A draft that I finished...

I had this dream the other night where I bought a pet elephant for this magic act that I did.... Consisting of putting the normal sized elephant into a normal sized wardrobe and somehow making it appear in another normal wardrobe across the stage. (Prestige-like, no?) I say "normal" wardrobe because I really don't know how the elephant got from one wardrobe to the other, because I only bought ONE elephant... And I don't know how the elephant fit into the wardrobe either.

ANYWAY, so we took this elephant back and forth from the show in a trailer which we pulled with our minivan.

One day in my dream I wanted to go shopping, but Mary had the Buick and Mom had the van. So I rode my pet elephant to Mason City and went shopping at Target.

And that was the end of my dream.

Weird and silly, no?

I'm alive!

I'm still alive in case anyone was wondering. I'm just really busy. I've had 12 hours of field experience classroom observations to squeeze in my very insanely full schedule. I'm almost done with that... 2 1/2 hours left to do tomorrow. I've been going to bed around 12 am and getting up at 7-7:30 this whole week! It's been hard, but I am surviving.

I can't write long, because I have my Thursday night class soon, but today is my half birthday. Evidentially my parents are celebrating it now... Hahaha! :-) I got a package in the mail, and a PotC card that plays the "He's a Pirate" theme... both from my family. IT IS THE COOLEST CARD! I was stopping tons of people in the FAC to make them look and listen to my awesome 1/2 birthday card. :-D My family also ordered me a bunch of cookies! :-) They are chocolate-chip and very tasty! It was a nice "keep going, you can do it!"-gift!

Ahhh! I need to buy a memory card for my camera so I can take it to New York!!! That trip is coming up soon!!!!

Oh, and Camelot ended up being hilariously funny in a very unintentional pathetic way.

This weekend I have a band concert of Friday... Then I need to finish my music history term paper, write an experiential learning paper and work on my part of our group profect for Human Relations, start on my Listening logs and practice flute, piano and tuba.

W00t. Go me.

"Watch me strut, 'cuz I'm an old pro... I can't sing or dance but I'm the star of the show!"

Pluggin' away....

Don’t give up

It’s just the weight of the world
When you’re heart’s heavy I - I will lift it for you
Don’t give up
Because you want to be heard
If silence keeps you I – I will break it for you

Everybody wants to be understood
Well I can hear you
Everybody wants to be loved
Don’t give up
Because you are loved

Don’t give up
It’s just the hurt that you hide
When you’re lost inside I – I’ll be there to find you
Don’t give up
Because you want to burn bright
If darkness blinds you I – I will shine to guide you

Everybody wants to be understood
Well I can hear you
Everybody wants to be loved
Don’t give up
Because you are loved

-Josh Groban "You Are Loved (Don't Give Up)"

Real quick...

I got my music history paper back! I got 13.5 out of a possible 15 points... Which means I got 90% which is a A-! I'm happy with that.

I still don't know how I did on the actual test, but I'll probably find out sometime this wee. *crosses fingers*

Tomorrow I get to go home and get my eyes checked! Yay! And see Jessica! Double yay! :-D HOPEFULLY I'll get to start wearing my contacts again.

I still don't have enough time.... But I'm trying to plug through. I have a class meeting tonight with the professor of my New York trip, which should be fun!

Busy Weekend....

Okay, so I'm taking a quick break from homework before I go over to the library to acquire some research for my music history paper....

So yesterday I didn't get as much done as I hoped because my roommate accidentally hurt her left knee pretty bad and I had to take her to the ER to make sure she was okay. She didn't break it or anything, but the doctor really didn't know why it hurt-- he thought it might be Patellar Tendinitis-- so he wrote her up a prescription for some ibuprofen and that was that. We were at the ER for about an hour and a half, but then we went to Wal-Mart to fill her prescription, then we went to Meyer's Pharmacy and rented a pair of crutches. We left around 3 pm for the ER and didn't get back until 6 pm or so. I kind of feel bad for her.... She can't straighten her knee without pain and she doesn't like the slow-going when using crutches. I'm not mad at her for getting hurt, but I lost a lot of time that I was actually going to spend studying. *sigh* Oh, well, it'll work out.

