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So I've been sick for the past week and half. With strep. But I didn't know it until yesterday. I had a cold last week, too, so I thought I was just getting over that, but my sore throat never went away. So I go to Student Health yesterday. This is what the doctor says as he's going over the blood report with me (oh yeah, they didn't take a throat culture): "Well, your white blood cell count is high, meaning you've got a bacterial infection; obviously, your throat. It could be strep, might not be, I don't know. We'll get you some amoxycillin. If you don't feel better in 10 days, come back and see us." Grrr! I told the guy I work at a daycare. I kinda need to know whether it's strep or not. I didn't press it though; I knew my boss would need me to work strep or not, so it didn't really matter. Legally, she can't have a contagious employee working, but legally she can't have less than two employees there at one time. And on the Thursday before Easter break there is not a sub to be had. So I was there, coughing on the babies (trying not to, but failing miserably), and avoiding handling food. I guess what irritates me most about the whole thing is that she could have stayed late instead of me, but she wanted to get home and watch the Sioux game. Which also sucked. They played a piss-poor game of hockey last night. I was disappointed.
More moans and groans about work. Don't get me wrong, I love my job, it's just that administratively, there's a few things that just sorta suck. Now, I was planning on doing a co-op this summer, preferably with adolescents since I don't have as much experience working with adolescents as I do with younger children. I told my boss this. I gave her my availability, and told her I wanted to work about 20 hours a week this summer. I'm working at least 12:30 pm to close everyday - which on some days is 10:30 at night. Three days out of the week, it'll be 10:30 am to close. On average, I'll be working just over 40 hours every week. Great for overtime, sucks for co-op. Because on top of that I'm taking physics too. So I'll be going from 8 am to 10 pm every day, hardcore. So I'm certainly not going to be able to do the co-op I want, but I'm going to talk to the coordinator and my boss and see if I can do a co-op at the daycare. It just kind of ticks me off that she has me working that much. I didn't remind her about wanting to only work 20 hrs. on my availability sheet, but she does know she hires college students.
School is... going. Could be going better. Strep kinda takes you down a little. I'm behind on studying and have a few papers that are overdue. Grrr. I hate spring semester. It always seems longer because you have so many breaks, and somehow I always end up taking the classes that I hate in spring semester. Although at this point I think I'm just ready to be done with undergrad. Ready to move on to bigger and more challenging things. I got this place figured out. Even my 400-level classes aren't that hard. Now I want to figure out something new. I think next spring I'll take a grad course just for fun. They only let you do that if you're a graduating senior. My fifth year is going to be so long...
Anyway, enough of that. So it's April, and right now it's 12 degrees outside. 12!!! I hate North Dakota sometimes. In general, I like it here up north because I like winter and I like snow. But even I get sick of it eventually. We had a week of 50 degree weather, and then the next week, we had a snowstorm. It made me sad. And it hasn't warmed up since then. Bring on spring! Bring on the mud, and the flooded Red River! I'm so ready to stop wearing my boots and my winter coat.
My cat got sick a few weeks ago. Then everyone started freaking me out because he got sick right around the time of the cat food scare, but I knew that wasn't possible because I only feed him dry food and I bought a jumbo bag about a month ago. Turns out he was drinking the water from the fish bowl. Dracula lives on top of the fridge now. An odd place for a fish, but at least PJ can't get at him. And my microwave died! I came home from class one day and the breaker had popped. So I reset it, but the whole thing is just dead. It's not the magnetron, or whatever it's called. The whole damn thing is dead. The light won't come, the clock doesn't work. Nothing. It's not even a year old. Grrr.
I just noticed this post is more of a rant than an update. I haven't posted here in nearly 4 months, and all I'm doing is whining. My life still is pretty good right now. My parents' house has walls now. All they need to do is put in the cabinets, the appliances, and the flooring, and then my parents can move in. They're thinking sometime in mid-May. Now I can say, "I'm going to the lake this weekend." They're excited, I'm excited. I'll be even more excited when they get their boat. My mom wants to get a 24-foot deck boat! I think it's just awesome. Eric and I are still together. 3 years this year. It's kinda weird. It still feels like some days we've known each other forever, like he's always been there, and yet at the same time 3 years has just flown by. It's such a strange feeling. But I love it.
And now, having killed a half an hour, I really need to go pack and go home for Easter break. Talk to you all later!
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