off to Maryland

I got great news Thursday afternoon: Kathy is going to be in Maryland to help her sister move back to California! So of course I changed my plans to be able to head down there and see her. So I'm leaving after my class this morning at noon. Now the downer is, we had freezing rain overnight, so everything is covered in ice, but by the time I get on the road, it should be above freezing and we'll have rain, so it should melt. I'm so excited. I needed this so badly.
What else this week? Well, I went to the school clinic, waited 2 hours, to be told they think the lumps in my armpit are staph, again, and wanted to send me to the wound clinic. This meant looking into seeing if Kaiser would cover it, to find out, no they won't, but they will cover an ER visit. Go the ER, to have the admit nurse look at me skeptically when I said I had never been there before. Not good. Wait about an hour for the doctor to tell me it's inflammed cysts and gave me antibiotics. They are at least working. All this had me frazzled and not focused on school, so it was no wonder when wednesday I go to class totally unprepared for the essay we were going to write and were supposed to have an outline ready to do it. I had to lie and say I left it at home. I hate that. Then during break, Dr. Gido asked if I was alright. That was nice of her. I also had a student complain to the department chair that the advising center people don't know what they are talking about, meaning me, because I helped her. I didn't give her the wrong information, she didn't give me all the information. Ugh. So not a great week, but the weekend will be great.