Rachel V. and I decided that the coolest, most fun, hilarious party would be the two of us, Eddie Izzard, David Tennant, Josh Groban and Hugh Jackman. It was fun discussing what it would be like to watch movies in that group of people. :-D

I watched Flushed Away last night with Leah and Rachel. Funniest movie EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I loved it so much, it was amazing! I could go on and on.... It was hilarious! After that, Leah left to hang out with some other friends and Rachel and I watched Casino Royale. My first Bond movie of all time.... I know, I know, shocking, but yeah..... It was really good! It was a pretty awesome roller-coaster movie ride. :-D I called one part and Rachel called another. It was awesome!

I haven't been sleeping very well.... I think I might need to flip my mattress, but that's gonna be a pain.... Due to the fact that my bed is a loft, and I hate making it. Also, I think I haven't been able to shut my brain off lately, when I go to sleep... So, I end up waking in the morning not feeling very rested.

Something else that I think I need to do is to buy a little notebook and keep it by my bed so I can write down the list of things I need to remember for the next day while I'm in bed, before I go to sleep. Because I'll lay there and think: "Okay, I'll need to do that, and I need to remember to do this, and I'll need to get up to get this done..." and then I'll set my alarm and go to sleep. Then in the morning my alarm will go off and I'm like "*still sleepy* I don't have as much to do as I thought/What was I supposed to do...? I don't remember..." and then I reset my alarm for a later time. When I finally DO get up I'm all: "Ahhh! What was I thinking? I need to do this-this-this-this AND this!!!! I don't have time to sleep! I can't believe I forgot that!"

Yeah. So that's my new plan.


Speaking of homework: I'm off to the Library! Then I'll practice, and meet with a classmate to work on a teaching lesson.... Then it's Dresden Files at 8pm followed by more music history.

Joy.

"Is this our exit?" "I don't know..." "Take it!" "Okay." "... I don't think this is our exit."

:-) So Rachel V. and I just got back from going to see Bridge to Terabithia in Cedar Falls. It was a really good movie! Good acting, good special effects... (Duh, it was done by WETA...) It was more of a "character development" story than anything, but I liked it a lot. I cried, because I'm a sap like that.... :-)

While the movie was good, I think the best part was trying to get there.... Neither of us have actually DRIVEN to this theatre, although we've BEEN there a couple of times before. We've just always been passengers in other people's cars. Leah was kind enough to lend me her car, so I drove.... Which... Was interesting.... I probably shouldn't drive on the interstate in my glasses again, until I get my contacts back.... At least at night.... ANYWHOOO, in total, driving to and from the theater, we took the wrong exit twice, turned around 4 times, accidentally drove 65 mph in a 45 zone, (but we didn't get caught or anything), and drove through stop sign which we didn't notice until after we drove past it (it was in a parking lot) and dealt with ONE WAY STREETS!!! AHHHH...! One way streets with big cement medians are nasty.... Overall, it was quite an adventure. :-)

Things to do tomorrow:
Start research on music history term paper... maybe write an outline
Meet with future suitemates for lunch
Practice flute, trombone and piano
Research Mozart for K-8 music methods

"What say'st thou to me now? Speak once again."

Beware the Ides of March!

Heehee... :-D


Good job with the lyrics everyone! #20 is the only one left.... Any takers?

So today Leah and I got a new goldfish. It's part of our floor program. Any dorm who wanted to participate receives a goldfish. No bowl, no food, no water other than what the goldfish came in, and whoever keeps their fish alive for the longest amount of time wins an evidentially "fabulous" prize. (according to the email.) So we now have a little goldfish in one of the empty vases that used to hold a beta. I spent a half hour cleaning the vase, rocks and plants for the new fish.

Being the uber-music nerds we are, Leah and I agreed to name it Monteverdi. After the guy who is credited with writing the very first opera, heralding the "beginning" of the Baroque period at the beginning of the 17th century.

