Toadfish Monastery

Today, I actually did a load of laundry. Not 'talked about doing' but actually DID it.

I'm going to try another one tomorrow!!

I am sooo lazy...

I did my part today to keep up relatively decent communications with people from school whom I haven't seen since it all ended.

Last of the library unpacked and shelved!
Yay!

Also found the crucial, missing part of my portfolio, pack so carefully in the books that I could not find it until now.

Bought a new rear tire for my Dahon folding bicycle. This will probably save my life as the old one is starting to fall away from the rim.  Whilst in the bike shop I also purchased a new brake cable so I will also have the security of a working rear brake.

I booked a taxi for tomorrow. This may sound insignificant, but it was actually very difficult and left me exhausted.

Got my chemo shot.

That means I also have a sore butt... Damn thing sets up like a lump of concrete.

Dismembered my chair and got rid of the nasty, chewed-up-looking armrests. It has a sort of nice, minimalist look to it now - in the wake of this, I'm considering removing the backrest, too, but there's nothing wrong with it, and I can't think of a good use for it.

Also, managed to endure a truly awful dinner party without murdering any person or animal - it featured the really loud, annoying, obnoxious, yappy sort of both. (This also proves that dogs take after their owners, not the other way around, because it was a perfectly nice creature when they first got it, and now it has me wondering if anyone would notice if I gave it a sharp kick under the table, preferably aimed at the vocal cords.)

Quote from: Alpaca on July 13, 2008, 04:47:10 AM
Dismembered my chair and got rid of the nasty, chewed-up-looking armrests. It has a sort of nice, minimalist look to it now - in the wake of this, I'm considering removing the backrest, too, but there's nothing wrong with it, and I can't think of a good use for it.

Also, managed to endure a truly awful dinner party without murdering any person or animal - it featured the really loud, annoying, obnoxious, yappy sort of both. (This also proves that dogs take after their owners, not the other way around, because it was a perfectly nice creature when they first got it, and now it has me wondering if anyone would notice if I gave it a sharp kick under the table, preferably aimed at the vocal cords.)

I know THAT feeling..... yapping animals MUST NEEDS be taken care of by their caretakers.  Or else suffer the consequences.... 

_{Here, mutt.  Have a nice splintery chicken bone....}

That would be a wonderful way to tell if someone will be a good, bad or abysmal parent, in fact I would suggest that a baby's permit should be issued if the person in question is capable of taking proper care of a demanding pet, but then again it would be completely unfair with the poor animals.

May have started an investigation by the Dean of Faculty into just why the students on my course had a two hour long list of complaints and concerns at the course consultative committee....

Today I took Mom, myself and my friend Denise (Da Soozinator) to the eye doctor.

Today is Cataract Day!!

Mom's got some 'repair work' to be done on her right eye, the one that she had cataract surgery on first. We'll do that Thursday.

Then Denise. She's got a BIG BAD cataract on one (right) eye, and the beginnings of one on the other. She's legally blind right now in her right eye. And she's all of 51 years old. This is a 'special type' of fast growing cataract, and can be caused by steroids (she's had a lot) by trauma (she's had several falls and blows to her head from falling) or by a genetic factor. (Her sister had cataracts forming before she passed away, her 46 year old brother has a bad cataract.)

Then me, supposedly just for a glaucoma check. (I have had, in the past, low tension glaucoma. We watch out because it can come back.) And guess what!! I have the beginnings of cataracts, the right eye especially.

Dan, bless him, just spent the day loading and unloading Mom's and Denise's wheel chairs and pushing them. (Doctor's office is at the top of a hill that rolls downward to the freeway. He thought about "losing" Mom, and decided to not... )

Completed another step in super-going-to-college-laptop-lockdown-paranoia plan: Install creepy as hell tracking software.

In more normal news, oversaw and helped out with demolition of parents' disgusting old rotten shower, to pave the way for shiny new shower construction to begin tomorrow.

Scheduled a dermatologist appointment for the weird, slightly-toughened patch of skin on the inner edge of my left foot that's been there for a few years but that my mother just noticed and thinks needs attention, so why not.

Received college housing information. Got housed in the proper place with the rest of the people in the SHS program like I was supposed to be, so no nasty surprises - although I was worried for a second, as I saw the name of the dorm before I saw the information sheet that said it had been renamed.

Found out that my roommate's phone number has a 717 area code, which corresponds to Pennsylvania, found out his email, found out that I can't find him on Facebook via name or email or college network. Gonna go ahead and get in touch tomorrow. I really hope he isn't obnoxious, but I don't think it'll be a horror story, since the dorm is supposed to be full of smart kids, and as weird as some smart people are, they usually have some semblance of basic competence as human beings...

Filled in a medical questionnaire.

Ordered a purple wedding handbag.

Got my AP scores! Finally! YAY!

Bragging time:
Chem - 5
English - 5
Euro - 5
Calc BC - 5
(Calc AB subscore - 5)
Physics C Mechanics - 5
Physics C Electromag - 5

WHEEE!

That should be copied to several threads - Good News, etc etc !!!  Congratulations !