just got in from richmond

why do my posts keep on disappearing and then reappearing? ugh.

anyway, my life is crazy. andy and i took a spontaneous road trip today to richmond to visit his adorable friend juancito. it was good to get out of the city and clear my mind, even though richmond may just well be the shittiest town in america. no, i take that back: petersburg (southside suburb of richmond) is, by far, the shittiest town in america. case in point: we went to a chicken joint and some white lady asked the cashier "is this a safe area?" that elicited smirks from all the employees. seriously... boarded up buildings up and down the streets? random people asking us for money then not leaving us alone? it made me long for prince george's county.

but we made do. we hung out at a mall and then caught a movie. like i said, it was nice to be away, even if it was just for one day.

i forgot to mention my heinous last weekend of being hospitalized. basically for a couple of days leading up to it all, my throat had been closing up. i could hardly breathe, let alone swallow. all i could consume was green tea and soup and for a skinny ass white kid like me that's bad news bears. so i was already feeling weak and feverish and while i was at target on the 5th i basically almost fainted... and that's when i decided to go to gwu medical center. they found an absest on my tonsil and decided instead of removing it (which apparently isn't commonplace anymore) they DRAINED it instead. that's right folks. they numbed my tonsil, then cut a hole in it and let my bodily fluids flow out from my mouth. pretty much the most disgusting thing in my life. and it didn't help that my surgeon was cute.

i wound up spending that night in the hospital hooked up to an iv, but i left the next day and took that monday off from work. i'm feeling fine now, but there's still a hole in my tonsil. it's supposed to close up on its own, but it hasn't yet. it feels weird. i have a follow-up appointment for all of this on wednesday, which involves me not being at work for even MORE time. ugh. i feel so guilty, even though my internship can frustrate the hell out of me. whatever. i'm getting the feeling they're gonna reneg on their offer to keep me through the fall semester so i'm not emotionally investing myself into lcv.

other than that... my class started this past week. it's okay, i guess. easy a (i hope). i need to spend tomorrow studying... ugh.

i think i'm going to go to bed now. being in the confederacy all day is exhausting!