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06:26 pm
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I'm not surprised
I did this test while waiting for my prof to meet me to make FINAL changes to my thesis before I submit it to my defence committee. I'm not surprised but they're fun to do anyhow. I actually did blend into all the different social groups in my class these past 3 years, not really belonging to any one group. Funny, I always liked to be a social butterfly, but I always had 'a group'. Now-a-days I don't and all my close girlfriends are gone to start their own lives and I'm moving to a new city.
*sighs* Time to start from scratch again.
Category I - The Hub
You're a 'people person'. Networking runs in your
blood. Consequently, you can move through most
social circles with ease.
What Type of Social Entity are You?
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Current Mood:  still exhausted and in pain
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12:37 am
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IT - IS - FINISHED
All 161 pages of it!
Well, OK, it's the penultimate draft, but every detail is in place, so after a few minor corrections tomorrow might, it's out of my hands unilt my defense on August 19th.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to be up again at 6:30 am to go to work and I'm the most exhausted, stressed, and tense that I've ever been in my entire lifetime.
Current Mood: about to collapse
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09:21 pm
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Top down or bottom(s) up?
I think that this program has been bad for me in some ways. Our courses were so discreet from each other, so compartmentalized. Then our clinical placements were usually likewise. For this current placement, I find myself having to wear MANY hats of speech pathology and having a hard time switching hats or combining them like I used to do with other things.
For instance. In my voice placement, I dealt with voice problems; hyperfuctional people who have overused and abused their voice and now find themselves without one (or with a really bad one). I then took courses in dysphagia (swallowing disorders), and studied tapes of videofluorscopy, where people swallow things with barium in them and we do a moving x-ray them to see what happens with different consistencies when they swallow them (so cool, I have had two already and have two this week as well). I also learned a lot about different therapies to help bring back functional swallows so people don't have to be tub fed forever. In motor speech disorders I learned about various neurogenic disorders that can occur to people to affect their voice, speech, and general communication and how I can aid them in communicating better and in various therapies to help. In my course on aphasia I learned about aphasia and many subtypes of aphasia, differential diagnosis to know which is which and various ways of treating the different types. I took speech science and learned about the ways in which we phonate and various things that affect our expression and perception of language, I learned about the physiology and neuroanatomy and what relates to which part of the communication systems (including attention, cognition, etc). It goes on and on the classes I took.
I have all my notes, I even have much of the information in my head. But they were also mainly separate things floating about in my head, facts and figures, and stuff. Now, I have to combine ALL of that knowledge to function in this one job. I need the neuroanatomy BIG TIME cuz it affects what I expect to see and what happens from there as well as prognosis and different therapies to choose. I need to know about the motor speech stuff and dysarthria and apraxia, but I need to relate these things beyond the person's speaking and realize that if affects the whole person and that affects how I do therapy or assess them. I also need to mix that knowledge with my knowledge of voice disorders and therapies. I then need to mix that with the various aphasias, and take all those other therapies into account while I treat the aphasia that's presenting. Then, on top of all of that, the person may have swallowing problems and I need to then know all of that nomenclature, functioning and the therapies that go with that and combine them on top of all the others.
I guess what I'm saying is, it's really REALLY not uncommon to have someone come in after a stroke and be a dysarthric aphasic with severe apraxia and a voice disorder on top of that accompanied by swallowing problems to boot. Yikes. Then I have to figure out which ones take precedence in my therapeutic approach and which therapies I can combine to maximize that person's outcome.
It's challenging, but it's really bringing my entire 3 years of coursework and clinical experience together into one big package (all except for stuff to do with kids).
I'm loving it!
Current Mood:  tired by happy
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07:11 pm
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One week down....
... Seven more to go.
Actually, last week flew by, which is good and bad, but I'm happy that I'm enjoying my placement.
