General Update
There are three weeks of school left. Ever. It still weirds me out. On the other hand, the stress of this quarter is certainly making the end of it all seem more appetizing. I am eager for the chance to sleep in and not be behind on projects. I really really really wish i had a few more weeks i the lab though.
Part of what has slowed me down is a ridiculous string of medical adventures.
Two weeks ago sunday i was painting windows at work and twisted funny. Made my back hurt. alright, dumb, but i've done this before.
That Wednesday i still hurt. I took a muscle relaxer from my temporary room mate. Stupid as hell, taking someone else's prescription meds, and i knew it when i took it, but damn it i hurt. We neglected to account for him weighing more than 100lbs more than me. I was at work when the tunnel vision effect started at my eyes and worked its way smoothly down my body, and i recall the vague sensation of "wow, that was neat. wasn't i holding onto a counter top a moment ago?..." Afterwards i decided that Tylenol extra strength worked just fine thanks. Lets not do that again.
Thursday we were setting up for senior show. I was on painkillers, i was comfortable, i /forgot/ i'd hurt myself. So i moved tables. Gods that hurt when i got done. the muscle spasmed and about knocked me over. I was promptly banned from heavy lifting, not that i think i couldv'e continued doing so if id wanted to. Mom got into town that evening, so she was there to observe the rest of the idiocy.
Friday i ran out of tylenol and tried off-brand alieve. It made me sick to my stomach instead. I managed to survive Senior Show. kinda boring but thank gods it happened and its /over/.
Saturday mom brought me a new bottle of off-brand Tylenol extra strength. I read the label! 2 caps every 8 hours! I neglected to note that one pill was 500mg all on its own.... i overdosed on acetaminophen and spent several miserable hours. Mom and i decided to try going to an immediate care center, not quite the emergency room, but more immediate than scheduling a doctors appointment when it was Saturday evening... we made the mistake of mentioning the initial idiocy from Sunday and instead of anything helpful i received a 5 minute lecture on how i aught to report everything that ever happens at work how i absolutely needed a worker's comp claim number because you never know when that papercut might have caused your cancer!! bastards. The next two places had already closed. We just went home.
Sunday i stayed un-medicated.
By this past weekend i'd found meds that didn't make me sick. I was also coming off the hormone pills of my birth-control. Friday i had a make-up class with my prof for Gold and Platinum, with whom i've been at war with most of the quarter. This was supposed to be final critique and decision making on our sketches for our last project so we could get started. she was in the midst of telling me how my earring designs weren't feminine enough when i started crying uncontrollably. I think i had an anxiety attack, because of hormone flux and weird medication, but i spent 40 minutes unable to control myself and then went home. Quite possibly it'll improve my grade XD.
This saturday i woke up with my back feeling substantially better, and in less need of medication. so this part of my world is coming back into balance, but of course, with three weeks of school to go, i feel like i've lost such critical time.
In other news, my laptop should -just-barely- see me through school. It's been giving me the blue Screen of Death lately, probably due to over heating some internal part. The internal fan gave out over 2 years ago, a few months after i got it i think, and i just never bothered to do anything with it. I've already rescued every file i care about off of it and burned things to CD. I still have the disks for Adobe and Microsoft Office.
What i suppose this means is that i'll be in the market for a desktop after graduation. I'd really like to be able to run Rhinoceros 3D modeling program on a computer, and i know my laptop would self destruct if i so much as waved the box at it, much less installed and tried to run it. As such, i'm going to need something with rather substantial RAM, possibly over 128mb, and likely a video card running at 32mb or better. Its almost a gaming computer, which makes sense. I want to generate the 3d graphics myself rather than access them from a game server, but either way the computer is going to have a lot of data to deal with. What i don't need is a super-sized tower or huge monitor or specialty keyboards or any such bells and whistles often sold with gaming desktops. Scratch all this, i have no idea what i need, but i know who to go ask now.
I guess we'll see what happens.
So, all in all, Still alive!
Part of what has slowed me down is a ridiculous string of medical adventures.
Two weeks ago sunday i was painting windows at work and twisted funny. Made my back hurt. alright, dumb, but i've done this before.
That Wednesday i still hurt. I took a muscle relaxer from my temporary room mate. Stupid as hell, taking someone else's prescription meds, and i knew it when i took it, but damn it i hurt. We neglected to account for him weighing more than 100lbs more than me. I was at work when the tunnel vision effect started at my eyes and worked its way smoothly down my body, and i recall the vague sensation of "wow, that was neat. wasn't i holding onto a counter top a moment ago?..." Afterwards i decided that Tylenol extra strength worked just fine thanks. Lets not do that again.
Thursday we were setting up for senior show. I was on painkillers, i was comfortable, i /forgot/ i'd hurt myself. So i moved tables. Gods that hurt when i got done. the muscle spasmed and about knocked me over. I was promptly banned from heavy lifting, not that i think i couldv'e continued doing so if id wanted to. Mom got into town that evening, so she was there to observe the rest of the idiocy.
Friday i ran out of tylenol and tried off-brand alieve. It made me sick to my stomach instead. I managed to survive Senior Show. kinda boring but thank gods it happened and its /over/.
Saturday mom brought me a new bottle of off-brand Tylenol extra strength. I read the label! 2 caps every 8 hours! I neglected to note that one pill was 500mg all on its own.... i overdosed on acetaminophen and spent several miserable hours. Mom and i decided to try going to an immediate care center, not quite the emergency room, but more immediate than scheduling a doctors appointment when it was Saturday evening... we made the mistake of mentioning the initial idiocy from Sunday and instead of anything helpful i received a 5 minute lecture on how i aught to report everything that ever happens at work how i absolutely needed a worker's comp claim number because you never know when that papercut might have caused your cancer!! bastards. The next two places had already closed. We just went home.
Sunday i stayed un-medicated.
By this past weekend i'd found meds that didn't make me sick. I was also coming off the hormone pills of my birth-control. Friday i had a make-up class with my prof for Gold and Platinum, with whom i've been at war with most of the quarter. This was supposed to be final critique and decision making on our sketches for our last project so we could get started. she was in the midst of telling me how my earring designs weren't feminine enough when i started crying uncontrollably. I think i had an anxiety attack, because of hormone flux and weird medication, but i spent 40 minutes unable to control myself and then went home. Quite possibly it'll improve my grade XD.
This saturday i woke up with my back feeling substantially better, and in less need of medication. so this part of my world is coming back into balance, but of course, with three weeks of school to go, i feel like i've lost such critical time.
In other news, my laptop should -just-barely- see me through school. It's been giving me the blue Screen of Death lately, probably due to over heating some internal part. The internal fan gave out over 2 years ago, a few months after i got it i think, and i just never bothered to do anything with it. I've already rescued every file i care about off of it and burned things to CD. I still have the disks for Adobe and Microsoft Office.
What i suppose this means is that i'll be in the market for a desktop after graduation. I'd really like to be able to run Rhinoceros 3D modeling program on a computer, and i know my laptop would self destruct if i so much as waved the box at it, much less installed and tried to run it. As such, i'm going to need something with rather substantial RAM, possibly over 128mb, and likely a video card running at 32mb or better. Its almost a gaming computer, which makes sense. I want to generate the 3d graphics myself rather than access them from a game server, but either way the computer is going to have a lot of data to deal with. What i don't need is a super-sized tower or huge monitor or specialty keyboards or any such bells and whistles often sold with gaming desktops. Scratch all this, i have no idea what i need, but i know who to go ask now.
I guess we'll see what happens.
So, all in all, Still alive!