If you can't gripe on a LiveJournal, then there's no place in the world where it's safe to gripe. Cut yourself some slack, man. Also, drink garlic tea. It sounds revolting--and it is--but it works like nothing else I have ever seen. Boil five cloves in two cups of water, add honey, steep it well with the saucer on top of the cup, then hold your nose and drink tit down.

Drink as much as you can stand while your throat is sore, and you'll be doing great in no time. I like to think it's because your body gets well just so it won't have to drink that nasty crap any more.

Also, gargling with warm salt water helps a lot. Looking over this comment, I wonder why it is that only the foulest stuff works. Why can't Ben and Jerry's cure everything?