In other news: I have a lot of homework to do tonight, while I'm at work. Also, the 1998 revival of Oklahoma! starring Hugh Jackman is amazing, brilliant and addictive. *grins*

Lyrics... UPDATED!

Remember when I did this last year? It was fun!

Here are 25 different lyrics, all from different songs that I have in my music library. Post a comment with your guesses! Make sure you say what number you are guessing (name of song and artist or what group the lyrics are from, you are allowed to guess more than one...) and your name.

Rules:
1 No Googleing!
2. No double posting (if you post here, no xanga or myspace comments etc.)


1. "All around the cathedral the saints and apostles, Look down as she sells her wares, Although you can't see it, You know they are smiling, Each time someone shows that he cares..." Feed the Birds, Mary Poppins ~Jessica D., Amanda N.

2. "...When she keeps on brushing you aside, Oh gosh, you're all at sea! You go contemplating suicide -- It's much too much for me!..." What Causes That?, Crazy for You -Rachel V.

3. "God would like us to be joyful, Even though our hearts lie panting on the floor; How much more can we be joyful, When there's really something, To be joyful for...." To Life!, Fiddler on the Roof -Jessica D.

4. "You know nothing of madness, Till you're climbing her hair, And you see her up there, As you're nearing her, All the while hearing her: Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-..." Agony, Into the Woods -Jessica D.

5. " It takes a man who knows no fear, To wrestle with a goat, His blood-stained coat is tribute to, His final sacrifice, His body may be past its peak, But his soul's in paradise..." One More Angel in Heaven, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat -Jessica D., Amanda N.

6. "...One day to a new beginning, Raise the flag of freedom high! Every man will be a king, Every man will be a king, There's a new world for the winning, There's a new world to be won!..." One Day More!, Les Miserables -Rachel V., Amanda N. was close!

7. "Grace is contagious, When it gets out, Tears fall as my voice changes, Into a crowd..." Angels in Chorus, Stellar Kart -Jessica T.

8. "Words! Words! Words! I'm so sick of words! I get words all day through; First from him, now from you! Is that all you blighters can do?" Show Me!, My Fair Lady -Rachel V.

9. " Y' c'n turn the radiator on whenever you want some heat. With ev'ry kind o' comfort ev'ry house is all complete. You c'n walk to privies in the rain and never wet your feet! They've gone about as fur as they c'n go, Yes sir! They've gone about as fur as they c'n go!"Kansas City, OKLAHOMA! -Jessica D.

10. "Yet if one of our trio should ever depart, Then the others would languish and die, We're like three different people with only one ----!..." The Minstrel, the Jester and I, Once Upon a Mattress -Rachel V.

11. "In the scheme of things the way things go, You might get bit by the old Fido, But not by the gentle, porker friend..." Hand for the Hog, Big River -Rachel V.

12. "Here I go thinking about all the things I could've done, I'm gonna need a forklift cuz all the baggage weighs a ton, I know we had our problems I can't remember one..." Almost, Bowling for Soup -Jessica D., Jessica T.

13. "It's one-two-three and suddenly, I see it at a glance -- She's radiant, And confident and born to take this chance. I taught her well. I planned it all! I just forgot... Romance!" Learn to do it [reprise], Anastasia -Jessica T.

14. "Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker, wherever you're going I'm going your way. Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. We're after the same rainbow's end-- waiting 'round the bend..." Moon River, Breakfast at Tiffany's -Rachel V.

15. "To a valley beyond the setting sun, Where waters shine and horses run, Where there's a man who looks for you, But while you look you are chained turning, You're a well of wishes, You're a fallen apple..." Fable, The Light in the Piazza -Rachel V.

16. "This is an Elm Tree. It's very little, but it will grow up into a giant tree, an oak. You can tell how old it is by counting it's leaves..." Little Known Facts, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown! -Rachel V.

17. "When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears, When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears, And I held your hand through all of these years, But you still have, All of me..." My Immortal, Evanescence -Rachel D., Jessica D.. Amanda N., Jessica T.

18. "Let's rearrange, I wish you were a stranger I could disengage, Just say that we agree and then never change, Soften a bit until we all just get along..." Over My Head (Cable Car), The Fray -Rachel D. Jessica D., Jessica T.

