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It seems a good idea while I am generally hanging around Jen's office doing absolutely nothing to do that update-type thing that I seem to have become incapable of doing recently.
So, for those who have a general idea of what's going on - I do *not*, in fact, have Strep Throat. I know this because I went to the on-campus clinic this morning and they tested me for it (I got up an hour early for that?). I *do* definitely have tonsilitus (aka a throat infection) most likely caused by some bacteria thingie which is just less common than the one that causes strep.
I am too poor to find out for certain which one and this does not bother me too much because, whatever it is, the antibiotic the doctor gave me will most likely take care of it. If the antibiotic *doesn't* affect it, then I am in for worse problems involving bloodwork and insanity, but I'm fairly sure that will not be necessary.
So, I have a 5-day course of antibiotics that I started today and I am also supposed to gargle with warm salt water to make my throat feel less like it is made out of bits of broken glass, but I shall endure.
I also find it odd that, like, everybody I know is sick and they are all sick in vastly different ways. Very, very weird.
Randomness that I meant to post about yesterday but I got distracted by that whole going-home-and-driving-back-so-that-I-could-finally-have-my-car thing:
Yesterday, as I was leaving the 4th floor of Grise and walking around FAC on the side in front of the library, I saw the strangest thing. There is this set of stairs, off to the right of the entrance to the library that goes down the equivalent of several floors and they turn several times on the way down. As most stairs do, this set has a metal hand rail. When I happened to be walking by with Jen yesterday, I saw a guy climb onto the railing at the top of the stairs. He looked kind of wobbly as he has standing at the top of the stairs and I was worried that he was gonna fall off and break his skull or something, but he managed to work out the right balance. As I was gawking and marveling at his ability to stand on the slanted railing without falling off and half-killing himself, this crazy guy started walking down the railing. Personally, I can't figure out how in the hell he had enough traction on his sneakers to keep from sliding right off the railing. But somehow, he didn't fall. He wobbled a bit, in a sort of impressive, tightrope-walker kind of way, but he kept going. At one of the turns, the railing is not connected and instead of climbing off and climbing back on to the other piece of railing - he actually jumped about 4 or 5 feet from one railing to the other railing. Very impressive. He finally reached the bottom of the stairs, me and Jen standing near the top and staring, by this point, and then he turned around and started walking the railing back up, jumping back across the gap and continuing as if this were nothing unusual. When he made it to the top, he calmly jumped down off the railing, picked up his backback and walked on past the library. Jen and I finally started moving again, and as we were walking in the library doors, we caught sight of him climbing down a different set of stairs on the other side of the library entrance, once again walkingon the railing instead of the stairs. Very, very random and crazy stuff. Impressive, though. Very impressive.
The weirdest part for me, though, is the fact that I *swear* I saw this same guy, later that day when I was walking through DUC. He was walking out of the cafeteria, juggling apples. Crazy stuff. Displaced circus performer? The world may never know.
So, for those who have a general idea of what's going on - I do *not*, in fact, have Strep Throat. I know this because I went to the on-campus clinic this morning and they tested me for it (I got up an hour early for that?). I *do* definitely have tonsilitus (aka a throat infection) most likely caused by some bacteria thingie which is just less common than the one that causes strep.
I am too poor to find out for certain which one and this does not bother me too much because, whatever it is, the antibiotic the doctor gave me will most likely take care of it. If the antibiotic *doesn't* affect it, then I am in for worse problems involving bloodwork and insanity, but I'm fairly sure that will not be necessary.
So, I have a 5-day course of antibiotics that I started today and I am also supposed to gargle with warm salt water to make my throat feel less like it is made out of bits of broken glass, but I shall endure.
I also find it odd that, like, everybody I know is sick and they are all sick in vastly different ways. Very, very weird.
Randomness that I meant to post about yesterday but I got distracted by that whole going-home-and-driving-back-so-that-I-could-finally-have-my-car thing:
Yesterday, as I was leaving the 4th floor of Grise and walking around FAC on the side in front of the library, I saw the strangest thing. There is this set of stairs, off to the right of the entrance to the library that goes down the equivalent of several floors and they turn several times on the way down. As most stairs do, this set has a metal hand rail. When I happened to be walking by with Jen yesterday, I saw a guy climb onto the railing at the top of the stairs. He looked kind of wobbly as he has standing at the top of the stairs and I was worried that he was gonna fall off and break his skull or something, but he managed to work out the right balance. As I was gawking and marveling at his ability to stand on the slanted railing without falling off and half-killing himself, this crazy guy started walking down the railing. Personally, I can't figure out how in the hell he had enough traction on his sneakers to keep from sliding right off the railing. But somehow, he didn't fall. He wobbled a bit, in a sort of impressive, tightrope-walker kind of way, but he kept going. At one of the turns, the railing is not connected and instead of climbing off and climbing back on to the other piece of railing - he actually jumped about 4 or 5 feet from one railing to the other railing. Very impressive. He finally reached the bottom of the stairs, me and Jen standing near the top and staring, by this point, and then he turned around and started walking the railing back up, jumping back across the gap and continuing as if this were nothing unusual. When he made it to the top, he calmly jumped down off the railing, picked up his backback and walked on past the library. Jen and I finally started moving again, and as we were walking in the library doors, we caught sight of him climbing down a different set of stairs on the other side of the library entrance, once again walkingon the railing instead of the stairs. Very, very random and crazy stuff. Impressive, though. Very impressive.
The weirdest part for me, though, is the fact that I *swear* I saw this same guy, later that day when I was walking through DUC. He was walking out of the cafeteria, juggling apples. Crazy stuff. Displaced circus performer? The world may never know.