As of this evening my thesis is 70 pages long, not including references and appendices and without the discussion section written yet. Well, OK, and there's a tiny portion missing from results section that's still missing, but I did review it today and made some corrections. I left a copy for my advisor to look over. hopefully I can hear back about it and my method section next weekend, add that little bit about the language stuff that's missing so far and write my discussion section. Well, OK, then there's the matter of arranging all the other appendices, pagination, little extras and stuff like that that usually takes a few days.
I feel good about having the results section just about finished, which was the goal for this weekend, so I guess I'm on a semi high of "I can finish it in time".
Give it a few hours, though...
Current Mood:  determined
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09:13 am
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Whoa...
I re-read my post. Sorry for type-os galore. Proof of my exhaustion. I never did proofread my thesis and I just got up now at 9 am and I feel as though it's 6 am. It's gonna suck when I have to get up at 6:30 am tomorrow and every weekday after that for my placement. Will it feel like 3 am?
I really hope not!
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09:35 pm
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The roller coaster of erudition
I'm in my lab right now, taking a break from my results section cuz it's giving me a headache. I may go home soona nd proofread it at there so I can make changes tomorrow, or I might duke it out until midnight. I've been here already since 11 am.
There is a roller coaster ride that is commonly discussed amongst graduate students. It has to do with one's thesis, be it for a Masters or a PhD. People often speak of the roller coaster of emotions and cognition that one encounters when writing a thesis, and how it affects you. This roller coaster usually entails a sort of "I get it!!... No, I don't get it, I'm an idiot, why can't I figure this out?" OR "This is amazing research, it's really contributing... this research sucks, it's useless, why did I even bother". Feelings and thoughts like that go up and down frequently, almost daily, as you're undertaking such a massive project pretty much completely on your own.
My issue is not so much, this is great/this sucks, or I get it/I don't get it... some of the latter, I suppose... but really, my roller coaster has a lot more to do with "I'm gonna finish it in time!"... "There's no way I can get this done in time!". *sighs* Pray for me that it's the former.
I have so much work to do and pretty much only 4 weekends left with which to do it, while I try to work my way through my full-time internship at the hospital weekdays. It really will be a close one, I'm not hyperbolizing remotely when I say I'm barely getting by and it truly migh tnot happen. If it does happen, it'll only be because I likely will ahv eto stay up all night a few nights to get it done. Did I mention this was while I worked a full time job (with no pay) and a full caseload plus homework at night to plan therapy and research new things I see. Ya...
This endeavour will be worthwhile when it's through, but the stress and burden of these three months will certainly take 3 years off my life. I suppose the good side is that I'll look three years younger cuz I'm NEVER (again, no hyperbole) outside to get sun damage or a tan. I think I've spent 3 days outside since the beginning of May. I forsee getting another 3 or so by the end of August but I'm pretty much booked solid for the next two months.
Just two more months...
Current Mood:  exhausted and deflated
Current Music: eerie silence
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06:44 pm
[Link] | Stole this idea from Maya, which I usually do.
I apparently have pretty decent movie taste, cuz I've seen most of these, and a lot of them were on a list I wanted to see (like Maltest Falcon... or wait, did I see that... I think I did, now that I think abotu it more carefully... oops). They shoudl ahve had a section where you could say "seen it several times" or "own it!!"
And then there's this one. I'm proud to say that I didn't have to sit through most fo those, although there are a few taht I'm not POSITIVE I didn't see. I blame 1/2 of the stupid movies I saw on an ex who insisted I attend a lot of them. Oh, and I remember liking a few, but maybe I was just too young to see their hideousness.
Current Mood:  sleepy
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10:08 pm
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House Progress
This is more for my parents than anything else, but here is the progress on our house so far.
 
Here is the front of the house, and then to the side a bit. I'm not convinced, from this photo, that they got the siding right... I thought we picked the shade darker than that. We'll have to check. I haven't actually seen it since alst week and these pictures were taken today by Chris' parents, which they then emailed to me. Oh ya, that little window on the side of the house, at the bottom is the laundry room window, the window above it is the spare room window.
This is what you see when you walk around the house to the back. The doors ont he left are the master bedroom sliders and the doors on the right are the kitchen. The window between them is the master bathroom window. The window on the ground is for the in-law suite.