19. "Your arms are my castle, your heart is my sky. They wipe away tears that I cry. The good and the bad times, we've been through them all. You make me rise when I fall..." Every Time We Touch, Cascada -Jessica D., Jessica T.

20. "Tonight I'll sing my songs again, I'll play the game and pretend, But all my words come back to me, In shades of mediocrity, Like emptiness in harmony, I need someone to comfort me..."

21. "80 grand later, I found out that all that I had learned, Is that you should show up to take your finals and your mid-terms, The party scene is kinda mean, I think it's sick and twisted, The navy showed up at my dorm, they claimed that I enlisted..." College Kids, Relient K -Jessica T.

22. "No bright-eyed, blushing, breathless baby-doll baby, Not for me. That kinda child ties knots no sailor ever knew. I prefer to take a chance on a more adult romance. No dewy young miss, Who keeps resisting all the time she keeps insisting! No wide-eyed, wholesome innocent female- No sir!..." The Sadder But Wiser Girl for Me, Music Man -Jessica D.

23. "What can you see, On the horizon? Why do the white gulls call? Across the sea, A pale moon rises, The ships have come to carry you home..." Into the West, from Lord of the Rings, Return of the King, sung by Anne Lennox -Rachel D.

24. "From her head to her waist it was just my taste, but the rest of her was a fish..." The Mermaid, Great Big Sea -Rachel V.

25. "And when ye come, and all the flowers are dying, And I am dead, as dead I well may be, Ye'll come and find the place where I am lying, And kneel and say an Ave there for me..." Danny Boy, Traditional -Jessica D., Amanda N.

"At the end of the day, you just have to say 'it's alright'..."

So I'm setting here eating a bowl of Trix cereal that I got back in September for my birthday.... I finally got some milk. I like Trix :-) Yay for colorful cereal!

The dreaded history test went alright. Better than it would have had it happened when it was originally scheduled. The worst was the short answer and the essay.... I basically wrote a lot of stuff that I could imagine to be pertinent and I just hope for some points. LOL... But I'm okay with it.

I kept myself busy today... I took a shower after the test, then went to my noon class, had lunch, unpacked the rest of my stuff, changed and packed for band run-out, went to trombone class and then left with the Wartburg College Symphonic Band for our run-out destination. It was really fun! We played really well after not rehearsing together for 11 days! We weren't perfect, yes, we've played better, but it was a good concert. The crowd really liked it, and that's what counts! :-)

The bus-ride home took twice as long because it has become really foggy outside. I dozed on the bus, listening to my "Sleepy tunes" playlist on my iPod, so in a way, I did get to nap a little.

Last year's run-out was more fun, but oh well...

Tomorrow I have a lot to do... I am going to go to bed soon and actually get up on a decent time. I need to put in a variance form, submit a maintenance form--because the blinds in our room have finally broken (they no longer open), practice flute, piano and trombone, start on my Philosophy of Music paper draft for Music Methods K-8 plus some other things for that class, read some music history and start looking for a final paper topic.


Rawrgh! I can do eeeet!



I don't have 20/20 vision with my glasses and it makes life that much harder.... I have to move my music stand closer to see the notes, and the stand can only come so close when you are playing trombone.... The bell of the instrument gets in the way.... This irks me because I bought these lenses (and frames) in October. I want to go back to wearing my contacts. It's so much easier!


Great Big Sea is an awesome group! I am really starting to like their music. Thank-you Rachel V. for introducing them to me! :-D They are playing in Ames on Sunday, and I wish I could go see them, but I don't have time/money/car. :-(

I really like the song "Ordinary Day"... To me, the lyrics are all about being rushed and living a hectic life, but that's normal... so it's okay, just keep going on and be thankful for the things you have. :-)


"Ordinary Day"

I've got a smile on my face, and I've got four walls around me
I've got the sun in the sky, ah, the water surrounds me, oh you know
Yeah, I'll win now but sometimes I'll lose
I've been battered, but I'll never bruise ... it's not so bad.

