I have 19 days left until graduation....but I'm so exhausted that I just don't care. I really feel bad for not keeping my multitude of fans updated on my life but you know how it is. Hopefully things will be a little less hectic after graduation.
So here's a bit of an update...sorry it won't be much but I'm really exhausted and I still haven't studied for my exam tomorrow.
Softball season started again. I know you're excited because I am too! Grabbed my shirt today and it's a red shirt with dark blue letters. Pictures will be posted as I get them. The games start next Monday.
I turned in my Capstone project, all 24+ pages of it, today (two weeks early!) so I'm done with that class and I only have 2 presentations, another 20 page paper, 2 exams, and 2 finals left to do....but who's counting?
I've decided that I'm going to home school the leech next year and at the moment he's not exactly thrilled about it. He's stuck on the (incorrect) fact that he'll never see his friends again. My bird may be coming home this summer to spend the school year with me again, which means I'll home school him as well. This paragraph will require a whole other blog post .... just not right now.
I must be more tired then I thought because I can't think of anything else that is even remotely important. Give me 20 days and I'll fill you in again...lol?
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The End of Time
| Monday, July 26, 2010 |
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Ok, that's a little dramatic...but you know me! As you can see it's been about 2 months since I've posted anything. I suppose I should fill you in on everything huh? Let's see...
May:
Not really much happened here except for the end of the semester...which I didn't do as well as I wanted. Don't get me wrong, I passed everything...but I didn't do well enough to pull my GPA up back where it's supposed to be. Continued with the softball and kicked a lot of butt. The team really improved so much. The leech broke his glasses and I found out I wouldn't have enough money to bring my monkey home for the summer.
June:
I started the McNair internship. It was pretty rough....not in any way that would imply that it was difficult, because it wasn't...but it was Monday thru Friday from 8am - 4:30pm for 8 weeks. There were projects and papers due almost every day. When I got home, I was up till 11pm almost every night working on homework. I didn't even have time to enjoy the heat outside. My tan this year is pretty much a failure. The softball team went into the tournament and came in 4th. Not bad for a group of people who'd never played together before...and a couple of us who'd never played before at all (ie, me!).
July:
First half of the month went well. I got into a rhythm with the internship. I became fast friends with the other 18 people in my cohort. I definitely couldn't have made it through without the lot of them. Then, on the 10th I started having some pain in my abdomen. I dealt with it like I normally do...till after dinner, when the pain got so bad I starting throwing up...and didn't stop. Victoria took me to the emergency room. 16 hours later, they admitted me. I got a regular CT scan which showed a small bowel obstruction...so they stuck an NG tube up my nose to pour contrast dye in my stomach to get a better picture. 4 cups later and I started throwing up. Then I got another CT.
After the 2nd CT they decided that it wasn't a small bowel obstruction and was probably 4 cysts on my ovary. They did a vaginal ultrasound to confirm..but they couldn't really tell. On the 13th the doctor and I decided that she was going to go in laprascopically to find out what was wrong. They preped me for surgery and told me that they either wouldn't find anything, they'd find cysts (which they couldn't do anything about), or they'd have to remove either one or both of my ovaries.
When I woke up the doctor told me that she had to remove my left ovary and fallopian tube. Apparently my fallopian tube had filled with so much fluid that it was the size of a small intestine...and had wrapped around my ovary a couple of times (thus what they thought were the cysts). She was pretty amazed that I hadn't been in pain before because this, apparently, was something that happens over the course of a year. The only continual pain I'd been having was the pulled muscle on the lower right side of my back (which, coincidentally, is gone now btw).
So they released me the next day and I went hope with wonderful narcotics....and then I started throwing up and didn't stop. I went back to the ER on the 18th and after a couple of hours, some more medicine, and a group of male doctors poking on my already very sore stomach, they decided that it was the narcotics that were making me sick because I don't normally take medicines. They told me to stop taking them and I went home. Wouldn't you know, but it worked. Thankfully, and now I've got 1 day left of my 2 weeks of bed rest. I go in for my post-surgical follow up on Weds and hopefully she'll say I'm fine.
I feel fine now. Oh, alright, I'm still tired and sore and I wear out easily...but every day I get a little bit closer back to my old self. Frankly, I've been bored ... the only thing that's saved me has been reawakening my love of The Doctor. I'd forgotten all about the show....and I just spent the last week watching every single episode and movies of the newer series. I'm in lust with David Tennant, the 10th Doctor...but who isn't? He's a beautiful man.
I was a little worried about the change to Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor. Here's my take on it...he's a good actor, but David Tennant is flat out brilliant. The best thing to come out of Series 5 is Arthur Darvill. He's another beautiful man...and he's a damned good actor. Funny but he's my favorite out of Series 5. Karen Gillan was okay...I'm going to interject here and say that I'm glad they didn't try and have her fall in love with The Doctor. It was very awkward when Martha Jones did it. Donna Nobel was definitely my favorite companion of The Doctor's of all time. She was brilliant..both the character and the actress. I really hope to see more of her in the future. Anywho, back to Arthur...rawr....I mean really, what else is there to say?
