Sweet Catastrophe

Alright guys, I’m gonna attempt a weekly meme-type thingie over at Aftershocks. It’s all about songs and the memories they bring up, and it’s called “Remember Wednesday.” Check it out, offer up some constructive criticism, prepare a post, gimme all you’ve got! I’m gonna keep going with it whether or not it catches on so you might as well join me! You know you wanna at least see what it’s all about!

I think I’ve decided against going to Milwaukee, as previously discussed. It’s somewhat doable, but it’d be a solid financial burden that I’d be bringing on myself. Everyone else working on this trip has a backup–either they’re still financially supported by their folks, or they’re at least in an easy position to turn to them if they need help. I’m not. Not that my parents wouldn’t help me, I can’t just expect that either of them would be capable of helping me without putting a strain on their own assets. Bottom line, I’m just not comfortable with taking the risk.

Now, Kristi is still waiting on Katie to check into some things, and if they fall into some amazing flight deals, and can really help me out, well, then I’m not against the trip. I guess I’m saying I’m not trying to talk myself out of it because it’d be an anxiety-causing new experience for me, I just think I’m kidding myself if I think I can really afford to do this…responsibly.

Damn the life of living paycheck to paycheck.

So I’ve definitely got a cavity. It’s getting to a point where it’s really bothering me. Anyone have any ideas on how much I’d have to scrounge up to get a cavity filled with no insurance?

As much as I’d like to leave, it’s become pretty obvious that I’m not getting out of Lowe’s any time soon. Maybe I should look into signing up for the insurance. If nothing else, I’d really like to have dental and get all this taken care of—cavities and wisdom teeth. Up until Mom had to drop me from her insurance, I had the regular twice a year checkups. As much as I don’t enjoy going to the dentist, it’s nice to have that basic upkeep and know everything’s in shape! Cratered is a shape though, right?

So Ryan just got off the phone with a long-time friend who works within the school systems in Atlanta area. Clayton County schools have now officially lost accreditation! Sucks to have this happen so close to the end of the school year since that leaves graduating seniors with very little time to make the necessary arrangements to be able to attend college in the fall!

They’ll be scrambling now to get something in place before the new school year begins, otherwise students will have to arrange to attend other schools in the area–not that there aren’t plenty to choose from, but it’ll be a pain for everyone in regards to how transportation will have to change.

Do you guys know of any good sites for wasting time on your phone? Such as really interesting news sites and/or game sites that are properly formatted for a phone browser?

***Girl Post***

As I thought, the $40 of blood work told us nothing. My thyroid is fine, my brain is sending all the proper signals, and as a matter of fact, I was ovulating when they drew blood–which means that took place on day 3 instead of closer to day 14….so I’m sticking to my theory that all the changes and stress have just completely thrown off my schedule. When my body is ready for me to have a period, I’m still on pills and when I’m not on pills, it’s not time.

So we’re going back to the last pills I was on before everything went wonky. She gave me 4 packs of Loestrin24. I’m supposed to go back in 2 months if I’m in classes (and thus eligible for care at the student health center) or 4 months when Fall classes start back. Hopefully that’ll take care of it.

For now I’m gonna stop stressing over it. I’d really like to grab my pool floats and just go soak for a while and forget it all. If nothing changes, I’m gonna do my best not to worry about it for a few months, until we can look for other causes.

Two of my presentations are over and done so I’m feeling a little relief. Spanish is pretty much all I’m worried about now. We’ve got a presentation there that well, I don’t think is gonna be so hot and then I need to really prepare for the final. I didn’t do so well on the final last semester. It was very straightforward and there wasn’t a lot to it so a bunch of careless mistakes really cost me. I need to watch out for that this semester–she grades me pretty strenuously since she thinks I’m a good student, just not there enough. I hate when teachers do that. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad she’s cutting me some slack on her absence policy, but I wish she wouldn’t make it such a personal thing.

So it’s almost over. Two more Spanish classes and one Spanish final and I’m done with Spanish! Soon I can stop faking my Spanish knowledge! Woo! I’m kinda proud that I’ve somehow managed to b.s. two full semesters of Spanish…

So I haven’t had my period in three months. I went to the school clinic today to figure out what was up and I’m not pregnant and it’s not any sort of infection so I’m paying for $40 worth of blood tests. They took 3 full vials of blood and I haven’t eaten at all today. I’m like a step away from dead arm; it’s killing me. I bet anything that $40 of blood work will give no conclusive results. That’s just how my body rolls.

I’m in the lab right now–had to come straight over after my appointment so I could put the finishing touches on my PowerPoint since my computer absolutely hates media of any sort this week. As soon as my teacher comes in I’m gonna ask her if I can present first and get outta here. I’ve got to eat something…

Let’s skip past how last night eventually played out to annoy me even more. On to today. I set my alarm for p.m. so I woke up just in time to be late for class. Windows Movie Maker ate my presentation and now all of the clips I was putting together are loading dark–you can barely see shadows. Fine.

I decided to make a quick web page for my presentation. No. You can’t do that either because FrontPage keeps freaking out and shutting down.

I’m tired. I’ve been rushed to finish this presentation properly and work on another with a group in between. I’m still boiling over about everything that went down last night. I still have to go actually do this presentation and then go to work. I really just want to go to bed. I need this all to be over and done. I need to stop having so much to gripe about here…

I hate that Ryan’s friends get the vibe that I don’t like them but I definitely know where they get that idea. I’m never just bursting with excitement over hanging out with them and tonight is a perfect example. We’re supposed to be having dinner and they haven’t even bought the food to cook yet…and I’m so entertained I’m sitting here blogging on my phone…someone give me a cracker please?

EDIT: So I wrote that around 6:30. At 9:40, we were just getting back in from buying the food to cook. They still had to put the grill together. Food was not to be had for over another hour. So I had to leave because I had to come home and finish my project (which just fell apart when Windows Movie Maker decided to break). So at some point tonight, they all had a yummy dinner. I, on the other hand, came home and made ramen so I could get my work done. No, I’m not the least bit happy.