And I say way-hey-hey, it's just an ordinary day
And it's all your state of mind
At the end of the day,
You've just got to say ... it's all right.

Janie sings on the corner, what keeps her from dying
Let 'em say what they want, but she won't stop tryin', oh you know
She might stumble, if they push her around
She might fall, but she'll never lie down ... it's not so bad.

And I say way-hey-hey, it's just an ordinary day
And it's all your state of mind
At the end of the day,
You've just got to say ... it's all right.

'Cause it's alright, it's alright.
It's alright!

In this beautiful life, there's always some sorrow
And it's a double edged knife, but there's always tomorrow, oh you know
It's up to you now if you sink or swim,
Just keep the faith and you're ship will come in ... it's not so bad.

And I say way-hey-hey, it's just an ordinary day
And it's all your state of mind
At the end of the day,
You've just got to say ... it's all right.

'Cause I've got a smile on my face, and I've got four walls around me.

Pressing forward

This is my anthem for tomorrow. I have my Music History test. I think I'll pass, but I can't do anything other than my best.... Huzzah for adventure music! :-)




"Into the Fire"

David walked into the valley
With a stone clutched in his hand
He was only a boy
But he knew someone must take a stand

There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail

Into valleys, into waters
Into jungles, into hell
Let us ride, let us ride home again with a story to tell
Into darkness, into danger
Into storms that rip the night
Don't give in, don't give up
But give thanks for the glorious fight

You can tremble, you can fear it
But keep your fighting spirit alive boys
Let the shiver of it sting you
Fling into battle, spring to your feet boys
Never hold back your step for a moment
Never doubt that your courage will grow
Hold your head even higher and into the fire we go

Are there mountains that surround us?
Are there walls that block the way?
Knock 'em down, strip 'em back boys
And forward and into the fray

Into terror, into valour
Charge ahead, no, never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn

Someone has to face the valley
Rush in, we have to rally and win boys
When the world is saying not to
By God, you know you've got to march on, boys
Never hold back your step for a moment
Never doubt that your courage will grow
Hold your head ever higher and into the fire we go

Let the lightning strike
Let the flash of it shock you
Choke your fears away
Pull as tight as a wire
Let the fever strike
Let the force of it rock you
We will have our day, sailing into the fire

Someone has to face the valley
Rush in! We have to rally and win boys
When the world is saying not to
By God, you know you've got to march on, boys
Never hold back your step for a moment
Look alive! Oh, your courage will grow
Yes, it's higher and higher and into the fire we go!

Into fire!

Onward, ho!

I have no brain!

So I'm here working on my music history paper about Henricus Isaac... And I just read what I had wrote earlier.... I said that Isaac lived from the middle of the fifteenth century to the early seventeenth century...

Uhhhhh...... no. It's definitely the fifteenth century to the early part of the sixteenth century.

I so totally can't count.

I am also really tired of listening to countertenors. If you don't know what a countertenor is, go here and watch this. I really have NO idea what's going in the actual opera... The whole thing is kind of weird, but it's a good example of a countertenor. No he is not dubbed, yes that is his real voice. A lot of the Renaissance church music I have to know for my music history test uses countertenors, since women weren't allowed to sing in the choir.

But Palestrina writes really pretty music.... So does Claude de Jeune...

..Madrigals are dirty...

I don't want break to be over.... But I want the social life of college.

Or I want it to be summer.... I miss driving home from Jessica's at 11 pm, cruising along North Shore with the windows down, blasting Green Day or Wicked as I drive. Warm summer air... the sound of the lake.... *sigh*

I still am coughing... I don't know why. :-(


Stephen and Philomena are watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas.




Stupid paper....

Eye update...

Okay, so my pink-eye is gone.... Yay! But I now have some scar tissue on my right cornea so I can't wear contacts yet... Kind of a bummer, but I guess I just have to deal with it. The doctor gave me some steroid eye-drops to help clear up the scar tissue, but it'll be about 2-3 week before I can start wearing contacts during the day. Even longer before I can go back to wearing them for 24 hours.

I'm so glad I got new glasses back in October.

Randomness...