I s'pose I've been writing a lot today. I wonder when I'll come back to write more? Oh, I've been crocheting a lot...but I ran out of yarn. That's not really a good thing to do. And now, there are more words in my head but I can't really put them in the correct order...or even enough to make sense out of them so I'll sod off for now.
G'bye you lot!
May:
Not really much happened here except for the end of the semester...which I didn't do as well as I wanted. Don't get me wrong, I passed everything...but I didn't do well enough to pull my GPA up back where it's supposed to be. Continued with the softball and kicked a lot of butt. The team really improved so much. The leech broke his glasses and I found out I wouldn't have enough money to bring my monkey home for the summer.
June:
I started the McNair internship. It was pretty rough....not in any way that would imply that it was difficult, because it wasn't...but it was Monday thru Friday from 8am - 4:30pm for 8 weeks. There were projects and papers due almost every day. When I got home, I was up till 11pm almost every night working on homework. I didn't even have time to enjoy the heat outside. My tan this year is pretty much a failure. The softball team went into the tournament and came in 4th. Not bad for a group of people who'd never played together before...and a couple of us who'd never played before at all (ie, me!).
July:
First half of the month went well. I got into a rhythm with the internship. I became fast friends with the other 18 people in my cohort. I definitely couldn't have made it through without the lot of them. Then, on the 10th I started having some pain in my abdomen. I dealt with it like I normally do...till after dinner, when the pain got so bad I starting throwing up...and didn't stop. Victoria took me to the emergency room. 16 hours later, they admitted me. I got a regular CT scan which showed a small bowel obstruction...so they stuck an NG tube up my nose to pour contrast dye in my stomach to get a better picture. 4 cups later and I started throwing up. Then I got another CT.
After the 2nd CT they decided that it wasn't a small bowel obstruction and was probably 4 cysts on my ovary. They did a vaginal ultrasound to confirm..but they couldn't really tell. On the 13th the doctor and I decided that she was going to go in laprascopically to find out what was wrong. They preped me for surgery and told me that they either wouldn't find anything, they'd find cysts (which they couldn't do anything about), or they'd have to remove either one or both of my ovaries.
When I woke up the doctor told me that she had to remove my left ovary and fallopian tube. Apparently my fallopian tube had filled with so much fluid that it was the size of a small intestine...and had wrapped around my ovary a couple of times (thus what they thought were the cysts). She was pretty amazed that I hadn't been in pain before because this, apparently, was something that happens over the course of a year. The only continual pain I'd been having was the pulled muscle on the lower right side of my back (which, coincidentally, is gone now btw).
So they released me the next day and I went hope with wonderful narcotics....and then I started throwing up and didn't stop. I went back to the ER on the 18th and after a couple of hours, some more medicine, and a group of male doctors poking on my already very sore stomach, they decided that it was the narcotics that were making me sick because I don't normally take medicines. They told me to stop taking them and I went home. Wouldn't you know, but it worked. Thankfully, and now I've got 1 day left of my 2 weeks of bed rest. I go in for my post-surgical follow up on Weds and hopefully she'll say I'm fine.
I feel fine now. Oh, alright, I'm still tired and sore and I wear out easily...but every day I get a little bit closer back to my old self. Frankly, I've been bored ... the only thing that's saved me has been reawakening my love of The Doctor. I'd forgotten all about the show....and I just spent the last week watching every single episode and movies of the newer series. I'm in lust with David Tennant, the 10th Doctor...but who isn't? He's a beautiful man.
I was a little worried about the change to Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor. Here's my take on it...he's a good actor, but David Tennant is flat out brilliant. The best thing to come out of Series 5 is Arthur Darvill. He's another beautiful man...and he's a damned good actor. Funny but he's my favorite out of Series 5. Karen Gillan was okay...I'm going to interject here and say that I'm glad they didn't try and have her fall in love with The Doctor. It was very awkward when Martha Jones did it. Donna Nobel was definitely my favorite companion of The Doctor's of all time. She was brilliant..both the character and the actress. I really hope to see more of her in the future. Anywho, back to Arthur...rawr....I mean really, what else is there to say?
I s'pose I've been writing a lot today. I wonder when I'll come back to write more? Oh, I've been crocheting a lot...but I ran out of yarn. That's not really a good thing to do. And now, there are more words in my head but I can't really put them in the correct order...or even enough to make sense out of them so I'll sod off for now.
G'bye you lot!
Today
| Tuesday, April 27, 2010 |
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Today was pretty good I think. Even though I almost had a meltdown.
I almost cried in my Physics lab. It was stupid and I think my hormones must be raging. Kinda hard to tell when you don't bleed anymore.
So I'm sitting there, in the dark cause we're doing an optics lab, and I'm writing really slow. It was a quick lab, I should have been out of there in 30 minutes but for some reason my brain just didn't want to keep up with the guys. We have a new lab partner and when I asked a question she explained it to me. 5 minutes later, I'm asking the same question. I felt stupid but, bless her heart, she didn't seem frustrated with me at all and continued to try and explain it to me.
