Hit my Snooze alarm for the 27th time

"Just don't feel like goin to work..."

So I'm sick... this sucks. I put it off for about a week. But I guess it caught up to me. I would wake up every day with a sore throat, but then I'd get a shower and be better. Yesterday, it kinda never went away. So instead of going to my Comm 367 class where I had a paper due, I went to the 'Advice Nurse' at the Student Health Center (Bless you John Wilce).

There's 3 cubicles... there's someone in the first one, and then right when I got there some other staff member went up to the nurse in the second cubicle and started talking. I'm like mmkay.... well good thing there's three, and the one in the 3rd cubicle is doing nothing.

So I walk over there and sit down. I'd basically say the first four setences of the first paragraph up above, and then see what she says..

"Well there aren't any appointments until Thursday."

I'm confused why an 'Advice Nurse' is telling me this until I look up... "Name McName; Appointment Associate" ... GWANGJAWEF. Who the hell has a job as an "Appointment Associate"?? There are two workers in the main lobby area who answer phones and check-in patients... Why can't they schedule appointments too? And even if there is a need for an "Appointment Associate"... why is her cubicle directly next to the two Advice Nurses?? Put it somewhere out of the way! Do people truly go in to schedule an appointment? I've been to the health center 4 times this year, and didn't even know she existed until I went in yesterday!

(/rant)

So after I realize she can't help me (and scheduling an appointment won't help because all they'll do is give me a piece of paper that lists HOW TO GET OVER THE COMMON COLD). I slide over one cubical to the actual Advice Nurse and repeat my schpiel about I'm sick. So she says, "Let's look at your throat," and whips out a giant ass flashlight out of her drawer. And when I say flashlight, I mean flashlight. Like one of those big ones you leave in the toolbox in the garage that gets dirty.

So I open my mouth and she looks, and is like "Ya, the right side of your throat is probably a little sore."

"I'm like um... yeah it is."

"Well it isn't too bad, you can take some IBprofin or Advil for the pain, drink lots of fluids, and if it isn't better within a couple days, just pay us another visit."

Then she gave me an appointment reminder form (but I don't have an appointment?). However it was good enough proof that I was there and I wasn't just skipping a class that I had a paper due in. Because I wasn't... I'm sick dammit. And who recommends pain relievers for a sore throat? I've never heard of that before.

So I leave and go to Woody's in the Union and get 6 soft tacos, mac + cheese, a cornbread muffin, and 2 24oz Sprites for 1 swipe because the girl running the POS system isn't too bright and only swiped my card once instead of twice.

So after Black Tuesday ended... right around the time I started this blog last night, I realized that I should probably send my TA an e-mail, telling him that I was at the Health Center and thus not in class.

I’ve been sick for the past week or so, and wasn’t in class last Thursday or today (today because I was at the health center talking to the nurses trying to find out what I can do to get over this illness). Is there anything I need to know for Thursday?

So after I wake up around 2:30 this afternoon, I check my e-mail and get this reply:

It might rain, so wear a coat. Other than that, you can turn in the AAIP then.
JV

Hahaha... wear a coat. Now that is an entertaining TA. I fully support.

But this is long enough so I should probably just finish it and go get some lunch. Except it's now 4:17, so Morrill Market (aka Buckeye Express) stopped serving lunch 18 minutes ago. Hopefully they still have hamburgers, that seems like a safe food.

"I'm callin in sick today"