So, I'm back from visiting my friends at Bethel. I love visiting there.... The atmosphere is so different from Wartburg... And I always end up making more friends each time I go, which adds to the desire to keep visiting....

A funny thing that happened while I was there... Derek was talking to me and evidentially forgot my gender... and asked me, in all seriousness, that when I was little and took off my shirt in the summer, did I ever tie it to the the handle-bars of my bike... Which I responded to with: Uhhhhhhh..... No? Huh? Of course I never took my shirt off in the summer.... I'm a girl. And he was like, --Oh yeah... Um, I mean I used to do that.-- And then he finished his story which doesn't matter to the rest of THIS story.

I stayed with my very good friend Bre... We were childhood friends. She is a sweetheart and it was so good to see her! I was very sad to leave!

We had a really good talk last night just about life... We talked about boys we like and boys we used to like....

...And about growing up. Which we both concluded was hard. And harder for some people more than others....

Through our talk these are some of the things I've realized:

-I have become genuinely okay with being single. I really truly am.... It's actually a nice feeling... I think I should bookmark this post or something and read it when I'm back to feeling lonely... I'm just tired of chasing after guys and pining for them and wishing my life was perfect.

-I can't do everything. As much as I try, it's impossible.

-I am not at college to be fulfill the "mother" roll to my friends. They each have their own mother and they don't need another one. If they are smelly and need a shower, I will tell them that they stink, but it is not my job to keep tabs on how often they bathe.

-I cannot be the boss. I cannot control the lives of my friends. I cannot hold their hand and lead them to where *I* want them to be. Everyone has to learn from their own choices and mistakes.

-That there are some things that just ARE NOT MY BUSINESS. If my friends want me to know something, they will tell me. It is none of my business to ask them where they were every single hour of the freaking-day, who they hung out with when I am not with them or what they did. It's one thing to ask if they had a good time, it's another to ask "who-what-where-when."

-I bottle my emotions a lot and I am not the only one who does this. This is probably not very healthy and is more often then not a temporary solution to a longer term problem.

-I am really independent, yet I long for human companionship and support. To me this is very conflicting. I haven't figured this one out yet...

-I complain a lot, but I don't know how I fit into certain categories... Do I complain about things just to get them off my chest, so-to-speak? About things that I could really deal with and change if I wanted to? Or do I complain about things that I can't change? Or do I just complain too much in general?

-"My 'Knight in Shining Armor' turned out to be an idiot in tin foil."

-I don't get into enough "deep/thoughtful/thought provoking" conversations at Wartburg.

-Getting over crushes can be really really hard.

-I truly don't believe that my "Knight in Shining Armor" is at Wartburg. I don't have a clue WHERE he is, but he's not at Wartburg.

-"If only/If you weren't" conversations suck and hurt my feelings.

-"A true friend sees th pain in your eyes when everyone else believes the smile on your face."

-It's really awesome to have good guy friends.

-I miss Jessica, and I'm really lucky to have a friend like her.

-Sometimes I ask weird/random/out-of-place questions because I don't understand the situation completely.

-I feel honored when people ask me for advice.

-My life is not a Drama, a Chick-flick, a Horror, a Thriller, an Action-Adventure, a Comedy, a Tragedy, or something in the Science-fiction category. My life is its own genre.

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I have more, but I need to go to bed. I have an eye appointment tomorrow. My eye is doing better! The pink-eye looks like it's gone and my eye is no longer sensitive to light. We'll see tomorrow if I get to go back to wearing contacts. *crosses fingers*

Crazy things in my life...

So I almost went to the Emergency Room last night...

I was up until about 6 am... Because my right eye was hurting so bad...

On Thursday I had gotten something in my eye, and it hurt a lot, but it went away. After that my eye would randomly hurt but THAT would also go away.

Then last night, when I was hanging out with Rachel V. and watching movies, my eye started hurting pretty bad. I went back to my room around 11 pm and I finally took out my contact. It started being a little light sensitive so I just bummed around on the computer with all the lights off.

