Things that are good:

1. McDaniel put on the Rocky Horror Show as the fall musical and it was awesome! I went twice and I can't wait for the Carroll Arts Center to play the Rocky Horror Picture show for Halloween so I can Time Warp again!
2. I finally bought new reeds for my saxophone.
3. I got switch from Adderall to Concerta because I needed and larger dosage of meds to help keep my focus.
4. I am going to the beach for four days with three of my closest friends here. We're leaving Friday and will be back the following Tuesday because we have fall break next week.

Things that are not so good:

1. Homework is taking over my life.
2. My Historiography paper is a piece of shit.
3. My laptop makes a very loud whirring sound all the time.
4. Only some of the heating coils in my heated blanket are working. Boo.

Moral of the story: don't ever be nice to people you don't trust 100% because they'll wind up fucking you over.

Sort of in response to one of James's entries:

Everytime I start doing something good for myself, something else gets in the way of any progress I've been making.

I got back to school and started going to the gym again. I've been attending every single class and doing all of my homework. Two days into school, I got a cold. I pushed through it though and bulked up on vitamin C, stopped going to the gym to let my body rest and by Friday I was back to feeling great. Monday rolls around and I start getting a cold again; I went to the gym anyways because I ignored my instincts and tried to convince myself that I was just dealing with some allergies. By Wednesday night, the gland on the left side of my throat was really swollen and painful. I went to the wellness center on campus, and they gave me Ammoxicillin. I took two days off of class because I felt like shit, so I missed a total of four classes and a bass lesson.

Yesterday morning, I woke up with such incredible back pain. It was unbelievable. I made it home around 3pm, stumbled into the house, and passed out. When I woke up I still felt horrible. I spent the rest of the day in bed. I missed the first home game of the season (we won). I missed a good weekend with all of my friends. I also had a yeast infection which I knocked out with a one dose thing from the drug store.

I woke up this morning. My gums are swollen. Sores line the inside of my cheeks, under my tongue, and the back of my throat. I called the on-call number that was provided by my physician's voicemail. My physician has decided that I have a virus that got out of control. You see, I always get cold sores on the inside of my mouth when I'm stressed or on my period, but I've been told repeatedly that that's normal (which it is), but in this case I had one or maybe two, plus a cold, and things got out of control.

My doctor called in a round of antiviral therapy to the pharmacy at the CVS in Olney. Four hours later, my prescription wasn't ready and the techs were saying that my prescription was never called in. Meanwhile, I'm in agony. I called my doctor again and she had to put in a personal call to the pharmacy to make sure my prescription got in. It did and my mom went to pick it up.

I keep wondering what I did to deserve this. I've been taking really good care of my body, but I get a lump in my breast, an essentially inexplicable virus (no, its not herpes), a yeast infection. Whats next? Now, once I'm feeling better, I have to go see an allergist to get tested to see what I'm actually allergic to and to see if I have asthma. I really can't afford to miss anymore class.