This is the kitchen, notice that wall jutting out? It's where the breakfast nook will be attached with cabinets underneath. The dining room is the room closest to us from that wall, where the long thin window is.
This is the other direction from about the same spot, the living room. Note the cathedral ceiling. *grins*
This is the Master bedrom but doesn't realy do it justice. Those ar ethe sliding doors (obviously) and that's the door to the bathroom. See those green wires haning down? Yup, full house stereo system. We also have 'em in the dining room/kitchen and the deck and the rec room is wired up for surround sound right in the walls. You can see where it hangs down in the dining room and kitchen if you look back too. The speakers will barely be noticeable once they're in... kinda like when you're at a restaurant and they're iun the ceiling.
This is the stairwell, den and closet from far away on the back wall of the rec room. That space is all rec room, the den is the door to the rigth of the stairs and the big closet is next to them.
This is the den. Love that ledge. It continues all around the house even into the in-law suite and the walk in closet for that suite!
If you walk out the door fo the den and look to your right, this is the hallway to the basement suite with bathroom (to your left) and the laundry room/furnaceroom/storage room to your right near the bottom of the stairs. You can also see half of the main part fo the rec room. The TV will go in the middle fo that back wall and the surround sound is mounted in front of that support beam.
This is if you're stading near the door to the den and looking at the rec room almost full on. That corner thing is where our fireplace will go. Lots of light for a basement, eh?! I love how big the windows are. There are actually two, but you can only see one in the picture. The other is just left fo teh picture frame. See that wire hanging down just under the support beam? That's the surround sound back speaker wire, waiting for a speaker to be mounted once the painting is done. You can see the other one in the last frame too, next to the hall.
This is the in-law suite room. Not much to see here, but I thought I'd post it anyhow. Nice big window looks into the backyard. That's the bathroom door in the middle, the walk in closet on the left and the door to the hall on the right with the door to the unfinished laundry room right across the hall.
Didn't post the pic of the spare room upstairs. Not much to see. Pretty much looks like... the in-law suite room, but narrower.
It's really coming along. I can't believe how much it looks like a house now!!
Ok, back to planning and research for tomorrow! I've started my clinical placement and things are moving quickly. I'm so tired but Friday night I'm going to do nothing but play video games and watch TV cuz Sat it's back to the school for thesis for the weekend, then back to the daily grind of internship for next week. *sighs*
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10:49 am
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This thesis isn't as much fun as it sounds
I've been locked in my lab working on my thesis from abourt 10 am until midnight pretty much every day for the past week, except Saturday when I took a day off to do some house things and to go on a golfing tournament Chris' friend orgaized for a bunch of us. I have another week of that )except for Canada Day, when I'll take the day off again) until Next Sunday. On July 5th I start my internship at the rehab hospital so I'll be pretty busy with that 12 hours a day, and finishing my thesis on the weekends. If I can just get my results section done by the end of this week, I'll be OK. I think I can get that done. We
ll see...
I'm still sick on top of all of this. I don't know what more to do. I eat as well as I can but I can't afford much more sleep than what I'm getting. The biggest problem is that I cough a lot at night or else my throat hurts a lot and I can't sleep. I've been on 2 tylenol every 6 hours or so for well over a week now and I'm gonna have to keep it up. My poor body just needs a day or two of complete rest but that's not feasible. *sighs* Soon it will be over... oh wait, I've got another 2 months of this hell. Right.