I eventually got into bed around 1 am... I tried to go to sleep but I just laid there for HOURS... My eye got worse.... It hurt a lot in the back of my eye... Like when you strain to read something, but it was a constant hurt. The light sensitiveness also got worse... Just the light coming in from under the door made my eye hurt so much that it was making me nauseous.

Finally at 4am I couldn't take it anymore, so I got up and called my parents (which was probably their worse nightmare.... me calling home in tears, in the middle of the night) and they gave me the number for my eye doctor. So I called her office and all of her emergency contact numbers, but no one picked up. So I left 3 tearful messages at her office and 2 cell phones.

My parents couldn't come get me yet since the roads were still bad (and it was almost 5 am by this time) because of the winter storms we've been having, so mom told me to just go to the ER.

So Leah and I had gotten dressed and were just going out to her car when my eye doctor called me back. I described my symptoms and she said that it sounde like I scratched my eye. She told me that, if I wanted to, I could go to the ER, but that wouldn't make much difference, as they would only give me an antibiotic and a pain killer. My eye doctor also told me that I could take up to 6 ibuprofen as needed, and advised me to stay in the dark. She also said to come in as soon as I could later that morning.

In case I didn't make it back, she also gave me names of some good eye doctors in Waverly.

So I called back home, told my parents that I wasn't going to the ER, and I was going to take some ibuprofen and try to sleep. They said they'd come and get me as soon as they could.

I ended up being so tired that I fell asleep after taking only 3 ibuprofen pills... By this time it was almost 6 am....

So my dad came and picked me up around 11 am... I had gotten up around 10:15 and threw all my stuff together to go home.... By now, my right eye was kind of swollen, and it was still very light sensitive, but it was no longer making me nauseous.

So Dad came and picked me up and drove me home... I didn't sleep in the car, but I kept my eyes shut the whole time and he took me straight to the eye doctor.

She came in, put a anesthetic in my eye so I could open it without as much pain and looked at my eye. Whatever had gotten into my eye on Thursday had worn a crater-shaped abrasion in my right cornea, which has now become infected.

... So I have a damaged cornea AND pink-eye!

The good news is cornea cells regenerate within 24 hours so the damage is not permanent. The bad news is I have to wear my glasses until this pink-eye goes away. :-P

So the doctor prescribed an antibiotic eye drop and some super pain killers. I have to take the eye drops every two hours, and the pain killers every 4-6 hours or as needed.

So, now I'm back home... I took a shower and took one of the super pain killers... And slept from 2 pm to 7pm--the total duration of the pill... LOL! I had to get up and take some ibuprofen. I'm doing a lot better... My eye is still swollen and red, but it's not as light sensitive.

Luckily, the doctor has no problems with me going up Minneapolis on Monday for a couple days. Whew!

So yeah, that's how I almost had to go to the ER... But I'm doing better!
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Edit: Last night, my eye hurt so bad... I wouldn't wish that on anybody... I would have rather lost my toenail again.... Remember this post? Yeah... That hurt a lot and there was blood and I had to get THREE SHOTS in my toe for that.... And I would rather go through that then the pain I experienced last night.

In short, eye pain sucks. Try not to do something to scratch your cornea.

I believe this calls for the "Snoopy Dance"

My massive music history test of DOOM AND GLOOM and all things nasty and vile has been postponed!

THERE IS A GOD!

Now, I have a chance of NOT FAILING!

YAY!!!!!!!!

*DANCES*

For real, this is a big issue... This was going to be one of those tests where it didn't matter whether I showed up or not... I was still going to MASSIVELY fail. Like, there was no question about it. I was going to fail.

Now I have a chance of at least scraping by!

Maybe I'll actually be able to get a decent night's sleep now.... Seriously, I've become so stressed I haven't been sleeping very well...

OH HAPPY DAY!!!!! :-D :-D :-D



Oh, yeah... Hi Marie!!!! This is me.... typing to you in my blog!

More lyrics...

"Smile"

Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though its breaking
When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by
If you smile through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You'll see the sun come shining through for you

Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
That's the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying?
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile

That's the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying?
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile
........

I'm trying, but it's hard.... :-(