Hey folks (to borrow Gwyn's signature term of endearment),
As some of you may have read in my response to Nicky's last post... my computer is being too slow and retarded to upload any photos! I have taken many photos recently, providing ample documentation of both the mundane and the eventful. I will try to get to Andrew's so I can use his computer to upload and supplement the update that follows:
Last week I was hit by a car. I was riding my bike to softball and it accelerated from a stop sign while I was crossing the road, apparently unaware of my biwheeled presence. It threw me from the bike and into the pavement. It was worse than any hit I had ever experienced in rugby (surprise). The wind was knocked out of me and I was in so much pain. I was lying in the roadway, unable to move, bleeding, with gravel forced under my skin from the abrupt impact. The dudes got out of the minivan with which they had wrecked me and talked calmly to me til the police and ambulance arrived. I didn't want to go to the hospital so I signed a release of liability/refusal of medical treatment form. The people that hit me had a first aid kit in their van and I used the alcohol wipes to wash the blood from my arm. As I had been on the way to softball, my friend Lisa (scorekeeper) soon appeared, also riding her bike to the fields. She was pretty freaked out by the situation. I gave her my uniform, cleats, glove and asked her to fill in for me. I asked the negligent drivers for a ride home. there was a lot of swelling and a bit of pain for a while, but now, a week later, I'm feeling almost back to normal. A friend who is trained in chiropractics (but not yet certified in NY) gave me some aligning free of charge and ABC and Sunbeam both offered me time off. I made myself go in and just worked in a limited capacity (other people had to lift things for me and I couldn't carry a lot of plates to a table at once, for instance) but I survived. Andrew was helpful and did dishes for me when I couldn't bend my right elbow. He also gave me back/neck massages to help ease the knots/spasms. Sweet sweet man.
Okay, what else!
My ultimate frisbee team (Ithaca Rec League) is the top seeded team in our league! Playoffs start this week. Wish us ("Thundercats" sponsered by "Sunnywood," now calling ourselves the "Sunnycats") the best! Andrew and Laura--my really great roommate you never got the meet!--are also playing in this league, so wish them second and third best, your choice.
Andrew and I went camping this past weekend. There were SO MANY mushrooms in the woods!!!! I took tons of pictures of this amazing fungi and hope to make an online album exclusively of these terrific mycocelia. Um... yeah... nerd talk, but hey! I am fascinated by mushrooms! Okay, peace out, quadly people.
7.27.2008
7.23.2008
Post-Ithaca Glowiness
Hi there girls! Still basking in the post-trip glow (or possibly it's the Florida sun). Lizzy- we missed you more than any of us could say. I loved being in Ithaca with you all! The festival was very cool, and Ithaca is "gorges." Thank you Gwyn and Abby for being such amazing hostesses and tour guides!
As per the trip wackiness, the trip home was not smooth! My plane was delayed about an hour and a half due to a "ground stop" in Atlanta because of a wicked storm. Then they rushed us (as in, "10 minutes to board people!") onto the plane during a gap in the storm, and we made it all the way to Atlanta, circled a few times and then ran out of fuel. So, they diverted us to Charlotte, NC, along with about 14-20 other planes. Because of the crowing at Charlotte, they didn't have a gate for us, so we ended up on the runway (with everyone else). As we waited to get to a gate and refuel, ANOTHER storm moved in! Think lightning, wind rushing over the plane and rain that made it look like we were sitting in the middle of a pond. About 1/2 hour after it ended, we got a gate and refueled and managed to make it to Atlanta at 1:30. Since all of the planes into and out of Atlanta had been delayed, it was a madhouse! Customer Service had my connecting flight re-set for the next morning at 8:10, and I was all for sleeping (or rather, dozing while fitfully being woken by crying babies, pissed-off customers and loudspeakers) in the terminal, but Mik and my Mom convinced me to go to a motel. So glad I did! Today seemed normal because I actually got some sleep.
So there you go, I made it back. Whew! Much, much love!!!!!
7.17.2008
Today's the day!!
Hi Friends!!!
Today is that day that you come to visit, some of you from as far away as Japan!!!!! Please God/Allah/Buddha/Shiva/Goddess/Torah(?) let Liz feel better!! We promise we'll let her sleep and not try to make her smoke the drugs! And we'll walk her every day and always make sure she has fresh water...
Today is that day that you come to visit, some of you from as far away as Japan!!!!! Please God/Allah/Buddha/Shiva/Goddess/Torah(?) let Liz feel better!! We promise we'll let her sleep and not try to make her smoke the drugs! And we'll walk her every day and always make sure she has fresh water...