I need to remember to stop off and vote on my way to the school in a few minutes too. I'm voting 100% federally, cuz I have don't exactly have a vested interest in who the local MPP is in London. though the guy I'm gonna vote for is rather well spoken and seems a good candidate, so that's good. It will be interesting to see what happens this election. It looks like the NDP are gonna get more seats in the House than ever before and the Green Party should even get a seat from BC. That'll be a first. Maybe then people will start to think that a vote for an alternate party to the Liberals and the Conservatives isn't a wasted vote, cuz in Canada, it doesn't have to be. Although, on the CBC the other day we heard a hilarious song/skit about how you have to really think out your vote now-a-days. You don't actually vote for the party you WANT, you sort of vote against the party you DON'T want, which is a bizarre and complex concept and completely derails the point of democracy but, whatever. It could be worse... we could be strictly bipartisan and have no choice but to vote for the lesser of 2 evils (which is sort of happening anyhow, however, since so many people I know who want to vote NDP are actually gonna vote Liberal to be sure there isn't a minority Conservative Government! I say, vote for the party you want, otherwise it's not exactly representing your desires for the way the government is run, is it??). I heard that Canada is thinking of a new system of representational government, like Germany. That would be interesting, but I'm sure there are drawbacks.
Of course, when I say people will think they can vote for an alternate party, I'm not talking about the Block Quebecois. Yikes. They have such a bad rap, Gilles Duceppe ACTUALLY said (in a speech on Friday) "we are people just like everyone else, we do not eat babies for breakfast". You don't what??? I should hope not. When you have to assure people of this fact, you've got party problems. Ture story, I saw it.
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11:12 am
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Around the World in 80 minutes (plus 40 more just for round-kicks)
Last night Chris and I enjoyed an actual date night. We needed it, what with the fact that I've been so sick and we've both been so stressed the past several weeks. They say that being engaged and building a house are both very stressful times in a relationship and we're doing them both at once, plus my thesis and residency which starts soon. So, it was time to be a couple and have a bit of fun together.
I won a gift certificate a while back, for having second most pledges for the sing-a-thon. It wa sa $25 gift cert. to Tony Roma's which is apparently "Famous for ribs". So we went there, and had a good and tasty supper, including corn on the cob as a side dish (yum). The ribs were pretty good and nice fall-off-the-bone tender. I brought some of mine home with me cuz I couldn't finish it all, so it'll make a tasty lunch or supper today. Then we went to see a movie. I had it narrowed down to Stepford Wives, The Terminal, and Around the World. All three I wanted to see, so then I asked Chris which one he's like best. He said (in typicl guy who doens't like movies a ton form) "Can we see the action movie?" Fair enough since renting the others would not lose in quality of movieness. So, we went to see the new Jackie Chan flick.
I love Jackie Chan movies, and they always have a certain feel to them. When I noticed the Disney had had a heavy hand in this one in the opening credits, I became a bit worried. JC movies are supposed to have a certian loveable campiness to them, it's his schtick. I loved Drunken Master and others from his early days, and even the ones he started making in English when Hong Kong was taken over by China and there was an exodus of Chinese Filmakers to Hollywood. However, at first the movie had a certian disney campines to it, which isn't quite as charming. I was afraid we wouldn't like it.
No worries. We both had a fabulous time at this movie, and that's saying something cuz Chris very rarely laughs out loud at something but I caught him laughing out loud several times and even flinching once or twice when someone got hurt in an action or slapstick scene. It was great. I really enjoyed it. Just enouhg campiness but not too much, just enough good acting but plenty of good fight scenes, a hearty dose of what you'd expect from a Jackie Chan movie with just a touch of Disney to make some parts really neat.
Good movie, go see it. (But if you only have time/money for one movie over the next 2 weeks, you should probably wait for Ferenheit 9/11, which I'm quite sure will prove to be great. We can't wait!!)
And now, without further ado, I will go work on my method section.
Current Mood:  working
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11:03 am
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Incredible
If you ahve high speed and a few minutes, I think this is pretty cool. There's a guy in Flint, MI that is moving concrete blocks the weight of a minivan all by himself witha few pebbles and some wood. He's erecting his own Stonehenge completely alone and using nothing remotely modern, just rope, sticks, water and pebbles (literal pebbles). Watch this little snippet from Daily Planet to see what I'm talking about and be amazed at what this grandfather has accomplished all by himself. He even moved an neighbours' entire barn 300 feet all by himself! And that's on tape!
