While Everyone is Out Partying

I am sick today of all days.  Of all the weekends in a year, I'm on house-arrest on Halloween weekend.  While guys are dressed in Barbie clothes and girls in slutty ensembles, I'm wearing three layers of clothing in this unforgivable 80-degree night. While they are drinking themselves to unforgettable but regrettable nights, I am taking potent shots of my very own purple drink. Every four hours or as prescribed. And while everyone else is just trying to have fun or maybe get lucky, I am sitting in front of my desk trying hard to concentrate on this seemingly simple homework but now looks like a graduate student's worst nightmare.  Yes, I am drugged, sedated to my very last core I'm shocked I can still type this.  Hopefully in the morning the medicine has worked its wonders and I am myself again.  But alas, tomorrow will be too late.