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OK, so, the EGD…was not as bad as I thought it would be. I was under anaesthesia, I don’t remember it, and I didn’t even end up with a sore throat! I don’t have an official diagnosis, and the doctor didn’t really say much to me or Zack (who would remember it far better than I would, because I was still coming out of the anaesthesia.) Anyway, what I do know is, they dilated my esophagus and took a biopsy to see if it is Barrett’s Esophagus. The doctor prescribed 2 months worth of Nexium and I need to set up an appointment because I am supposed to have a follow-up with him 2 weeks after the procedure.
Oh, and the test score I was worried about ended up being way better than I thought. I got 89.92%, a B+. Now, why the hell anyone grades to 89.92 and doesn’t just round it up to 90 and give me an A-, I don’t know. But that is far better than what I expected, so I guess I can’t complain. I mean, I made stuff up. I think I may have invented words. Yet, B+. So, yay!
I am so thirsty. I’m not supposed to have anything to eat or drink after midnight, I drank a whole lot of water right at midnight, but now it’s 12:25 and I feel parched. 
I have to go to bed soon too, because I have to get up and be at the hospital at 8:00 to have some really unpleasant sounding test called an EGD done because I have problems swallowing my food.
I got some good news too though - I got an 86% on the test I took for my advertising class last week. Rather unexpected, but I wasn’t expecting to do too badly…I was thinking more along the lines of a C. My Thursday class though? That’s another story. I dread getting that test back. I dread getting that test back very much. I blanked on a lot of it.
I really appreciate all the comments and I need to get to replying to them and reading & commenting on other blogs - I’m way behind on my blog reading. Been kinda busy, which is why I haven’t updated much either.
Anyway, I’ve got to get to bed so I can get up early. Sound like I’ve got a fun day ahead of me. 
I don’t know what the hell I did to mess up the layout of MacJournal, but this is really annoying. The help file is decidedly unhelpful.
I have way more productive things to be doing right now than reading blogs and playing games on Myspace. Actually, I’m finding this somewhat painfully boring at the moment. I need to be reading, or studying, or both. I have 2 tests coming up this week. I feel ok about the one on Tuesday, but the Thursday one..not so much.
I at least should be doing laundry or something. My parents are out of town helping my brother and his wife do some work on their new house. So this is the perfect opportunity for laundry, because when my mom is here we are constantly fighting over the washer and dryer. She’ll always leave her shit in the dryer for days on end when I need to wash clothes. Or I’ll get my basket all sorted and carry it downstairs…and she’s just started a load. Or vice versa. Zack thinks this is hilarious.
Guess I’ll try to go do something halfway useful.
I am very much in the mood for some Babycham. Damn you Bevmo, for introducing me to it. I just couldn’t resist “The Happiest Drink in the World” when we went there.
I have class tonight. I don’t wanna go. I don’t feel well either, which makes the 1 1/2 hour drive seem all the more unappealing. I guess it’s a good thing I don’t have any Babycham, ‘cause it’s probably not a great idea to have a glass when a.) I don’t feel all that great and b.) I have places I’m supposed to be going in a few hours. Because then I wouldn’t go. I might not go anyway. I haven’t fully decided yet. I guess it depends on how I feel after I take some Motrin.
I have an assignment due tonight, which I haven’t done yet. I just can’t get motivated to do it, since it’s not really worth anything. He grades to a tenth of a point, so if we do all 5 of these mini-papers and we get, say, an 89.9% he’ll round it up from a B+ to A-. Whoop-de-frigging-do. I’ve already got term papers and tests to worry about.
I’m going to have to take 4-5 classes next semester, since my concurrent enrollment for 2 classes at CSU Bakersfield fell through. All my paperwork was in at CSUN, and they sent it to CSUB, who never gave me a registration date, the people who know about it don’t answer the phone, and they don’t return their voicemails. This kinda sucks because I was intending to spend more time looking for work during my last semester, rather than scrambling to finish up my remaining classes.
- Finally went to a doctor who is willing to try to figure out why I’m so damn tired all the time. My old one basically said I was just lazy, she disagrees.
- Went on a behind the scenes tour of a major television studio for one of my classes. Very, very cool.
- Found new boots that I like almost as much as my old ones (it took several years to find more I like this much!) Ditto for my new purse.
- That’s about it.
Dear Mr. SUV Man/Ms. SUV Woman,
I was just thinking about you. Remember me from last night? I was the little red car driving in front of you. I was driving down the curvy highway at night, which I haven’t driven on enough times to have memorized all the curves. I know you don’t care how poor my night vision is, or how smudged my windshield was from shitty glass wipes. I was driving the speed limit, but that seemed to make you really unhappy. Why is that? Are you just an angry person in general? Is it because you purchased a gas-guzzling monster of a vehicle, only for gas prices to skyrocket shortly after? If so, don’t take it out on me.
Did you purchase your SUV because you like to intimidate people in smaller cars? I’ll bet you are also one of those people who likes to pull out so far that the person in the car next to you cannot see oncoming traffic to make their turn. Even though you can clearly see over their little car. But I digress.