Current Mood:  awestruck
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07:22 pm
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If I didn't know any better...
The cold is getting better, thanks to the antibiotics, but the sore throat is only getting worse. I've done some interent research and it sounds just like tonsillitis (terrible pain in the throat, pain int he ears, extends to the root of the tonge, and is worse early in the morning and in the evenings) except that I don't ahe a fever and, oh ya, I have no tonsils. They were removed when I was a kid.
Thank goodness I live in Canada, cuz it looks like tomorrow I'm gonna have to go back to the Dr again, the pain is getting extrememly distracting and it hurts too much to swallow. *sighs*
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08:38 am
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The sickness that just won't quit
About 2 weeks ago I noticed my throat was a bit scratchy and felt a bit of a cold coming on. I worked hard to fight any impending illness. Being that I work with these little kids a lot, and being that they OFTEN have colds and are a bit sick (some of them perpetually), I knew I was bound to get something. Well a week went by and I was fighting it a bit but generally I was feeling OK. Then, last Thursday it really hit me hard. I got pretty sick, my throat hurt badly, my head ached and I felt like I wasn't really awake, my chest was confgested and Friday I developed the worst case of pink eye I've ever had. Not fun. So I went to the hospital about the pink eye (I was in Petrolia so I couldn't go to the university clinic) and for some silly reason, didn't ask for antibiotics for my cold that was only getting worse by the minute. They knew I had one, I even had to wear a stupid SARS mask, but the pink eye drops are all I asked for. Why did I do this? I think it's cuz I got so used to that jerk of a Dr I have in Ptbo, who would never give me anything for ilnesses and always discouraged coming to him or complaining about anything.
So I suffered for a day or two that way, pretty sick and trying to make the final decisions on house stuff so it could be out of the way and done. Monday I had to start my post study assessment of all the kids, which is long going for each of them, and I had to start it alone cuz my thesis supervisor had a meeting that morning with the school board. I went to the Dr that afternoon and she gave me a new everyday puffer (apparently I wasn't crazy to think that my orange puffer was giving me chest infections, since it's a steroid and quite likely was!) and antibiotics. I figured my problems would be over in a day or two. Nope.
My throat hurts in a weird way like it never has before. Very painful but in a more muscular way than a dry scratchy way. It hurts to swallow saliva, let alone food. It's bad in the morning, gets better in the day (could be the drugs I take for pain) and then gets REALLY bad at night. Irt also makes my ears feel painful. My body is aching for sleep and rest a lot, still, and it's hard to get to sleep cuz of the pain in my throat (forget the cough, it's minor compared to that). So I'm thinking I have a viral AND a bacterial infection. So the antibiotics have pretty much killed what was in my sinuses and chest, but there's a virus that's hanging on, making my throat and glands all swollen and painful. It's killer, and here I am at the part where I need to be pulling 12 hour days on my thesis everyday. Argh.
Today was the first day this week where I didn't have to get up at 7 am and my body wasn't screaming at me cuz it needs sleep to get better. However, I'm still up at 8 am cuz the throat and cough were keeping me up anyhow. You can't win. The good news is that I got a LOT of work done on my thesis yesterday. I created a MASSIVE database, coded all my tests and questionnaires and entered pretty much all the data I have so far, whcih was no small task. The matrix is 11 by 250 cells but now I can run any statistical tests on pretty much anything I choose. I figure I got about 11 hours of work done on it yesteray, which is good. A ot of it I could do while I partially watched some TV. Now I just have to do 11-12 hours or more everyday. And get better while I'm at it.
Current Mood:  sick
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08:55 pm
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Our home (sort of)
Ok, Craig made a request and I cna't deny that I'd like to post them so, guess what time it is??? that's right, boring house pictures! Hurray!!!! (Blame Craig)
Ok, so this is the shape our house is in now... actually, it looks like a house, which is very exciting. We've made pretty much ALL of the decisions now, so things are set to go. It's a relief to not have to worry about it so much now. Just details here and there.
So, here we go.
