Sorry for the long pause, tests are crazy and I just haven't been in the mood to post. Things that have happened in the interim: I had to go get a tetanus shot and Tb test about 3 weeks ago. That night after working at the library, I came home to discover that Aaron had set up the (excessively nice) tent we got as a wedding present and haven't gotten a chance to use yet, in our living room. Complete with rain sounds playing on his laptop and a glow stick that I got to crack myself! It was amazing. So we camped out that night with Dwight, who had to figure out how to get in and out of the tent.
The next morning, I woke up with a fever, did my short shift at the library from 7-8:30 am, and went home and slept for the rest of the day. I assumed it was a reaction to the tetanus shot, and that I would feel better the next day. But I didn't get better--I still had a fever on Thursday, and when it went away, I had a terrible cough, sore throat, etc. I don't know what happened. Maybe I was patient 0 for the swine flu in Dallas. Probably not. I did have all the symptoms except 2, though.
Needless to say, I ended up spending a lot of time during the day sleeping in the tent with Dwight while recovering, and it was really hard to study for that block's test. Perhaps I will start calling that tent my yellow fever tent.

On to other things...
Aaron's cell broke on Wednesday, after 4 years of faithful service. It dates back to the year when I was finishing my last year of college, and he was in LA. Since we were able to get on Aaron's dad's family plan, we were able to talk on the phone pretty constantly. It got to the point that we would fall asleep on the phone on weekends, and so to combat the possible radiation issues, we first got headsets, and then realized we needed to get a phone w/ really good speakerphone. So we ended up both splurging on the Sony Ericssons, which was the first phones we had that weren't free from Cingular or $20 on ebay.
I recently upgraded to a Nokia smartphone so I can have ebooks on it, and had pretty much forgotten how much I loved my Sony phone when I got it. Aaron on the other hand, still loved his and vowed that he would use it till it died. Which it did on Wednesday. We were able to find a newer model Sony Ericsson phone for him on Craigslist, and drove out to get it on Thursday.
The funny thing is, the back of the new phone is made of the same unique material as the casing of the Sony Ericsson, and this, combined with the shiny newness of the phone, reminds me of how it was when I picked up my SE (at a corner convenience store meet-up, from a college kid who somehow had 5 of these phones for sale on ebay), went home to my now much-missed Austin apartment, and marveled at its beauty and function for hours on end.
I am so tempted to save up and buy a matching phone for myself, but I don't know if I'm enamored with the phone, or the memory of how life used to be in Austin. I feel like I've been trying to buy myself out of misery basically all year...thank god it's almost over.

Dwight just got up on the bed with me, chilled for a while, and then got up abruptly with the air of just having thought of something, then jumped off, got his antler, and jumped back on the bed to chew. I love that he has his own schedule for his day: after lunch, lay at attention at foot of bed to protect Mom from the thunderstorm, while chewing on my antler so I won't get bored. If there weren't a thunderstorm going on, I suspect he would be cuddled up beside me in a ball, napping.

I don't think I've ever blogged about a dream but this one last night was a doozy.

In the dream, I could feel a ringworm on my neck behind my ear--not just the scaly redness that ringworm is in reality, but what ringworm sounds like: a bumpy, hard raised ring. But my whole neck felt numb, and I kept asking Aaron, "How bad is it? How many do I have?" And he looked really scared when he told me it was the whole right side of my neck.

Ugh. Scary.

By the way, there is this guy at the library computers near me that has a compulsive sniffing thing. He has been here all night and it's driving me crazy.

I'm reading next week's lectures while I'm stuck here working at the library, and I just have to say--I can't stand it when people who have graduate degrees (M.D., PhD), and are therefore supposed to have a certain amount of intelligence, don't know or care about the proper use of punctuation, or the correct way to spell everyday words.

Find the spelling mistake in the following:
"Extension of sclerosis into subacutis and deep fascia results in bound down skin, i.e. the skin looses its normal mobility..."

The guy spells "loses" like my loser boyfriend in high school did. And my loser boyfriend had to drop out of school and take his GED to get his high school degree.
Gah!!

I am not ashamed to say that I made an angry slash mark through the extra "o".

Last night, Aaron and I stopped at Central Market to get some more raw pumpkin seeds to feed the gerbils, and I picked up a bottle of Frank's Hot Sauce for $.99 that I've been wanting ever since I saw a certain ramen recipe online. So I was finally able to have bomb ass Prison Pad Thai, which ended up being delicious, and made me really happy because the whole time, I was thinking that I was eating exactly what some faceless guy (devo), at Marion County Prison in Oregon may have eaten sometime in the past two weeks.

Amazing! Oh and watch for my phone!