Since then…
Hmmm… well, it’s certainly been a while, hasn’t it? That’s an understatement… my last post was in September!!! Sigh… It’s not that I haven’t been blogging. To the contrary. I’ve just been blogging elsewhere. That is a link to my other blog, where I’ve been posting about once a week/every two weeks since November.
But I don’t talk about my health there. Why? Mmmm… my mother and sisters read that blog. And I keep a lot of stuff from them. A lot of stuff. Stuff that I haven’t even mentioned here or on BYDLS… or anywhere else. But that I really ought to, in part just to confess about it to myself. And my mother and sisters aren’t the only ones–my Facebook friends all have access to that blog, and a lot of them just don’t know what’s going on, since most of them are high school or community college friends that I knew before I got sick. And I don’t want to deal with those questions. Not on such an open forum. It’s awkward, and I do it often enough in real life that I don’t want to have to do it in cyberspace as well. And I hate all the pity.
But it’s time for an update. Since my last post I have:
- finished the semester that I had just started. Decent grades- 5 A’s and 1 B. And I managed to successfully complete my student teaching (ish) assignment.
- started a new semester 18 units of almost total happiness. Geography is dumb, but I’m also taking Borders & Regions (which has a fantastic reading list), and Survey of Native American Languages. Plus three independent study classes: Cognitive Ling (with my favourite professor ever), TA-ing (for my favourite professor ever), and finally getting credit for the dictionary project on which I have been working for over a year now. I will be graduating at the end of this semester! How EXCITING IS THAT!?!?!
- been encouraged to submit a proposal to speak at a conference. I’m elated that my professor thinks so highly of me, totally intimidated by the fact that I would be presenting in front of people who have been studying linguistics longer than I’ve been alive, and apprehensive because I never know how I’m going to feel from one day to the next.
- changed my meds again- I’m no longer on Savella. I was sick of being nauseous. I’ve been nauseous since October, and I’m done. I’ve lost a noticeable amount of weight because of it, and I wasn’t noticing any benefit.
- continued working/fighting with my rheumy. Why is it that I can never seem to articulate/remember everything I want to say when I go in for an appointment?
- finished knitting that scarf for my little sister and decided not to make one for myself. It was a lot of work!!! But I have started socks! I love knitting socks! Now, if I could just manage to finish a pair… And I have frogged the mitts I was knitting.
- landed in a dismal financial situation, but I’d rather not get into that right now. But we may end up moving in with my sister-in-law and her family; it would help us all out financially, but is liable to be a huge spoon drain.
But I think that makes for a sufficiently long posting for now. I will be back–sooner rather than later–to give a more comprehensive update, and perhaps, if I’m feeling brave, make some of those confessions I mentioned.