7.15.2008
Bad Post
Hey Gals
This is a bad post. I have to share some bad news. I might not be able to go to Ithaca. My recovery from the surgery has been slloooow. I have still been feeling very weak and tired and having a lot of pain. For the past three days I was feeling really nauseated and could barely get anything into my stomach so I went in to the doctor today. I was dehydrated even though I was trying to keep fluids down so they gave me an IV bag of fluids and did some blood tests and a culture. It turns out that I got an infection at the site of the surgery. I am on antibiotics again and I really hope I will recover more quickly now, but if I am not well enough by Thursday, I can't go! I will be sooo sad!
I also feel bad because I know I am the one providing the vehicle. I hope that everyone departing form Maryland (which is everyone who doesn't live in Ithaca) will still be able to get a car to go up in!!! Also, if I can't go, I will have a ticket to the festival for Friday that someone can use if they need it.
I will update everyone again tomorrow and I think I will email this, too, so everyone gets it even if they don't check the blog.
Sorry for the bad news post. Don't ever get your tonsils out (unless you really have to, but it sucks)!
Liz
This is a bad post. I have to share some bad news. I might not be able to go to Ithaca. My recovery from the surgery has been slloooow. I have still been feeling very weak and tired and having a lot of pain. For the past three days I was feeling really nauseated and could barely get anything into my stomach so I went in to the doctor today. I was dehydrated even though I was trying to keep fluids down so they gave me an IV bag of fluids and did some blood tests and a culture. It turns out that I got an infection at the site of the surgery. I am on antibiotics again and I really hope I will recover more quickly now, but if I am not well enough by Thursday, I can't go! I will be sooo sad!
I also feel bad because I know I am the one providing the vehicle. I hope that everyone departing form Maryland (which is everyone who doesn't live in Ithaca) will still be able to get a car to go up in!!! Also, if I can't go, I will have a ticket to the festival for Friday that someone can use if they need it.
I will update everyone again tomorrow and I think I will email this, too, so everyone gets it even if they don't check the blog.
Sorry for the bad news post. Don't ever get your tonsils out (unless you really have to, but it sucks)!
Liz
7.13.2008
7.08.2008
Allow me to fill you in...
I am compelled to set up a multiple choice quiz about my life, but that would take more thinking than the percocet will allow.
Chances are that most of you already know a lot of this, but for Abby I will spill some details.
I'll start with why I'm taking a narcotic painkiller. I got my tonsils out!! Those two troublesome lumps in my oropharynx are gone forever. I had been getting these gross little "stones" in my tonsils for about 2 years and, while teaching, had been sick with tonsillitis almost non-stop. The surgery was Wednesday the 2nd and they told me to allow for 3 weeks recovery. I should be much better by the time we go to Ithaca, but maybe not 100%. At least I will be eating solid foods by then!
The whole moving situation has been very disorganized. Trevor got a job as the first assistant superintendent at the Spring Creek Club (golf course) in Gordonsville, right outside Charlottesville. He moved down to Cville at the end of march when he started the job. I started to move down to Cville right after the school year ended because thats when my assistant teaching job ended, but everything got delayed because Monkey got sick. I had to wait about a week so she could be seen by the vet and take her antibiotic - that's a whole other story. I ended up only having about a week and a half down there before I had to come back up for pre-op appointments with my doctor and then have the surgery. Since I will be recovering here at my parents' house, I still have 3/4 of my belongs (the most important and most cumbersome things) here. Trev and I will also be moving to a different apt/townhouse in August, so it didn't make a lot of sense to schlep so much stuff to just be schlepped again.
Right now I am just recovering, taking care of Monkey, who is also recovering, and taking an online class that is a prerequisite for grad school. Ahh, grad school! I start August 25. I am going to Shenandoah University (nice try, Erica) for occupational therapy. It is in Winchester, VA and I will be commuting once a week from Charlottesville. Its a two and a half year program for a Master's in OT. I'm nervous that I will still be burnt out from undergrad, but also really excited.
Last thing - I'm not working right now, yikes! I couldn't really get a job for two weeks after the school year ended and then have to take off three for surgery, so I have decided to wait until August to find something part time around Cville and hopefully be able to keep the job while I'm in school.
... So you can probably see why I haven't filled you in before: nothing extremely interesting has happened (like tasting tofu chicken for the first time, wetting my pants during a test, moving to Miami, cherry picking with a replica of half of my personality, crazy dreams, abnormally tame wildlife etc...). My family did have a big cookout for my sister and Mike's first wedding anniversary and in the middle of everything a big storm came and knocked out the power. Everyone grabbed food and cushions and ran inside and all of our extended families had to cram into a hot, dark house. It turned out kind of cute, though. We did cake by candle light and everyone ended up playing board games.
