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For those of you who don't know, Wang Wei has joined AnD.  There's a bunch of pictures and a couple of videos up, so feel free to go check him out! :)

First of all, thanks to everyone who replied about me going back to school. :)  Made me feel special!  To answer your questions... I'm majoring in Chinese which for the moment means I'm taking beginning of 3rd year Chinese language classes, and the history of Chinese language.  I will have to take other Chinese courses including history and poetry, classical literature, etc.  I am hoping to have my degree in two years. To complete this program, I also have to take one year of another language, so I'm taking suggestions.  I was considering doing something really different from Chinese and taking Arabic or some such, but a lot of my classmates are taking Japanese.  We'll see.

On a second note, because I have a paper due tomorrow that I haven't started nor done the readings for yet, I'm procrastinating... which means that you get to see my lovely answers to this game that JRS posted. :)  Enjoy!

You.
Can.
Only.
Type.
One.
Word.

No.
Explanations.

1.  Where is your cell phone? pocket

2.  Where is your significant other? outside

3.  Your hair? messy

4.  Your mother? downstairs

5.  Your father? passed

6.  Your favorite thing? reading

7.  Your dream last night? forgettable

8.  Your favorite drink? water

9.  Your dream/goal? degree

10.  The room you're in? bedroom

11.  Your ex? excommunicated

12.  Your fear? failure

13.  Where do you want to be in 6 years? unsure

14.  Where were you last night? here

15.  What you're not? rested

16.  Muffins? blueberry

17.  One of your wish list items? Moola

18.  Where you grew up? California

19.  The last thing you did? Homework

20.  What are you wearing? clothes

21.  Your TV? None

22.  Your pets? None

23.  Your computer? laptop

24.  Your life? busy

25.  Your mood? lazy

 26.  Missing someone? family

27.  Your car? Honda

28.  Something you're not wearing? makeup 

29.  Favorite Store? Any

30.  Your summer? momentous

31.  Like someone? definitely

32.  Your favorite color? blue 

33.  When is the last time you laughed? dinner

34.  Last time you cried? yesterday 

Just so you know why I haven't been here....

I quit my job, moved back home, and have gone back to school to get a degree in Chinese.  Am prepping for midterms (first one tomorrow) and trying to get back into the swing of having homework.

Other than that, it's same old same old.

TTFN!

So in order to let you all know where I've been, I'm blogging.  I've been sick.  Isn't that exciting?
Seriously though, I love to talk about the progression of me being sick.  It was the most exciting thing that has happened to me that incurs pity in quite some time. hahahah  At least without making me look like an idiot, cuz you can't help getting sick to a certain extent.So here's the long story ha!  My boss had pneumonia (or at least that was the rumor) but we were in the process of doing budgeting for next fiscal year which starts in July, so we had to project how much money we are going to need to do advertisements for the next year (which actually isn't so bad) and how many people would call in off said advertisements (which is a bit harder) and then predict how many of those people who call in for more information would actually enroll in the school (which sucks posterior cuz how the bleep am I supposed to know how well the call center does their job in changing leads into students, but I still have to say how many ppl will start in the budgets I give to the client), so needless to say, this is like one of the most important times of year for our company because it determines how much money we're going to be making over the next year, and therefore, my boss came in to work when she was sick. 

Now, because this was my first time doing budgets, and having two of the most difficult markets to deal with, I spent a lot of time working on them, and therefore, sort of wore myself out, not to a huge degree, but I was definitely brain dead when I went home each day.  Then, the day before budgets were due, my boss finally had the time to go over my budgets with me.  She has to look over each set of budgets and make changes before they are submitted to the client, and she'd been really busy doing everyone else's, and because my markets were harder markets, she kept putting them off so she'd have time to do them and "really focus".  Which meant that we STARTED looking at them at 5:00PM, and I was supposed to leave at 5:30.  Well, anyways, after a couple of hours, we finally finished them, but because my boss was "rushed" she told me to make the changes, and then show them to her again the next morning, so I took them home, and worked on them almost all night. 

Somewhere within the time I was working, I started coughing. I got to work bright and early the next morning, ready to show them to her because we had to submit them to the client by 3:00PM, and then she wasn't there.  9:00 passed, and then 9:30, still no sign.  At this point, my manager was stressing a little bit because even if the entire budgets were perfect, I still had to put them into the proper spreadsheets, and make sure everything was set and ready to go with no typos, etc.  The tickle in my throat that had developed overnight, started to grow into a real irritation, and I started sucking on cough drops.  Finally, at 10:15 she drove into the parking lot, but then, she had a meeting to go to so she didn't even get out of her car, she just picked up the other people who were going to the meeting with her and left.  At this point, I was like, so now what?  It wasn't until 11:45 that my boss called and said to have the other two managers look the budgets over and then go from there.  The only problem with this was that the two managers aren't familiar with my markets, so it took a lot more time than just the few minutes to look them over.  So, at 1:45 I finally got the go ahead to input my numbers into the spreadsheets.  That's 10 spreadsheets I had to fill out. The harder I worked, the more often I coughed, and the longer the coughing spells became. Just as I was finishing, my manager called me and said that she had been wrong, and the "start rate" couldn't be the same across the board.  I had to switch them to vary, but she not only hadn't told me this before, but she also had no idea how to go about doing it.  So I had to figure it out on my own.  At this point, I went to work again, calculating formulas, and coughing violently. Long story short, I finished my budgets with 2 minutes to spare, so had no time to look them over or anything.  After submitting the budgets, I spent the next couple of hours before going home trying to do the regular tasks of my job, and trying to keep from coughing up a lung. 

After work, I went home feeling lousy, but thinking that a good night's sleep would rid me of any illness. Unfortunately for me, I couldn't sleep.  Everytime I lay down, I would start coughing so hard, I had to sit up or get on all fours to regulate my breathing.  I tried lying on my side, on my stomach, you name it. I even tried sleeping sitting up, but nothing was working.  By this time, it was the middle of the night, and my husband was sleeping.  I didn't want to wake him up because there really wasn't anything anybody could do, so I just kept running the shower and inhaling the steam to try to soothe my throat and keep myself from coughing.  I must have spent at least 3 hours in the bath that night.  There really is nothing worse than being up by yourself in the middle of the night when you're not feeling well.  I kept drinking tea with honey, or rock sugar, or hot water with lemon and honey, but nothing worked.  My ribs hurt from coughing, my throat felt like it was on fire, and I was starting to get a real headache from lack of sleep and exhaustion.  But there was really nothing I could do except sit on the couch and wait for morning.

More when I get home...

~Cyn...