops and tissues with lotion. While my mother would never buy this expensive kind, I agree with Puffs that "a nose in need deserves Puffs indeed". If my nose is going to be runny and I'm going to have to blow it every 5 seconds, I want the lotion tissue. On my way to Walmart I stop at Blockbuster to return a movie and then get another one for a class project. Then as I am driving, I see that the main stoplight (you know you live in a small town when there is a main light) is out. I think to myself "aah it's probably just one light that's out and there's a police officer directing traffic". No no no. Boone lost power. Boone had a blackout. For some unexplained reason all of the stoplights, businesses, restauraunts and stores all lost power. So of course Walmart was black. I called Lauren and Taylor to see if their apartment (which is over Walmart) had power - they didn't. So I drove up there to hang out with them for a little bit since getting cough drops wasn't an option.
Once I arrived we were all talking about the interesting blackout and what the heck was going on. My throat is killing me at this point so I went into the kitchen to get a glass of water and a popsicle (very soothing.) We sat in their living room for a while before we saw some lights go on near Walmart and such. Still dying without cough drops I decided to venture out in search of some soothing suckers. As I walked to my car I saw one of the Landlords for their apartment complex. I asked him what was up with the power and he said "well the power was out for about 10 minutes". Hmm, interesting. I get in my car, drive to Walmart and then Taylor calls me. The power had been back in their apartment for about 20 minutes while I was there. They just didn't have a light on before. So we had no clue. We sat there in the dark, whining about it when really and truly there was power. And then I realized that when I got a glass of water that the clock was flashing on the stove. THE POWER HAD BEEN ON! Needless to say we laughed pretty hard about that. And I managed to get cough drops before work.