I was getting so flipping frustrated with myself because it should have been really easy. I mean, I've done this stuff before but it just wasn't registering with me. I felt my eyes start to water and just pretended I understood so we could move on. Thankfully, Michael is extremely patient with me and understands what I need so he just wrote the equations down for me and I copied them. Then he stayed another 10 or 15 minutes after to help me finish getting my data and catching up ... after our other 2 lab partners had left. I love him. I'm so sad that we won't have any more classes together anymore.
Then I go to financial aide to make sure I'm going to get money to go to school this summer. Well I am...but it's not even enough to pay for my 2 classes that I'm signed up for. So I have to come up with about $500 to pay for classes plus my summer rent...because I found out that I can't get out of my housing contract until August. So not only do I have to find a job that will pay me enough to pay for all of this while working part time and also working with my schedule when I start my research internship in June but I have to figure out how we're going to get Victoria into the apartment in June without me being able to help out.
I'm sure we could wait till August, but the manager said she wasn't sure any apartments would be open in August for us. They have one opening in June and we were going to take that one....until all these things got thrown up in my face.
On the plus side! I got to help the leech with his science fair project. He's measuring the distance a Hot Wheels car slides on different surfaces (wood floor, carpet, cement, grass) when released from a ramp. We did the wood floor and carpet tonight. I think we'll have to redo the carpet at Victoria's though, just so I can get a better picture. The outside distances we'll do hopefully tomorrow or Friday when it dries up outside. Can you believe we had HAIL today?! It's crazy.
I managed to type up a list of definitions for my Numerical Linear Algebra final in LaTex. Which was kinda fun to figure out. I also met with my research professor today and we discussed our summer schedule and my next step to writing my article.
We won our first softball game yesterday (that's me, #13!). It was pretty exciting! It was officially 13-9, but we actually had 16. Someone in the score-box screwed up. I'm not complaining at all...I just like to be correct. We went out to Dairy Queen afterwords. It was a lot of fun and I can't wait for next week's game! Maybe I'll actually catch the balls that come my way lol. I dropped the 2 that did yesterday. It was a bit frustrating.
I know my blog isn't read by many...but if you would do me a favor and say a little prayer for me that everything works out without much trouble. I'd really appreciate it.
I almost cried in my Physics lab. It was stupid and I think my hormones must be raging. Kinda hard to tell when you don't bleed anymore.So I'm sitting there, in the dark cause we're doing an optics lab, and I'm writing really slow. It was a quick lab, I should have been out of there in 30 minutes but for some reason my brain just didn't want to keep up with the guys. We have a new lab partner and when I asked a question she explained it to me. 5 minutes later, I'm asking the same question. I felt stupid but, bless her heart, she didn't seem frustrated with me at all and continued to try and explain it to me.
I was getting so flipping frustrated with myself because it should have been really easy. I mean, I've done this stuff before but it just wasn't registering with me. I felt my eyes start to water and just pretended I understood so we could move on. Thankfully, Michael is extremely patient with me and understands what I need so he just wrote the equations down for me and I copied them. Then he stayed another 10 or 15 minutes after to help me finish getting my data and catching up ... after our other 2 lab partners had left. I love him. I'm so sad that we won't have any more classes together anymore.
Then I go to financial aide to make sure I'm going to get money to go to school this summer. Well I am...but it's not even enough to pay for my 2 classes that I'm signed up for. So I have to come up with about $500 to pay for classes plus my summer rent...because I found out that I can't get out of my housing contract until August. So not only do I have to find a job that will pay me enough to pay for all of this while working part time and also working with my schedule when I start my research internship in June but I have to figure out how we're going to get Victoria into the apartment in June without me being able to help out.
I'm sure we could wait till August, but the manager said she wasn't sure any apartments would be open in August for us. They have one opening in June and we were going to take that one....until all these things got thrown up in my face.
On the plus side! I got to help the leech with his science fair project. He's measuring the distance a Hot Wheels car slides on different surfaces (wood floor, carpet, cement, grass) when released from a ramp. We did the wood floor and carpet tonight. I think we'll have to redo the carpet at Victoria's though, just so I can get a better picture. The outside distances we'll do hopefully tomorrow or Friday when it dries up outside. Can you believe we had HAIL today?! It's crazy.
I managed to type up a list of definitions for my Numerical Linear Algebra final in LaTex. Which was kinda fun to figure out. I also met with my research professor today and we discussed our summer schedule and my next step to writing my article.We won our first softball game yesterday (that's me, #13!). It was pretty exciting! It was officially 13-9, but we actually had 16. Someone in the score-box screwed up. I'm not complaining at all...I just like to be correct. We went out to Dairy Queen afterwords. It was a lot of fun and I can't wait for next week's game! Maybe I'll actually catch the balls that come my way lol. I dropped the 2 that did yesterday. It was a bit frustrating.
I know my blog isn't read by many...but if you would do me a favor and say a little prayer for me that everything works out without much trouble. I'd really appreciate it.
To play or not to play
It's not really a question. I promise!
Today is my first softball game ever...and it's raining...lol.
Today is my first softball game ever...and it's raining...lol.
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