 
 
These are the house head ona nd from different angels. Notice that the neighbours have their brick on. Turns out they chose a brick that's similar to ours, but I'm sure it's nto identical, cuz the brick we chose is only on aobut 2 homes in the entire area and on none of the homes in the subdivision. Brownish greys are what we went with. I tossed in a pic of what it looked like 3.5 weeks ago mainly to fill space.
We'll go downstairs first.
This is the base of the stairs. So Chris is standing about where our fireplace will be in teh rec room. that room to the right of the stairs is our den. Notice all the light? Lots of light in the basement. I like that about a raised ranch. If you look directly through that den, you can see that the three windows are half the wall height. In the picture below, Chris just turned to his left a bit and took this picture of the downstairs ensuite bathroom. Next to the tub is the walk in closet for the in-law suite bedroom. That light back there is coming from the window to that room.
The pictures below are our kitchen/dinette as it is now, ecept that there's a wall about 3 feet wide next to where the pensiula island will come out. Then there are 2 pictures of approximately what our kitchen WILL look like, since we took pictures of another house's kitchen just after the cabinets went in. Ours will be slightly differnet. Shaker style cabinets in a lighter oak and a darker granite countertop. Also, we axed the center island and put a raised nook along the penisula to separate the dining room form the kitchen mor eand give us a good place for entertaining. Oh ya, and we put in a 3.5 foot wall coming out where the long skinny dining room window is.
 
Now if you turn around directly, that's what our living room looks like from inside, with those three bay windows. Um, I think Chris' palm was moving when he took the picture, it's not actually that slanted. But you get the idea. Chris took all these pictures with his palmtop camera, cuz it's easier. You can see where the cathedral ceiling will go. Also, they're mising the cut for the little dome window over the middle bay window.
And now this is our master bedroom, looking out the intended patio doors. Um, there's actually quite a distant view there beyond the trees, but since it was sunset, you can't see much past our property. then below that if you turn directly to your left, that's our master ensuite (and behind it the kitchen again) with the shower in. the jacuzzi will go to the right of it, and a closet to the left.
 
So, that's a breif tour of what our house looks like right now. I can't believe it takes another 2.5 months, since things have moved so lightning fast in just 3 weeks!
Current Mood:  happy
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07:15 pm
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Loved
My cats definitely make me feel loved and wanted. Like when I wake up in the middle of the night to Iqhawe snuggling himself up to me and resting his head on my shoulder, or Nala snuggled up close to me on the other side. I feel loved when they run to greet me when I come home. I feel loved when Nala greets me as soon as I get out of the shower, or when she snuggles up to me, resting her head on my chest or rubbing her cheek against mine. I feel loved when Iqhawe curls up on my lap while I watch TV. I feel loved when he excitedly plays fetch with his favourite mouse.
However, I sense the most love and adoration in this household when I'm eating chicken.
Current Mood:  loved
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11:29 am
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Hangover
I have a hangover. At least, I think I do. I've never had an alcohol induced hangover so I'm not sure, but this seems about right. It's a Nyquil induced hangover. That cold I've been fighting has turned full blown and it's in my head and my chest (things hit my chest so much more easily since I had bronchitis that one time). So last night I took some Nyquil and I did sleep better, though I was aware of a bizarre buzz whenever I got up in the night to go to the washroom (like a good litle patient, I'm drinking plenty of clear fliuds).
I've gotta get rid of this by Sunday. GOT TO. Now is the time that the thesis kicks into full swing and highest gear and if everything goes right, we'll have all our decisions for the house done by the end of the weekend and that's one less thing to worry aobut. Just flooring, paint colours, and lighting to go. Everything else is settled. We went a bit overbudget on our cabinetry, but quite a bit under budget on our sound system through the house. We're about on par with the budget for our plumbing/fixtures, which is good. We've already selected our carpeting, and stayed in budget, but we haven't picked out the linoleum or the tile yet. However, they had so many great looking choices that were in the budget when we glanced at it last week, that we're sure to go with standard for that. Thank goodness.
