Long Night's Journey Into Day

Body aches are a side effect of the immune system response to an invading pathogen or germ. When your immune system detects the presence of these foreign objects, it uses certain proteins and chemicals (called cytokines) to communicate with the rest of the body. Some of these cytokines (like interleukins) can cause such things as fever and body aches, because they trigger these specific reactions.

Yesterday was uniquely unpleasant. Spent the day and night popping expired pills and passing out a lot. Really took a bad hit this week. What's worse, I've got a lot to get done today and tomorrow. Need to get up.