Allergies

I think that to my list of seasonal and pet allergies I can safely add a third. I'm pretty sure I'm allergic to all activities involving the computer, a pen or a pencil. K thinks this may increase my difficulties in becoming a teacher. I think he's right. Already, this allergy is taking its toll on my health and well-being. For instance, I have had an off-and-on headache for about a week now. Today, when I have spent more time than on previous days in front of the computer, the headache seems more resilient. Another symptom of this allergy is insomnia. I have had such a difficult time sleeping this week that making it from day to day is becoming increasingly difficult. I used to experience insomnia when I was a teenager - perhaps the allergy laid dormant for a few years and is just now resurfacing - so I'm sure that's what this is that wakes me up at 3 a.m. and keeps me awake for hours, unable to fall back to slumber.

I wonder if they make medication that would help curb the effects of this allergy. In fact, I wonder if doctors have even diagnosed the problem yet. I could be the first in a series of cases. They could name something after me - perhaps the affliction or the resulting medication. I could go on tour with pharmaceutical companies and write a self-help book and provide inspiration for people all over the globe who also suffer from this allergy. I could save the universe!

Perhaps that's my calling, then. Perhaps I'm not meant to finish school, but rather to give speeches at conferences held in cheap hotels where they will give me gifts like crystal clocks and wooden carvings of young children healed by my word.

Thank goodness for allergies.

The semester...

is going well so far. I've taught at West for two days - which means that I'll start updating my student teaching blog again soon. I also have a new college class blog to add to the list - it's up now, gliches and all. I'm not sleeping eight to ten hours a night any more. That sort of sucks. And my super cool teacher who seemed to be totally cool with anything I wanted to try with the ninth graders is turning out to have a few more...preferences...than she initially let on. I still NEED a book for my master's prospectus that the BSU library has seemingly lost and would like to look at another one that someone has had checked out for two months now. Seriously...Who else in their right mind needs a book on classroom differentiation for that long? On a side note, I learned tonight that graduate students can check out up to 250 books at the library. I'm only at a paltry 38.

I can feel it coming...

K started getting sick Saturday. He was complaining about a severe headache, neck stiffness, confusion, dizziness, fevers, chills and fatigue. Yesterday we took him in to a doctor because he didn't seem to be getting better and we were worried that it could be meningitis. The doctor said it was just a flu that's been going around and that he's lucky he didn't pick up the other rabid strand coarsing through Boise - the one accompanied by digestional grossness. She prescribed him Norco, which is like double Vicatin, and told him to get some rest and drink plenty of fluids. I like the meds - they make him silly.

I woke up this morning with a headache and as the day progresses I want to do less, my head feels heavier, and my neck doesn't want to move at all. I think I'm developing the flu too. Maybe we'll spend the weekend high on pain meds, being goofy together.

Help!

I have a program currently being protected by a firewall. I went into my firewall controls and made sure the program is excepted. It is. However, it's still being blocked by the firewall. I don't know what to do with it. Ergo, I need my computer-savvy pals to provide PC assistance. Please!

I heart cooking!

I just made a super dinner, followed by delicious banana bread. The dinner was one of the "weird" meals K and I love so much but most people we know don't because it involved lots of vegetables and nothing fried, so I'm not going to waste my time by posting the recipe link. However, the banana bread (although also a healthier alternative to its standard form) was amazing! I just used two medium eggs and didn't do the glaze and one hour in my oven was perfect. Happy baking!

I should have studied business...

I know it's still early in the year, but in case you're wondering, there are no openings for secondary English teachers in the following school districts:

Boise
Caldwell
Emmett Independent
Garden Valley
Horseshoe Bend
Kuna
Meridian Joint
Middleton
Twin Falls
Vallivue

There are, however, plenty of openings for business teachers.

Home again, home again, jiggety jig

K came home last night around four - as in four this morning. With the exception of a half-gone voice and a blue and orange tinged chest, he looks in tip top shape. He told me this morning that he's glad there's two sexes, that riding for that long with that many guys was fun for a while, but it sure made him miss home.