Anyhow, must have a nap now. Must get better and get rid of my Nyquil hangover. Must have a clear head for talking to our banker and picking out lighting later today.
Current Mood:  drugged
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11:27 pm
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Must sleep
Can't post much. Here's a quicky post to tie you over.
Our house is looking very much like a house now. There are shingles! And enclosed walls!
Saw Harry Potter tonight. Fabulous, as always, but different. You can really see that another director was involved. Much darker, and not just because the books get darker in content and scarier. This had a much darker feel from sets to costume, acting and even music. John Williams rose to the challenge of jiving with a new director in true John style. Great music. Much darker to fit the theme and very... gothic. Well, medieval at the very least. I always love JW choral arrangements and he certainly delivered some great stuff, as usual. Anyhow, more on HP another day.
Getting a cold I've bene bitterly fighting for about a week. It's getting a bit worse and I can feel it in my chest. Ever since the pneumonia I feel things affecting my chest and breathing much more frequently. I am taking much echinacea in an endeavour to skirt a major illness. No time for that right now.
Got digital cable. Having the box in my hosue costs me $2 less per month than not having it, so... LOVE it. Very cool when surfing around cuz it tells you what channel your'e on, what's on right then, what will be on up to a week in advance and all sorts of other cool things. Plus I get to preview all the specialty channels for 2 months. Dad, I have Discovery WINGS. Yup, all ariplanes, all the time. Chris is also a flutter about Cool TV, though I'm not sure he'd like it as much as he thinks he might. But then, I'm not the Jazz freak, so maybe I'm wrong.
I finished the intervention part of my thesis today. Next week is final testing and then I can write as much as possible in two weeks and the rest of it while I do my internship in July. *sighs* It's the beginning of the end, though and that's great. I ahve a ton of mundane work to do this weekend, though, on my method section, my introduction, and my data entry/analysis on what I have so far. I have a real love hate thing going on with this project.
Must do the dishes. Must go to bed now. Must take more drugs. Must sleep and beat this cold.
MUST start finishing my thesis.
Current Mood: sleepy/sickly
Current Music: cat purring
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11:50 am
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Wireless Interenet, HERE WE COME!
We were looking to get our house wired for ethernet, in order to have the whole thing ready for any room to be on a central hub where we can all link to the internet and also to each other for easier transmission between computers. So we're looking into who wires this for us. I called our DSL service provider to ask about home networks and he said we could go with the ethernet or wireless and now-a-days it's likely just as cheap to go wireless. I was very intrigued.
A little while later I'm completely ecstatic about the fact that it's only gonna cost us about $250 to go with wireless in the house right now, and we can add a computer for $50 each in the future. We just need an access point (works as a hub and router simultaneously) somewhere near our modem (anywhere in the house) and a card per computer to get access to the access point. Then we set up the codes and whatnot and so forth and BAM, we've got an 11 Meg connection, downloading off the internet at about 900Kb/sec and linking to each other at a much faster rate. If we get a laptop it'll even work in our backyard!! Did I mention that one of my benefits in the new job will be $2000 every two years towards new computer equipment for my personal use?? Hello laptop!
Why on earth don't they advertise how cheap this is??? And it's portable. When/if we move, it all comes with us, no matter where we go. I'm lovin' it. Can't wait to have this house built!
Current Mood:  bouncy
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08:23 pm
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GO FLAMES! GO!!!!
The Flames are gonna kick some serious butt! Canada can have the cup!
GO FLAMES! GO!!!!!!!!!!
That is all.
Current Mood:  Raving Stanley Cup hockey fan!
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07:38 pm
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The funniest 404 message ever. HANDS DOWN!
I was surfing the net, looking at bathroom designs, cuz we have to choose that stuff soon, and came across this 404 message. I've seen some funny ones, but this took the cake. Hope you've got a few minutes, cuz it kinda goes on, but it's worth it.
Some programmer ahd too much time on their hands.
Current Mood:  very amused
Current Music: Kevin Dean - "Since 1954"
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