As the title might suggest, it is absolutely freezing here. Just in Ann Arbor it is about 7 degrees F right now. That is without the wind chill of course. I guess we should count ourselves lucky, Chicago is -14. Now I know why we left the Midwest/east coast area. It is too damn cold here! I made the mistake of leaving a gallon of milk in Zoom Zoom last night and this morning, found it frozen. I had to put it in the refrigerator to thaw.
Because of this weather and the accompanying humidity, my knee has been swollen for almost two weeks. Earlier this week the temperatures went up to almost 50 and my knee was a lot better; the swelling went down, there was little to no pain, and I could walk normally. With this drop in temperature it has swollen again and I have to walk with a slight limp. Glucosamine Condrotin and ibuprophen have become part of my daily breakfast. Ick. Patrick wants me to have it looked at while we are here, as I probably need another surgery. I would rather wait until we are back in NM, where I know the doctors. But if I need another surgery, I really should get it done sooner rather than later.
Tomorrow I have to go to staff selection all day. This seems an awfully long and drawn out process with 25 other people, each of whom have their own input. There aren't too many people that I really think would make amazing RAs. I figure that we'll just go down the list. I won't be here next year anyway, so really, it is more about who Stacey and Adam want on staff.
This last week was, for me, spent on duty. Which isn't really a big deal unless you get paged. Which I did, several times. The most "interesting" one was from last night. It came in at about 10:30 pm from Oxford building (which is actually across the street from the FIJI house). A resident had cut her big toe at 1 pm yesterday afternoon. By 10:30 pm it hadn't stopped bleeding, so she decides to call the RA on duty to ask him what she should do. The RA, apparently not knowing either, calls me. I tell the RA to contact Housing Security to take her to Urgent Care and to write an IR. How do these people get into college, let along Michigan!?!?! I don't get it. If you are bleeding, and you don't stop bleeding for a half hour to an hour later, you go to Urgent Care. You don't wait almost 10 hours to notify someone that you need help! Bloody morons.
Lois' laptop came in this week and she is VERY happy with it. She had set up the entire house for wireless, which will be nice this summer when Patrick and I are home. We both have wireless cards in our computers so we won't all be waiting to use the desktop in the kitchen.
My family seems to be doing fine. Apparently Katie and Seneca are going back to NM on March 10th, which they seem to be very happy about. I think that it must be very difficult for them in that house with so many people.
I'm trying to pick up another class, online Growth and Development. Hopefully the instructor will contact me today or tomorrow to let me know if she will let me into the class. My two other classes are fine. The only thing I am debating about it whether or not to buy the Microbiology book, which our instructor says we don't need, but she then puts questions on the labs that specifically require the book. Choices, choices.
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