Losing My Sense

See, I've got this mega head cold. It's gripped my sinuses and filled them with muck, and keeps squeezing them so my eyes leak like a dripping tap and my head feels like it's in a vice. Ugh.

With all this, I've lost my sense of smell. There are benefits to this: I couldn't smell the chunky milk I tossed after returning home from a two-week vacation.

The less desirable effect of this cold is not being able to taste. I just polished off a few slices of a juicy, tasteless orange. Not a drop of sweetness experienced by me. Seems like a bit of a waste, really. On the flip side, I was aware of all the textures instead. It was like I was 'tasting' fiber. Take all the sweetness out of an orange and that's what you're left with.