End of semester craziness (post involves heavy sweating)

It's the last week of class! I teach my last 2 English classes tomorrow, and then next week is exams. Then freedom!

On Tuesday night I did not go to bed--I pulled an all-nighter grading the final Research papers. (I thought my all-nighter days were over once I graduated from college, but I guess not) Needless to say, on Wednesday I was exhausted. But little sister Margaret was flying back home after being in Egypt for the semester. So I forced my eyes open, and went along to the airport to get her. I got home about 1:30 in the morning, and I noticed my furnace was on. Kind of strange since it's basically spring here. I tried turning the thermostat down, but the dial kept going in circles--around and around and around.... I didn't know what to do, so I had some tea then got ready for bed. By the time I was crawling into bed, I was sweating very heavily! So I got up and opened up all the windows in my house. I got back into bed, but I couldn't sleep. The furnace kept blowing hot air out like a dragon, and it was getting increasingly hotter in my house. Finally, after a restless few hours, I got up at 7:00 because the sweat was pouring off of me like a river. No, like 50 rivers. I checked the thermostat and saw that it was 92 degrees in my house!!!! (Canadian friends, that's about 34 degress celsius) I finally went down into the basement and fooled around with knobs and wires for a few minutes (no, I did NOT know what I was doing--I was just sweating and wanting it to stop). Miraculously, the flames suddenly disappeared. It took 6 hours before the house cooled off to a normal temperature.

So I'm still exhausted today. I've gotten 5 hours of sleep since Monday night. But I'm not upset, because the semester is almost over! And I'm not sweating anymore. I wonder if that's what hot flashes are like.... hmmm...