Working more on Ira...

... only I need a hand from those of you with a better grasp of what sounds good in French than I've got. Late in his high school career, Ira applied for a scholarship from a company that manufactures liquid fuel rocket engines. I am basing the company in question on Systeme Solaire, which one may find at http://www.total.net/~launch - however, I do not wish to use that actual company. Can anyone suggest a suitable name for such a company, to be based in the same geographical area as our world's Systeme Solaire?

gnh.

Apparently all my remaining energy went into the Ira material that I wrote today, because certainly my immune system doesn't have it. My throat itches, my eyes hurt, I keep sneezing, my head feels full, and there is a peculiar stink when I try to breathe through my rather clogged nose, said stink only previously occurring when I was genuinely sick with a cold or something similar.

Man, my first karate session of the new semester is tonight!

Wondering if I should go, if I should phone and apologise profusely to the instructor, or what. Will see how I feel when I get home. I may have enough oxygen to get started in class, then gracefully bow out. Who knows.