Well, that sucked.

So,
Last week was the second week of school. I was sick on Tuesday, sick on Wednesday (but went to m evening class and meeting anyway), and through Friday night with a fever. Nothing else, just a fever and clamminess. They tested for H1N1, nothing. They tested for pregnancy, nothing. They checked my nodes and glands, perfectly fine. They decided on "unidentified virus" and told me to wait it out.

On Wednesday night I found out that Josh and his family and I were supposed to go to Celilo Falls (many hours away) and do the things for a funeral. Digging the grave started at midnight, then there was dancing and prayers, then a service starting at dawn, then a meal starting at about noon. They left before the giveaway started. I was banned due to fever and clamminess and had to stay home. Which sucked.

So I missed a lot last week, only the second week of school, and that is a BAD start to the term. (By the way, I totally only got a 60% on my chronology quiz.... I am terrible with dates!)

I managed to get my Short Proposal done in time over the weekend for Tuesday. That means that step 1 of my thesis is complete, but there is muchly more still to do. I have FINALLY caught up with my homework, and am not able to work ahead a little so that I don't fall so far behind.

Oh, and my honey has been gone since Tuesday night and is not returning till Sunday Night or Monday Morning. I have done pretty well by myself so far, but it is rather lonely. I do have the two cats to keep me company, though!

And I have noticed that when I am bored and lonely, I tend to get a lot of cleaning done... but not much homework. Which is a good thing (the cleaning, not the homework) because my folks are bringing my stuff (which I had been keeping in their nice large garage in the house they are moving out of) and I need a clean house a) to impress them and b) so there is room in my apartment for the crap they are bringing.

Maybe I should do a yard sale.

Monday is gonna be fun with a capital "F-U." I have work from 10:30 to 12:30, which isn't bad, I have a finaid meeting at 1pm to tell them that no, I cannot pay because I have NO money and my parents don't have money either, and pick a new lender because the lender I had has disappeared. My class at 2 is canceled (though I will likely go in anyway because I have projects to work on). But then I have work from 4:30 to 6:30, a "guest Lecture" I have to attend from 6:30 to 8:30, a meeting from 8:30 to 9:30, and homework to do after that. Oh, I have been excused from the lecture a bit early to find food, since I do need to eat and this 'guest lecture' doesn't work well with my schedule. Good thing the Prof. understands.

Other than all that whiny-ness, which I apologize for, life is going pretty okay. Classes are mostly interesting, and I have read a lot of interesting things. Work is generally boring, since there is no work to do at two of my jobs (beginning of the year chaos slowing my job down, but I come in anyway because I need the money and they are paying me whether they like it or not) and it is pretty easy stuff at the third. For all that ask, yes I have three jobs. Technically four, but the fourth doesn't do anything so I don't get paid for it and therefore I discount it.

Unfortunately there will be no parties at my place, since Annie has recently started breaking out in hives when around cats for too long. But I get to chill out with Annie and Alexis at their apartment so it works. I try to bring food and other niceities when Josh and I are invited over. It has become common practice that if I am invited, so is Josh, since we are a unit. Even so, I tend to check and make sure in case they don't want him there (like panty shopping or buying him birthday presents or something). I also try not to invite myself over, just wait till they invite me over.

Annie now works at my webdev job too! It is nice, because then things will get done when I am not there, since I had to drop from 20 hours a week to 5 hours a week. I don't think she will need much training, though, since she is smart and works really hard. And is good at figuring out things. I just need to show her the basic buttons and then we can chill and goof off together (our schedules overlap).

I realized that I tend to blog infrequently, but write really long entries that no one really reads. That is okay, though, since it is for me to ramble and rant and get things out of my brain and into a different space. Yay thought dumping.

I think I will stop thought-dumping for now, since you are probably bored (if you read all that) and really are just thinking "Nikki, stop whining." I know. Remember I love you and will listen to you rant, too.

~N