O.k. guys, this will be my quick summary over what has got over the last six weeks.  As you will see, I will also being doing my 'writing' practices as you will soon see.

Oct 8th Saturday:
I spend GeekGirlCon day, coinciding using my first use for my Orca bus card to and from there.  As most everyone knows, I carry too much stuff with my class homework.  I got home, got dinner stuff, etc,  and then I got another migraine in the evening.  I think I've had an migraine this last spring, and then another in August, and while this has been unusual but not unknown, this time, I could only say either 'no' or 'maybe'.

Oct 9th Sunday:
So I took my migraine med and went to bed, but in the morning, I had another migraine and it wouldn't work at all.  So, we were at the VCM ER by 11:00.  We wound up admission me that late afternoon.  Keep in mind that on a rate of 0 to 10 pain, my pain always only 1 to 2.  There was a CT and a noncontrast MRI  which initially ruled out a stroke, but thought it might be viral encephalitis or a solid tumor.
 
D. told my co-teacher that I wouldn't be in on Monday.  D is typically not very detailed any way.  ;-)

They made me wake up every 4 hours during the night.  I was not very happy that Sun/Mon night and I told them that I would not permit them to continue for the other nights.  Of course, I wound up waking myself up.  A hospital is an awful place to try to get rest.  

Oct 10th Monday:
Waiting for MRI results.  My speech is a little better, but still not good yet.   Dr. Pri. & his aide M, are both good and are willing to explain things to me.  They ruled out the viral encephalitis  but put back the possible stroke or a solid tumor.

Oct 11th Tuesday:
EEG (no glue) for 1 hour; no problems.  But it included a strobe session at the end, which I have always have avoided since my 2nd migraine in 1977.  My headache is down to about 0.5 level (on 0 to 10 rate).  I really still don't talk much, but I AM ALWAYS THINK A LOT.  I am still not getting any rest and this is a sucky place to spend time.






 

 

A new episode...

Well, it looks like I am in the process of closing one chapter in my life and opening a new one.  It also looks like I want & need to practice getting my thoughts out into my head and out to both onto paper and verbal.  This will be interesting.  Anyone who is following may use it as insight into how my progress is coming (or not).

Forewarning:  I don't know what is coming.  I'm using this for my own use and I don't plan on auditing it for any other reader.  You have been warning.  

Yesterday was definitely productive.  As subbing jobs go, it would have normally been very boring, but the teacher warned me that 1) he'd be doing the opening part of each class and 2) I'd be proctoring a test, and so he told me to bring something interesting to do.  So I brought The Big Book of Riddles, Puzzles and Enigmas, and have worked through the first 73 pages, flagging each puzzle as 'logic'*, 'algebra', 'geometry', and in one case, 'probability'.  I've been wanted to do this for a year or so now, to have a collection of puzzles I could draw on to support introducing various mathematical concepts.  I'm now done with Part I, with three more Parts to go, and my system is pretty well set up now.  Yay me!


In the meantime, I'm still trying to get over this cold.  I've never been sick as often as I have this fall, and this bug is very much like the last one.  It starts out as a cold, culminating in about 7 days in a fairly high fever for one day, and then goes back to dragging on as a cold.  I'm now at two weeks since I first noticed the symptoms starting to cluster, right at the icky-cough stage.  I've coughed enough that my side hurts and I understand how folks fracture ribs this way.  I'm ready to be done now, any time!

*which includes number and set theory.

Turns out that my Dad *did* keep some of his savings stashed away in an old sock... imagine my face when Mom showed me...

Yesterday was spent getting that liquified and put into savings for Mom and The Boy.  I never know when I'm going to have a week day free, and since yesterday turned out to be one of my free days, I jumped in and got the job done.  But between the drive down, and taking time to chat with Mom about various things, and the drive back, and the wait to get cashed out, and the drive to the bank*... throw in picking up The Girl from University.., my day was pretty much eaten up.

It was good to get it done, and I did manage to stop and pick up my shoes from the shoe repair, which I'd been trying to get done since Friday.  The DH had spaghetti waiting for us when we finally got home in the evening. But there's still quite a few things left on my Things To Do on Next Free Week Day list. 

And, Dad, in a sock?  Really???

*deposit into someone else's account?  Can't do that at an ATM...

There's been quite a few changes these past two weeks.  It is noticeably darker in the mornings, and darker earlier in the evening.  This year, I'm not sure why, I felt a little cheated, 'No, no, it's too soon for it to be getting darker'.  But, as I've noted before, it's been getting darker every day practically since school was out last June.  It's just that this year, it seems different for some reason.  

We had our first foggy morning a week or so ago, and a little bit more rain, and a grey day on Friday.... looks like fall is really here.  Oh, and I've got my first cold of the season.  *That's* unusual; I don't typically catch the things the kids are passing around, but this one seems particularly effective at propagating itself; many of the folks I know are sniffling and there appear to be quite a few teachers who are calling in sick. 

The greenhouse effort continues.  I had really hoped that there'd be a strong push, and they'd get it done, but it seems to be dragging on.  The DH believes that he'll get some of his buds around some Wednesday and they'll raise the roof when he gets to that point.  I keep expecting that to be the up coming Wednesday, but each week, we're not there yet.  Coincidentally, I just saw a link to a DIY site with instructions on how to reuse windows to make a greenhouse; theirs looks a lot more like what I expected than what I see happening out back.  But whatever, I guess. This is The Girl and her Dad's project, and I'm mostly staying clear.  It would be nice, however, if it could get wrapped up before the rains came again....

Meh. Wasted another day, although I did track down some interesting background information about the T. Pratchett books. The Girl tried to burn down the kitchen; thankfully she kept her head and put out the pan fire with minimal ill effects. I'm grateful that I didn't have to make a rapid evacuation of the house since I was in the shower at the time.

The rest of week's activities had ups and downs. I made a major effort on Tuesday, and got a lot of the mess made from The Boy's departure cleaned up. The stairs up to The Girl's room have been vacuumed for the first time in ages. Our mid-week trip to the Sinusoidal Wasteland to see The Boy had mixed results. The primary goal, which was to have him take his driver's test in the new car, failed. The alternate goal, which was to give The Girl a bit of a vacation somewhere warm, was more successful. It was a nice visit, but I would have been happier if he had passed the test.

Fall is coming. It's already dark at 5:00, which shouldn't be the shock that it is. I still associate the long long days that stay light until 10-ish with summer. School is out and that should signal the beginning of these long days. But when I think about it, that's shouldn't be the case. The solstice is shortly after that, and from then on, it's getting darker, not lighter.

I guess this association comes from summers off at the university. Spring quarter ended the first week in June, which would have made late June and early July the middle of the summer session. Summer memories involve working late at the library and walking home in the twilight.

Regardless, school starts again in a few days, and we'll in be September by the end of the week. By the equinox and October, the sun will be rising and setting at 7-ish, the rains will have returned, and the days will only be getting shorter. It just seems too early this year...