I can almost walk around without my foot feeling like it will fall off. That’s a good thing, right? Well, it still hurts enough that I don’t want to walk on it much. I’ll get this crazy inspiration to walk on it one day, and the next it’ll complain to me about how I’ve abused it by making me writhe in pain.
You know, foot pain is one of the worst kinds of pain. (I should know, having been in pain for the past several years.) It’s there, and it won’t go away without being elevated and iced. That’s nice, but life doesn’t stop for foot pain. It just can’t. If life could stop every time any person was in any kind of pain, then not many people would have lives. Everyone is touched by pain of some sort.
I’m not looking forward to tomorrow at school. I have a test. Having skipped most of the classes leading up to said test because I felt like crap, I’m not actually prepared for it. It’s open book, which is nice, but it would still be nice to know what is going on. I know, I could be studying right now like a sane person would. There are two things that you should know about me:
I only have one week of school until the time that everyone looks forward to until they have children of their own–Spring Break. Yes, I said Spring Break; that lovely week off from classes where many go to Florida, only to come home with fewer brain cells, not-so-funny diseases, and a 9-month reminder that they had fun. What shall I do? The lovely thing I do EVERY Spring Break–sit at home. Yay much? No, not really. I just like having the days off.
My monthly splurge that I am now allowing myself again was WinDVD 9 Plus Blu-Ray for my laptop. Of course, when buying a product to watch DVDs and Blu-Rays, you would expect to be able to watch DVDs and Blu-Rays. It is a very simple thing that you would expect. What happens with the copy I get? It won’t open…at all. It did install. I was able to get it to do that much, but any way that I try to open the thing makes my computer stop and point and laugh. I don’t like it when my computer laughs at me.
Well, I’m off to elevate and ice my foot. Hopefully, now that the pain is subsiding somewhat, the swelling will also ease. (It’s still the size of a California orange.) Keep your fingers crossed.
It took me about 30 minutes to write my 4 page autobiography on Tuesday. I feel like I left out a lot, but I couldn’t exactly give them my entire life story. I couldn’t even give them all the highlights/lowlights. I mentioned Dadada/emotional abuse, growing up with my mom’s depression, Stephanie, Elijah (briefly), how well I’d done in school, how I dropped out of school, my depression (briefly), why I was driven to choose Social Work, why I chose A&M (vaguely), and why I wanted to specialize in Mental Health Services. I didn’t mention psychosis, panic/anxiety attacks, paranoia, etc.
I did my two midterms yesterday and they were fairly easy. My lab midterm was interesting. We hadn’t covered the musculoskeletal system, but somehow the teacher decided to put questions related to that system on the test. Of course, these questions were part of a matching section that featured a wordbank, and many of the questions were like this:
Where two bones are joined and there is pivoting movement
The answer? Well, I figured it was probably pivot joints. I mean, that was just a guess, but I think I was probably right about it. 
I’ve got Celestial back up and running. Of course, now there are no pretty themes or hacks, so I doubt anyone will want to be there. I also bet there will be people going, “I don’t want to go there, it looks ugly.” I’ll install hacks and themes when I have time. They’re not things that I can just sit down and do in ten minutes. They take a while, and I’m always afraid I’ll screw everything up when I start playing around with the coding. Of course, that fear partially comes from my amazing ability to screw things up when I start messing with the coding.
I had an anxiety attack/breakdown thing last night. I had already called my mother earlier in the evening, so I decided to tough it out. When my roommate finally came in, I had been crying, but, as usual, she didn’t notice. She got on her computer at about the time I started trying to go to sleep. Sometime during the night, one of her friends dropped off their child for my roommate to babysit while she (the mother of the child) went to a club. The child was there when I woke up this morning. He’s been there before. In fact, he was there when I bruised my wrist so much banging it a while back. I don’t really feel comfortable having a child in our room, especially since there are rules against babysitting and I don’t particularly want to get in trouble for something like this.
I have two pretty major assignments to do this weekend–my presentation for Camping and a take home test for Biology. I’m more worried about the former than I am about the latter. A take home test should be pretty straight forward, especially since its multiple choice. The presentation, though, will be trying. Even if I do everything right with preparing it, I still have to do the actual presentation, which won’t be a pleasant experience.
One of my books I ordered from Amazon.com came today. It was one of the Lost Slayer books. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the second book in the series, so I still don’t get to progress from the first book (which I originally read back in 2002). I hope the other books come soon. According to Amazon, they shipped yesterday, which means they’ll be here…eventually.
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