Monthly Archives: April 2008

My foot hurts, can I go to the nurse?

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Owwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!

Ow ow ow owwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m having something of a foot issue.

Yesterday I woke up and felt like someone had snuck in to the bedroom overnight and repeatedly banged on the ball of my right foot with a hammer while I slept. Incredibly painful to put too much pressure on my foot. Somehow I managed to hobble my way aropund campus yesterday and hoped that after a god night’s sleep, I’d be on the mend this morning.

Nope.

Hurts just as much if not more.

WebMD tells me I may have: a bunion, a pinched nerve, something involving metatarsals or whateverthehell, osteoarthritis, diabetes, or perhaps nothing at all. Thanks, WebMD. My money’s on a pinched nerve. I get them sometimes in my neck and this feels a little similar.

More than that, it’s a gigantic pain in the ass. (well, not literally.) It’s damn hard to get around when your feet hurt and I’m slow too. Grandma slow.

I really hope this starts to get better soon. I hate going to the doctor’s.

So, I’m trying to take it easy on my foot today. No getting crammed in to a shoe, and I’ keeping it as propped up as possible.

This sucks.

A beautiful spring day.

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Ok, I must now officially quit at least 50% of my bitching. Until the heat of august, I have nothing to complain about.

Spring has come to Vermont.

It’s really a gorgeous temperature today, and not too bad on the humidity front either.

There is, quite literally, not a cloud in the sky.  Perfect.

Campus is crowded today. For a month’s worth of Mondays and Fridays it’s Accepted Students Visiting Days or some such. Right now, the university is overrun by highschool seniors and their parents, looking all around at the place where the kids will spend the next four and the place that will quite probably change thier life.

It’s funny to walk around and see them and remember when I was in their place… thirteen years ago. One thing I’ve noticed is that a good portion of the parent/child groups have one member appearing to be totally scared out of their minds. Sometimes it’s the kids, and sometimes it’s the parents. Regardless, one of them is thinking “Oh my God, what did I get myself in to?”

Other than that, One of my major papers is done, leaving two to go. Oh, and the internship is starting to firm up a little.

This weekend we get to play VT tour guides to Emily’s aunt and cousins. It’ll be good to see them and I do love playing tour guide. Maybe that comes from my days as an undergrad orientation leader.. who knows?

Regardless, the weather will be beautiful and the company will be good.

And that’s what life is all about.

In which I go a little nuts with bullet-pointed lists

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This wasn’t so bad of a week.

On Tuesday I found out that I got the internship I wanted, which is great for three reasons:

  • I have an internship and will fulfill that portion of my degree requirements thus bringing me that much closer to the Master’s.
  • The internship I wanted is in Vermont, which means that I won’t have to leave for the summer which means that Emily and I can run around and play in our new state in the summer time and all our loved ones can come and visit and all will be right with the world.
  • I. get. paid. (Objectively, not a huge sum of money, but subjectively anything higher than my current wage of zero dollars an hour will feel like a fortune.)

I’m still a little jumpy about it, because even though I know I’ve been hired, I don’t have much in the way of specifics. I know generally what I’ll be doing, but I don’t know where or what the start date will be or what a typical day will look like yet.

And, as we all know, “not knowing” is my least favorite way to feel.

So I’m happy about that, but still a little apprehensive at the same time.

Other than that, I have three big assignments hanging over me:

  • A continuation of a paper I wrote earlier in the semester about the history of railroad grade crossings. (This one will be specific to their age of automation – the 2nd half of the 19th century.)
  • A portion of the nomination form for a property whose owners want it on the National Register.
  • A 20 page report (with 15 minute presentation) on my spring break research trip.
    • This is the big one. It scares me.
      • A lot.

So that’s where I’m at. Good times, and I’m happy. But also slightly scared.