It has been so long since I’d posted here. I was completely lost in trying to figure out the new (maybe not really new? but new to me) dashboard layout. Any rate, I’m here. I suppose that I haven’t had any thing interesting or irritating to write about. I’m kind of a routine now that includes school, work, eat, sleep, repeat. I’m looking forward to this phase being over and I can see the light at the end of this tunnel, that is, until I turn into the next tunnel… The joy of pursuing a PhD I guess is that there are many different challenges, but once you get through one, the next is not exactly like the first so at least it’s not a lot of the same garbage.

On a side note, I do have a random statement about how rumors are started! I work at a hospital (still) and one of my friends who works at a building across the street from the same hospital says to me today all excitedly, “You don’t have to go to work today do you? You should not go to the hospital if you don’t have to! You know they’ve had a case of swine flu over there, don’t you?!”  Since I’ve been studying all morning, I hadn’t heard anything (and more importantly because there isn’t anything to hear.  Instead of rolling with the rumor, I asked her how she knew there was one because I didn’t hear of any reported cases in this state yet, and she says, well they sent it in our electronic work newsletter. Let me find it and forward it to you. She sends me a link to a site talking about how the hospital will be prepared to handle any cases if there are any to appear and that while they didn’t have any suspected or confirmed cases yet, that you should not go to the hospital unless you need treatment for something, anything. How does that translate to someone has been identified in one’s mind, I don’t know, but that’s the stuff of which rumors are made. And that’s not a cool one to perpetuate.

Anyway, I’m going to take my complaining self to work now and be a good worker.  Adios!

~CR