Where's my g-d- blanket?

[fredericks]

Manhattan's a modern Stonehenge. I just think it looks purty.

I'm wasting a bit of time in the computer lab as I wait for the book club meeting to roll around (and when's the last time I posted while bullshitting in here? hells, when's the last time I actually did bullshit in here? you'd think I've been extra-productive this semester but it doesn't feel like it at all. hmm). Feeling a little under-the-weather with a sore throat, somewhat stuffy nose, and slight body aches. I'm sure going through my menses at the moment isn't helping. We started community clinical today at a senior center and I made my way through, but I really feel like calling out of med-surg tomorrow. Not to be whiney, but my shoes hurt and I don't have the money to purchase new ones at the moment and the professor can be a little...touchy when it comes to interacting with those on the floor. I've managed to get off the floor the last three weeks running so I don't think I'll be lucky enough to get to check out another area. I called the instructor this afternoon to tell her I might be absent just so my bases are covered. I hope I can make it up somewhere else.

I wrote the above eight hours ago. I feel *slightly* better now (got checked up by the office NP - no fever, no indication of throat infection...but my neck's feeling a bit wonky and I'm still sniffling) but I realize I just don't want to go to clinical. When I came in I bitched to mom about it for a bit, expecting to hear "go in and get it over with". Nope: "if you don't feel like going, don't go". Well, mom, thanks for making it easier for me to slack. I wish she'd been this cool about things when I was in elementary and the only way I was able to stay home from class was if I couldn't walk.

Came in from the book club meeting. Fun as always. Yet again slash was brought up although, surprisingly(!), not by me. I also learned about Fiction Ally drama/wank/craziness. People are weird (she says as she rec's slash fiction...leave me be, why don't you?).

Oh my God, I so don't want to go in tomorrow.

In other news I might finally get to take the TB meds. I don't know why that doc at the clinic didn't even bother to write me a prescription for the meds knowing that I was entering the health care field. I mentioned it to the NP and told her a lot of the practitioners I'd run into told me I should have been on the regimen and she agreed, so now I have to go about making another appointment over there and trudging up through Corona to take TB meds for six months. My life at the moment is so very sad that I think a small part of me is *looking forward* to it.

The ride back on the subway was enjoyable. The lights in my part of the car kept cycling off and it was so soothing to sit back and take in the rocking motion in the dark while listening to Dresden Dolls (okay, so I *sort of* get them now) and Queens of the Stone Age. I spent the entire 50 minutes wishing I was horizontal with my hair out of its bun and tons of Nyquil at my disposal, but still.

Comments

[sibyline.livejournal.com]

i wish i could have been there, but i really needed my alone time tonight. and you didn't come to my party so i didn't get to read my first graphic novel! :) anyway, i may not see you before i leave. :( maybe we can hang out next week... are you around?

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

M., I feel you. You were definitely missed but it's only because we love you and you're generally a voice of sanity in the midst of our madness (when you're not breaking with the Gollum/Fran Drescher impressions, of course *grin*). Most def. with the meeting. Thursday afternoon/ evening would be ideal for something but I get the feeling packing and prep work might be consuming you so tell me what days you're available or doing something where you wouldn't mind an extra companion and I'll see if I can make it.

[stormbringer986.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel better soon. ^_^

Haha, there must be something about moms and not letting you skip school unless an arm suddenly fell off

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the well-wishing. I wish my nostrils would take the hint and stop producing you know.
Gah! The only time I actually got to stay home because of illness was when I had the chicken pox in 5th grade. If I was nauseated or threw up before class as long as I could stay upright I was going in. I guess it was a good thing as I never really fell into the habit of weaseling out of classes on my own, but still! :)

[stormbringer986.livejournal.com]

Hehe yeah. To me, it always seemed like my sister stayed home every time she said "I have a headache", but if I went out and had the plague, I'd still have to go. XD

[captainschlumpy.livejournal.com]

Feel better! Six months of meds? Is that one a day, week, month? I had to have Hep B shots but no TB ones for me. Of course I do work with the non-human type animals.... :)

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the well-wishing!
As I'm positive for TB it's the course of antitubercular drugs for carriers. It's supposed to be taken 2-3 times a week, I think, so the schedule isn't bad just the 6 month thing is off-putting.