"Crashin In" by The Charlatans U.K.

Today was my first day back at work. Honestly, I didn't know what to expect. I was just hoping that all of the problems that I complained about to ITSS before I left for break, were resolved. The work orders were piling up and the excuses as to why they weren't being resolved faster were ridiculous. When I got in, after classes in the lab started my office phone rang. It was Jessica, which confused me as to why she was calling. Apparently I left my phone at home, but I'm holding it? She told me my mother called her to get in touch with me since she has my office number and to tell me not to worry I left my cell at home I didn't lose it. But I had it on me! I was confused and called home to find out exactly what was going on. It looks like one of the old iphones that I use now as an alarm went off and it sent my father into a tizzy. He ran and told my mother I left it home, and how if I didn't stay up late this wouldn't have happened.

After that, and after Mobruka and Milly left, I started to work on some of the coding for research since I had a meeting at 5. So I started to work on it, but had to stop since I was falling asleep. I put my jacket on and closed the door to my office after putting a sign on the door saying I would return in 20 minutes. I figured this was enough time for me to just rest my eyes and no one should bother me. I couldn't fall asleep, but I guess taking that time to relax helped. The day was pretty slow, until my meeting. The meeting went well and I have some visual work to do with some charts. I didn't' really expect to be there until after 8, but I guess that happens sometimes. Not to say I dislike going to the meetings, I just dislike being there so long. The meeting was interesting though. We were talking about Professor Stoudt's next research projects and he said that i could always suggest something and I work on it with him. He said he would be happy to do that. I mentioned that I would continue something with cyber bullying and reminded him that that was what i wrote about when I was in his class. He said that he wished he remembered since someone recently came to him asking him if he had any data about it and he said no. I wasn't really happy to hear that, but the opportunity may come up again. Who knows? My other idea was in regards to World of Warcraft and how people interact with each other in the game. He said that this is something that is currently going on, as in this is a topic people are looking into as in how people behave in games. He said that he would be happy to help me with any of these when I am in grad school. He said he strongly suggests Selma and I get on that asap. The both of us have been to lax about things though. When Selma and I left we were talking about the meeting and how it dragged on. I also told her how I am afraid to talk about things during the meetings. That I am afraid of sounding stupid, or looking to overwhelmed during the meeting. She said she is afraid of sounding stupid as well, that she just talks and doesn't really have any restraint as to what she says. She said she feels Kim, the grad student in our section, does work without discussing it with us first. So she bombards us with all this work she has done which is overwhelming. This is true, it could add to why I feel overwhelmed at times. Selma said that if I weren't smart I wouldn't be in one of the major sections of the project. This did make me feel somewhat better, though I still feel like a deer in the headlights at times.

When I got home my mother filled me in on all of the stuff going on with her and this nuclear test. She is going thursday to take this nuclear medicine pill. After she takes it she has to keep her distance from my father and I which will be interesting. She also has to keep her distance from the cats which will be more difficult. She can't touch anything that we will use, if she does we can't use it for 5 days. If she does need to touch something she has to wear gloves. When she showers it has to be after us not before us and all the things we use will have to be taken out of the shower it can't be around her. The towels she uses has to be put in a bag and kept away from us as well for 5 days. It just seems so crazy. She told me about this doctor she had to go to as well and how crazy she was. After sitting my mother down in the office to talk to her about things, she asked to see a form of identification from my mother and then held it up next to her face to make sure it was her. She said the doctor was really something alright. I told her that she should talk to our endocrinologist since she is the one that recommended this doctor. This doctor also said that my mother has to go for this test once a year, she wasn't to happy about this though the people she knows that has taken the test already didn't say anything about it being a yearly exam.