Unless you’re interested in my plans for the class I’m taking, this post won’t be of much interest to you. This is intended as something I can print out for each lesson for an easy reference sheet, as well as having it available when I don’t have my textbook with me.

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My return to college to finish my degree has begun. I have 16 hours of freshman and sophomore courses to complete, of which half can be taken via correspondence. Correspondence courses require an amount of discipline that I didn’t have the last time I attempted one. That was years ago, and due to my work schedule, something I had better be over. Read the rest of this entry

I really hate driving in San Antonio. Trying to get to the airport this morning I maintained my record of getting lost every time I have to go anywhere in this city, GPS or no.

By the time we got to security I didn’t have the heart to request a pat-down instead of a full body scan. A pat-down right now would be pretty painful anyway.

I’m now sitting at the gate with 30 minutes to spare, and can finally take a hydrocodone and some benedryl. If there weren’t family at the end of today there’s no way I would bother with all this!

My boss is being very understanding about having me work from home. And keeps telling me I can take time off if I need it. So far, working from home is fine; I am still in pain but don’t need to worry about a bra strap rubbing me raw or taking a short break when I get a sudden sharp spike in pain and start crying.

I am such a wussy-pants. At least I am a wussy-pants that can be wussy in the privacy of my own home. The pants are a bonus.

I feel like I have the flu. The nerves being affected by my shingles apparently include those that are near my stomach (my first symptom I actually mistook for having eaten something that disagreed with me). On top of that I feel feverish and very tired and I have a headache. I want to go home and curl into a little ball until it all stops.

I’m leaving work at noon today to sleep some more because this is exhausting, but I hope that these flu-like symptoms are almost done. I don’t want this to turn out like mono.

First things first: Never ever ever follow dermatological links on Wikipedia. Within 3-5 links you’ll be sorry.

Second: Get your kids vaccinated against chicken pox.

Third: Someone bring me morphine.

Maybe more later :(.

I’d just gotten home from my appointment at AABC (at about 5:30) and was busily trying to install our new HDMI switcher box when my vet called. Now as far as I know, all our animals are up to date on everything so I couldn’t imagine what the vet wanted. Read the rest of this entry

“Miscellany” would make an awesome collective noun. Like a miscellany of Matuszeks, or a miscellany of collective nouns.

I’m pondering going back to school. I doubt I would actually go for more than one class any time soon, as I want to make sure I can actually finish this time. Right now I’m just trying to figure out what I would need to have in order to get back to it. I also need to find out if I could take time off for maternity.

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