Awesome

Apr. 6th, 2010 10:58 pm
trenchkamen: (Despair and failure)
[personal profile] trenchkamen
I have a bad cough, a high fever, congestion that you wouldn't believe, and I've been vomiting up all the mucous that is draining into my stomach from my sinuses. If I try to sleep sitting up, I get horribly nauseated from all the mucous in my stomach. If I sleep lying down, I can't breathe. So I can't sleep. My parents went ahead and gave me a Z-pack because there is an at least 110% chance I'll get a secondary bacterial infection anyway. Pseudoephedrine keeps me awake, NyQuil makes me sleepy, so I'm somewhere in-between.

Didn't go to school/lab today. Probably won't tomorrow unless I make a most dramatic turn-around. AND the lab went out to lunch for a birthday today, so of course today is one of the days I'm home sick. FML.

Remember Cougar Con? Remember that secret Cougar Message Board that was theorized? I think [livejournal.com profile] omegadonut found it. For the sake of context, Smogon is a message board for competitive Pokemon players. I think that's all that need be said.

I should lie down before I pass out.

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Date: 2010-04-07 06:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hiraku536.livejournal.com
EEEK

I'm guessing Arizona is also heating up now. Would that make the situation better or worse? (I do worse at hot weathers...)

FEEEEELLL BETTER!!!

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Date: 2010-04-07 05:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trenchkamen.livejournal.com
Worse. I hate hot weather. HATE.

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Date: 2010-04-07 09:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skuldchan.livejournal.com
Please, for the love of god, DO NOT go to lab tomorrow if you're anywhere close to the state you're in now.

Contaminating your lab colleagues does not make for a happy lab environment. I know you're a student and all with a work ethic but QUARANTINE yourself! :D

And hey, sick days are supposed to be fun days? Right? Right? Right?

I hope you get some sleep eventually, babe! *hugs* Get well soon.

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Date: 2010-04-07 05:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trenchkamen.livejournal.com
It's hard to reconcile my desire to relax on sick days with my feeling of guilt over not working. I'm not going in today, even though I'm turning around; I still feel as though I may be contagious. Damn I am hungry though. The past 48 hours I've had two packs of ramen, a handful of pretzels, and a Jell-o cup. Pseudoephedrine is an appetite suppressant.

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Date: 2010-04-07 05:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skuldchan.livejournal.com
It's hard to reconcile my desire to relax on sick days with my feeling of guilt over not working.

It's only going to get worse as you go to graduate school, but dude...your labmates present and future will thank you for quarantining yourself when you're sick. You have no idea how many colds and coughs I've gotten from sick labmates, and I'm always annoyed when they insist on working, and getting everybody else sick too.

Working hard while you're sick will only make the recovery process take longer. Relax, sleep, eat, fluids, all that.

Hey, have you decided where you're going to grad school yet?

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Date: 2010-04-07 06:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trenchkamen.livejournal.com
I've been wait-listed at UCLA. They've had something like an eight-week backlog in going through our applications. I don't know what happened. My interviewers all told me they would highly recommend me, and we were told 110/140 of those interviewed were in. Maybe the funding situation changed. I'm quite confused and nervous, because if I don't get in at UCLA, I didn't get in anywhere this year.

And I didn't wear vampire fangs to my interviews. I was dressed nicely, polite, didn't say "That's what she said" once, didn't do anything blatantly stupid. As far as I remember. I was on my toes.
Edited Date: 2010-04-07 06:17 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2010-04-07 06:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skuldchan.livejournal.com
Maybe the funding situation changed. I'm quite confused and nervous, because if I don't get in at UCLA, I didn't get in anywhere this year.

Hrm, could be funding situation? I'm not in ACCESS, so I don't really know. Whatever the reason, now is not the time to be thinking about what you possibly did wrong or maybe how you've fallen short. Now is the time to ensure that you GET IN.

Okay, here's what you do when you're waitlisted:

Contact the people in charge of admissions. Let them know that you're still really interested in UCLA, and tell them they should contact you if a slot opens up. Make sure they know who you are, how interested you are, and that you're at the forefront of their minds if something opens up. Don't just sit there and wait for them to contact you, you have to go to them and let them know that you are still really interested. :/

That's how you get in from waitlists.

GO.
GO NOW.
Edited Date: 2010-04-07 06:58 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2010-04-07 07:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trenchkamen.livejournal.com
I have done that. Twice. I've let them know in no uncertain terms UCLA is my first choice, and I love the program, and they just need to say they word and I'm there.

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Date: 2010-04-07 07:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skuldchan.livejournal.com
Oh, okay. Excellent, good!

In that case...good luck. :3

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Date: 2010-04-07 10:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] air-and-angels.livejournal.com
That sounds gross and horrible, so I hope you feel better soon. However, I agree with that other chick or dude! Keep your germs AT HOME. Or in the dorm. Or whatever, just don't spread them all around your place of work/learning.
So, yeah, all the conventional wisdom: stay in bed or on the couch, keep warm, drink lots of juice or water, try not to despair.

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Date: 2010-04-07 05:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trenchkamen.livejournal.com
Skuld is... female. We think.

I keep telling myself when I feel bad for not getting right up and going to class since I'm not vomiting at the moment that one of my classmates is pregnant, and I don't want to get her sick. I partially feel bad because this semester I've taken time off for a grad school interview, research review, research presentation, jury summons, and now illness... it just seems too convenient for any professor to buy.

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Date: 2010-04-07 09:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] air-and-angels.livejournal.com
I'm actually staying at home THIS VERY DAY because I feel like I'm starting a cold.
If you're afraid the professor won't believe you, hork some of your sputum into a vial, seal it well, and present it as evidence when you go back.

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Date: 2010-04-07 03:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kitschaster.livejournal.com
Man. If I had whatever you had, I'd just have to get shitfaced drunk on whiskey and nyquil, and sleep for about three days. Yeah, you'll have a hangover, but you'll be able to breath again!

But no, really. Yikes! Please get better soon.

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Date: 2010-04-07 05:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trenchkamen.livejournal.com
God I hate whiskey. I guess I could go down to the liquor store and get some really girly stuff.

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Date: 2010-04-08 12:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kitschaster.livejournal.com
Dude, you gotta learn how to make whiskey sours. It kills it atrocious taste of whiskey, and is tasty. That or drown your sorrows in vodka + insert sugary drink/juice here.

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Date: 2010-04-07 11:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] johnwwells.livejournal.com
Recover, please! I don't mean that in the general sense of "don't die," but in the very specific sense of putting a priority on recovering and resting over labwork. I don't think you'd hold it against one of your labmates if they stayed out for illness, so you have no reason to feel guilty yourself. I know what it's like to apply that standard to yourself: "-I- should be working now." But take it easy on yourself; push too hard and neglect your health, and things go badly. I can testify to that.

I hope you didn't go in today, and suggest that, unless you're down to the slightest sniffle, you don't go in tomorrow either. At your age, of course, I would have disregarded this advice, but I would have been foolish to do so.

And Vicky will be pissed if you work yourself into an invalid before that acceptance letter comes.

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