Tomorrow is my surgery, and I'm a nervous wreck. It's actually amazing that I've made it 27 years without having to have anesthesia at any point, so perhaps I'm lucky?....I'm having all kinds of irrational fears, which is quite typical for me, but really, I just want tomorrow to be over with. I guess it's good that I'm teaching today so it will ( Read more... )

Today I finally had my appointment with my gastroenterology specialist. Now, I have an appointment for a biopsy on Nov. 1. I am dreading, dreading, dreading it. I've never been under before, never had an IV, nothing. I'm terrified. I almost cried when he told me. And, to make matters worse, I need a colonoscopy after that. He wanted to do ( Read more... )

My doctor called me yesterday with my blood results: I'm still positive for celiac disease. Now, once you are compliant with the gluten free diet, you should show negative on any celiac blood panel. Thus, this means that I'm still getting gluten somehow. As most of you know, I haven't eaten in a restaurant in 1.5 years. I only cook for myself ( Read more... )

Life is really boring right now. I work all the time, and I really feel like I need a hobby. I just don't know what. I do yoga and pilates at a studio, and that's cool, but I need something else. I'm out of ideas. I'm boring ( Read more... )

This school year started off with quite a fervor, considering all that happened here in Blacksburg on Monday. The weird thing is that after Tuesday (one measly day after the incident), everyone seemed to forget about it. My students never once mentioned it (they're juniors and seniors, so they're too "cool" to talk about such things :), and no ( Read more... )

Yes, I'm in denial. I can't believe that classes start again in three weeks. Ugh. I haven't even ordered my books yet (which I guess is okay because I use very common tech writing books). I'm not excited at all about teaching again. Everything that happened last year has left me with a bad taste in my mouth about the department, and Steve and ( Read more... )

We moved into our new house on Monday, and now I'm exhausted. We're very happy that we hired movers. Monday was the hottest day we have had so far this year, and we have no A/C in our house (though we do now have window units), so movers were a good thing ( Read more... )

I went to a wedding in Alabama this past weekend and had a great time. Huntsville is actually a pretty cool city. It was hot, it had good shopping, and it wasn't too expensive, and hey, that's all I ask for in a place. We went down there for Steve's college roommate's wedding, and it was just beautiful. I love hanging out with Steve's friends ( Read more... )

My life has been rather boring lately. I work all week and do a whole lot of nothing on the weekends (not to mention the whole lot of nothing that I do during the weekdays while I'm at work). I keep counting down the days until we move, and that's all that's really occupying my time right now. I suppose I'll have to start boxing up more stuff. ( Read more... )

So last week my charming dog pulled me down my apartment stairs. So I now have a busted tailbone. Walking, sitting, driving, basically anything that uses your ass (do you realize how many times in a day you actually *do* use your ass?) is really painful. It'll take months to heal--nice, huh? Just in time for moving--grand ( Read more... )