I was writing because I have a question for you. Exactly what is it that makes you think that by following me too closely with your brights on, I will go faster? Has it not occurred to you that blinding the person in front of you only makes them go slower because they can no longer see the lines or where the curves are? I was having enough trouble before you came along. I was going to get over as soon as there was a passing lane so you could get around me. In fact, I did. Remember? But I wasn’t going to pull over onto the shoulder so your sorry ass could be a speed demon. My apologies. I will see you again tomorrow night, or someone just like you.
Sincerely,
Compact Car Lady
I start losing track of time when school is in session. I’m thinking, “eh, I posted the day before yesterday” when it’s been more like a week.
I’ve been home for 2 hours now, and when I started my 1 1/2 hour journey back here, all I could think of was sleeping as soon as I got home. And then look, here I am, reading blogs, watching Monk, checking e-mail….I am still sooo tired though, I have no idea what I’m still doing up.
It’s my dad’s birthday today, and I still haven’t gotten a present for him. I will be making him a giant cupcake though…even though it’s not really something he’s supposed to be eating. You only have a birthday once a year though, right?
I think it is time for me to go to bed now though, because I’m kind of nodding off as I’m trying to type and my brain isn’t really fully functional right now.
Zzzzzzzz…….
So, Thursday marked my first time driving to L.A….err, Northridge all by myself and driving back. I have mentioned before that I do not drive on the freeway because of some inexplicable phobia about it. So, I took the highway there (I have been told numerous times that the highway is worse than the freeway because it’s 2 lanes and blah blah blah..but people are not going as fast and whipping around each other to get there 2 minutes earlier and I don’t have to go through the whole getting on the freeway and getting off and that freaks me the hell out.)
Anyway, I had my class Thursday night (I didn’t make it to the Tuesday one largely because I was terrified of driving myself there…but I am definitely going this week.) When I was driving home on the highway there was some sort of accident or something because it was one truck in front of me and in front of him there were just emergency vehicles as far as the eye could see driving extremely slowly. It was taking like 15 minutes to go half a mile. I tried that for quite some time, but there was no sign of it ever getting better and more and more cop cars & etc. kept joining the caravan (I have no idea what happened, I never heard anything about it on the news or anything.) So at this point I am so frustrated and pissed because it took over an hour to get there and then 3 hours of class and then not being able to leave until 10 pm, and OMFG the traffic never ends. I am in fact so irritated that I nearly get on the freeway to escape this mess, which is a big deal in and of itself because of my aforementioned freeway phobia.
I ultimately decided not to do that, but I got off the highway and took a different route home, which consisted of driving mostly downhill, through the mountains, with 180 degree turns one way, and then back the other way, and then back the other way again which was only like 30 or 40 miles or so but felt like for fucking ever. And I got home safe and sound, about a quarter to midnight, even though I was almost as scared of the mountain road as the freeway (and realistically, should have been far more so because I was basically hanging off the side of the mountain, with a very far drop, which I knew was there but at least couldn’t see because it was nighttime.
Oh, and also, there is one freaky ass narrow road that is nearly impossible to make a left turn to get onto, which takes one from highway into town on the way there which I thankfully have found a way to avoid in the future. So basically, I have now driven on 2 of the scariest, most messed up roads around here, to avoid driving on the freeway. So, I think I’m going to start trying to drive the freeway sometime pretty damn soon, because I am so much braver than I though I was, being such a wussy driver and all.
I got some work done on my car. All that’s left to do is replace the fuel filter and timing belt, and get the tires rotated.
We went to Winco and bought groceries. I should have taken pictures of their produce. Seriously, the strawberries had more fur than my cat. Gross.
Now, I’ve spent way too much time trying to get MacJournal to download my old Livejournal entries. It will only download the 20 most recent..which are already stored in MacJournal, and I want the 2005-2006 ones. I exported from Livejournal’s site, and couldn’t get the file to import properly into MacJournal. I wasn’t planning on posting them here or anything, but I just wanted to have a local copy in the unlikely event that something happens with their site. This idea appears to be far more trouble than it’s worth. If anyone has dealt with this program and can tell me what the hell I’m doing wrong, that would be great.
I went and had my thyroid scan this morning. I’m aware that, as a rule, the ultrasound techs don’t/can’t/won’t tell you anything. But I asked her anyway, and she told me that to her, it doesn’t appear to look any different from last time. I take that as very comforting news since my follow-up appointment is two weeks away.
Also, I heard back from my advisor who said that as far as she’s concerned, I can do whatever the hell I want since the department head already told me it was okay. So tomorrow I go to the other campus and make sure it’s okay with them for me to take these classes. Then it’s just a matter of filling out a form, having CSUN fill out part of it, then CSUB fill out part of it, and registering for those classes. That way my financial aid covers it, and everything is peachy-keen, and I then I just have to take the transcripts to CSUN and have the department chair sign off on another form declaring that it was, in fact, okay for me to substitute those courses. But I swear, doing all of this actually makes life much easier for me. So…yay! But I am definitely saving the e-mail where he said it was alright for me to do this. Just in case.
