oh almost forgot to tell y'all, i'm still alive

The virus-thing only lasted about 2 and a half days...

Here's a formula for a good-working (from my own experience) cold-fighting remedy, passed on to me by a cool person. Whenever you start feeling like you're getting a cold, take...
3 garlic tablets (1200mg each), and 3 vitamin C tablets (500mg each), and some echinacea (about 500mg, although mine is in drops form and also includes goldenseal).
Do that 3 times a day, for 3 days. (Yes, that's a whole lotta tablets.) Don't do it for more than 3 days because supposedly one's body can build up a tolerance to the echinacea otherwise. I think the garlic is the most important part of it though.