As for the incentives with Trevor - I was never able to keep it up. HAha. But really, I didn't follow through with my threats or rewards, so I can't say if it works. He still smokes and I have reverted to nagging. Let me know if you have any better ideas. I feel like all my efforts to get him to quit are in vain.
Sorry if you were bored during this looong post! I'm not great at condensing.
K Bye!
Chances are that most of you already know a lot of this, but for Abby I will spill some details.
I'll start with why I'm taking a narcotic painkiller. I got my tonsils out!! Those two troublesome lumps in my oropharynx are gone forever. I had been getting these gross little "stones" in my tonsils for about 2 years and, while teaching, had been sick with tonsillitis almost non-stop. The surgery was Wednesday the 2nd and they told me to allow for 3 weeks recovery. I should be much better by the time we go to Ithaca, but maybe not 100%. At least I will be eating solid foods by then!
The whole moving situation has been very disorganized. Trevor got a job as the first assistant superintendent at the Spring Creek Club (golf course) in Gordonsville, right outside Charlottesville. He moved down to Cville at the end of march when he started the job. I started to move down to Cville right after the school year ended because thats when my assistant teaching job ended, but everything got delayed because Monkey got sick. I had to wait about a week so she could be seen by the vet and take her antibiotic - that's a whole other story. I ended up only having about a week and a half down there before I had to come back up for pre-op appointments with my doctor and then have the surgery. Since I will be recovering here at my parents' house, I still have 3/4 of my belongs (the most important and most cumbersome things) here. Trev and I will also be moving to a different apt/townhouse in August, so it didn't make a lot of sense to schlep so much stuff to just be schlepped again.
Right now I am just recovering, taking care of Monkey, who is also recovering, and taking an online class that is a prerequisite for grad school. Ahh, grad school! I start August 25. I am going to Shenandoah University (nice try, Erica) for occupational therapy. It is in Winchester, VA and I will be commuting once a week from Charlottesville. Its a two and a half year program for a Master's in OT. I'm nervous that I will still be burnt out from undergrad, but also really excited.
Last thing - I'm not working right now, yikes! I couldn't really get a job for two weeks after the school year ended and then have to take off three for surgery, so I have decided to wait until August to find something part time around Cville and hopefully be able to keep the job while I'm in school.
... So you can probably see why I haven't filled you in before: nothing extremely interesting has happened (like tasting tofu chicken for the first time, wetting my pants during a test, moving to Miami, cherry picking with a replica of half of my personality, crazy dreams, abnormally tame wildlife etc...). My family did have a big cookout for my sister and Mike's first wedding anniversary and in the middle of everything a big storm came and knocked out the power. Everyone grabbed food and cushions and ran inside and all of our extended families had to cram into a hot, dark house. It turned out kind of cute, though. We did cake by candle light and everyone ended up playing board games.
As for the incentives with Trevor - I was never able to keep it up. HAha. But really, I didn't follow through with my threats or rewards, so I can't say if it works. He still smokes and I have reverted to nagging. Let me know if you have any better ideas. I feel like all my efforts to get him to quit are in vain.
Sorry if you were bored during this looong post! I'm not great at condensing.
K Bye!
7.06.2008
I don't understand Liz's life!
Hi guys, let's figure out what's happening in Liz's life.
There's something about grad school. Some place called SU. Salisbury? Syracuse? Something else? And moving? Moving where? Probably to wherever the grad school is, but I thought you wanted to move to Vermont? Is it an SU in Vermont? What about Trevor? Is he coming with you?
Next: surgery? Uh oh! What kind of surgery? Emergency or planned? Dang. I hope you have insurance! Medical bills are crazy. And um... I guess those are the main questions I have about Liz's life. I am curious to see what Liz has to say, as well as what Erica (and others) know/think/suspect!
P.s. Liz: Is Trevor smoking these days? How would you rate the blow job incentive overall? I've suggested it to Andrew but I don't think he believes me.
There's something about grad school. Some place called SU. Salisbury? Syracuse? Something else? And moving? Moving where? Probably to wherever the grad school is, but I thought you wanted to move to Vermont? Is it an SU in Vermont? What about Trevor? Is he coming with you?
Next: surgery? Uh oh! What kind of surgery? Emergency or planned? Dang. I hope you have insurance! Medical bills are crazy. And um... I guess those are the main questions I have about Liz's life. I am curious to see what Liz has to say, as well as what Erica (and others) know/think/suspect!
P.s. Liz: Is Trevor smoking these days? How would you rate the blow job incentive overall? I've suggested it to Andrew but I don't think he believes me.
7.04.2008
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